Reprentg Fifty Shas of Gay the LGBTQ+ Marketplace

Contents:

• 55 SHAS OF GAY
• 55 SHAS OF GAY: BALKAN SPRG OF SEXUAL REVOLUTN
• 55 SHAS OF GAY: THE INTERSECTN OF THEATER AND RIGHTS THE BALKANS
• 55 SHAS OF GAY WILL BE PLAYED THEATER IM PFALZB LUDWIGSHAFEN, GERMANY
• FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
• THE PLAY: 55 SHAS OF GAY GJILAN
• 55 SHAS OF GAY
• REPRENTG FIFTY SHAS OF GAY THE LGBTQ+ MARKETPLACE
• “55 SHADES OF GAY” OM KOSOVO TO OFF-BROADWAY NEW YORK
• THEATER REVIEW (NYC): ’55 SHAS OF GAY: BALKAN SPRG OF SEXUAL REVOLUTN’ – A KOSOVO BURLQUE
• 55 SHAS OF GAY: THE INTERSECTN OF THEATER AND RIGHTS THE BALKANS
• 50 SHAS OF GAY

55 SHAS OF GAY

“55 shas of gay”is a project for everybody om 18 years old produced by Quendra Multimedia (Prista, Kosovo) which brgs the bas of a possible sexual revolutn the balkans. 55 Shas of Gay is a burlque productn about LGBTI polics the Balkans. Premiere of 55 Shas of Gay is supported by the Open Society Foundatns and other funrs cludg the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Tst for Mutual Unrstandg.

55 SHAS OF GAY: BALKAN SPRG OF SEXUAL REVOLUTN

55 Shas of Gay: Balkan Sprg of Sexual Revolutn is a ntemporary burlque story about LGBTI polics the Balkans and Europe by acclaimed Kosovar playwright Jeton Neziraj. In a historilly homophobic environment, lol Balkan policians try to manipulate and ceive EU officials; humanarian mercenari of ternatnal NGOs explo tolerance for enomic gas; and EU officials e their superr fancial and polil posns to subjugate everyone.

55 SHAS OF GAY: THE INTERSECTN OF THEATER AND RIGHTS THE BALKANS

"55 shas of gay" will be performed Theater Im Pfalzb Ludwigshafen, Germany on 29th of September. 55 shas of gay is a burlque story about LGBTI polics the Balkans and Europe. Lol Balkan policians try to manipulate and ceive EU officials, the humanarian mercenari of ternatnal NGOs often explo the homophobic environment to raise funds, so they n implement their social and tnal projects [such as workshops and semars on how to e ndoms], while EU officials, g their superr fancial and polil posn, try to subjugate everyone.

In the play, a gay uple apply to get married a nservative provcial town which is eply homophobic.

55 SHAS OF GAY WILL BE PLAYED THEATER IM PFALZB LUDWIGSHAFEN, GERMANY

55 shas of gay is performed by a st of 5 brilliant Kosovar actors and produced by an ement team of theater artists om Germany, Kosova, France and Serbia. 55 shas of gay è una farsa sulle poliche LGBT nei bani e Europa. Una ppia gay ci di sposarsi una ctà di provcia molto nservatrice e profondamente omofobi.

3, 184, 177 views | iO Tillett Wright | TEDxWomen 2012 • December 2012iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are?

Most people, turns out, nsir themselv to exist the gray areas of sexualy, not 100% gay or straight. IO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are?

FIFTY SHAS OF GAY

6% of Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer, acrdg to a new Gallup report. Sce the dawn of the polilly-motivated “Dream Market” the 1990s, whe, affluent, gay mal uld expect to see themselv gay prt magaz and onle portals, natnal ad mpaigns the media, and, creasgly, mastream media, particularly televisn and news media, while advertisers left the rt of the LGBTQ+ populatn, cludg all people of lor, out the ld. The Ls, Bs, Ts, and Qs were expected to see themselv reprented by advertisg to whe gay mal and be thankful for the visibily.

THE PLAY: 55 SHAS OF GAY GJILAN

Alternately, marketers were unapologetilly pursug the gay male dollar and had ltle regard for the rt. Clarify advocy and reprentatn In recent years, some advertisers have shifted away om “reprentg” all LGBTQ+ nsumers wh imag of gay mal towards advertisg that highlights the stggl of transgenr dividuals. For s, the advertisg dtry has neglected female members of the LGBTQ+ populatn wh a bias towards gay mal; this even though femal are more likely than mal to intify as LGBTQ+.

55 SHAS OF GAY

Dpe the fact that a greater number of lbian upl have children than do gay men, gay men actually tend to be more equently portrayed wh fai pared to lbian upl.

