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BROOKLYN PRIDE
Park Slope Comes Out! Highlights from the June 9 Brooklyn Pride Street Fare and Parade We are Family – Sisters Sledge
SPEAKEASY – Advice from a (Lesbian) Caterpillar
Two songs from “Speakeasy” explore two sides of a closeted 1920’s lesbian For many years I hoped to write a musical about the queer subculture of Roaring Twenties New York, but didn’t find my “in” until I came upon the … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Literary Lyricism, Notes in the News, The Speakeasy Chronicles
Tagged 1800s, 19th Century, Alice in Wonderland, Caroline Chrysalides, Caterpillar, Female Friendships, flappers, Jane Allison, Jazz Age, lesbian, Lewis Carroll, LGBTQ, magical realism, musical, My Passion, operetta, Roaring Twenties, sexual revolution, Speakeasy
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The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps Plays The Soundtrack to Our Story
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
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Holiday Flee Market in the Classic Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower
This post features holiday music from the damn bestest Lesbian holiday album ever: Venus Envy’s 1990’s cult classic “I’ll be a Homo for Christmas” The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower is the most famous building in Brooklyn. Completed in 1929 it … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Musicabilia, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged brooklyn, Carols, Flee Market, folk, Fort Greene, Holiday, lesbian, marble floor, Mecca of Dentistry, mosaic, One Hanson Place, Park Slope, parody, photography, Skylight, Smorgasburg, Tower, vault, Venus Envy, Williamsburgh Savings Bank
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“CAROL” & THERESE – “SPEAKEASY” & JANE – stories from the time when lesbian love dared not say its name
I love the movie “Carol”. It is one of the best movies of the year, masterful on all levels. While I was watching it, I kept on thinking: “How exquisitely swoony”. Refined and restrained on the one … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, The Speakeasy Chronicles
Tagged 1930s, 1950s, Alice in Wonderland, Carol, Cate Blanchett, drama, homosexual, Jane Allison, lesbian, magical realism, movie, musical, musical comedy, Rooney Mara, Speakeasy, Therese, Through the Looking Glass
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SPEAKEASY Campaign Video Update
Stolis Hadjicharalambous has completed the final edit of the Speakeasy fundraiser campaign video. The Kickstarter fundraising campaign will launch in about two weeks. Meanwhile, here are stills of some the images and tracks of some of the music that will … Continue reading
SPEAKEASY – The WHITE RABBIT goes slumming in HARLEM
Harlem HARLEM IT’S SO BECOMING LET’S ALL GO SLUMMING IN THE WILD UPTOWN “Going slumming in Harlem”. This is what rich and middle class swells and flappers, socialites and the elite, white folks from downtown Manhattan, called going uptown to … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, The Speakeasy Chronicles
Tagged 1920s, 1930s, Alice in Wonderland, automat, Buffet Flats, Cotton Club, Gladys Bentley, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, interracial, lesbian, musical, Negro Vogue, Prohibition, rent party, Roaring Twenties, Speakeasy, Ubangi Club, White Rabbit
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