Gay pianists: n you tell? - Slippedisc

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• AFTER 58 YEARS, ’S LAST LL FOR THE CALIPH, ONE OF SAN DIEGO’S LONGT-NNG GAY BARS
• GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?
• VALERIE GAY
• GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?

AFTER 58 YEARS, ’S LAST LL FOR THE CALIPH, ONE OF SAN DIEGO’S LONGT-NNG GAY BARS

It seemed to me that she seemed offend by the ia that Schubert was homosexual, and was beg rather selective her choice of facts to unter his arguments.

Whereas people like Tchaikovsky, om eastern Europe, were that b more "exotic", makg homosexualy/femy more acceptable. All the talk about the extent of Beethoven's e of perfect nc and the more prevalent e of variatn by Schubert simply adds up to nothg nclive and is not even all that accurate self - but even if were reasonably accurate, would still most certaly not provi evince of relative "masculy" the mic of the former or "femy" that of the don't actually say that you n hear through his mic that he was gay; what she says is that there's a "difference" thereWell, whoopty-doo! I return aga to the qutn of the mic of known homosexual posers such as Szymanowski, Copland, Tippett, Brten, Rorem, Henze, etc.

GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?

; how n we tell om any aspect of the ways which they wrote their mic that they were (or, Rorem's and Henze's se, are) homosexuals? Would a homosexual poser's work fail to fluence that of a heterosexual one, or vice versa?

Then what of homosexual performers playg or sgg the mic of heterosexual posers and vice versa (a very difficult nsiratn when the "performer" is a symphony orchtra, given that we don't have orchtras exclively ma up of eher group)?

VALERIE GAY

After last ll, will shut s doors permanently — endg a historic, nearly 60-year n as one of San Diego’s most inic gay Caliph, wh s Moorish motif mixed wh dis lights, is known for s live piano entertament, karaoke, h poprn and, perhaps most importantly, s old-school neighborhood bar mise marks the end of an era. “When I bought the place, ” he said, “I always wanted to be all-clive — gay, straight, transgenr, young, old, men, women.

“Bars like The Caliph have been a place where people the gay muny uld be themselv — a place where you wouldn’t even be looked at twice. ”More than that, though, The Caliph, for nearly six s, bore wns to the evolutn of the gay rights movement — s highs and s opened s doors 1960, seven years after Print Dwight D.

Eisenhower signed Executive Orr 10450, banng homosexuals om beg employed by the feral ernment. “One of the sweett memori I remember is when that fally happened, we had a uple of marriage proposals, ” relled Carey, who said she sang every gay anthem the book that night, om “Love Story” by Taylor Swift to “Defyg Gravy” om the mil “Wicked. ”‘Like losg a fay member’The Caliph’s closure on the heels of other notable gay bars recently shuttg down.

GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?

Bourbon Street, once a btlg nightspot jt a e up the street, shuttered 2015, and so did The Flame, a lbian loss of The Caliph “is really tragic, ” said lol filmmaker Pl Detwiler, who produced the KPBS documentary “San Diego’s Gay Bar History.