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Tag Archives: Queer
COLUMBUS CIRCLE HOLIDAY MARKET & Yuletide Music Quiz
A Photo Stroll around New York City’s biggest Holiday Market, plus a little Yuletide Music Quiz*. *answers tucked in the tags at the bottom of this post Yuletide Song Quiz 1: What is the name of the … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Christmas Tree, Christmastime in the Trailerpark, Columbus Circle, Holiday, Holiday Market, I'll be Homo for Christmas, lesbian, Linus and Lucy, Madonna, Market, Montgomery Ward, ornaments, photography, Queer, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Solstice tree, Venus Envy, Vince Guaraldi Trio, vocal group, Y'All
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LGBT is Thrown Around All the Time, But Where is the “B”?
Notes from the “BiView: Bisexual Representation in Media Panel” at NewFest2017 October 21st I attended the panel discussion on Bisexuality in the Media, the first of its kind at a NewFest/Outfest film festival. Moderated by bisexual activist and journalist Eliel … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News
Tagged 13, Alexandra Bolles, biphobia, biplus, bisexual, Bob's Burgers, Callie Torres, David J. Cork, Denarii Grace, Eliel Cruz, GLAAD, Grey's Anatomy, House, How To Get Away With Murder, Insecure, LGBT, LGBTQ, media, NewFest, Olivia Wilde, polyamory, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Queer, Sara Ramirez, Studio Responsibility Index, Taylor Behnke, The Bold Type, Wonder Woman
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QUEER SHORTS – The Fab and the Furious
Highlights from “Boys Shorts”, “Beyond the Binary”, “Drawn This Way – Animated” & “Faith and Fury” film shorts programs at Newfest – New York’s LGBT Film Festival It probably plays to the stereotype of the typical NewFest attendee that … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup
Tagged Ama, Animation, Audience Award, Ballroom Scene, Beard, Ben Baur, Boys, Bryan Powers, Catherine Curtin, Dinner with Jeffrey, Dressed as Girl, Earthly Delights, Elegance Bratton, Eli Mak, Evan Dale Karg, Faith, festival, film, Fish Curry, Fishy, Gema, Half a Life, HBO, Hi It's Your Mother, Indonesia, John Hughes, Kendrick Prince, LGBT, LGBTQ, Manivald, Mrs. McCutcheon, NewFest, Noora, Paul Rudnick, Pria, Pussy, Queer, Reed Birney, Route 66, shorts, Something New, The Night Cleaner, Time is the Longest Distance, transgender, Walk For Me
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QUEER SHORTS – The Young and the Resistance
Highlights from “Young, Queer and Woke” and “The Queer Resistance” film shorts programs at Newfest – New York’s LGBT Film Festival Another fall in New York City. Another NewFest festival of LGBTQ films. Last year I stuffed a dozen festival films … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup
Tagged Antiman, Cinema, Coppola, D'Onofrio, festival, film, Gavan Ramountar, Guyana, Him, Intersection, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Margo & May, Morgan Kahn Nichols, My Gay Sister, NewFest, Queer, Sariwala, short films, Thomas Rivera Montes, Truth and Dare, We Forgot to Break Up, Who I Am
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The Young Lovers’ Path to Speak Easy
Two Fawns in the Wood Dance into the Light Maybe it’s just a dream. Maybe it’s real. Maybe it doesn’t matter either way. For the shame and the betrayal are felt just as acutely. In the musical Speakeasy, an … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Literary Lyricism, The Speakeasy Chronicles
Tagged 1920s, 1930s, adultery, Alice in Wonderland, Dance into the Light, Dream, Fawn, Fawn in the Wood, Gershwin, Jane Allison, John Allison, Lewis Carroll, magical realism, musical, Prohibition, Queer, same-sex, sexual identity, Speakeasy, Through the Looking Glass, Trial of the Tarts
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SPEAKEASY – The Irony of the Young Lovers’ Duets
Curious Colorful Night – It’s a Dream – Momentary Bliss Three lovers’ duets that are not what they seem to the ear Ah, young lovers’ duets. A hallmark of musicals, especially those of the 1920s and 1930s, and so of … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Literary Lyricism, The Speakeasy Chronicles
Tagged 1920s, 1930s, Curious Colorful Night, curiouser, drag ball, duet, ingenue, irony, It's a Dream, Jane Allison, John Allison, Lewis Carroll, lovers, magical realism, Momentary Bliss, musical, Queer, Roaring Twenties, Speakeasy, Subculture, Wonderland
