Shel silverstein gay

All of the Fine Ones Are Married or Gay

Tim J Brennan said:
Very wonderful. The only pos I would interrogate would be 'All" in the title. Too little aspire. There's always a little hope. Unless you open any conversation w/AndyB's line

Read some of Shel Silverstein's stuff. You'd enjoy it, methinks.

https://interestingliterature.com/2023/02/best-shel-silverstein-poems/
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Okay, "all" might be a bit of an exaggeration... I found one of the good ones, and I've met a few others along the way. But *most* would still be precise, I think

I know Shel Silverstein from "The Giving Tree", and it always makes me cry. Never study anything else of his, though. I'll take a watch - thanks!

Until very recently, I thought I loved Jewish multi-hyphenate Shel Silverstein for his sense of absolute whimsy, his amazing children’s books prefer “The Giving Tree” and collections of poetry like “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” and the reality that he was also a singer-songwriter who won a Grammy for “A Boy Named Sue.”

Then yesterday, I realized that, in addition to everything else I previously mentioned, I love him for creating an incredibly queer and Jewish cartoon in 1965 for Playboy.

Specifically this cartoon, which Verge writer Chis Person shared in a tweet:

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With a (presumably) Jewish mother on the device, in vain suggesting nice Jewish boys to her daughter, Shel expertly captures three aspects of being queer and Jewish. First, he delineates what it’s like to contain a Jewish mother who desperately wants you to spend time an NJB (nice Jewish boy). Second, he shows what it’s like for Jewish les

Shel was born in Chicago Illinois into a Jewish family. He was drafted into the military during university and served in Korea and Japan. He married Susan Taylor, had one daughter with Susan. His wife died in 1975 and his daughter in 1982. He married again and had a son with Sarah Spencer.

The Ugliest Man in Town

Handsome guys get girls that are pretty,

Other guys create it cause they're clever and witty,

But the only love I ever got, I got out of pity,

'Cause I'm the ugliest guy in town.

Yeah, I drive down the thoroughfare in a platinum car,

Use hundred dollar bills to light my cigar,

But still an' all, you realize, that won't get you very far,

When you're the ugliest man in town.

There was a note on the doorstep where I was found,

Is said, "This sweet child weighs eleven pounds,

So bring him up healthy, wealthy and sound,

Keep his back to the light, don't let him turn around.

Yeah, all you women, you're heartless and cold.

All you want is my silver and gold.

Say now, don't you understand I've got a attractive soul,

Though I'm the ugliest man in town?

Yeah, I'm so ugly, I shave in the dark,

Kids begin to cry when I walk throug

Gay bars and discos are an opportunity to show a whole load of homosexuals in one place. What do they do? How do they behave together? What do they drink and how do they dress? If one homosexual is funny, then surely a whole mass of them should be a scream. Bearing in mind that for the longest time a same-sex attracted bar was a barely legal venue, only operating under sufferance because of organised crime backhanders, with the patrons still subject to sudden arrest by cops and prosecution resulting in impairment of their jobs and social shame. Fun times.

from “Silverstein in Greenwich Village”
Shel Silverstein
“Playboy”, September 1960

So here are some contemporary denizens who huddle together in the modern metropolis. Like knows like because they have overly styled, lengthy hair, expressive eyes with long lashes or eyebrows for men. Sensitive features and postures. An earring on the bartender. At least one patron looks as though he’s eying up another across the exclude.

The gag in the cartoon is a reverse with the unexpected interposition of heterosexuality.

The psychiatrist is also a 1960s touch, particularly since it seems almost every, or at least every other,