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2019-06-08 17:27:00
50 Years After Stonewall, Classical Music Still Fights the Fight – Exhibits, panels, opera, more mark 50th anniversary of Stonewall riots
[…] he has a mistress in his life. The detail of the words and the conviction of the music has nothing directly to do with Stonewall, but showed the desperate, dead-end level of society in which West Village gays trafficked. Heroin kills any sex drive – one way to circumvent the gay problem.To fight or not to fight? That was the question in The Pomada Inn, with music by Brian Cavanagh-Strong and a libretto by Ben Bonnema, set in modern-day Kiev where, as in 1960s America, gays feared raids that would result in job loss and general ostracization. In contrast, an intelligent, sensitive, upscale lesbian couple from New York that would easily pass for straight becomes morally committed to fighting the good fight. But when handed a brick, will they throw it on behalf of their less-fortunate friends? Maybe not. They aren't wired for physical combat. Who is, really. The missing […]
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