Tag Archives: Gay

MANHATTAN PRIDE ’23

Posted on June 26, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Up Close at the 2023 New York City Pride Parade – Watching and Marching – Getting ready at home (my head still wet from the shower)… She said we were a “cute couple”… Our vantage point for the first three … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged 5th ave, bisexual, Buddhists, Cheer, costumes, drag queens, Drag Race, Empire State Building, Flaggots, Gay, Lea DeLaria, lesbian, Manhattan, New York, Parade, Pride, Quakers, Rainbow, Symone, transgender, World Trade Center | Leave a comment

BROOKLYN PRIDE 2023

Posted on June 11, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News | Tagged 5th Avenue, brooklyn, Cheer, drag queen, Dykes on Bikes, Gay, Gotham, Herstory, Human Rights, lesbian, New York, Parade, Park Slope, Pride, Rainbow, Scouts, soap bubbles, Trans Rights | Leave a comment

BROOKLYN PRIDE 2022

Posted on June 12, 2022 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News | Tagged Attorney General, Batala, Berkeley Carroll, Bill de Blasio, brooklyn, Cheer, City Council, drumline, Eric Adams, friends, Gay, GMHC, Gotham, Herstory, lesbian, Letitia James, LGBTQ, Mayor, New York, NYC, Officers Action League, Parade, Park Slope, Pride, school, Trans Rights | Leave a comment

An HIV Positive Gay Man’s Advice on Living in the Age of Covid

Posted on June 27, 2020 by dannyashkenasi

My friend Tim Cusack posted this on Facebook: “For all the straight white people whining about how wearing masks is inconvenient and uncomfortable, how you miss human contact and all the things you used to be able to do, bemoaning … Continue reading →

Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News | Tagged Aids, community, condom, Covid 19, Facebook, Gay, gratitude, HIV Positive, Hope, masks, mourning, pandemic, plague, Reagan, Republican, Tim Cusack | Leave a comment

The Sound of Recovery Music

Posted on July 21, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

Not your childhood van Trapps… The same friend who treated us to the SCA benefit performance “Snow White and the Seven Hos” invited us to see that show’s impresario Michael Roth’s latest romp “The Sound of Recovery Music”. Once … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Live! On Stage | Tagged 12 steps, AA, addition, drag, Gay, LGBTQ, Maria, Michael Roth, parody, promises, Recovery, SCA, Seven Hos, Snow White, sobriety, The Sound of Music, triggering | Leave a comment

PRIDE MONTH DAILY MOVIE PLAYLIST

Posted on June 18, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

And so the daily LGBTQ movie shout out commences: Call that blog post by its name here. That Queer Movie blog post is its own country here.

Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup | Tagged 3, Alison Bechdel, Andrew Haigh, Ang Lee, Big Eden, Booksmart, Bound, Brokeback Mountain, Call Me By Your Name, Carol, Cinema, Cloud Atlas, Gay, Gentleman Jack, Go Fish, God's Own Country, Guys and Balls, In the Family, Jane Austen, LGBTQ, Looking, Moonlight, movies, Paris 05:59: Theo and Hugo, Parting Glances, Playlist, Pose, Pride, Pride Month, Queer as Folk, Rebecca Cantrell, Rocketman, Sam Smith, Sense8, Short Bus, The Broken Hearts Club, The Cakemaker, The Celluloid Closet, The Handmaiden, The Happy Prince, The L Word, The Wedding Banquet, Three of Hearts, threesome, Tom Tykwer, Touch of Pink, TV, Walk on Water, Warchowski, Weekend | Leave a comment

The Belligerent Homophobe Who Ruined Rocketman For Us

Posted on June 1, 2019 by dannyashkenasi

The three or four loud sneezes that erupted behind us during the 20 minutes of previews were a warning shot that all would not turn out alright for us during this screening of “Rocketman” in midtown Manhattan. But the … Continue reading →

Posted in Beginnings, Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News | Tagged 2016 election, Arrival, Ben Wishaw, bigot, Braveheart, Cloud Atlas, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Ed Elder, Elton John, Gay, homophobia, James D'Arcy, LGBTQ, love scene, MAGA, movie, Pride, Rocketman, Taran Egerton, Trump, Trumpian | 1 Comment

BROOKLYN PRIDE

Posted on June 11, 2018 by dannyashkenasi

Park Slope Comes Out! Highlights from the June 9 Brooklyn Pride Street Fare and Parade We are Family – Sisters Sledge

Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News | Tagged brooklyn, Diana Ross, Gay, Gloria Gaynor, Holiday, I Am What I Am, I'm Coming Out, lesbian, LGBTQ, Madonna, Parade, Park Slope, Pride, Sisters Sledge, Street Fare, We are Family | Leave a comment

WEDDING MUSIC – 25 Years Together, 20 Years Married

Posted on April 25, 2018 by dannyashkenasi

“So, where did the two of you meet?” we are often asked. “In the back of a Greyhound bus,” we respond by rote, and await the inevitable follow up question. It was exactly 25 years ago, April 25, 1993, on … Continue reading →

Posted in Beginnings, Melodies Linger On | Tagged 1993, 1998, anniversary, April 25, Cabaret, Cole Porter, Ed Elder, Ella Fitzgerald, Fiddler on the Roof, first dance, From This Moment On, Gay, Greta Keller, greyhound, Heirat, I Could Be Happy With You, Lead Me to the Morning, lesbian, LGBTQ, March on Washington, marriage, marriage equality, Sunrise Sunset, The Boyfriend, wedding, Witches | 1 Comment

