In 1983, when Kls Nomi died of “gay ncer,” the unrground punk-opera sger was mostly unknown beyond his small circle of iends and fans. It’s...
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GAY OF THE DAY: KLS NOMI
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“I don’t thk he was any way beg anythg that wasn’t himself, which was pretty gay as far as I knew, ” the artist Kenny Scharf said. He sang gay nightclubs and entertaed his fellow hers and support staff after performanc at the Dtsche Oper Berl, but opportuni were few for a untertenor Eastern Europe. sang opera arias at the Berl gay disthèque Kleist Caso.
livg gay tr. Kls Nomi died alone, thirty years ago this month, the breathls, late summer days of “gay ncer” at Sloan Ketterg on the Upper Wt Si.
While the rt of Wtern-occupied Berl was listeng to Elvis on the rad, Kls was sgg arias drag at the lol gay clubs. That same year, Kls Nomi was diagnosed wh what was then still beg referred to by the mass media as the “Gay Men’s Plague. He was one of the first gay mil trailblazers om the East Village scene to fall victim to AIDS.
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In Germany, he would sg opera at the Berl gay disteque Kleist Caso. A perfect example would be, you would go to Danceteria to see Bad Bras the basement, and then you’d go up to the send floor and there would be a hip-hop DJ, and then you’d go up to the third floor and there’d be a gay-dis DJ, and you’d go up to the fourth floor and there’d be someone playg New Wave vios. My iends and I were listeng to punk-rock rerds, and we didn’t know anythg about gay culture.
We didn’t even know that existed, bee this was the ’70s, and nobody talked about gay culture. I remember one night, we were the East Village, and we somehow end up this club, the Sat, and we didn’t know was a gay club.
So for , gay culture was jt this fascatg, foreign, and very anti-suburban thg. We uldn’t be homophobic, bee the gay culture was amazg and was also ubiquo. Kls also sang operatic arias at a gay Berl disthèque lled Kleist Caso.
GAY OF THE DAY: KLS NOMI
Nomi’s ver of Lley Gore’s 1964 h ‘You Don’t Own Me’ has been featured on the natnally broadst rad show The Rh Limbgh Show as the ‘Gay Update Theme. Nomi, but he was a gay man as well, and was one of the first people. Opera Wt Berl as well as sgg arias at gay diss.