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“We’re queer, we’re here and we’ve been here.
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His archive from those years shows Speedo-clad sunbathers, lovers on the telephone and Piero, a particularly hunky pizza boy – discovered while making the rounds in Milan. The travel guides outlined bathhouses, cruising spots and safe spaces in any given port across the world. Lucien Samahaīefore dating apps, the pages of Spartacus and the Bob Damron guides were atlases for gay nomads everywhere, Samaha explains. Lucien Samaha in his TWA uniform during a layover in Paris, 1983. That kind of stuck with me, and made me more aware of my budding sexuality.” “I don’t know if they were gay or not, but that’s how they came across.
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They had wigs on or long hair, you know, fishnet stockings and glitter,” he explains. “They had the New York Dolls on, who were a very queer glam rock group. The liberal talkshow showcased talent and discussed hot topics – that night, he heard the term “homosexual” for the first time. It was there, as a young boy, that Samaha recalls stumbling on one particularly impactful episode of The David Susskind Show. In 1970, he immigrated with his family to the US, settling in Virginia. “I knew that what I was doing was taboo, not because it was with other boys, but because I was too young to do that sort of thing.” Even then, he was finding his footing as a smooth-talker, flirting with the older kids who smoked ciggies in the bathroom and practising kissing with his classmates. Calling in from his Tribeca studio, Samaha reflects on his childhood at boarding school in Beirut.