Contents:
- STARDT ON THE GAY BARS, FIRGS & FAILUR THAT LED TO ‘MIC SOUNDS BETTER WH YOU’
- OVERLOOKED NO MORE: JOBRIATH, OPENLY GAY GLAM ROCKER THE ’70S
- ADVERSY, RELAYED EMOTINS BY A TROUBLED GAY TEENAGER
- MAN ACCED OF G GRDR APP TO TARGET AND ROB GAY MEN
STARDT ON THE GAY BARS, FIRGS & FAILUR THAT LED TO ‘MIC SOUNDS BETTER WH YOU’
Castg is ankly extraordary, Michelle Pfeiffer plays magnificently a shamelsly villa-wch and Robert De Niro as the likable gay pirate steals the show. Across the Atlantic Ocean, muni of young black and Lato men, many of them ostracized for beg homosexuals, gathered nightclubs Chigo and Detro. By the late 1980s, some of the futuristic groov ma their way to the gay Paris unrground.
Braxe and Diamond were 17 when they first, penntly of each other, walked to Parisian gay clubs and had their liv changed. ”Such was the plited existence of Jobriath, who is generally regard as the first openly gay rock star.
The productn st was timated at an exorbant $200, ad mpaign is one reason Jobriath is nsired to this day to have been among the mic dtry’s most overhyped the gay liberatn movement growg the early 1970s, Brandt assumed that Jobriath would be readily embraced. ”Jobriath put out a send album, “Creatur of the Street, ” 1974 and embarked on a natnal tour, only to enunter homophobic slurs durg a performance at Nass Colism on Long Island. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTDance ReviewAdversy, Relayed Emotins by a Troubled Gay Moh/The New York TimFeb.
OVERLOOKED NO MORE: JOBRIATH, OPENLY GAY GLAM ROCKER THE ’70S
— The first thg to know about David Rosève’s “Stardt” is that you never actually see s protagonist, a black gay urban teenager named Junr.
“Stardt” ns through Sunday at the Alexanr Kasser Theater at Montclair State Universy New Jersey; A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn C, Page 5 of the New York edn wh the headle: Adversy, Relayed Emotins by a Troubled Gay Teenager. David Bowie me out as gay durg an terview for Melody Maker 1972. However, many of his songs and performanc allud to gay culture, and he often participated cross-drsg for photo shoots and ncerts.
In turn, sexual ambiguy and viance self bee more sirable to the general public, which greatly aid gay activists their fight for equaly, whether Bowie tend to advance their e or not. The Stonewall Rts 1969 kick-started the gay rights movement, and helped une the gay muny. This new sense of purpose and uny manifted self gay rights anizatns like the Gay Liberatn Front, and magaz like The Advote and Drag.
ADVERSY, RELAYED EMOTINS BY A TROUBLED GAY TEENAGER
The magaz discsed David Bowie and his performanc, which giv an sight to the relatnship between Bowie and gay muny members.
Lears of gay rights anizatns approached Bowie to propose the ia of beg their spokman, but David refed. “Queen Bch” and “Lady Stardt”, a song om the Ziggy album, show how Bowie flnts his gayns.
MAN ACCED OF G GRDR APP TO TARGET AND ROB GAY MEN
In the lyrics of the songs and others, Bowie leans heavily on gay stereotyp to portray the characters and events he scrib. David discs the stereotypil aspects of gay culture the song by mentng clubs and a drag queen who is tryg to take home a man. Although the lyrics did not give a new perspective on gay culture, or break any mon stereotyp about gay men, Bowie sang about gay stereotyp at a time when was nsired taboo.
This self helped the gay muny to fd acceptance mastream culture, and gave Bowie a strong gay fan base.
License: Ziggy Stardt, beg an alien, helped fans to accept this alternative visn of homosexualy. Creatg space creatur let people fed the unknown, and mon knowledge about homosexualy was extremely lackg at the time.