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Tennessee Williams

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American playwright referenced as an example of culturally significant gay figures from an earlier era contrasted with contemporary queer culture.

Mentions (7)
"Exactly. We had Tennessee Williams. We had Divine. We had NAMBLA. Now we have enbys posting "as a queer person of color, I feel unsafe around leather.""
My impression of Anna and Dasha talking about how gays were better before · u/Artistic_Regard7421 · ↑167 · 2025-05-13
"My girlfriend starts crying, and suddenly Thanksgiving has turned into the final act of a Tennessee Williams play."
Caught cheating by my girlfriend's father on Thanksgiving · u/Major_Sockum · ↑147 · 2024-11-29
"L-R Yukio Mishima, Tennessee Williams, Patricia Highsmith, Françoise Sagan, Charles Bukowski, Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Edward Gorey, Doris Lessing, Williams.S.Burroughs, Ernest Hemingway, Haruki Murakami"
20th Century Writers and their Cats · u/Visual-Specialist610 · ↑104 · 2024-01-26
"I've been sitting watching a documentary about Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams on BBC Four and the way that they describe romantic love is just so tender and beautiful, and when they describe the repression and shame that they faced during their youth I just feel so ineffably sorry for them."
"Beyond this analysis of social relations, there are just so many gay men that have contributed massively to my perspective on the world and opened my mind to different ways of seeing things. Marcel Proust, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde etc., they've all managed to paint an image of life that I pre"
"After you've been to bed together for the first time, without the advantage or disadvantage of any prior acquaintance, the other party very often says to you, Tell me about yourself, I want to know all about you, what's your story?"
life story by tennessee williams · u/Siberian_Ibex · ↑40 · 2021-01-25
"I've been sitting watching a documentary about Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams on BBC Four and the way that they describe romantic love is just so tender and beautiful, and when they describe the repression and shame that they faced during their youth I just feel so ineffably sorry for them."
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