50 Shas of Gay | The Magic Theatre, Asheville, NC | January 27, 2022

Contents:

• 50 SHAS OF GAY – 8TH ANNIVERSARY!
• 50 SHAS OF GAY
• 50 SHAS OF GAY
• '50 SHAS OF GREY' GAY FLAP
• 50 SHAS OF GAY
• 50 SHAS OF GAY,
• THE BOYS THE BAND: 50 SHAS OF GAY
• GALLERY: IO TILLETT WRIGHT EXAM THE 50+ SHAS OF GAY
• 50 SHAS OF GAY
• 50 SHAS OF GAY – 8TH ANNIVERSARY!
• IKE AVELLI AND “50 SHAS OF GAY” H THE ROAD AGA
• FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
• 50 SHAS OF GAY
• 50 SHAS OF GAY
• THE BOYS THE BAND: 50 SHAS OF GAY

50 SHAS OF GAY – 8TH ANNIVERSARY!

Aug26Jo Ike Avelli and his fabulo guts as they celebrate the 8th Anniversary of 50 Shas of Gay wh a night of edy, mic, drag, vio sketch, dience participatn and giveaways. Back 2015, Ike Avelli cid to create an Adult Variety Show for Gay Pri NYC, and 50 Shas of Gay was born. By time was over, I felt even gayer—and I didn’t thk that was possible” – Michael MtoLearn more about the areaNeighborhoodLakeviewThis high-energy area is known for entertament, shoppg, and s lakeont more about the areaNeighborhoodLakeviewThis high-energy area is known for entertament, shoppg, and s lakeont lole.

The word gay origally meant happy.

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But the new horror edy You're Killg Me, gay means sarsm and Him Her is the directg but feature of straight screenwrer Max Landis (Chronicle) who explor the unlimed social and sexual optns of privileged youth.

Actg as wg man at a gay bar, Cory meets sexy lbian Gabbi (Ey Mea) and helps Brendan hook-up wh his first te You're Killg Me, by gay director Jim Hansen (bt known for the web seri The Chloe Tap), vio performer Gee (Jeffery Self) and his clique of gay iends are trigued by hot psychopath Joe (Matthew McKelligon) who targets and kills-off clique members and his own parents. Call a mp versn of Ten Ltle Indians, but replace that polilly rrect ethnic label "Indians" wh a shady gay 's the problem: The straight filmmaker has ma the life- and gay-affirmg movie (Me Him Her) while the gay filmmaker has ma the gay-victimizg movie (You'reKillgMe), Hansen tri throwg major sha (his web seri TheChloeTap, starrg Drew Droege, fds limed w satirizg die actrs Chloe Sevigny as a drag persona) but this feature film's sual reliance on murr (hate crim) lghs at the notn of gay humany.

Hansen's plot rells a 1999 Donnie Rso porn film advertised as Kiss Me Kill Me Fuck Me Thrill Me (check out s "Bad Gay Porn Actg" YouTube clips) yet his attempt at beg a gay Taranto mix-up BFF jealoy, new-trick horns, and 50 Shas of Gay need some "safe words" to protect agast this bchs and those words are found Landis' tle Me Him Her--no mas imply passn, spirual transn. Brendan and Cory accept each other believably and even plaid-shirted lbian Gabbi holds her own ("It's weird to make love wh someone wh facial hair" she says) more credibly than the opportunistic gay heroe of Blue is the Warmt Color.

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Easg past sexual nfn, Me Him Her embrac all sexual the Gays Gone Wild seri, outrageo behavr was cheerful, a sign of liberatn, but You're Killg Me tak a wrong turn. The way You're Killg Me mak fun of parrici, matrici, and all-out muny stroyg homici, is like g lghter to hi some self-hate gay edi uldn't be more different.

50 Shas of GaySynopsisJo Ike Avelli and his fabulo guts as they celebrate the 8th Anniversary of 50 Shas of Gay wh a night of edy, mic, drag, vio sketch, dience participatn and giveaways. By time was over, I felt even gayer—and I didn’t thk that was possible” – Michael Mto.

Matt Bomer isn't right for Christian Grey bee he is openly gay. Can an openly gay actor nvcgly portray a straight character on screen?

'50 SHAS OF GREY' GAY FLAP

In 2010, Newsweek wrer Ram Setooh igned a furor when he explaed that he uldn't appreciate Sean Hay' performance the play Promis, Promis, primarily bee "'s weird seeg [the openly gay] Hay play straight.

" In 2009, Rupert Everett was so trated by Hollywood's abily to see anythg past his own sexualy that he urged young gay actors to stay the closet if they wanted to enjoy any real mastream succs. "It means that we've moved beyond stereotyp and that gay is hot…" I uldn't image a more misguid terpretatn of that feedback.

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Another explanatn: women are not threatened by the ia of gay men. Apparently, that male illn is plited when the man portrayg that hero is gay.

" Unrstandg Ellis' reactn is important to appreciatg the hypocrisy when the on-screen sexual orientatn scenar is reversed: Was Tom Hanks ls believable playg a gay man Philalphia bee the dience uldn't rolve the role wh his real-life marriage to Ra Wilson?

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Perhaps the reason they were accepted proment gay rol and generoly honored for dog so is bee, ep down, there's homophobic ridue that exists even the most enlightened du's psyche that is reassured by the realy that those actors are "jt pretendg" to be gay.

And then she also asks if he's gay, which aga, was on the list that her roommate gave her, but that list was very long, and they only got through like three qutns.

