CAMP: "A cornucopia of frivolity, incongruity, theatricality, and humour." "A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love." "The lie that tells the truth." "Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to or characteristic of homosexuals."
Speaking of Gay Days - how on earth could I have missed the fact that it was the centenary of one of the greatest "honorary gayers", and our Patron Saint Miss Bea Arthur last Friday?!!
All hail!
Beatrice Arthur (born Bernice Frankel, 13th May 1922 – 25th April 2009)
...a "Say Something Hat" day. Don't you?
Mollie Sugden (20th July 1922 – 1st July 2009)
Theda Bara (29th July 1885 – 7th April 1955)
Estelle Getty (25th July 1923 - 22nd July 2008)
Vivian Vance (26th July 1909 – 17th August 1979
Sally Ann Howes, aka "Truly Scrumptious" (born 20th July 1930)
Dame Diana Rigg (20th July 1938 – 10th September 2020)
Gloria DeHaven (23rd July 1925 – 30th July 2016)
Lynda Carter (who was 70 on 24th July 1951)
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (28th July 1929 – 19th May 1994)
