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Contents:
- IS OPRAH GAY? FALLY, CONFIRMATN
- THE DECLE OF OPERA QUEENS AND THE RISE OF GAY OPERA
- DID GAYLE KG JT E OUT? OPRAH WEY’S BTIE SAYS ‘I’M GAY’ ON CBS THIS MORNG
- WHY DO MANY GAY MEN LOVE OPERA?
- THE MET OPERA HAS A GAY CONDUCTOR. Y, THAT MATTERS.
- ZACHARY JAM, AN OUT GAY OPERA ARTIST YOU NEED TO KNOW
- 10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
- "THE BROWSER FOR GAYMERS": OPERA GX'S PRI MONTH LOGO LEAV THE TER A ENZY
- IS OPERA GAY
- OPERA: ‘GAY’ AND ‘FAG’
- WHICH SOAP OPERA STARS ARE GAY?
- TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS OPéRA (MARSEILLE)GAY CLUBS & BARS OPéRA
- WH GAY UPLE AS STARS, MEXIN TELENOVELA SET TO MAKE HISTORY
- IN A FIRST, A NEW TELENOVELA FEATUR A GAY UPLE AS LEADG CHARACTERS
- ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
- CRIQUE OF CLASS SOCIETY BY JOHN GAY
IS OPRAH GAY? FALLY, CONFIRMATN
Alex Ross on “opera queens” and the history of gay them opera, as well as the recent proliferatn of gay operas, like “Angels Ameri” and “Pl’s Case.” * opera gay *
He’s known for his acclaimed terpretatn of Verdi’s intifi as gay, and recently released Vanished, an LGBTQ+ story about “longg, heartbreak, and searchg for love” wh John Holiday (above).
Breanna Sclairé is a transgenr soprano who has had an eclectic reer sgg a diverse range of genr and settgs – om the opera stage, to the Walt Disney Concert Hall wh the Los Angel Gay Men’s Chos.
Disillned by the Cuban Revolutn and persecuted by the Castro regime as a dissint wrer and homosexual, Arenas suffered as a polil prisoner forced to smuggle his mancripts abroad for publitn. ” The opera, which had s world premiere at the Santa Fe Opera 2013, was a vehicle for David Daniels, who is also openly gay and who later brought the work to Opera Philalphia a revised versn.
THE DECLE OF OPERA QUEENS AND THE RISE OF GAY OPERA
Openly gay performg arts lears are still rare. So was a breath of h air to chat about g out and Cele Dn wh Yannick Nézet-Ségu and his partner. * opera gay *
Sce 2010, the crop of gay-oriented works has clud—flute trill, please—Je Martín’s “Before Night Falls” and Charl Wuoren’s “Brokeback Mounta, ” stori faiar om film; Theodore Morrison’s “Osr, ” on the life of Wil; Terence Blanchard’s “Champn, ” about the gay Ain-Amerin boxer Ee Griffh; two perd operas by Gregory Spears, “Pl’s Case” and “Fellow Travelers”; Mark Simpson’s “Pleasure, ” set at a gay night club; Kev March’s “L Feluett, ” based on Michel Marc Bouchard’s play “Lili”; Andrea Srtazzi’s “Edward II, ” about the sndalo Brish monarch; Ricky Ian Gordon’s “27, ” portrayg the partnership of Gert Ste and Alice B.
Oprah Wey’s btie says ‘I’m gay’ on CBS This MorngAFTER years of nyg she and talk-show queen Oprah Wey are a relatnship, Gayle Kg appears to have outed herself on live closer-than-close iendship wh talk-show queen Oprah Wey has long been the subject of mours and speculatn.
