short slash/S&H/TOS amusements

[verushka70]

Conversation I had with my bf yesterday while driving:

Bf: I was watching Starsky & Hutch on that MeTV station that shows all those old shows yesterday.

Me: Yeah?

Bf: While I was watching it, I thought, I never realized... [trails off]

Me: [finishing his sentence] . . .how gay it was?

Bf: Yeah! I mean, how did we miss that? It's totally homoerotic!

Me: They slipped it by, under the radar. Like mainstream America not realizing the Village People were gay.

Bf: God, it is really unbelievable. It was so gay. I never realized it back then.

Me: [incoherent chortle]

This from my very straight (but not narrow) boyfriend. tee hee!


Also, last week I sent my oldest sister the link to a smashing Kirk/Spock slash vid at Youtube with the following message (note that she is not an active slasher, nor a member of any fandoms, but expressed great enjoyment of the "hot cowboy manlove" of Brokeback Mountain).

my email to her:
This is... such a wonderful mix of homoeroticism, hilariousness, heat, and high camp, I don't EVEN know where to begin. Showcasing the young William Shatner's over-emotive style of acting, as well as the not infrequent appearances of bondage & domination imagery in the original Star Trek, and combined with Nine Inch Nails' "Closer," (an industrial paean to self-erasure via animalistic copulation that manages to have a demented calliope sound to it in the middle chorus of the song), this video is just... **beyond.** The volume on your PC speakers should be LOUD.

her email reply:
Well, thanks for putting me in the appropriate mood to confront another Monday as a wage slave. Clearly my response confirms what I have suspected for years -- that I am a gay man trapped in a woman's body. Fear me, hets.

[helpless chortles on my part]

Slash doesn't even need slash evangelism anymore! I think Brokeback broke through to many, many women (and even my boyfriend, who can see the world through slash-tinted lenses now!) And the Internet shall feed them slash! And it is good!
\o/

Comments

[grey853.livejournal.com]

I don't normally like ST vids, but I thought this was great. It was very well done. Thanks for the link.

And, yeah, Starsky and Hutch, so very, very gay. Loved it then, still lovin' it.

[verushka70.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm a fanvid neophyte, but I heartily approve of the concept. And now I have time to kill, checking out fanvids on Youtube. That was really one of the best, if not the best fanvid I found. I searched mainly for DS/HCL actor-related vids. But I ran across that one and I thought it was really well done -- and hot.

ST must've planted slash seeds in my brain... all those re-runs I watched in the early 70s with my older sibs! When I see them now, the homoerotic buddy bonding is so obvious. But, as a child, you have no context; and yet stuff sinks in. Then, all I needed was early Kirk/Spock exposure, puberty, and the BBC production of Brideshead Revisited with a very young Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder getting it on with his rich friend Sebastian -- and wham -- I was into slash! I just didn't know it as "slash" until about 1989-90, when I got access to the early Internet via my job. Yay!

[grey853.livejournal.com]

I've been into "slash" or buddy shows since Man From UNCLE. I didn't know what it was called, but I'd always make up stories in my head with the leads together, not lovey dovey, but definitely affectionate and helping one another out, usually in some kind of h/c scenario. I loved ST, too, but I was more into Spock/McCoy because Kirk always annoyed me. *g*

Starsky and Hutch, OMG, even from the beginning, I always hated when some woman of the week showed up to get between them. So, even as a kid, I knew they were destined to be a couple.

So, even though I didn't know the term slash, I was definitely into two guys together from early on.