At the Hidn Core of the Big Apple - The Gay & Lbian Review

Contents:

• DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• APPLE AND STEVE JOBS HAVE LONG BEEN CHAMPNS FOR GAY RIGHTS
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY VS APPLE - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?GAY | APPLE |AS A NOUN GAYIS NAPE.AS A VERB GAYIS TO CROW.AS A PROPER NOUN APPLE ISA NICKNAME FOR NEW YORK CY, UALLY “THE BIG APPLE”.GAYENGLISHPROPER NOUN(EN PROPER NOUN), ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY OM THE WORD GAY, "JOYFUL"; RARE TODAY.. ALSO A SHORTENED FORM OF GABRIEL, GAYLORD AND SIAR NAM, OR TRANSFERRED OM THE SURNAME.* 1992 , UNTO THE SONS , BALLANTE BOOKS 1993, ISBN 0804110336, PAGE 15- - - MY FATHER'S FATHER, GAETANO TALE ( WHOSE NAME I HERED AFTER MY BIRTH 1932, THE ANGLICIZED OM OF "GAY "), WAS AN ATYPILLY FEARLS TRAVELER,* 2004 , BAD DIRT , FOURTH ESTATE, ISBN 0007196911, PAGE 32"MR GAY BRAWLS. WHAT A NAME.""IT DIDN'T E TO MEAN WHAT MEANS NOW. PLENTY WERE NAMED GAY'. EVEN NEVADA. WAS OLD ' GAY PCH HAD A GAS STATN WNEMUC. NOBODY THOUGHT NOTH ABOUT AND HE RAISED A RAILROAD R OF KIDS.- - -ANAGRAMS*APPLE
• MOSW GAY BARS
• IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?
• A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY

DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS

Gay men and lbians were at the heart of acplishments the lerature, mic, and dance of the perd.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Associatns among well-nnected gay men allowed the Cold War era, however censor and polilly ght, to be a goln age of gay fluence on Amerin popular culture. The waggish term “Homtern” was an ironic rejor to the more nefar “Comtern” notg evil Soviet sway on Amerin life, only now referred to a bal of homosexual power brokers the arts.

APPLE AND STEVE JOBS HAVE LONG BEEN CHAMPNS FOR GAY RIGHTS

Signifintly, the Big Apple was the seat of transatlantic queer cultural ascendancy the s, none of which translated to gay polil power at the time.

Meanwhile, bi-ntental figur like Margaret Anrson and her lover Jane Heap— their fluential lerary journal The Ltle Review, loted for some time New York Cy—published key gay and lbian poets and wrers, cludg H. (Hilda Dooltle), Hart Crane, Gert Ste, and Jean Cocte, along wh some major non-gay wrers. Th 1920s homosexual creativy and cultural fluence did not belong exclively to Paris, but was shared.

Much cred for creatg ngenial New York spac which gays and lbians flourished, worked, and shared social and profsnal support go to the boundary-breakg salons of the mandar left-wg eccentric Muriel Draper and the more upper-cst married uple Kurt and Constance Askew.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

” Acrdg to Draper’s son Pl, his mother’s salon “there were perhaps more homosexuals per room than anywhere. ” At her twice weekly afternoon teas, she prid om a gilt “throne” while her homosexual guts’ “topics of nversatn clud Prot, Pisso, antique furnure, and the newt lor schem.

” Gay or bisexual notabl prent clud the poser, mic cric, and waspish mentator Virgil Thomson; poser and portra photographer Max Ewg; and, still their formative years, photographer Gee Platt Lyn and arts powerbroker Lln Kirste. They also memorate male dancers of the pre- and postwar eras, some of whom were ins to an appreciative gay dience, cludg Lew Christensen, Erik Bhn, Francis Moncn, Nicholas Magallan, and Jacqu d’Amboise.

