Oh I'll Go NUTS

Stewy do you have any more information on Joan Baez's sapphic affairs that you can share please

“In 1972 I was talking with a young reporter from a Berkeley paper. He asked me if I was heterosexual. I said simply that if the affair I’d had ten years ago counted, then I was bisexual. I didn’t realize what a catch he had when he left my house and tore back up the coast to print his story.

The next morning, Gail, a good friend who had helped me at Gabe’s birth and was staying with me at the time, helping with Gabe after David and I had split up, poked her head into the bedroom and said, “There’s a guy here from the press. Did you tell someone you were a lesbian?”

I sighed and got dressed. Just my luck to have a woman greet them at the door in her nightgown.

What I said to them then, and what I would say now if asked the same questions, is the following:

I had an affair with a girl when I was twenty-two. It was wonderful. It happened, I assume, after an overdose of unhappiness at the end of an affair with a man, when I had a need for softness and understanding. I assume that the homosexuality within me, which people love to say is in all of us, made itself felt at that time, and saved me from becoming cold and bitter toward everyone. I slowly mended, and since the affair with Kimmie have not had another affair with a woman nor the conscious desire to.”

PS: A Voice To Sing With was published in 1987. Empathy towards the LGBT community was little to none among the general public. I’m not sure if Joan’s answers would’ve been different today; probably, but maybe not since she gave a similar answer in 1979 while participating in a Pride event. Either way, it’s extremely brave of her to not erase Kim and their affair from her life at the time this was published, and to speak about it with such love and care.

paul simon always saying some rude shit in interviews like we actually do hate each other and we never got along and the music we made together was shitty and lame and i did all the work. and everything art says is like we love eachother so much forever and no one cares enough to understand our beautiful romance they just want to spread rumors and we never really broke up we were just apart and no one understands and Yes im a gay man

“We didn’t talk to each other from the ages of 17 to 21… We were best friends. The love affair stopped with a bruise. People fall out. What else is new? I got over it because Paul was so damn good. I ran into him in Queens and he was so funny and smart that I dropped my old barrier, and when we started working together again we knew we were onto something. Paul started bringing the songs to me at Columbia College, where I was studying architecture. I was the midwife, pulling out and cherishing the babies as Paul kept giving birth.”

— Art Garfunkel 

This comment found underneath a 2009 Simon and Garfunkel press conference 💀

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Home, home

Sun on my doorstep

Shocks me to find

I'm a child again еntwined

In your love, in your light

In your cool summer shade

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But I love to watch you walk across my doorway

I cannot be held accountable for the things I do or say

I’m just jittery

I’m just jittery

It’s just a way of dealing with my joy

It’s just a way of dealing with my joy

Just a way of dealing with my joy

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