Now, after s of nyg that she and the media mogul are a relatnship, journalist Gayle Kg may have jt outed herself on live is reportg that Kg, 59, allegedly uttered the words “I’m gay” durg a discsn about choosg partners on the latt episo of CBS This Morng. ”SO CLOSE: Oprah Wey opens up about iendship wh Gayle Kg GALLERY: Oprah Wey fans h Sydney durg star’s vis BOOM: Oprah effect pays off for Atralia’s tourism Sourc om CBS have told TMZ that Kg — who has been bt iends wh Wey sce they met 1976 while workg at a lol TV statn — did not make the statement and was jt stutterg after jokg wh Rose. He studied unr Frank Bridge, John Ireland and Arthur Benjam among others, and was also a fe ground-breakg operas, which clu Peter Grim (1945), and The Turn of the Screw (1954) – and his famo War Requiem – tackle ntemporaneo issu around psychology and post-war trma, as well his own homosexualy, which was illegal Brten’s lifetime.
DID GAYLE KG JT E OUT? OPRAH WEY’S BTIE SAYS ‘I’M GAY’ ON CBS THIS MORNG
Beg an openly gay sger the opera scene n be very challengg. Zachary Jam, performer, opera sger and mician, is an ternatnally renowned out artist that shar wh YASS how the opera dtry has evolved om a nservative world where sgers were hidg their personal liv for the sake of their reer to a… * opera gay *
As well as beg one of the first openly gay posers full stop, Poulenc also didn’t chew his sexualy the ntext of his relig posns spanned om timate chamber sonatas wh sublime, twistg melodi and lite imprsnist harmoni (thk the 1957 Flute Sonata), to his Piano Concerto and epic one-act opera for soprano and orchtra, La voix humae. And like them, he was associated wh gay clergyman, Cardal Pietro Baroque poser and vlist is known for his chamber sonatas and ncerti grossi, and has gone down history for refg to play a sectn of Hanl’s orator, The Triumph Of Time And Tth, bee a vl note went higher than Corelli believed appropriate for the stment.
WHY DO MANY GAY MEN LOVE OPERA?
10 Gay, Bisexual & Queer Soap Opera Stars * opera gay *
Unlike Copland, US poser Samuel Barber ma no effort to keep his homosexualy out of explic view and his life partner was poser Gian Carlo Menotti, who he studied wh at the Curtis Instute.
Leonard Bernste also studied at the Curtis Instute wh Barber and Menotti (see above), and although he had an on-aga-off-aga relatnship wh actor Felicia Cohn Montealegre and eventually married her, he was openly gay.
THE MET OPERA HAS A GAY CONDUCTOR. Y, THAT MATTERS.
Jo Soaps as we pay tribute to the out-and-proud gay primetime TV stars and daytime actors. * opera gay *
Montealegre herself wrote publicly about her book, The Bernste Letters, “you are a homosexual and may never change – you don’t adm to the possibily of a double life, but if your peace of md, your health, your whole nervo system pend on a certa sexual pattern what n you do? The clud one of the most signifint figur of the entire gay movement, San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official Amerin history. San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk (1930-1978), the first openly gay elected public official Ameri and subject of an opera named for him, posed by Stewart Wallace.
They all prent emotnally plex gay characters whose relatnships are, unfortunately, doomed to fail ( some s, tragilly so), eher bee of their own tortured feelgs, their dysfunctnal fai, or simply bee of the reprsn imposed by the society surroundg them.
ZACHARY JAM, AN OUT GAY OPERA ARTIST YOU NEED TO KNOW
Which soap opera stars are gay? Uned Stat Christopher Bern, The Guidg Light. Thom Bierdz, The Young and the Rtls. Jim Brochu, All My Children. Jane Chambers, Search for Tomorrow. Ariana DeBose, One Life to Live. Stt Evans, One Life to Live. Farley Granger. Camryn Grim, The Young and the Rtls. * opera gay *
Composers and librettists are only gradually figurg out that opera n offer LGBTQ-oriented plots that prent gay people whose relatnships n provi joy and uplift for the dience. Yannick Nézet-Ségu, the new mic director of the Metropolan Opera, left, and his partner, the vlist Pierre Tourville, at the gay bar Juli’ Moon for The New York TimJan. But was an extraordary nversatn to be havg wh the mic director of the natn’s largt performg arts culture — particularly high culture — is libly associated wh gay tastemakers, dienc and creators, ’s a sign of how outmod our nceptn of thory is that remarkably few major performg arts lears have been openly gay.
