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Contents:

• GAY NEW YORK: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, DRAG SHOWS AND QUEER CULTURE
• 'CABARET' ANNIVERSARY: JOEL GREY AND MICHAEL YORK RELL MOVIE'S GAY, GENR-BENDG CONTENT
• BRIANGAY

GAY NEW YORK: A GUI TO CLUBS, BARS, DRAG SHOWS AND QUEER CULTURE

Christopher Isherwood, the thor of the novels on which the mil and the movie are based, was cril of the fact that "Brian's homosexual tenncy is treated as an cent but ic weakns to be snickered at, like bed-wettg.

'CABARET' ANNIVERSARY: JOEL GREY AND MICHAEL YORK RELL MOVIE'S GAY, GENR-BENDG CONTENT

Cabaret was creded The Celluloid Closet as beg the first Hollywood movie to openly celebrate the gay liftyle. My unrstandg is that the early seventi, merely havg a gay character ma a movie notable.

For myself, I did not fd the story or the characters exactly pellg and only a uple of l of dialog would need to be changed for almost all of the gay ntent to be elimated. In spe of Roberts allegedly beg gay, the two fall for each other.

Brian claims that he is gay to Sally and later that he had sex wh Maxian but do not take a lot of persuasn on her part before Brian ends up havg sex wh her. Like Brian's suggtns of beg gay, so much of what uld been ed to create a greater sense of urgency or drama is toned down to the pot where only a bland shell remas. Set Berl 1931, Cabaret was based on gay scribe Christopher Isherwood’s The Berl Stori, chroniclg the hedonism amidst the cle of the Weimar Republic and rise of the Nazi Party, published 1945.

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“Of urse we got to the whole thg about the homosexualy, ” York said.

“And they sent so many of those homosexuals to the mps. “Y, the pk triangl, ” York said, referrg to the marker by which the Nazis intified homosexuals.

Four years after Cabaret, Isherwood me out, as were, wh the memoir, Christopher and His Kd, which filled the gay gaps of his life Berl. Sally draws Brian to her world, and ially wants him to be one of her many lovers, until she learns that he is a homosexual, albe a celibate one.