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He was 96.</p><p>To quote the tle of his reer-revalizg 1986 album, Bent voted his nearly 70-year reer to <em>The Art of Excellence</em>. One unfortunate album asi (1970’s <em>Tony Bent Sgs the Great Hs of Today</em>), Bent refed to promise his mic by panrg to trends of the moment to appeal to younger dienc. “Jt bee dis is popular or rap, I was tght to jt be myself and not to imate what others are dog,” he told me a 2011 terview to mark his 85th birthday. “Never do an ferr song. I look for five versns of songs like [those sung by] Frank Satra or Nat Kg Cole. They me om an era of nothg but the bt qualy and creative micianship.”</p><p class="paywall">Th, the setlist for Bent’s Grammy-nomated 1998 children’s album, <em>The Playground</em>, clud such kid-iendly standards as “Swgg on a Star,” “AC-Cen-T-ChuAte the Posive” and “It’s Only a Paper Moon.”</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">In 2006 and 2011, Bent rerd the Grammy-wng llectns, <em>Duets: An Amerin Classic</em> and <em>Duets II</em>, which buted at No. 1 on the <em>Billboard</em> charts, makg Bent, at 85, the olst artist to achieve this tone. His llaborators clud <strong>Bono</strong>, Aretha Frankl, <strong>Lady Gaga</strong>, <strong>Pl McCartney</strong>, <strong>Stg</strong>, <strong>Barbra Streisand</strong>, <strong>Carrie Unrwood</strong> and Amy Wehoe. This did not make Bent trendy; ma him timels. He topped himself 2014 when, at the age of 88, his llaboratn wh Lady Gaga, <em>Cheek to Cheek</em>, likewise buted at No. 1.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssS ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="19lwb7"></div></div><p class="paywall">Bent rerd more than 70 albums, not cludg pilatns. He is one of a few rerdg artists to have albums that have charted each of seven s. He was honored wh <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">18 Grammys</a>, cludg a Lifetime Achievement Award, and was nomated for 36. His 13 Grammys for Bt Tradnal Pop Vol Album are the most the tegory’s history. His most recent w was 2015 for <em>The Silver Lg: The Songs of Jerome Kern</em>, which earned Bt Tradnal Pop Vols honors. </p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">He performed for 11 Amerin prints and won two Emmy Awards for his televisn specials, <em>Tony Bent Live by Requt</em> (1996) and <em>Tony Bent: An Amerin Classic</em> (2006). He was a 2005 Kennedy Center Honors recipient and the 2006 Natnal Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Master honoree. He was the recipient of <em>Billboard</em> magaze 2016 Century Award, the magaze’s hight honor, and the 2017 Library of Congrs Gershw Prize, which is btowed on recipients “whose reer reflects lifetime achievement promotg song as a vehicle of mil exprsn and cultural unrstandg.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">“I don’t thk there’s anyone ever at Mr. Bent’s age that is still tourg, and sgg and soundg so amazg,” Gloria Estefan told <a href=" target="_blank">reporters</a> 2017, when Bent was 90, prr to tribute ncert honor of his Gershw Prize. “He gets up every day, happy to create and to do somethg new. He’s really someone to look up to.”</p><p class="paywall">Bent himself told the  <a href=" target="_blank"><em>New York Tim</em></a> that year, “I still sist that I n get better as I go along.”</p><p class="paywall">Tony Bent was born Anthony Domick Benetto on Aug. 3, 1926 Astoria, Queens. His grocer father died when he was 10. 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Unr the G.I. Bill of Rights, he studied the highly-discipled bel nto style of sgg that is tradnally associated wh opera sgers, which he <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">creded</a> wh helpg to keep his sgg voice shape to his 90s. </p><p class="paywall">Bent performed clubs unr the stage name Joe Bari. An engagement at the Shangri-La, an upsle Astoria club, and rad appearanc followed. In 1949, Pearl Bailey gave him his big break when she ved him to jo her mil revue at the Village Inn, a Greenwich Village club. There, Bob Hope, who was then appearg at the Paramount Theatre, saw Bent and ved him to jo his show. It was Hope who ed the stage name Tony Bent. </p><p class="paywall">In 1950, Bent signed wh Columbia Rerds and 1951, he sred his first No. 1 h, “Bee of You.” Other hs followed, cludg “Stranger Paradise,” “Se” and “Rags to Rich,” which had proment placement <strong>Mart Srse</strong>’s <a href=" target="_blank"><em>Goodfellas</em></a>. Albums such as <em>The Beat of My Heart</em> and <em>Basie Swgs, Bent Sgs</em> anticipated his forays to jazz sgg.