Now let’s look at those words for what they are… Now those two words seem to revolve around it.
Is it normal or natural? Is it unnatural and abnormal?" "Is homosexuality… Is it normal? Is it natural? I ask you. The word "homosexual," many people who aren’t in the position to having to decide this, they wonder: Then you kinda get your chops, and you get things okay and you understand and it’s all right to be able to talk about that. …Sometimes we, if we’re younger, we react to that in a way that we’ve been schooled. Now interestingly, here is an attempt by a hooked down and kind of persecuted minority to insist on their place rightfully, and their treatment rightfully, without it having anything to do with ethnic or religion or anything! It’s really an exciting separate part of liberation. On the track called "Gay Lib" Carlin gives his insights into what that means to him at the time and then tears apart the "unnatural" and "abnormal" arguments against homosexuality by first arguing for Gays as an understandable evolution and then (stunningly) giving a description of what certainly sounds like a backroom encounter to argue for its normalcy. Carlin was headlining huge comedy tours and was at the top of his game. Keep in mind, this is five years after Stonewall and still the early 70s. It can be found on his Toledo album and is just pretty stunning given the time. So that was already in me somewhere."Ĭarlin also famously took on the absurdity of some of the Catholic church’s positions:īut, I can’t think of anyone who has less abortions than homosexuals! "īut most stunning of all my finds was an old comedy bit that Carlin did WAY BACK in 1973. "It’s bittersweet, bitchy, to-the-point and honest. "I’ve always admired Gay humor," he said. Carlin, said, was Eddie’s comic delivery. Unless the behavior can be seen as O.K., then you’re burying it." At times it’s exaggerated, depending on mood or the company. "That sort of behavior is part of the reality among some Gay males. Would the actor be playing into the hands of homophobic viewers? "I have a position on that," Mr. That challenge raised touchy questions for a comedian who has made a career out of scathing social and political commentary.
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The challenge was how to be a Gay man acting effeminate but not be a cartoon or a stereotype." At any rate, I knew he wasn’t a Marine drill sergeant trying to hide his Gayness.
"The stage direction said ‘flamboyant,’ I think. Carlin, speaking by telephone recently from Cincinnati, where he was preparing to give a stand-up comedy performance. "He was written as an out-of-the closet Gay," said Mr.
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Since he was a far-ranging cultural commentator, I was curious to see his take on gay people and went searching for any of George Carlin’s takes on Gay people and found an interesting interview he gave to the New York Times about playing one of those "Gay neighbor" roles for the movie "The Prince of Tides." He was also a fierce cultural critic who loved pointing out the absurdities of dogma, whether political or religious. He was a brilliant comic but also an astounding wordsmith and a constant champion, in his own way, for the rights of people’s freedom. A lot has been written about George Carlin’s passing.