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GAY MALE BALLET DANCERS, PHOTOS
In addn, The TROCKS have given, or participated special benef performanc for Connecticut Ballet Theater, Ballet Hawaii, Indianapolis Ballet Theater, Rochter Cy Ballet, Dancers Transn (NYC), Sadler’s Wells Theater London and the Gay and Lbian Communy Center and Young Audienc / Arts for Learng Organizatn, and the Ali Forney Center, benefg homels gay youths New York Cy. Inspired by the Stonewall Rts of 1969, the pany was fueled by the spir of fiance and creative exuberance that the gay rights movement unleashed. 8 percent of the men dance pani overall were gay, while they nsired 53 percent of the men their own pani to be gay.
The LGBTQ participatn the profsn has been domated by gay male dancers - this rerc the stereotype of the male ballet dancer as breathtakgly betiful and gay. The Trocks, as ’s known, was a rult of the Gay Liberatn movement.
“It’s not a gay pany, per se, that we don’t addrs gay issu a polil sense, ” says Tory Dobr, The Trocks’ artistic director, who was himself a member of the pany om 1980 through 1998. “But there is a lot of gay sensibily, bee of the e of drag, and we’re all gay. It was a venue for ee exprsn at a time when gay people faced huge stigma.