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You See What You Look For
By Avery | July 28, 2007
Maybe it’s because there’s such a thing as a gay rights movement, which makes me more aware of these things, or maybe I would’ve put two and two together eventually anyway, but when I watch dudes on the old Soul Train videos these days, some of those cats be lookin’ miiiighty suspect. As in, how did I NOT think something? But then too, there’s the fact that when those clips were originally aired, I had no concept of homosexuality.
For instance, check out the dude (the one on the right) in the second couple.
For some reason, I don’t think that was his date.
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July 28th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Y’know, I was watching an old Soul Train on TV mebbe a couple months ago and realized the same thing. I had no idea about that stuff either when I was watching it real time.
I also realized Soul Train was probably the “inspiration” for many of Michael Jackson’s signiature moves.
July 28th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Wow!! I think I saw Jeffrey Daniels and the “infamous Asian chick” Cheryl Song in that line.
High School Dance!! Ooh, how I loved me some Foster Sylvers until some Sylvers family members were at my family reunion and then it just felt…gross.
July 29th, 2007 at 2:31 am
I don’t think young kids, for the most part, check for sexual preferences cues. I’m on Turner Classic Movies 24-7 (and some AMC too), and am just maturing enough to note the mannerisms of all the big dance routine male dancers in the films of the 1940’s, ’50’s and ’60’s, up until the time of “Flower Drum Song” and “West Side Story”. Not a hetero in the line (think flicks such as “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, “South Pacific”, “Oklahoma” and “Funny Face”), and some unsually tight trousers and tee shirts.
Didn’t have gaydar when I was 10.