Former Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter saw one of her tweets go viral over the weekend. Already a gay icon to many for her role on the camp, late 1970s TV show, Carter posted a message explaining that she had been confused about the annual ‘Fat Bear Week.’
“I kept hearing about Fat Bear Week and thought it was a celebration of body positivity within a gay subculture. It turns out it is about actual bears! Either way, I am here for it. 🐻🏳️🌈”
I kept hearing about Fat Bear Week and thought it was a celebration of body positivity within a gay subculture. It turns out it is about actual bears! Either way, I am here for it. 🐻🏳️🌈 pic.twitter.com/1hMFrCXm8w
— Lynda Carter (@RealLyndaCarter) October 2, 2021
Fat Bear Week is indeed an annual tournament that highlights brown bears that have piled on the pounds ahead of their annual winter hibernation in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Park staff post photos online of some of their bigger-than-average ursine inhabitants and the public votes for a winner. The 2021 champion will be announced tomorrow (so you still have time to vote!).
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Carter’s tweet has had over 20k likes and prompted plenty of comments.
That’s what I thought, too. Probably because I lived in NYC for 25 years. pic.twitter.com/f99c4Osh8p
— Timothy Shamey (@timothyshamey) October 2, 2021
I wanted to be you as Wonder Woman growing up as a young gay boy. Now I want to be you as an older gay man. You are absolutely fabulous and marvelously wondrous. ❤️
— Chaz (@jchazl) October 2, 2021
Our bearish pup Freddie and his bearish dads thank you ❤️🐶🏳️🌈 pic.twitter.com/yHuQGIGgBn
— Grant Hayter-Menzies (@GrantHayter) October 2, 2021
I had the biggest little boy crush on you when I was a kid and saw you on TV.
Now I’m a big bear and you still love me!
❤🧡💛💚💙💜— Name cannot be blank – Richard Rochardt (@as_cub) October 3, 2021
Carter later clarified why she knows about gay bears in another tweet, saying: “Everyone is so surprised that I know about gay bears. Listen, they don’t make you Grand Marshal of multiple Pride parades for nothin’! 😘🏳️🌈”
Everyone is so surprised that I know about gay bears. Listen, they don’t make you Grand Marshal of multiple Pride parades for nothin’! 😘🏳️🌈
— Lynda Carter (@RealLyndaCarter) October 2, 2021
Indeed, Carter has acted as Grand Marshall for Phoenix Pride Parade, New York Pride, and the Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C. In 2010, she also served as Grand Marshall for the Washington, D.C. AIDS Walk.
She jokingly responded to some of the commentators.
It’s a required language when you’re training to be Wonder Woman 💫 https://t.co/d7lddzEnh8
— Lynda Carter (@RealLyndaCarter) October 3, 2021
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One Twitter user said her original ‘Fat Bear Week’ tweet could not be topped. Carter said it was “up to the tops to decide that.”
Maybe not, but it’s up to the tops to decide that. https://t.co/yizOYGCW34
— Lynda Carter (@RealLyndaCarter) October 3, 2021
Ms. Carter, we salute you.
Phil H
Great to see she’s an ally and has a fun sense of humour.
BaltoSteve
She is a national treasure!
Gadfeal
As a kid, I fantasized about her boss, played by Lyle Waggoner, who came across as the good-looking but non-playboy uncle, confirmed bachelor. Another one was Peter Lupus (in Mission Impossible, original series). Although both were married with children, this was pre 1970 when even Rock Hudson got married.
Anyone who works in the audiovisual, entertainment field must be comfortably with gays in a work settings. Everyone in Hollywood knew about Rock, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn, and umpteen other “bisexual” behaviors, but, apart from “L.A. Confidential”, deliberately avoided what was obvious locally. Ty Hardin relationships with Roddy McDowell (who has huge “charisma”) and Tony Perkins (who was more closeted and eventually chose to marry a women). Charlie Chaplain, a man of disproportionate appendage sizes, loved deflowering minors.
I always found that Vincent Price and Jonathan Harris (Lost in Space) sounded like a gay aunts, but, their biographies indicate otherwise.
In France, Claude François, a 1960’s pop singer appeared stereotypically effeminate but, if his biography is true, was a real ladies man. For those who don’t know him, he was a contemporary of Sylvie Vartan, the aunt of Michael Vartan (of the series 24 Hours with Jennifer Garner, and Colombiana with Zoe Saldana). There is even a clip of a duet he made with Joe Foster who spent her teenage years in Paris after her mother expatriated her to escape the paparazzi after the John Hinckley shooting of President Regan.
If you watch Bewitched, you may notice that the dialogue contained quips that only gays would catch as a double-entendre, or if they had been familiar with European historical cities.
jcool
re: your Peter Lupus crush. did you know that he posed for Playgirl in 1974? google it, you won’t be sorry
Gadfeal
Sorry for all the typos; I blame it on “long Covid” after a bruising bout last year that left me addled.
Dwight
Not surprised she’s good with the bears. Dunno if she still does but for many years she owned a second home right in the heart of Rehoboth Beach, DE.
Kangol2
She’s such an icon, as Wonder Woman and as an LGBTQ ally!
GayConservMan
Met her once: horribly rude, gave her a pass because who knows what she is going through.
Met her the second time: rude af. Starting to wonder – is Wonder Woman a TOTAL B!TCH? But still, gave her a pass.
Met her the third time: NOTHING CHANGED! You guessed it! Rude and b!tchy!
Lynda Carter is a rude b1tch!
Vince
Sure Jan…eye roll.
jcool
maybe you should stop meeting her, you seem to have a serious problem with people.
Max
she’s a wondrous woman!
cuteguy
She’s a legend