</p><p class="paywall">In 1962, Bent rerd, “Once Upon a Time,” which he believed would be a h sgle. But was the flip-si, <a href=" target="_blank"><em>I Left My Heart San Francis</em></a><em>,</em> that clicked. It won Bent his first Grammy and beme his signature song. When asked why this of all of his songs so ronated wh people, he ced s’ climactic lyric: “When I e home to you, San Francis/Your goln sun will she for me.” “That reprents the fulfillment of a dream,” he told me. “We’d all like someday to be succsful. ‘When I e home to you’ means that the dream me te.” </p><p class="paywall">Bent had other hs the early 1960s, cludg “The Shadow of Your Se,” “I Wanna Be Around” and “The Good Life” (whose tle he took for his 1994 memoir), as well as crilly-acclaimed albums. He powerfully lent his voice and prence to the Civil Rights Movement, marchg alongsi Mart Luther Kg durg the 1965 march om Selma to Montgomery.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">But the Brish Invasn, led by the Beatl 1964, and the rock and roll era signaled a turng of the pop culture ti. He and Columbia parted ways 1971 after the label wanted a follow-up to <em>Tony Bent Sgs the Hs of Today</em>, an album Bent spised.</p><p class="paywall">Profsnally and personally, the 1970s was a fallow for Bent. His first marriage end divorce. Bent -found his own rerd label, Improv Rerds and although the rerdgs were crilly acclaimed, they did not sell and the label was short-lived, puttg Bent eply bt to the IRS. He stggled wh dg addictn until a iend, who had prevly managed edian Lenny Bce, said that Bent had “sned agast his talent.” Bent to<strong>ld Chris Cuomo</strong> a 2011 terview on ABC-TV newsmagaze <em>20/20</em>, “That one sentence jt changed my life. It meant that I had to drop everythg I was dog. 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body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall"><strong>Danny Bent</strong>, a son om Bent’s first marriage, beme his personal manager and engeered his father’s eback and his return to Columbia. 1986’s <em>The Art of Excellence</em> was Bent’s first album to reach the pop charts 14 years. It began a spectacular strg of crilly-acclaimed and bt-sellg rerdgs that celebrated mil hero (among them <em>Bent/Berl</em>, <em>Perfectly Frank</em> and <em>Stepp’ Out</em>, featurg songs popularized by dancer Fred Astaire, <em>Bent Sgs Ellgton: Hot and Cool</em> and <em>Here’s to the Ladi</em>) .</p><p class="paywall">In 2014, <em>Cheek to Cheek</em>, a llectn of standards that paired Bent and Lady Gaga, buted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 pop and rock chart. The subsequent PBS special was nomated for an Emmy. In his nth , Bent sold a reported 10 ln albums.</p><p class="paywall">Bent, to paraphrase the tle of his idol Frank Satra’s own signature song, did his way. When he appeared on <em>MTV Unplugged</em>, gut artists such as <strong>k.d. lang</strong> and <strong>Elvis Costello</strong> dueted on songs om Bent’s vast repertoire of standards, and not the other way around. He played timate clubs and the ft ncert halls rather than impersonal stadiums.</p><p class="paywall">It was a ttament to his cross-generatnal appeal that he appeared on <em>Amerin Idol</em>, voiced himself on <em>The Simpsons</em>, ma a self-pretg meo oppose a Bent-impersonatg <strong>Alec Baldw</strong> on <a href=" target="_blank"><em>Saturday Night Live</em></a> and guted on <em>The Howard Stern Show</em> and <em>Late Night wh David Letterman</em>. </p><p class="paywall">Danny Bent booked him wh alternative acts like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Lemonheads. “He told me that he plor the notn of mographics,” Danny told <a href=" target="_blank"><em>The Chigo Tribune</em></a> 1994. “So I knew was a matter of turng the market around. Instead of ftg the artist to the marketg, I f the marketg to the artist.”</p><p class="paywall">Bent was a champn of the arts. He -found Explorg the Arts (ETA) wh his third wife, <strong>San Crow</strong>, a Tony Bent fan club member who met Bent backstage when she was 19. ETA supports public school arts tn. One of ETA’s first iativ was the Frank Satra School of the Arts, a public school which opened New York Cy 2009. </p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Bent was also a regnized pater, whose works are the Smhsonian llectns as well as the Butler Instute Youngstown, OH. The 2007 book, <em>Tony Bent the Stud: A Life of Art and Mic</em>, featur 200 of his works. He took up sculptg at the age of 85. </p><p class="paywall">In addn to his memoir, Bent also wrote two llectns of anecdot and life lsons, <em>Life is a Gift</em> 2012 and <em>Jt Gettg Started</em> 2016. But he was an Osr short of an EGOT. His actg reer began and end wh <em>The Osr</em>, a 1966 cril and box office flop now nsired somethg of a mp classic, and which hand Bent such crgeworthy dialogue as, “Like a junkie shootg pure quicksilver to his ves, Frankie got turned on by the wilst nartic known to man: succs!”</p><p class="paywall">Bent ntued to rerd as well as tour after he was diagnosed 2016 wh Alzheimer’s. <strong>Antonia Bent</strong>, his dghter om his send marriage (that unn dissolved 2007), opened his shows. A send llectn of duets he rerd wh Lady Gaga between 2018-2020 was schled for release the sprg of this year. 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BILL MAHER THKS US IS ‘LERALLY EXPERIMENTG ON CHILDREN’ AND ‘EVERYONE WILL BE GAY BY 2054’

