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Contents:

• FUNERAL HOME OWNER WANTS TO TURN FLT-AREA GAY BAR TO JAZZ CLUB
• JAZZ: GAY MEN JAZZ
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON

FUNERAL HOME OWNER WANTS TO TURN FLT-AREA GAY BAR TO JAZZ CLUB

Evangele Harris is piqug the cursy of some pestrians outsi of Mova Lounge, an upsle gay bar Washgton, D. When discsg the soundtrack to ntemporary mastream gay life, jazz is often treated as an allergen on a mil landspe more voted to vol pop, club hs and electroni. As someone who equents gay bars wh almost the same regulary as jazz clubs, I often sense a great divi between the two worlds.

“It is extremely polarized, ” argu saxophonist and claretist Andrew D’Angelo, “so much so that when my ex-boyiend me to one of my gigs, some of his gay iends were so disproportnately removed om my [jazz] scene.

JAZZ: GAY MEN JAZZ

It would seem that there’d be more overlap between the jazz and gay muni relatnship to mastream society.

“I fd myself far more spired by the stggl of someone like Chet Baker or Eric Dolphy than some glamoro Hollywood actrs, ” says the openly gay volist and poser Theo Bleckmann.

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“Jt by Eric and Baker’s nstant fight for acceptance and their battl wh ner mons, I wonr why more gay people wouldn’t look up to people like them than someone like Judy Garland, who was already accepted by the Hollywood tablishment. Jazz has, however, produced s fair share of gay lumari, among them Billy Strayhorn, Cecil Taylor, Gary Burton, Andy Bey, Ian Shaw, Fred Hersch, Lea DeLaria, Patricia Barber and Allison Miller. And support for the gay muny wh jazz as a whole has mirrored the growg acceptance found mastream Amerin culture.

Sometim ’s a matter of showg arnt support and rpect for the gay muny (Barbra Streisand, Madonna and Beyoncé). Exprsg the ncerns and issu facg the gay muny is not, of urse, the first time jazz has been volved wh potentially ntroversial inty polics.

As stigmas associated wh gay and bisexual culture ntue to fall by the waysi, jazz songs that explicly rhapsodize or, at the very least, acknowledge the queer muny are surfacg at a fair pace. Among the most engagg entri this non are works by openly gay artists: say, Barber’s “Narciss, ” which explor a Sapphic love affair, and Hersch’s “Out Someplace (Blu for Matthew Shepard), ” a movg piece dited to the 21-year-old Wyomg gay man who was murred bee of his sexual orientatn.

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But gay-themed work isn’t exclively solemn or ser-md, eher; rather, queer-oriented them are beg brought to the fore ways alternately bold, brash, prankish, clever or cute. “I thk there are unrton that are now g to the surface, ” argu D’Angelo, who leads a band lled Gay Dis, and who has given some posns such provotive tl as “My Prostate” and “Cheek Spread. “I don’t have a shre to Barbra Streisand, I don’t listen to dis or worship Judy Garland, but I am gay and I do love all of those songs.

“I tell that story a live-and-let-live manner, and I’ve had many gay people e up to me after the ncert troducg me to their partners.

Of urse, intifyg gay touchston morn jazz prov easier through lyrics and song tl than do wh stmental mic. A Queer Qutn for Jazz Studi, ” which she argued that jazz was once a hotbed for gay exprsn until the mic moved to the mastream.

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“If we claim that Hersch’s performance is queer, we may be cued by his disclosure of his sexual inty, but we’re not assertg that he plays a ‘gay’ way, ” McNeilly explas. Even though Fred Hersch beme one of the first openly gay artists of our time, he hat to intify a cidly gay athetic his mic or jazz as a whole.

Jon dance sre, and that his 2005 disc, Leav of Grass, was an exploratn of Walt Whman the poet, not Walt Whman the gay in. “Essentializg” might be more easily termed “prejudice, ” and, ed, ’s nearly impossible to discs beg gay jazz whout addrsg homophobia. “Some jazz micians give more of a homophobic ont than they actually are, ” adds dmmer Terri Lyne Carrgton.

I don’t thk that Ain-Amerins are more homophobic, but I thk that ’s a matter of not feelg as ee [ parison to whe Amerins], which still relat back to our history.

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ClubFly provis a gay bar, club, nightlife, and GLBT center mapper for New York, New York and the rt of the US filtered by jazz New York gay bars and clubs are mapped the gayborhood wh an overview, tags, ntact tails, webse, social media lks, trans/walkg directns, and drivg directns. It has been more than 50 years sce the rts at the Stonewall Inn the Wt Village area of Manhattan begng on June 28, 1969 — the first time that members of the gay muny stood up to the abive treatment they’d received at the hands of thori.

” The torch song, wh s strong theme of unrequed love, is a proment one gay culture, and Lh Life checks that box a big way.

It’s performed here by Chris Connor, a sger known for her “ol” sound, who was eventually revealed as beg gay only her obuary.

The nnectn between Dorothy’s pe story and the one experienced by so many closeted dividuals clearly pots to how easily Over the Rabow — the theme om that movie — uld bee an anthem for the gay muny. Gay men began intifyg not only wh the song, but also wh the character that sang , often referrg to themselv as “iends of Dorothy. This song om The Kg and I may not have an overtly gay nnectn, but the lyrics are key to beg embraced by the LGBTQ muny.

Over time, The Right to Love was adopted by the LGBTQ muny as a reflectn of gay upl’ sire to share the liberti and eedoms enjoyed by those heterosexual relatnships. A lbian who “tir” of public tert her sexualy, Barber says, “I’m hopg as we’ve all grown olr, that beg gay ntu beg jt a part of the normal fabric of everythg, and people will foc on the mic more. As a man his mid-50s workg the world of mil theatre, Blumenkratz is open about his sexualy, even tweetg that he’s “proud to be a gay New Yorker.