Contents:
- INTERVIEW WH JAYM VGHAN, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHIPPENDALE
- CHIPPENDAL DU REVEALS HE'S GAY!
- AMAZG RACE'S GAY RUNNER UP GETS A NEW GIG
INTERVIEW WH JAYM VGHAN, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHIPPENDALE
He is first openly gay member of this sexy stage show. ED: What was like beg an openly gay man and travelg to plac that might not be gay iendly? ED: Are you the first openly gay member of the Chippendal?
JV: Y, that is actually my tle, The First Open Gay Member of the Chippendal. While he was already out to his fay and iends, Jaym wanted to be public about his sexualy so he uld serve as a role mol as one of the few openly gay entertaers Vegas. The fourteen year old that had no one to look up to; whose mama told him he better not be gay; whose church told him he was gog to hell; whose bt iend killed himself bee he didn’t “f .
We’re proud that Jaym wants to be a role mol to gay youth. “Pl Snir had seen some gay male review and thought would be kd of like hammy and fun to do this for women, ” Natalia Petrzela, the host of the podst Wele To Your Fantasy, which vers the Chippendal murr mystery, told Vice 2021. The seri set the Reagan "Me First" spotlight gay culture durg a tumultuo time.
CHIPPENDAL DU REVEALS HE'S GAY!
While 1970s activism brought more visibily and acceptance to the gay muny that accelerated to the 1980s, the AIDS crisis brought much of that progrs to a screechg halt and threatened to drive the entire movement back to the shadows. Banerjee (played by Kumail Nanjiani the seri), small-time htler Pl Snir and his wife, Playboy Playmate and tragic figure Dorothy Stratten (portrayed by Dan Stevens and Nila Peltz Beckham), me up wh the ia of half-naked men performg for female dienc after a vis to a Wt Hollywood gay club.
It's tertg, but perhaps not all that surprisg, to disver that a piece of gay culture was rponsible for the birth of a flh and fantasy world for straight women. "Vogug, " for stance, began the gay and drag unrground of New York Cy years before Madonna popularized for the mass. Wele to Chippendal not only acknowledg the fluence of gay culture on the story of the cuffed and llared hotti, but celebrat , pecially wh s tellg of the story of Nick De Noia (played by The Whe Lot' Murray Bartlett).
De Noia was also, sadly, a closeted gay man who never fully emerged om . Together, the men brg their gay athetic to Manhattan, makg Chippendal a ast-to-ast sensatn.
AMAZG RACE'S GAY RUNNER UP GETS A NEW GIG
While De Noia's untimely ath is heartbreakg, Wele to Chippendal don't create a character whose mise is a rult of his beg gay.