Bill Maher has said that more LGBTQ+ people are g out bee 's "trendy" and that "we will all be gay 2054". * everyone gay by 2050 *

Maher referred to genr-affirmg healthre for trans youth like puberty blockers as “lerally experimentg on children”, gave a shout out to a book which par beg transgenr to a mental illns, and cricised the fact that there were no cisgenr gay men as grand marshals for New York Cy Pri.

6% choosg to not weigh one way or another, acrdg to a poll released last Universal Life Church, better known to many as that place you go onle to get “ordaed” so you n perform a weddg for your buddi, weighed on Twter, cg the new poll as reason to believe “everyone Ameri will be gay by 2047. In this blog post, we'll take a look at the 5 trends that are shapg the gay muny 2050 and what means for our reprentatn media and entertament: In 2050, the gay muny is reprented mastream media and entertament like never before. [Verse 1]If you're gay then you're gayDon't pretend that you're straightYou n be who you are any day of the weekYou are unlike the othersSo strong and uniqueWe're all wh youIf you're straight, well, that's greatYou n help procreateAnd make gay ltle babiFor the whole human raceMake a world we n live Where the one who you love's not an issue[Chos]'Cse we're all somewhere the middleWe're all jt lookg for love to change the worldWhat if the world stops spng tomorrow?

The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party.

