#william f buckley

[married-to-a-redhead]

#william f buckley

[k-wame]

It is a terrible thing for an entire people to surrender to the notion that one-ninth of its population is beneath them.

JAMES BALDWIN Debates William F. Buckley At Cambridge University’s Union Hall Delivered February 18, 1965

#quotes #politics #james baldwin #racism #black history month #racial justice #black history #social justice #oppression #repression #powerful words #1960s #cambridge university #william f buckley #a siren call to oppressed people everywhere

[decolonize-the-left]

James Baldwin debating William F Buckley at Cambridge University, 1965

It's still so relevant to today.

#james baldwin #james baldwin debates #william f buckley #usa #racism #colonialism #Youtube

[evilrichardnixon]

Someone please draw William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal kissing

#american history #history #gore vidal #william f buckley #debate #fine i’ll do it myself

[craigfernandez]

#William F Buckley #Gore Vidal

[tonreihe]

William F. Buckley Jr., Cruising Speed (one of his two week-in-the-life books).

#william f buckley

[100gayicons]

Gore Vidal was an writer, a political pundit and one of the most polarizing figures of the 20th Century. He was also a self described bisexual or pansexual.

Vidal’s lifelong opponent William F Buckley once said to him on National TV:

"Now listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I'll sock you in the goddamn face, and you'll stay plastered."

Buckley later regretted using “queer” but still disliked that Vidal was an "evangelist for bisexuality”.

Buckley was not his only literary opponent. Vidal famously had feuds with Truman Capote and Norman Mailer as well.

In “The City and the Pillar” (1948), one of Vidal’s earliest novels, he wrote about a young man coming to accept he was homosexual. At the time, some critics were so offended by the subject, they refused to read the book, let alone review it. The book made Vidal an early champion for sexual liberation.

A later satirical novel “Myra Breckenridge” (1968) described the exploits of Myron who undergoes sexual reassignment, and becomes Myra. She tries to take down the macho patriarchy of Hollywood. It was made into the 1970 film starring Raquel Welch and Mae West.

Vidal set a goal to make his life as “promiscuous as I could make it.” He wrote in his diary that by age twenty-five, he had had more than a thousand sexual encounters.

On the straight side of the fence, Vidal had an affair with French author Anaïs Nin. He was also engaged to actress Joanne Woodward before she married Paul Newman. For a time, all three shared a house together in Los Angeles.

Regarding men… he preferred masculine young men and paid them because the cash transaction limited messy emotional entanglements.

Vidal once said:

“The difference between Italian boys and American boys, is Italian boys have dirty feet and clean assholes, while American boys have clean feet and dirty assholes.”

Vidal’s one true love was Jimmie Trimble, who he met in 1937 when they were students. Trimble died during World War II. Vidal dedicated the novel “The City and the Pillar” to Trimble.

Among his sexual conquests Vidal claimed to have slept with Fred Astaire when he first moved to Hollywood; and also with a young Dennis Hopper. One verifiable lover was Harold Lang, a dancer-actor who starred on Broadway in “Kiss Me Kate” and “Pal Joey”. Lang’s muscular butt was also cherished by Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Levante.

Vidal’s life long relationship was with Howard Austen who he met in 1950. He described their Union as “two men who decided to spend their lives together". Furthermore, Vidal said the secret to their long relationship was they did not have sex with each other.

Austen managed the their financial affairs, travel arrangements and housing needs. They were eventually buried together in a joint grave in Washington DC.

#gay icons #gore Vidal #Myra Breckenridge #promiscuous #pansexual #bisexual #William f Buckley #Paul Newman

[fenixthreads]

Once upon a time, this was television.

#allen ginsberg #william f buckley

[barrydeutsch]

The Myth of William F Buckley And The John Birch Society

A #PoliCartoon by Becky Hawkins and I!

Transcript and commentary: https://www.patreon.com/posts/78656689

If you'd like us to keep making these cartoons, help make that happen by supporting patreon.com/barry . A $1 or $2 pledge really helps!

#so very timely #next up a cartoon satirizing Herbert Hoover #policartoon #political cartoon #William F Buckley #John Birch Society

[kevinpshanblog]

An excellent documentary about one of my favorite conservatives. (And there aren’t many of them)

#William F Buckley #American masters #pbs #documentary #conservatives

[rasheednewsonauthor]

Writing dialogue for William F. Buckley Jr. was surprisingly fun.

#mygovernmentmeanstokillme #booksbooksbooks #queer books #gay books #lgbtq books #fake quotes #william f buckley #lgbtq #historical fiction

[lizard-of-oz]

Let's not forget that William F. Buckley launched his career by arguing that Yale should not be teaching students to think for themselves, but should instead be indoctrinating them to believe in Christianity and capitalism, and that Yale should fire all non-Christian, non-capitalist faculty. The conservatives have been wanting this stuff for decades- the only difference is that now people like Ron DeSantis are acting on it.

#conservatism is fascism #william f buckley #education

[hezigler]

Watch "James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley (1965) | Legendary Debate" on YouTube

"Has the American Dream been achieved at the expense of the American Negro."

#Youtube #james baldwin #william buckley #william f buckley #william f buckley jr #the american dream #cambridge university #cambridge university debate #1960s #1965 #civil rights #cambridge union

[barfouniverse]

#william f buckley #quote #quotes

[danburyshakes]

#James Baldwin #William F Buckley #Youtube

[tonreihe]

Hugh Kenner’s first trip aboard a sailboat did not start out well. (William F. Buckley Jr., Airborne.)

#hugh kenner #william f buckley #sailing #seasickness