There didn’t used to be so many words. You were gay, queer, or a queen. And they all meant different things, but they all put you in largely the same category: a person society hates.
It’s only now that the words have become important. In the past, there were only codes.
Frank Simon’s 1968 documentary The Queen is a portrait of a community without a nam…
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