Straightwashing
Jan. 31st, 2025 06:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
supergeeThe figure-skating world suffered two losses yesterday: the Potomac air crash and the death of Dick Button, a great skater and then a great skating commentator.
Back in the Seventies there was a part of Central Park that was famous as a place for gays to meet for quick anonymous sex. One night a group of alleged human beings decided it would be peachy keen fun to go there with baseball bats and do some literal gay bashing.
One of the victims was Dick Button. He was a network TV star and America was even less sane about sex than it is now, so when the perps were tried, they said that they had somehow wound up hitting random bystanders and poor Mr. Button somehow got in the way.
Fortunately he recovered and continued on his career until his death yesterday. The Times published the official story of the beating in the obit but also noted that one of his survivors was his [male] “longtime companion,”
Back in the Seventies there was a part of Central Park that was famous as a place for gays to meet for quick anonymous sex. One night a group of alleged human beings decided it would be peachy keen fun to go there with baseball bats and do some literal gay bashing.
One of the victims was Dick Button. He was a network TV star and America was even less sane about sex than it is now, so when the perps were tried, they said that they had somehow wound up hitting random bystanders and poor Mr. Button somehow got in the way.
Fortunately he recovered and continued on his career until his death yesterday. The Times published the official story of the beating in the obit but also noted that one of his survivors was his [male] “longtime companion,”
