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"Guillermin’s gay bar [in P.J. (1968)] is one reason why so many people thought that the alien bar in Star Wars was a gay bar"

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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo, 1981

Seriously?  I know that, at 40, I am too young to have really lived through the era when people became experts in subtext because there was zero actual representation, but I had never heard anyone say anything about the Cantina being a gay bar.

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“There’s an east wind coming, Watson.”

“I think not, Holmes. It is very warm.”

“Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There’s an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it’s God’s own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.”

- Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story, “His Last Bow“ (published in 1917 but set in 1914)

 

I pretty much understood this to mean WWI in the original story.

Also, Sherlock Holmes with a goatee! ("He was a tall, gaunt man of sixty, with clear-cut features and a goatee beard which gave him a general resemblance to the caricatures of Uncle Sam.”)