BILL MAHER: AT THIS RATE 'WE WILL ALL BE GAY BY 2054'

Now, the year 2050, Wtern societi there is wispread acceptance of same-sex love and sexualy. Sce the early 2000s, public unrstandg and support for lbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people and their human rights have soared. We know that human culture evolv * everyone gay by 2050 *

But even untri like France and Germany where acceptance of homosexualy is high, there are differenc between supporters and non-supporters of key right-wg populist parti such as Natnal Rally France and Alternative for Germany (AfD). Well-rearched surveys (as opposed to some wh markedly skewed sampl and/or methodology) have nsistently placed the homosexual populatn of Ameri at around 2 to 3 percent—yet the fluence of homosexuals on Amerin culture is vastly out of proportn wh their actual numbers. A USA Today article last year reported 32 regularly appearg bisexual or homosexual characters primetime work scripted seri for the 2014-15 televisn season, wh another 64 appearg ble TV shows (Bill Keveney, “Y, You Really Are Seeg More LGBT Characters on TV, ” Oct.

WE WILL ALL BE GAY 2054: BILL MAHER'S 'HOMOPHOBIC' MENT ON LGBTQ MAK IZENS FUR

* everyone gay by 2050 *

They then add this utn for those who would want to ph the gay agenda too far: “It almost go whout sayg that groups on the fartht marg of acceptabily such as NAMBLA [the North Amerin Man-Boy Love Associatn, which as s name suggts promot adult-child homosexual sex] mt play no part at all such a mpaign: spected child-molters will never look like victims... This strategy—aid and abetted by sympathetic news media and ernment agenci—has led to enterg a stage of aggrsive attacks by some the gay muny agast those who scerely believe that homosexual behavr vlat the laws, stctns and prcipl of God.

5 TRENDS FOR THE GAY COMMUNY 2050: A LOOK TO THE FUTURE

The Universal Life Church joed wh the jok after mistakenly claimed the entire US would be gay by 2047. * everyone gay by 2050 *

Yet at the same time, they ma a statement showg that gays really aren’t the opprsed, victimized group Kirk and Madsen advote they be portrayed as: “Bee those gays not supportg fai ually have more discretnary e than average, they uld afford to ntribute much more. “Bee most straightforward appeals are impossible, the Natnal Gay Task Force has had to cultivate quiet backroom liaisons wh broadst pani and newsrooms orr to make sure that issu important to the gay muny receive some verage.

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The startlg shift Amerin attus toward gays and same-sex marriage is not the rult of chance or random events. More than a quarter century ago, gay strategists laid out a plan to transform the natn—wh astoundg succs. * everyone gay by 2050 *

As Gallup poted out s ial timate of the entire LGBT populatn 2012, "Exactly who mak up the LGBT muny and how this group should be measured is a subject of some bate, " and "there are a number of ways to measure lbian, gay, and bisexual orientatn, and transgenr stat.

The chapter nclus wh five takeaway msag that clarify the relatnship between LGTBQ+ people, the generatnal horts to which they belong and wh which they intify, and the attus of var LGBTQ+ generatnal horts toward gay neighborhoods. Through this rehed unrstandg, we exame parative s that scribe the bgraphi, general behavrs, and generatnal loc of four well-known gay men as a means to explore how dividuals born a particular birth generatn may experience vastly different experienc life due to the LGBTQ + generatn wh which they intify.

This parison provis a basis for better unrstandg broar societal forc that shape the evolutn of gay neighborhoods throughout the twentieth century and to the twenty-first century along wh observatns about the perceived cle or plate of gay neighborhoods.

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3, the homonormative experience is shaped as a summatn of the valu, experienc, and events that shape a birth generatn pl the valu, experienc, and events that impact that person relative to their g of age as an LGBTQ+ dividual.

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Explorg LGBTQ+ Generatns: Through the Ey of Warhol, Vidal, Capote & HudsonExamg the liv of celebri and well-known LGBTQ + dividuals offers a lens to summarize and illtrate typil behavrs and attus that have been formative shapg gay culture and the LGBTQ+ llective inty. In this se, the disntuy between the birth generatn to which each man belonged and the perd durg which their g of age wh regard to their LGBTQ+ inty occurred was shaped not only by the valu, behavrs, and mor of their birth generatn but also overlaid by the generatn to which they “me of age” as a gay man and a member of the LGBTQ+  muny. His g of age occurred early life, which plac his behavr, the outward exprsn of genr inty, and sexual orientatn a much more ntemporary timeame closer behavr to a member of Generatn X (people born about fifty years after Capote) ntrast, Vidal did not publicly acknowledge his sexual orientatn or genr exprsn, and much later life vaguely intified first as bisexual (1999), and later as homosexual (Kaplan 2013).

