Ellen Gay Kekuaokalani Dela Rosa, PCC’s long-time Theater Director, retired on her 65th birthday, Augt 5, 2016. Read more about her time at the PCC here!
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AUNTY ELLEN GAY’S “GRADUATN”
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Was I gay, or bi?
Ellen Gay Kekuaokalani Dela Rosa (shown at left), PCC’s long-time Theater Director, retired on her 65th birthday, Augt 5, 2016, after workg for the Polynian Cultural Center for 43 years.
HOW AN AUNTY DONNA ME TO DIRECT A EDY SHOW ABOUT A GAY UPLE
"Antiman" is a slur for gay men — poet Rajiv Mohabir reclaims his new memoir, which mix poetry, song and prose an vtigatn of his sexualy and his Guyane Indian herage. * aunty gay *
Sally Naluai (Aunty Sally) and Ellen Gay.
Aunty Gay, as she is known at PCC, was a high school sophomore at Kamehameha 1967 — four years after the Center opened — when she got a ll om her real nt, Sally Wood Naluai, the PCC’s first kumu hula or hula master, who asked her to e dance the eveng show. Ellen Gay (far right) and her sister, Sunday Mareragi. “My first fulltime job wh the PCC was 1974, ” Aunty Gay said.
“I wanted to teach young people, ” Aunty Gay said; but she ultimately realized she fulfilled that sire by trag, velopg and overseeg several thoand talented PCC Theater Department performers over the next four s.