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Speakeasy Highlight Reel
It’s the one year anniversary of the workshop performances of “Speakeasy – John and Jane’s Adventures in the Wonderland“. To mark the occasion, here are some screen shots of the Speakeasy Highlight Reel, a 13 minute edit of selections from … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, The Speakeasy Chronicles
Tagged 1920s, Alice in Wonderland, ball, Cheshire, Danny Ashkenasi, drag, highlight, history, LGBTQ, musical, Prohibition, Queer, reel, Speakeasy, White Rabbit
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A Queer Baker’s Dozen of NewFest LGBT films – Part 2
Akron – I Love You Both – Women Who Kill – Don’t Call Me Son – The Cult – The Nest – (and a Lazy Eye addendum) I experienced a marathon weekend of new LGBT movies from around the world … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup
Tagged Akron, Ann Muylaert, bisexuality, Don't Call Me Son, Doug Archibald, festival, film, Hunky Dory, I Love You Both, Ingrid Jungermann, Krystal Archibald, Lazy Eye, LGBT, Manhattan Murder Mystery, NewFest, Queer, Suicide Kale, The Cult, The Nest, Women Who Kill, Woody Allen
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SPEAKEASY – Douglas McDonnell sings “Dance into the Light”
The tenor Douglas McDonnell sang two songs from Speakeasy at last weekend’s Lower East Side festival at the Theater for the New City: “Dance into the Light” and “All You Are”. Unfortunately technical difficulties got in the way of recording … Continue reading
“SPARKLING MOMENTS OF MUSICAL THEATER” – OffOffOnline’s Speakeasy Review
OffOffOnline posted their Speakeasy review. Here a few highlights: “Kayleigh Shuler as Jane and Matias Polar as John are the heartbeat of the show; they are the flawless young lovers, never missing a note or a cue.” “As Jane’s best … Continue reading
Posted in Live! On Stage, Notes in the News, The Speakeasy Chronicles
Tagged 1920s, 1930s, Alice in Wonderland, Allie Radice, Anne Bragg, Bevin Bell-Hall, Camille Atkinson, Danny Ashkenasi, Gay, Gladys Bentley, J. Alan Hanna, Julian Eltinge, Kayleigh Shuler, LGBT, Matias Polar, musical, OffOffOnline, Queer, Speakeasy, Theater for the New City, Tim Connell, Wonderland
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The Inspiration for SPEAKEASY’S DUCHESS BENTLEY – Part 2 of The Terrific, Transgressive and Tragic Tale of Gladys Bentley
Gladys Bentley, the model for the character Duchess Bentley in Speakeasy, enjoyed a terrific career as deliberately outrageous Lesbian nightclub singer during the Roaring Twenties, but saw her prospects plummet during the far less permissive Great Depression. Almost all homosexual … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News, The Speakeasy Chronicles
Tagged 1920s, 1930s, Ex-Gay, Gay, Gene Malin, Gladys Bentley, Julian Eltinge, LGBT, musical, Prohibition, Queer, Red Scare, Repression, Speakeasy, Womanly
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The Inspiration for SPEAKEASY’S DUCHESS BENTLEY – The Terrific, Trangressive and Tragic Tale of Gladys Bentley – Part 1
In the musical Speakeasy – John and Jane’s Adventures in the Wonderland, Jane Allison first meets Duchess Bentley, Harlem nightclub singer and unabashed lesbian, when she finds herself outside a door being angrily knocked upon by Minister Fish, who implores … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s, 1930s, Alice in Wonderland, Bri Molloy, Camille Atkinson, Gay, Gladys Bentley, Great Depression, Harlem, Lewis Carroll, LGBT, musical, Prohibition, Queer, Roaring Twenties, Speakeasy, Tim Connell, Ubangi Club, Wonderland
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Speakeasy inspired ART by PETER BONNER
Peter Bonner is a New York based artist originally from Australia. We met as members of the choir singing the Ode to Joy in Carnegie Hall with the World Community Orchestra. He has been reading the libretto and listening to … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Literary Lyricism, The Speakeasy Chronicles
Tagged 1920s, 1930s, Alice in Wonderland, art, Australia, Carnegie Hall, charcoal sketch, collage, dance, kentile, Lewis Carroll, LGBT, magical realism, musical, Ode to Joy, oil painting, Peter Bonner, Queer, rabbit hole, sexual liberation, sketches, Speakeasy, Theater for the New City, WCO, Wordl Community Orchestra
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Notes from a Composer 