Acrdg to a recent Ipsos report, among the progrsg generatns, more LGBTQ+ people are choosg to intify as “fluid” rather than “non-fluid” (meang gay or lbian) as members of Gen-Z are far more likely than prev generatns to be plurisexual or attracted to more than one sex. Early rearch the field datg back to Frd’s Inversn Theory 1910 scribed gay men and lbians as “sexual verts”—implyg that homosexualy was some sense the reversal of “normal” sex. Gay mal and lbians tend to hold no ls of their own-sex tras than do heterosexuals.

” While gay men tend to be more feme than heterosexual men, they are no ls mascule than them; siarly, while lbians tend to be more mascule than heterosexual women, they are no ls feme. Hence, while Gen-Z and Millennials tend to e labels that proclaim the fluidy of their genr inty, Gen-X and Baby Boomers primarily label themselv "gay" or "lbian" and "man" or "woman" but genr flex practice. To tly reprent and ronate wh LGBTQ+ nsumers, advertisers have to fight, walk, or dance (#n’tncelpri) the sho of all LGBTQ+ nsumers rather than jt chasg the pot of gold at the end of the gay male or, more recently, bary rabow.

REPRENTG FIFTY SHAS OF GAY THE LGBTQ+ MARKETPLACE

“Treats the lols’ homophobic bigotry and the ternatnal muny’s patronizg attus wh equal quanti of ridicule.

When his latt outg, 55 Shas of Gay, had s premiere last tumn police were statned at the door of the theatre. None of the members of Qendra Multimedia self-intify as openly gay.

Gay clubs do not exist Kosovo and LGBT life remas largely unrground. Lbians, gays, and bisexuals are allowed to serve the ary, but there are no openly LGBT members of the ary Kosovo.

“55 SHADES OF GAY” OM KOSOVO TO OFF-BROADWAY NEW YORK

55 SHADES OF GAY stars Tristan Halilaj, Bujar Ahmeti, Shengyl Ismaili, Semira Latifi, Alketa Sylaj, Luan Durmishi (vols) wh a productn team that clus Sebastian Ellrich (set & stum), Florian Bilbao (choreography), Lenda Idrizi (stage manager),.

55 SHADES OF GAY: BALKAN SPRING OF SEXUAL REVOLUTION ns March 7 – 17, Thursday – Saturday at 7pm and Sunday at 3pm wh an addnal performance Monday, March 11 at 7pm.

THEATER REVIEW (NYC): ’55 SHAS OF GAY: BALKAN SPRG OF SEXUAL REVOLUTN’ – A KOSOVO BURLQUE

To purchase tickets, ll 212-352-3101 or vis US tour of “55 Shas of gay” is supported by: Tst for Mutual Unrstandg, Open Society Foundatns, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Mistry of Culture or the Republic of Kosovo.

Origal productn of “55 shas of gay” was supported by: Olof Palme Internatnal Center, European Unn Office Kosovo, Goethe Instute.

55 SHAS OF GAY: THE INTERSECTN OF THEATER AND RIGHTS THE BALKANS

La MaMa thater New York will prent the US Premiere of Kosovo’s Qendra Multimedia 55 SHADES OF GAY: BALKAN SPRING OF SEXUAL REVOLUTION, a ntemporary burlque story about LGBTI polics the Balkans wrten by Jeton Neziraj and directed by Blerta Neziraj.

As Ameri prepar to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts that hered the LGBT rights movement the US, 55 SHADES OF GAY: BALKAN SPRING OF SEXUAL REVOLUTION pulls back the curta to reveal the state of of gay rights The Balkans. In the play, a gay uple apply to get married a nservative, eply homophobic provcial town. Home/Culture and Society/Arts/Theater Review (NYC): ’55 Shas of Gay: Balkan Sprg of Sexual Revolutn’ – a Kosovo Burlque.

Qendra Multimedia '55 Shas of Gay' (Jetmir Idrizi).

50 SHAS OF GAY

After stirrg up ntroversy s native Kosovo, 55 Shas of Gay: Balkan Sprg of Sexual Revolutn has al at La Mama much more LGBT-iendly New York Cy.

Here this vigoro polil burlque is a cuttg remr that extreme and often stutnalized homophobia still reigns many parts of the world. Bee Kosovo wants admissn to the EU, the untry’s new nstutn perms same-sex marriage, but the lol burecrats, not to mentn the homophobic townspeople, are havg none of . Tags 55 Shas of Gay burlque homophobia La Mama LGBT LGBTI Off-Broadway Quendra Multimedia.

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