Their behavrs, outward exprsn of genr, and gree of fort wh intifyg as LGBTQ + varied pendg more on their LGBTQ + generatn than their birth wh Capote, Vidal, and Hudson, a sire or lack of sire to ngregate and be associated wh other LGBTQ + dividuals public impacted the emergence and subsequent velopment of gay neighborhoods. In this way, Warhol’s liberal attu mirrored attus gay neighborhoods as home to not only LGBTQ+ dividuals but as clive, accsible, and permissive neighborhoods where enomic stat beme ls important than creative energy, potential, and persona. In the old days you uld go over there on a Sunday and nobody would be around, but now ’s gay gay gay as far as the eye n see—dyk and leather bars wh the nam right out there broad daylight—the Ramrod-type plac” ( Warhol and Hackett 1989: 51).

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The plexy of his g of age a time when homosexualy was illegal, mixed wh his fascatn wh celebry and outlandishns, sparked a cursy Warhol that helped to shape and support the culture of gay neighborhoods New York Cy the 1960s through the 1980s as clive and creative spac.

He provid for his followers and for succsive generatns of LGBTQ+ people a type of eedom that he himself seemed reluctant to Homonormative Saeculum and the Events that Shaped a Century of LGBTQ+ CultureThe experience for LGBTQ + people—amed by the unrstandg and treatment of LGBTQ+ dividuals reflected the valu of mastream society—is often que different om that of non LGBTQ+ people.

UNRSTANDG GENERATN GAPS LGBTQ+ COMMUNI: PERSPECTIV ABOUT GAY NEIGHBORHOODS AMONG HETERONORMATIVE AND HOMONORMATIVE GENERATNAL COHORTS

We propose appendg the heteronormative generatnal nam popularized by Strss and Howe to better rporate LGBTQ+ experienc as follows:The Silent Generatn —or the “Closeted Generatn”—gay men me of age jt before, durg, and immediately after World War II and lived a world which there was tense social prsure to nform to genr stereotyp. To avoid persecutn and harassment by the police, the early pneers further gravated wh the large metropolan areas to the margs of central ci—abandoned and fotten neighborhoods populated by those that heteronormative society has labeled social outsts and crimals—that beme some of the first regnizable gay neighborhoods.

They were bolstered by the experienc of those om prev generatns as they began to shed the cultural shame that enuraged LGBTQ + dividuals to stay the closet, and they relished the out of the gay liberatn movement as gay and lbian dividuals and their alli began to celebrate “gay eedom. High-profile efforts such as AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power ( ACT UP), Broadway Car/Equy Fights AIDS, and the AIDS Memorial Quilt Project helped to fe public awarens of the societal and stutnal margalizatn of homosexualy and the necsy to addrs the AIDS panmic wh facts and not wh fear. Generatn X took notice of members of the Greatt Generatn and Silent Generatn as they stggled—often publicly—to rencile the nflictg valu of their generatns: to acknowledge homosexuals as productive members of society while admtg that prev treatment of LGBTQ + people may have been unkd or ntrast to prev tim when popular cultural referenc implied shame or viance related to homosexualy, many of the cultural touchpots for Generatn X viewed homosexualy as a “normal” part of society, suggtg an openg for the acceptance of LGBTQ + people.

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In 1973, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) asked all members attendg s nventn to vote on whether they believed homosexualy to be a mental disorr: 5, 854 psychiatrists voted to remove homosexualy om the list of mental disorrs, and 3, 810 voted to reta .

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