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Contents:
- GLTER AND BE GAY
- LEONARD BERNSTE - GLTER AND BE GAY LYRICS
- “ENOUGH OF BEG BASELY TEARFUL”: “GLTER AND BE GAY” AND THE CAMP POLICS OF QUEER RISTANCE
GLTER AND BE GAY
* glitter and be gay bernstein *
Prr to my sophomore year of high school, I had not tly unrstood the signifince and fluence of the poser, nductor, tor, and humanarian that was Leonard Bernste. In class, we discsed Candi as an operetta based on Voltaire’s novella wh the same tle and spired story l, yet I cid I would further analyze four of my favore piec this operetta: the overture, “Bt of All Possible Worlds”, “Glter and Be Gay”, and fally, “Make Our Garn Grow. The overture immediately giv the dience a taste of what to expect throughout the operetta by rporatg var tun om other songs the performance to the overture, cludg “The Bt of All Possible Worlds”, “Oh, Happy We”, and “Glter and Be Gay.
“Glter and Be Gay” is centered pletely on Cunegon, and she dramatilly sgs this aria om start to fish as she stands the home of two wealthy men Paris. “Glter and Be Gay” om Candi.
From the outset, though, var numbers have been beloved for the masterpiec that they are, cludg the showstopper sung by Candi’s sweetheart’s, Cunegon, “Glter and Be Gay.
LEONARD BERNSTE - GLTER AND BE GAY LYRICS
Glter and be gay,. Glter and be gay.
“ENOUGH OF BEG BASELY TEARFUL”: “GLTER AND BE GAY” AND THE CAMP POLICS OF QUEER RISTANCE
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After outlg mp as social crique, I turn to Cunégon's aria “Glter and Be Gay” and trace s path through mp's eways two different s: first, the Uned Stat of the 1950s, a perd marked by McCarthy's wch-hunts, Cold War anxieti, tense homophobia, and the poser's personal stggle to accept his homosexualy, and send, the late 1980s, when sger, songwrer, and AIDS activist Michael Callen (1955–1993) rerd his own mped-up versn of “Glter and Be Gay” for what would bee his last mil project, a posthumo double album entled Legacy (1996). The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Communy Center.