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Contents:
- THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
- THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
- QUIETLY, A BAWDY GAY BEAN GO DARK
- WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.
- 1964: THE BIRTH OF GAY THEATER
- NEW YORK’S 2ND STAGE THEATER OFFERS LOTS OF GAY OPTNS
- CATEGORY: GAY
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY THEATER, THREE ACTS
- TAG: GAY THEATER
THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
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Hell’s Kchen and Chelsea offer the most “tradnal” gay bars and clubs, where visors n check out venu wh hunky shirtls bartenrs, a mostly-gay-male clientele, and thumpg hs gog late to the night. It’s a fun and totally ridiculo experience that’s like a gay Coyote Ugly llid wh a down-home honky-tonk, but the fact that Flamg Saddl don’t take self serly is exactly why ’s such a fun bar to go to, offerg an unpretent experience that’s pecially good for anyone visg a gay bar for the first time. Other mils wh queer them clu Come From Away, which clus the te story of Kev Tuerff and his partner, both of whom bee strand Newfoundland wh hundreds of others durg the 9/11 attacks, and The Book of Mormon, which often mocks relig bigotry agast gay people.
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THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
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One of the most important facilators of muny for LGBTIQ+ New Yorkers is The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center, referred to by lols simply as “The Center”.
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New York|Quietly, a Bawdy Gay Bean Go Dark ADVERTISEMENTNEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: TIMES SQUAREApril 24, 2005Most of the pestrians who stream past the buildg at 201 Wt 46th Street, on Broadway, do not notice that s tenant has moved out. "The sign, so most that the letter G mt stand for the word gay, is a ftg symbol of a 30-year-old salute to immosty, the cy's last survivg all-male burlque hoe and the only remag strip theater where performers danced pletely the sign don't illumate is the lore that set the Gaiety apart om other clubs: the mastream attentn attracted after photos of Madonna and some of the club's dancers were clud her 1992 book, "Sex"; the chet of visors like John Waters, Andy Warhol and Shirley MacLae; and the club's unrivaled abily to survive, spe the strict zong laws stuted durg the Giuliani admistratn, thanks to a lotn jt outsi a rtricted Gaiety's bread and butter was tourists, along wh the ocsnal woman or bridal party, and a re group of lol men who showed up for any of s five shows, seven days a week.
QUIETLY, A BAWDY GAY BEAN GO DARK
Lbian & gay bars and events NYC: Time Out offers New York’s bt gui to gay clubs, gay bars and LGBT events throughout New York Cy. * gay theater new york *
For most of s history, the theater also featured gay members of the flock wnsed the Gaiety's fal show a few weeks ago -- the first public mentn of the closg had appeared on several Web s only that morng -- but most did not know until was too late. The two gay magaz where ads for the Gaiety ran for years did not hear om Denise Rozis, the owner, until a few days after the club shut s Rozis cled to discs the suatn, as did the former owner, the Kenh Rubste fay.
WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE GREAT GAY PLAY? EVERYTHG.
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"' KATHRYN BELGIORNOA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn 14, Page 5 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: TIMES SQUARE; Quietly, a Bawdy Gay Bean Go Dark. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTCric’s NotebookIn recent shows, ias of gayns are expandg, bg and disappearg all at WisemanI don’t know whether was bee my parents were jt generally open-md, or bee they had a specific, kdly yet mortifyg agenda, but one of the first Broadway plays they took me to, June of 1977, was way too gay for fort. The first phas of the gay play, ccial their moment, which broadly speakg enpassed the send half of the 20th century, are over.
1964: THE BIRTH OF GAY THEATER
IF “GAY THEATER” is fed as beg by, for, and about uncloseted gay people, then 2014 arguably marks the 50th anniversary of the genre’s existence. * gay theater new york *
Some, like “A Strange Loop” and “Fat Ham, ” dramatize how the experience of racism amplifi that of homophobia, and vice fy expectatns by makg sexual orientatn a distctly sendary ncern among characters who “happen to be” gay or lbian, as “A Case for the Existence of God” and “At the Weddg.
NEW YORK’S 2ND STAGE THEATER OFFERS LOTS OF GAY OPTNS
New York's Send Stage Theater offers lots of gay optns. * gay theater new york *
When a (male) love tert enters the picture, and they sg Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” as a duet, you feel somethg new has happened, as ntroversy melts to a blissful cloud of nonbary bubble is the equalizg, homogenizg fluence of pop culture at work — an fluence that some queer people unrstandably mistst. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” go further, makg the cross-pollatn of inty the prime source of s nflict, as the ma character nonts both the homophobia of his Black fay and the racism of his queer one. ) Its body, race and orientatn issu are left a kd of stalemate that suggts what might happen if a foundatnal gay play like “The Boys the Band” (which had only one Black character) were multiplied fun hoe mirrors ad fum.
CATEGORY: GAY
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That the Hamlet figure, lled Juicy, is Black and gay, wh an termtent csh on a Laert-like iend, suggts that the queer theme will domate, yet don’t; “Fat Ham” is really a play about Black masculy and, even more broadly, the vlent herance all men mt renounce.
” Beltran portrays a gay Black man hopg to adopt the young girl he’s been Klwich/The New York TimMy other favore queer plays of the past year likewise offer no bands; their gay characters (there are still far too few lbian on) operate as if their gayns were mostly ternal and pletely irrelevant. Hunter’s heartbreakg “A Case for the Existence of God, ” that turns out to be an illn, as a gay Black man, after fosterg a ltle girl for more than three years, fds his plan to adopt her undone at the last mute. If there are subtle ways which their sexual inti affect their character or behavr, they were too subtle for me; miss a le or two and you may not even know that gayns is a part of their makp at mak sense plays about cris that threaten to oblerate a person entirely: genr, race, orientatn and all.
Francis, the closeted llege stunt “Gemi, ” probably did; if he lived through AIDS, I expect he achieved full five-star gay privilege, plete wh marriage, children and Crate & Barrel chee boards. ) What about the gay characters who, lackg whe sk, almost never appeared on mercial stag those supposed great gay play s? IF “GAY THEATER” is fed as beg by, for, and about uncloseted gay people, then 2014 arguably marks the 50th anniversary of the genre’s existence.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY THEATER, THREE ACTS
In 1964, spe a social climate of homophobia that pervad Amerin life for the send third of the 20th century, two one-act plays prented Off-Off-Broadway at the Caffe Co revolutnized how gay characters uld be reprented theatrilly.
TAG: GAY THEATER
Produced a readg of “Hnted Host” 2008 an eveng honorg Robert Patrick for his ntributn to gay theater over the past five s. At the height of the Pansy Craze the late 1920s, Mae Wt penned The Drag, a “social problem” play that argued for sympathetic treatment of homosexuals.