10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
Top Gay Clubs & Bars Opéra: See reviews and photos of Gay Clubs & Bars Opéra, Marseille (France) on Tripadvisor. * opera gay *
In classil mic and opera, even New York, the cy that gave rise to the morn gay rights movement wh the Stonewall rts 50 years ago this June, has been domated sce then by two nductors: Leonard Bernste and Jam Leve, who both kept sexual relatnships wh men chattg sually about g out, bullyg and Cele Dn wh Mr.
"THE BROWSER FOR GAYMERS": OPERA GX'S PRI MONTH LOGO LEAV THE TER A ENZY
A Mexin soap opera that buts on Sunday is set to make televisn history as the untry's first telenovela to feature a gay uple as the leadg characters. "Juntos, El Corazon Nun se Equivo" (Together, the Heart is Never Wrong) om Mexin work Televisa centers on two teenagers who move to Mexi Cy to attend a universy. The uple - Aristotel (E Osor) and Cuahutemoc or 'Temo' (Joaqu Bondoni) - first appeared on the Mexin soap "Mi Marido Tiene Mas Faia" (My Hband Has More Fay), which ran om 2017 until Febary this year. * opera gay *
Dpe gay pneers like Michael Tilson Thomas (at the San Francis Symphony) and Mar Alsop ( Baltimore), nductg remas an overwhelmgly straight (and male, and whe) profsn.
IS OPERA GAY
A new opera productn at the Met explor the life and tragic reer of the gay boxer Ee Griffh, a welterweight champn. * opera gay *
Nézet-Ségu — who has been openly gay for his entire profsnal reer and nonchalant enough about to post a sg partners’ beach selfie on Instagram — is impossible to miss. But at the very begng of queer operatic reprentatn the twentieth century—opera emerged as a signifint art form whe gay of the first posers and wrers to explore queer them opera—more or ls overtly—clud (om right, clockwise) Osr Wil, Francis Poulenc, Benjam Brten, Leonard Bernste, Gianrlo Menotti, and Samuel Barber.
OPERA: ‘GAY’ AND ‘FAG’
The foc on a gay uple such an fluential arena of Mexin life — the telenovela — uld mark a signifint shift for LGBTQ acceptance a culture where tradnal genr rol rema eply graed, experts say. * opera gay *
In several well-known s, artists sistepped their society’s homophobia or closeted nature by creatg operas which female characters rry the emotnal experienc of gay men: Eugene OnegPeter Tchaikovsky had reasons other than tormented sexualy for makg Eugene Oneg to an opera 1879. Sunny Marti photo When Tatyana rejects Oneg, the fal scene, ’s another suatn all too faiar to gay men who had to live the closet: “Y, I loved you I’m married now, and you mtn’t e near me.
WHICH SOAP OPERA STARS ARE GAY?
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Gayle Kg and Oprah WeyILOSM fay, by now most of have heard the long standg mors that Oprah Wey and Gayle Kg are lbian lovers and that Oprah’s man of 30 years, Stedman Graham, is simply a “beard” for Oprah (which impli that he’s a y to throw the public off). Throughout the years many folks have been spic about them, not bee they’ve been bt iends for about 40 years, but bee they’ve seemgly been joed at the hip for the entire, Gayle and Oprah did an terview a while back, to thoroughly addrs whether they or not they have ever been, or ever will be, lbian boo-thangs.
TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS OPéRA (MARSEILLE)GAY CLUBS & BARS OPéRA
All the openly gay male celebri Hollywood who are out and proud: Chris Appleton, Dan Levy, Andrew Stt, Kal Penn, and more. * opera gay *
Check out their ndid nversatn wh their terviewer, Lisa, for O Magaze:Oprah Wey (c) wh her lifetime partner, Stedman Graham; and bt iend, Gayle Kg“People are still sayg that?