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, SAM, and then Play It Again

Posted on November 7, 2017 by dannyashkenasi

I took a Swoon Dive this weekend. I read André Aciman’s “Call Me By Your Name” while playing Sam Smith on endless shuffle. It was almost irresponsibly intoxicating. Say It First – Sam Smith I first heard about the Gay … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Literary Lyricism, Melodies Linger On | Tagged A Room with a View, André Aciman, Armie Hammer, bisexual, Burning, Call Me By Your Name, Community Bookstore, Gay, James Ivory, Lay Me Down, LGBTQ, Love Is A Losing Game, Luca Guadagnino, Lucy Honeychurch, Nirvana, Park Slope, Sam Smith, Say It First, Sundance, Timothée Chalomet | Leave a comment

The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps Plays The Soundtrack to Our Story

Posted on April 10, 2017 by dannyashkenasi

Saturday night we attended the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band performing a concert at Symphony Space titled “Once Upon A Time … The Soundtrack to Our Story”, with music referencing and inspired by the history of the Gay … Continue reading →

Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Live! On Stage, Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News | Tagged Alicia Hall Moran, Band, Big Apple, Bohemian Rhapsody, Brian Belovitch, Celtic Folk Songs, Colleen Meenan, Gay, Gay Rights, Hair, Henco Espag, Holst, It's Raining Men, Kinky Boots, Kyle Post, lesbian, Let the Sunshine In, LGBTQ, March, Mars, Paul Schaeffer, Pride, queen, Reginald Brown, RuPaul, Symphonic, Symphony Space, The Generations Project | 2 Comments

MOONLIGHT – the triple least “Oscar Baity” Oscar Winner

Posted on March 5, 2017 by dannyashkenasi

“I just hope the weird pandemonium doesn’t overshadow the fact that a $1.5 million independent film by a black director about black, gay, poor people was named Best Picture. The process to get there was very weird, but it’s an … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News | Tagged Academy Awards, Argo, Ava DuVarnay, Barry Jenkins, Best Picture, Birdman, black, Brokeback Mountain, Carol, Gay, indie, La La Land, LGBTQ, low--budget, Mahershala Ali, Moonlight, Oscar Bait, Oscars, Selma, Tarell Alvin McCraney, The Artist | Leave a comment

Ian Mckellen’s richly detailed and historically edifying “It Got Better” video

Posted on July 18, 2016 by dannyashkenasi

We’ve come a long way. @IanMckellen tells his @It_Got_Better storyhttps://t.co/7XBpAsvHGW — L Studio (@LStudio) July 18, 2016 Pretty cool video, an inspiring must see. And not that it really matters, but Sir Ian and I share the same birthday, … Continue reading →

Posted in Notes in the News | Tagged coming out, Gay, Ian McKellen, interview, It Gets Better, LGBT, Margaret Thatcher, Section 28, Simon Callow, video | 1 Comment

The SEVEN HOS are now WICKED ADDICTED!

Posted on June 17, 2016 by dannyashkenasi

Last June I posted an impressed and irreverent report of of “Snow White and the Seven Hos“, a Disney parody musical benefit for SCA (Sexual Compulsives Anonymous). SCA supports gay and bisexual men with sex addiction issues. Every year they … Continue reading →

Posted in Live! On Stage, Notes in the News | Tagged Benefit, bisexual, Defying Gravity, Flying Monkey, fundraiser, Gay, Hudson Guild Theatre, Idina Menzel, kristin chenoweth, LGBT, LGBTQ, parody, Popular, SCA, Sex addiction, Sexual Compulsives Anonymous, Snow White, Wicked | Leave a comment

NfaC Pride Month Repost: THE NEARLY INVISIBLE BISEXUAL MALE

Posted on June 4, 2016 by dannyashkenasi

June is Pride Month. So I thought I should make my first post of the month a post that deals heavily with LGBTQ issues. And although my many posts related to my musical Speakeasy almost invariably deal with LGBTQ issues, … Continue reading →

Posted in Beginnings, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, The Speakeasy Chronicles | Tagged Alan Cumming, Alice in Wonderland, bisexual, bisexuality, Cabaret, coming out, Gay, Kinsey Scale, lesbian, LGBT, LGBTQ, Lissa Moira, musical, omnisexual, Orange in the New Black, pansexual, Pride, Queer, Scarlet Letter, Sense8, Speakeasy, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Tim Maner, Torch Song Trilogy, transgender, trisexual | 1 Comment

Cast Picture

Posted on March 17, 2016 by dannyashkenasi

Jonathan Fox Powers (music director), Anne Bragg, Allie Radice, Amanda Thomas, Zachary Martin, Kristen Quinn, Rita McCann, Larry Johnson, Rebecca Marquardt, Brendan Mellette, Camille Atkinson, Tim Connell, Matias Polar, Darcy Dunn, Kayleigh Shuler, Brian Henry, Bri Molloy, Sebastian McCracken, … Continue reading →

Posted in Live! On Stage, The Speakeasy Chronicles | Tagged cast picture, Danny Ashkenasi, Gay, musical, Speakeasy, Theater for the New City, Wonderland | 1 Comment

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