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PK MARTI’S GAY BANDLEAR THOMAS LRDALE MS TO SUNDAY’S OUTDOOR SHOW RA OR SHE
This weekend Pk Marti returns to the legendary Carnegie Hall for two ncerts wh the New York Pops and s openly gay mic director/nductor Steven Reeke. It took me another eight years to be able to fortably say that I was gay.
Lrdale:He's the first openly gay mster my father's nomatn, which is Church of the Brethren, historilly a socially progrsive anti-war nomatn. I thought at the time that I would never be able to bee mayor of Portland and be gay. Growg up gay, 's tough simply bee 's very rare that any person feels entirely nfint about him- or herself.
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