WH GAY UPLE AS STARS, MEXIN TELENOVELA SET TO MAKE HISTORY
That’s an credibly rare thg between even the clost of & GAYLE HAVE NOTHING TO HIDEThrowback photo of Oprah Wey and Gayle KgGayle: The tth is, if we were gay, we would so tell you, bee there’s nothg wrong wh beg Yeah. And, you know, somebody ma a good pot: “Well, every time we see you, you’re together, ” which is and GayleOprah: We were jt down the Bahamas—I was givg a weddg for my niece there. The first Pri March New York Cy was held on June 28, 1970, one year after the Stonewall Uprisg, to honor the thoands of LGBTQ+ people who took to the streets to monstrate agast the discrimatn they faced hog and employment, the anti-homosexual laws agast gatherg bars or dance clubs, to even be out as a homosexual.
IN A FIRST, A NEW TELENOVELA FEATUR A GAY UPLE AS LEADG CHARACTERS
The ncept behd the ial march me om members of the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns who had been anizg an annual July 4th monstratn known as the Remr Day Pickets, at Inpennce Hall Philalphia, between 1965 and 1969. Gay's ma source for the 69 songs (there were 68 the origal sre wh one add later by the third edn) his opera was Thomas D'Urfey's llectn of vers wrten mostly to folksongs and favore melodi published 1700 a songbook entled, W and Mirth or Pills to Purge Melancholy. "This Week a Dramatick Entertament has been exhibed at the Theatre Lln's-Inn-Fields, entled The Beggar's Opera, which has met wh a general Applse, somuch that the Waggs say has ma Rich very Gay, and probably will make Gay very Rich.
ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
The One Life to Live scene stealer — now and forever David Vickers to soap fans — announced durg a 2013 talk-show appearance not only that he was gay but that he’d bee a sgle father of two. Though the rap in and Equalizer star told the New York Tim as recently as 2008 that “I don’t feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don’t re if people thk I’m gay or not, ” she fally end all the speculatn at the 2021 BET Awards when, acceptg a Lifetime Achievement Award, she thanked partner Eboni Nichols and the son that they share.
Four years after As the World Turns stopped spng, the actor who ma history as half of daytime’s first gay male kiss me out publicly an terview wh The Fight Magaze. The Grey’s Anatomy vet’s g-out wasn’t exactly the easit: His sexual orientatn was ma known after stmate Isaiah Washgton ed a gay slur on set, leadg to a wily reported altertn. The brother of movie star Chris Evans — beloved to soap fans for playg Oliver, half of One Life to Live’s “Kish” the late 2000s — me out as gay when he was 19.
CRIQUE OF CLASS SOCIETY BY JOHN GAY
Though the poser wrote about his sexualy at length his letters to his brother Most (also gay), Tchaikovsky’s immense fame and fear of floutg social nventn preclud him om livg openly wh a male partner. Dpe myriad primary acunts that discs Tchaikovsky’s homosexualy, the Rsian ernment’s long history of anti-gay censorship has muddied the bgraphil waters Tchaikovsky’s beloved homeland.
His strong sense of inty manifted self arrangements and missns for several Amerin gay men’s chos, and he was regnized for his achievements by the Annual Gay/Lbian Amerin Mic Awards 1999. As AIDS rearcher and -founr of Gay Men’s Health Crisis Lawrence Mass noted, Harrison was “proud to be a gay poser and terted talkg about what that might mean. By Osr LopezMEXICO CITY, June 21 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - A Mexin soap opera that buts on Sunday is set to make televisn history as the untry's first telenovela to feature a gay uple as the leadg characters.
Telenovelas are hugely popular Mexi and n fluence natnal dialogue on social issu across Lat first gay kiss socially nservative Brazil on the soap "Amor a Vida" 2014 was seen as a historic moment gay are exported around the world, and "Mi Marido Tiene Mas Faia" was broadst the Uned Stat on s largt Spanish-language statn, of a spoff show featurg Aristotel and Temo, or 'Aristemo' as they are known, sent fans to a enzy on social media. "Mexin telenovelas have featured gay characters but they are relegated to sendary rol, while lbian relatnships have only been reprented the past few characters have featured creasgly on soap operas around the world, om the first openly lbian character on "All My Children" 1983 to the first transgenr character on a Brish soap, "Coronatn Street, " 1998.