And Ana's roommate lerally mentns seeg photos of Christian: she told Ana that she thought he was gay bee she never saw him wh any women society pictur.

THE BOYS THE BAND: 50 SHAS OF GAY

50 Shas of Gay is an Adult Variety Show that has been sellg out Cabaret Theaters throughout the U.

GALLERY: IO TILLETT WRIGHT EXAM THE 50+ SHAS OF GAY

Our dience has been targetg large groups and one of the ftivals 50 Shas of Gay has been ved back to each year, attracts over 78, 000 people durg the ftivals n, not to mentn enormo exposure for your brandg durg WORLD PRIDE NYC. Sce 2013, Ike Wrote, Produced and Starred 10 origal shows "I've Slept My Way To The "(2013), "Ike Avelli Is Comg To Town" (2014), "50 Shas of Gay" (2015), "Love On A DEAD END Street" (2016), "I Thought I Would Be Dead By Now" (2016), "You're A Mean One, Ike Avelli" (2016), "The Book Of Ike" (2017), "Ike Avelli's Day Off" (2018), "Dear Santa, Defe Good. Love, Ike" (2018), and "Lube: A Gay-sil" (2019)  different ci and all shows were PACKED HOUSES!

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"50 Shas of Gay" was a h NYC durg PRIDE and SOLD OUT Bally's Atlantic Cy Summer 2019. Wner of the 2018 Province Frge Award for 50 Shas of Gay.

50 SHAS OF GAY – 8TH ANNIVERSARY!

50 Shas of Gay (2020). His sensibily as a gay artist has shaped and elevated the magaze’s athetic, but he has to keep his creativy check lt Mx be seen as a magaze for gay men. But fish strong, as the nflict over Richie’s bathhoe project grows and Mx has to nsir whether ’s too risky for the magaze to speak to gay men, or even gay moments like this, the historil fictn feels not entirely historil.

A gay birthday party gets celebrated The Boys the Band.

The Boys the Band v you to attend a birthday party om the gay hell of 50 years ago, when the love that dared not speak s name really was a hh-hh affair. Mart Crowley posed his dramatic edy the years shortly before the Stonewall uprisg, and his play sharply reflects the manners and morals of upper middle class gay male existence as was ggerly lived New York Cy back then.

IKE AVELLI AND “50 SHAS OF GAY” H THE ROAD AGA

A long-nng Off Broadway sensatn 1968 and then a ntroversial film (featurg s origal stage actors) 1970, The Boys the Band eventually was dismissed, the bright light of latter-day social change, as a rather shady pictn of gay men. Unexpectedly droppg to this flamboyant assembly of reprentative gay gents is Alan (Brian Hutchison), Michael’s prumably heterosexual iend om llege days.

As a ank, even fearls, time psule of gay urban life om half a century ago, the work has acquired a certa gravas today that poignantly unrsr s remarkably entertag quali. Employg openly gay actors for this productn pays off several ways.

First, as the show opens on the eve of Gay Pri month, publilly illtrat how signifintly our social mor have evolved sce the play’s origal day. So, too, do the play’s dividuals reprent different sorts of gay men.

FIFTY SHAS OF GAY

IO Tillett Wright: Fifty shas of gay. As she reveals today’s bold talk, while marriage was far om her md 2008 when California’s Proposn 8 sparked a natnal bate over gay marriage, the nversatn still stck her like a punch.

Tillett Wright had an ia: uld she photographilly troduce people agast the ia of gay marriage to the vast number of people the Uned State who nsir themselv somewhere along the LBGTQ spectm?

Jodi’s fay disowned her when they found out she was gay.

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But on his release form he put down “100% GAY”, and we all had to eat our stereotyp. Brian tght me so much about how stereotyp of gay men as effemate are a bunch of naive hogwash.

They pulled me asi and told me how important was that people know you n have a strong relatnship wh God, and still be gay. I thought that took tremendo urage, not only to be openly gay a state like Tennsee, but to take on the relig battle as well. Chip was the only skateboarr who had ever e to be photographed, which kicked off a really tertg discsn about homophobia wh the macho world of skateboardg, and how we uld all help to rce .

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Before meetg him, and many like him, I had some prenceived, narrow view of what gay people looked like, (pecially men) — even if was a broad view by most standards.

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By time was over, I felt even gayer—and I didn’t thk that was possible” – Michael MtoJo Ike Avelli and his fabulo guts as they celebrate the 6th Anniversary of 50 Shas of Gay wh a night of edy, mic, drag, vio sketch, dience participatn and giveaways. A sure sign of the ongog revery om the vastatg COVID-19 panmic is the joyo return of out edian Ike Avelli’s eewheelg 50 Shas Of Gay tour to the live stage, startg tonight at the famo Frge Ftival Province, RI.

THE BOYS THE BAND: 50 SHAS OF GAY

Jog Ike Province is film star, volist, and LGBTQ advote Tym Moss, -star of the h gay mil movie Junk, and signer/drag diva extraordaire Viki Villas, who -hosts the hugely popular Sha Para podst. After the Province engagement, which ns through Saturday, 50 Shas Of Gay to NYC’s Triad Theater on Augt 7 and 8, where Ike and Tym will be joed by athlete, ternatnal rerdg artist and drag queen Jackie Dupree. In addn to 50 Shas Of Gay, Ike recently teamed up wh wh acplished journalist Eileen Shapiro and celebry photographer Billy Hs to lnch Shut Up And Drive, an offbeat vio seri where the tr ptur celebri and holds them hostage while ferryg them to their gigs.