On this day in 1901, English playwright, director, & screenwriter John van Druten was born. In the early 1930s, he was one of the most successful playwrights in London with star studded West End productions: Diversion, After All, There's Always Juliet, Behold, We Live & Flowers of the Forest. Van Druten moved to the USA where one of his successful plays Bell, Book, & Candle was made into a rather good movie movie in 1950 starring Kim Novak & Jimmy Stewart. The original play was about the gay underground in NYC's Greenwich Village, with witches & their magic substituting for gay & special. Bell, Book & Candle is about witches living in the village. They have special 'witch bars,' & they are always worrying about being outed. He wrote the screenplays for Old Acquaintance,Voice Of The Turtle & Leave Her To Heaven. His play- I Am A Camera was based on the Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood & was the basis for the musical Cabaret. He was gay & English, a winning combo.
On this day in 1970, Sexology magazine reported that a study shows that gay men have larger penises than heterosexual men.
On this day in1994 - the Pentagon considered a proposal from the Air Force requesting funds to build a "gay bomb" that would turn enemy troops gay. The proposal came to light in 2007 when the Sunshine Project discovered it through a Freedom of Information Act disclosure. As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested: "One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior." I like the idea of the Iraqis & the US soldiers in an orgy of lust... the war would have gone much differently.The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon. The called the new weapon- The Poppers.
In the words of Oscar Hammerstein II:
But it's comin' by dawn,
We can feel it come,
You can feel it in your heart
You can see it on the ground
Just because it's June, June, June!
