Contents:
- THIS REALY SHOW’S EUPHORIC GAY BLD-DATE DANCE ROUTE IS BLOWG UP THE INTER: WATCH
- WATCH THE GAY ACROBATS PERFORM AN EMOTNAL ROUTE ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA
- HAPPY PRIDE! HOW “Y.M.C.A.” BEME A GAY ANTHEM!
THIS REALY SHOW’S EUPHORIC GAY BLD-DATE DANCE ROUTE IS BLOWG UP THE INTER: WATCH
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A pair of gay acrobats have left a lastg imprsn on dienc after performg on La France a un Incroyable Talent, France’s vern of the 'Got Talent' to their performance, Guillme and Arthur were asked by judge judge Hélène Ségara whether they had anythg to say. “We’re gog to prent a number agast homophobia, ” Arthur dance duo then proceed to wow the judg wh a heart-wrenchg performance set to Leonard Cohen’s 'Hallelujah' - endg wh a kiss.
“Two boys kissg on the lips is not somethg we often see on televisn, and that touched me eply, ” she told emotnally charged performance week after UK TV show Strictly Come Dancg, wh openly gay profsnal dancer Johann Rabe dancg wh straight Italian choreographer Graziano di Prima. Revealed as a gay man at the end of the prev season, Mac is still unable to fd his footg the world.
WATCH THE GAY ACROBATS PERFORM AN EMOTNAL ROUTE ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA
“I don’t know where I f as a gay man, and ’s startg to get to me, " Mac tells Danny DeVo's Frank.
In tradnal Ottoman practice, the termology of “gay” and “straight” was largely absence om disurse, as explaed by scholar Serkan Görkemli. There, zenn equently perform (whout a sexual element) for straight-intified male dienc says filmmaker Mehmet Bay, whose 2012 feature Zenne Dancer explor the iendship between an Istanbul zenne dancer, a German photographer, and a gay “bear” om the nservative Urfa provce. Back when Bay and his llaborator Caner Alper started rearchg zenne 2006, they saw as a “vanishg culture” – found only ral areas and a few unrground gay clubs Istanbul.
Even among Istanbul's sizable gay muny, for whom zenne dancg might have particular ronance, “people would rather watch drag shows or go-go boys. But the past half-, zenne dancg Istanbul has gone mastream: bolstered by the media attentn paid to Bay and Alper's film as well as the succs of gay crossover clubs like Chanta: which ter their zenne shows to a largely heterosexual, female clientele.
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When he was 15 or 16, a iend enuraged him to start dancg publicly, but the only work he uld fd was a seedy gay nightclub Istanbul's Aksaray district. Like many gay Turkish men, Segah found a gree of eedom Istanbul – wh s active, out gay muny – that do not necsarily exist outsi the cy.
While the Turkish ernment do not crimalize homosexualy – nor do provi LGBT dividuals wh any formal protectn om discrimatn – cultural attus toward homosexualy are largely negative; acrdg to a 2011 poll nducted as part of the World Valu Survey, a full 84 percent of Turks intified gays and lbians among their least sirable neighbors. And although Istanbul particular has beg creasgly welg to gays – Istanbul's annual Gay Pri para is the largt any majory-Mlim untry -- the risg thread of Islamism the Turkish ernment is slowg progrs for LGBT rights.
In 2013, Turkey’s prime mister at the time, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, cricizg the adoptn of a Turko-Dutch boy by a Dutch lbian uple, publicly lled homosexualy a “sexual preference, which is ntrary to the culture of Islam. The Turkish ary's approach to homosexualy reflects this cultural ambivalence.