Hundreds attend emotnally charged meetg on firg of church's gay mic director

Contents:

• THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
• CHURCH THAT FIRED GAY MIC DIRECTOR IS CLOSG ITS DOORS FOR GOOD
• GAY MIC DIRECTOR FIL SU AFTER BEG FIRED FROM CHURCH OVER ENGAGEMENT
• OUTCRY AT PROVINCE CHURCH OVER FIRG OF GAY MIC DIRECTOR
• PRIT: GAY MIC DIRECTOR'S PARTURE 'A EP LOSS'
• CATHOLIC PARISH N FIRE GAY MIC DIRECTOR UNR MISTERIAL EXCEPTN, APPEALS URT L
• GAY MIC DIRECTOR FIRED AFTER BEG ‘ENGAGED’ TO PARTNER SU CATHOLIC PARISH, PASTOR
• PARISHNERS SUPPORT OTED GAY MIC DIRECTOR, BUT FIRG STANDS
• HUNDREDS ATTEND EMOTNALLY CHARGED MEETG ON FIRG OF CHURCH'S GAY MIC DIRECTOR
• THE MET OPERA HAS A GAY CONDUCTOR. Y, THAT MATTERS.

THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY

The Met’s New Mic Director Is the First to Be Openly Gay.

CHURCH THAT FIRED GAY MIC DIRECTOR IS CLOSG ITS DOORS FOR GOOD

Nézet-Ségu is openly gay. Sce when do beg gay the arts unt as news?

GAY MIC DIRECTOR FIL SU AFTER BEG FIRED FROM CHURCH OVER ENGAGEMENT

Well, acrdg to the Tim’ Zachary Woolfe (who, full disclosure, I have wrten for the past), the abily to fiercely work a baton wh queer pri has, until only recently, been an elive pipe dream for those gay men helmg the world’s top-tier orchtras. The classil mic world may be crawlg wh queens, Woolfe explas, but “’s a sign of how outmod our nceptn of thory is that remarkably few major performg arts lears have been openly gay.

And so, to palize on Nézet-Ségu’s willgns to live out loud, the Gray Lady is throwg him a gay tilln. Gay obscury no more: Today, we learn, a Zaha Hadid “moon” sofa grac their Upper Wt Si apartment.

OUTCRY AT PROVINCE CHURCH OVER FIRG OF GAY MIC DIRECTOR

Woolfe’s terview, which took place at an inic Wt Village gay bar, do a fe job of prentg the bourgeois and aggrsively normal ntours of a succsful gay partnership. In a manner siar to midcentury Hollywood’s route steamrollg of s stars’ wayward queerns, the mastream mic prs has happily worked overtime to sanize the orientatns of s own gay celebs—om lifelong “bachelor” Aaron Copland onward—and Woolfe’s own paper is no exceptn. Closetg rarely happens a vacuum; requir a hostile culture of gay supprsn and mechanisms like the popular media to thrive.

Rather than simply actg like the secrecy of high-profile gay men Manhattan was a random phenomenon, a story such as Woolfe’s uld jt as well have addrsed the mic prs’s past plicy makg homosexualy a secret the first place.

Rest as an apology for past journalistic failgs, Woolfe’s article (wh s slanted “out wh the bad gay, wh the good” subtext) would then have livered an even more powerful statement than already do: The tim have changed, but so has the Tim. “We n be exampl, a way, to spire young micians who fear that this is gog to be a problem their profsn and reer advancement, ” Nézet-Ségu said, speakg to The New York Tim about beg an openly gay nductor. He had a relatnship wh actor Felicia Cohn Montealegre, who he did eventually marry, but he was openly gay.

PRIT: GAY MIC DIRECTOR'S PARTURE 'A EP LOSS'

Montealegre reunted the fact The Bernste Letters, statg, “you are a homosexual and may never change – you don’t adm to the possibily of a double life, but if your peace of md, your health, your whole nervo system pend on a certa sexual pattern what n you do? And Arthur Lrents, who llaborated wh Bernste on Wt Si Story, clarified that Bernste was “a gay man who got married” who “wasn't nflicted about at all.

CATHOLIC PARISH N FIRE GAY MIC DIRECTOR UNR MISTERIAL EXCEPTN, APPEALS URT L

He was jt gay. Michael Tilson Thomas is the founr and artistic director of the New World Symphony, mic director lreate of San Francis Symphony Orchtra, and nductor lreate of London Symphony Orchtra, Classic FM’s Orchtra the Cy of eleven-time Grammy wner is openly gay, and married to orchtral manager Joshua Mark Robison sce 2014. He led top orchtras, cludg Mneapolis Symphony Orchtra and the New York never married, and was known to be homosexual, wh mours that he had a relatnship wh Leonard Bernste (see above).

GAY MIC DIRECTOR FIRED AFTER BEG ‘ENGAGED’ TO PARTNER SU CATHOLIC PARISH, PASTOR

He was married to shippg heirs, Elae Phipps, but he was known to be gay and is thought to have had a relatnship wh poser Gian Carlo Menotti, who was the partner of fellow poser Samuel Barber. Read more: 15 great classil posers who also happened to be gay.

As well as beg a leadg poser, sufagist Dame Ethel Smyth nducted prolifilly, cludg takg to the podium to premiere her own works, and nductg the Metropolan Police Band at the unveilg of the statue to Emmele Pankhurst London was gay, and at the age of 71 she met and was very taken wh Virgia Woolf.

PARISHNERS SUPPORT OTED GAY MIC DIRECTOR, BUT FIRG STANDS

Last year, ma headl for firg s mic director, Adam Fraley, after learng he was gay.

David Steele, a former member and lay lear for the church, said lost around 80 percent of the ngregatn after Fraley was fired for beg gay. Indiana Church Divid After New Mister Fir Gay Man, Straight Supporters. Pastor Who Was Deocked For Officiatg Gay Son’s Weddg Is Officially “Re-Frocked”.

HUNDREDS ATTEND EMOTNALLY CHARGED MEETG ON FIRG OF CHURCH'S GAY MIC DIRECTOR

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