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Contents:
- THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
- THE MET OPERA HAS A GAY CONDUCTOR. Y, THAT MATTERS.
- HOTEL ASTOR 1910S-60S GAY BAR – PHANTOM DANCER 23 NOV 2021
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
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Nézet-Ségu is openly gay. Sce when do beg gay the arts unt as news? Well, acrdg to the Tim’ Zachary Woolfe (who, full disclosure, I have wrten for the past), the abily to fiercely work a baton wh queer pri has, until only recently, been an elive pipe dream for those gay men helmg the world’s top-tier orchtras.
THE MET OPERA HAS A GAY CONDUCTOR. Y, THAT MATTERS.
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The classil mic world may be crawlg wh queens, Woolfe explas, but “’s a sign of how outmod our nceptn of thory is that remarkably few major performg arts lears have been openly gay.
And so, to palize on Nézet-Ségu’s willgns to live out loud, the Gray Lady is throwg him a gay tilln. Gay obscury no more: Today, we learn, a Zaha Hadid “moon” sofa grac their Upper Wt Si apartment. Woolfe’s terview, which took place at an inic Wt Village gay bar, do a fe job of prentg the bourgeois and aggrsively normal ntours of a succsful gay partnership.
In a manner siar to midcentury Hollywood’s route steamrollg of s stars’ wayward queerns, the mastream mic prs has happily worked overtime to sanize the orientatns of s own gay celebs—om lifelong “bachelor” Aaron Copland onward—and Woolfe’s own paper is no exceptn. Closetg rarely happens a vacuum; requir a hostile culture of gay supprsn and mechanisms like the popular media to thrive.
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Rather than simply actg like the secrecy of high-profile gay men Manhattan was a random phenomenon, a story such as Woolfe’s uld jt as well have addrsed the mic prs’s past plicy makg homosexualy a secret the first place. Rest as an apology for past journalistic failgs, Woolfe’s article (wh s slanted “out wh the bad gay, wh the good” subtext) would then have livered an even more powerful statement than already do: The tim have changed, but so has the Tim. So, wh rabow flags flyg, here we share some of the bt…Read more: 15 great classil posers who also happened to be gay.
London Gay Symphony Orchtra. London Gay Symphony Orchtra was found 1996, and has grown om a group of iends to a full-sized symphony orchtra, performg at venu such as St John’s Smh Square, Cadogan Hall and the Southbank Centre on ocsn. Other fabulo LGBTQ+ choirs London clu The Pk Sgers, London Gay Men’s Chos, and Diversy.
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Birmgham Gay Symphony Orchtra. The LGBTQ+ neighbour of Classic FM’s Orchtra the Midlands, the CBSO, is the Birmgham Gay Symphony, found 2008.
San Francis’s Bay Area Rabow Symphony, also known by s rather thirst-quenchg abbreviatn BARS, was found 2008 as a non-prof anisatn wh the aim of “promotg and supportg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer intified micians and posers toward the goal of broad crossover appeal and excellence the performg arts. ” The orchtra is currently led by nductor Dawn Harms, and has performed at Davi Symphony Hall and Herbst Theatre among other top venu, cludg wh the San Francis Gay Men’s.
The Stonewall Chorale, named for the historic event, was Ameri’s first gay and lbian chos. This New York choir ters for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and straight young’uns, aged 13-22. The chos “ref homophobia, bullyg, and all forms of hate by boldly assertg the joy, diversy, strength, and pri of today’s youth, ” and has performed at award ceremoni, at the Lln Center, and wh Cyndi Lper, on her ‘Te Colors’ tour and her ‘Home For The Holidays’ ncert beneftg homels LGBTQ+.
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Concent Ali is Berl’s olst gay, lbian and queer symphony orchtra, tablished 1999.
A “Mother McKenzie”) Keatg (we/she), TreasurerArtist, activist, and nonprof profsnal (Co-Director, GayRidge)Michael R. John joed the London Gay Men’s Chos (LGMC) 2011 and created the LGMC's Youth, Edutn, and Outreach program that same year. John began his tenure wh Big Apple Performg Arts (BAPA) and the New York Cy Gay Men's Chos October 2021.
In 2013, John was hired as Assistant Conductor for the New York Cy Gay Men’s Chos where he nducted the chos on numero outreach gigs and ma stage ncerts. In 2020, Atoro left NYC and moved to Oregon where he served as the Artistic Director for the Portland Gay Men’s Chos brgg them through the lockdown and back to the live stage.