GAY VS APPLE - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?GAY | APPLE |AS A NOUN GAYIS NAPE.AS A VERB GAYIS TO CROW.AS A PROPER NOUN APPLE ISA NICKNAME FOR NEW YORK CY, UALLY “THE BIG APPLE”.GAYENGLISHPROPER NOUN(EN PROPER NOUN), ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY OM THE WORD GAY, "JOYFUL"; RARE TODAY.. ALSO A SHORTENED FORM OF GABRIEL, GAYLORD AND SIAR NAM, OR TRANSFERRED OM THE SURNAME.* 1992 , UNTO THE SONS , BALLANTE BOOKS 1993, ISBN 0804110336, PAGE 15- - - MY FATHER'S FATHER, GAETANO TALE ( WHOSE NAME I HERED AFTER MY BIRTH 1932, THE ANGLICIZED OM OF "GAY "), WAS AN ATYPILLY FEARLS TRAVELER,* 2004 , BAD DIRT , FOURTH ESTATE, ISBN 0007196911, PAGE 32"MR GAY BRAWLS. WHAT A NAME.""IT DIDN'T E TO MEAN WHAT MEANS NOW. PLENTY WERE NAMED GAY'. EVEN NEVADA. WAS OLD ' GAY PCH HAD A GAS STATN WNEMUC. NOBODY THOUGHT NOTH ABOUT AND HE RAISED A RAILROAD R OF KIDS.- - -ANAGRAMS*APPLE

Even durg the Cold War’s “Lavenr Sre, ” the New York ballet world was a safe space which gay sensibili were more honored than diststed. Wheeler and Wtt had joed the gay and lbian “sexpatriat” of 1920s Paris and the south of France.

When Lyn end their ménage 1943 to go his own way, he troduced many a young gay man to “the life” through his wi-rangg ntacts dance and the visual arts, cludg close associatns wh paters Pl Cadm, Jared French, and Gee Tooker—a remarkable tr of gay artists who kept alive the classil homoerotic tradn of the male figure at a time when abstractn the New York art world was rigur. Among emergg gay talents were poser Aaron Copland, archect Philip Johnson, and fashn photographer Gee Hoyngen-Huene.

” Married “straight” upl attendance often clud hbands wh homosexual tast, and the Virgil Thomson lled “queer marriag”: among them, Lln Kirste and Filma Cadm—sister of Pl Cadm; poser-wrer Pl Bowl and his wrer wife, Jane Bowl; photographer-wrer and promoter of the Harlem Renaissance Carl Van Vechten wh his wife Fania Maroff; and poser Marc Blzste (The Cradle Will Rock) and Eva Goldbeck. Conclus Watson: “The fact that many of the Askews’ male guts were homosexual or bisexual was not a secret, but alludg to homosexualy was bad form. When the Gert Ste-Virgil Thomson opera Four Sats Three Acts was preparatn for s 1934 premiere at At’s Wadsworth Athenam, Thomson and the gay English ballet choreographer Frerick Ashton lived the Askews’ brownstone.

MOSW GAY BARS

Harlem was New York’s Ain-Amerin stronghold but was also a lively se for gay life. By the 1920s, “Negrophilia” had whe gays and sophistited straights makg Harlem a statn for s famo drag balls at the Haton Lodge, which drew thoands of spectators, and for nightclubs featurg gay and lbian entertaers—sgers like Alberta Hunter and Gladys Bentley, a “bulldagger” top hat and tails, and the renowned Jimmie Daniels, who sang Gershw and Cole Porter.

The Harlem Renaissance also saw a major flowerg of Ain-Amerin lerature, and several of s poets and novelists, such as Countee Cullen, Bce Nugent, and Langston Hugh, were eher gay or bisexual wh varyg gre of openns. World War II expand the lbian and gay muny by brgg Amerin youths uniform to major port ci, where queer meetg plac were sproutg—pecially New York. Although the 1943 ballet Fancy Free, about three sailors on leave the Big Apple seekg female pannship, was not thematilly gay, s choreographer, Jerome Robbs, and s poser, Leonard Bernste, were very much a part of New York’s gay cultural circl.

Bernste, the ncert hall wunrkd, was mentored by Aaron Copland, a gay father figure. Marc Blzste, married but homosexual, was another fluence and mol to the handsome young Bernste.

IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?

” Nor n we fet that, on the dramatic Broadway stage, Tennsee Williams’ work was ttg the direct cln of homosexual them A Streetr Named Dire and Cat on a Hot T Roof. The works of Vidal, Capote, and Baldw beme necsary readg for New Yorkers whose cultural tennci were trendg progrsive wh the downfall of Joseph McCarthy and the birth of the Beats—cludg the emently gay Allen Gsberg.

A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN

Of urse, as s go the ’50s uld hardly be lled polilly progrsive; gays and lbians who labored the culture factory were mostly still the closet. Gee Chncey, Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World 1890-1940. Allen Ellenzweig is the thor of The Homoerotic Photograph and a equent ntributor to this magaze.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER MUNY

Every Pri month, nsumers see their favore brands add rabow strip to their logos, fly flags om their headquarters buildgs and add attractive gay and lbian upl to their ads.