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Contents:
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
- ON THIS GAY DAY: ‘TORCH SONG TRILOGY’ HAD S PREMIERE
- PRIDE MONTH GAY HISTORY – JUNE 5: TORCH SONG TRILOGY, FERI GARCIA LOR, THE COMMTEE FOR HOMOSEXUAL FREEDOM, AND MORE.
THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
* gay torch songs *
The llectn of three short plays, which are performed succsn, ns for over four hours and tells the story of Arnold Beckoff, a gay Jewish drag queen and torch song sger. The play is regnised for s pictn of an effemate gay man who longs for a fay. The work discs issu like gay marriage and adoptn and has been regnised as a precursor to popular TV shows like Will & Grace, Morn Fay and Queer as Folk.
Bce Wayne Campbell found fame as 70s rock performer Jobrah, he’s been scribed as the first openly gay rock mician. He played the character of Woof, who is implied to be gay. He had a very tragic life, he was gay, Jewish and que ugly - was not easy for him!
ON THIS GAY DAY: ‘TORCH SONG TRILOGY’ HAD S PREMIERE
It's very gay but also very rpectable and tasteful. Attus the Bloomsbury Group, which Keyn was avidly volved, were relaxed about homosexualy. Keyn, together wh wrer Lytton Strachey, had rhaped the Victorian attus of the Cambridge Apostl: “Sce [their] time, homosexual relatns among the members were for a time mon”, wrote Bertrand Rsell.
1898 – Birth date of gay Spanish poet Feri Garcia Lor. Weisel owned a popular gay dance club Washgton, DC.
PRIDE MONTH GAY HISTORY – JUNE 5: TORCH SONG TRILOGY, FERI GARCIA LOR, THE COMMTEE FOR HOMOSEXUAL FREEDOM, AND MORE.
1969 – The “Commtee for Homosexual Freedom” newsletter announced that after two weeks of picketg, Frank Dennaro, who was fired om his job at Tower Rerds bee he was gay, was re-hired. Tower Rerds also stuted perhaps one of the first non-discrimatn hirg polici which clud gay men bee of the picketg. The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a Jewish homosexual, drag queen, and torch sger who liv New York Cy the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The first act riv s name (Internatnal Stud) om an actual gay bar of the same name at 117 Perry Street Greenwich Village the 1960s and 1970s. The popular work broke new ground the theatre: “At the height of the post-Stonewall clone era, Harvey challenged both gay and straight dienc to champn an effemate gay man’s longgs for love and fay.