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World Premiere of HOUSE OF CHAVIS exploring troubling relationships between LGBTQ+ folx and their families.
Tomorrow night, THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE (TOSOS) is presenting the World Premiere of Robert Macke’s funny new play House of Chavis. It’s the story of what happens when a father discovers his estranged son is competing on a reality television series … as a drag queen. It is a moving exploration of the…
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Never Can Say Goodbye to The Communards 35 years later
The Scottish singer/songwriter Jimmy Sommerville was one of the most important queer voices from the 1980s onwards. This diminutive London-based performer provided so much of the music we danced to in the Clubs back then, where he also frequently hung out when he wasn’t on stage. In 1982 he co-founded the Bronski Beat,…
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Solid Gold Tea Dance : Bear Week PTown 2022
For the past 40 years, Maryalice the Resident DJ at PTowns Boatslip Resort has been spinning the music at the now legendary daily Tea Dance. At 4pm sharp every day in the summer the first track is played and the fun never stops until 7 pm. She has an uncanny knack for playing just…
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Elizabeth Waterman: GORGEOUS DRAG: a stunning online exhibit
Between 2014 and 2016 photographer Elisabeth Waterman undertook an ambitious project covering the drag scenes in New York. The result is Gorgeous Drag which is now an online Exhibition at the Albumen Gallery. It is one of the very BEST collections of drag queens and performers that we have ever seen. It was the…
