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INTERVIEW WH JAYM VGHAN, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHIPPENDALE
He is first openly gay member of this sexy stage show. ED: What was like beg an openly gay man and travelg to plac that might not be gay iendly?
ED: Are you the first openly gay member of the Chippendal?
JV: Y, that is actually my tle, The First Open Gay Member of the Chippendal. " De Noia was gay, and divorced om actrs Jennifer O'Neill, the star of "Summer of ’42, " as the seri mak his choreography skills, De Noia transformed the dancers' rout and eventually beme the face of the anchise.
CHIPPENDAL DU REVEALS HE'S GAY!
While he was already out to his fay and iends, Jaym wanted to be public about his sexualy so he uld serve as a role mol as one of the few openly gay entertaers Vegas. The fourteen year old that had no one to look up to; whose mama told him he better not be gay; whose church told him he was gog to hell; whose bt iend killed himself bee he didn’t “f .
We’re proud that Jaym wants to be a role mol to gay youth. “Pl Snir had seen some gay male review and thought would be kd of like hammy and fun to do this for women, ” Natalia Petrzela, the host of the podst Wele To Your Fantasy, which vers the Chippendal murr mystery, told Vice 2021. "Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Until Chippendal, male strippg was typilly seen at gay barsHe is "a unique part of the story", says historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, whose podst, Wele to Your Fantasy, renewed tert the Chippendal legacy.
"I want to be drivg that r, " he would say when people drove up to fill up their fancy vehicl, Petrzela the 1970s, Banerjee ed his savgs to buy a dive bar LA which he lled Dty II, and tried everythg to draw crowds - backgammon gam, magic shows and mud wrtlg among 1979, Pl Snir, a nightclub promoter, suggted that Banerjee brg male strippers - ually only seen gay clubs - for a show aimed at now, the bar had been renamed Chippendal to suggt a classier experience. The seri set the Reagan "Me First" spotlight gay culture durg a tumultuo time. While 1970s activism brought more visibily and acceptance to the gay muny that accelerated to the 1980s, the AIDS crisis brought much of that progrs to a screechg halt and threatened to drive the entire movement back to the shadows.