View a video version of this speech on Dropbox. Thank you, Amy Ross , for that very thoughtful and generous introduction. After that introduction, I can literally cut out half my remarks, and I will strive to do so and just stick with the jokes. I talked to Amy and a few other people before the presentation and ceremony tonight about what topics would be the most relevant for the audience to hear this evening.
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Some trace this back to George Eastman , who never married or had any known girlfriends and was subsequently believed by some to have been gay. By the s Eastman Kodak was said to have a population of gay male employees who may not have been "out" in the way we think of it, but didn't entirely keep it a secret either. Two such individuals were prominent arts patron Earl Kage and his partner, Hamilton Driggs. A full history is available on their website. The Gay Alliance is also responsible for Rochester's annual Pride Week , kicked off by the unfurling of an enormous rainbow flag some three stories long in the City Hall atrium. The day after is the Pride Picnic, first held in a backyard in
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She went on to be the founder of the National Lesbian Feminist Organization's first convention , [21] and president of the Stonewall Democratic Club — They lived in the Hollywood Hills, California and Todos Santos, BCS Mexico, and created various media projects together - including Square Peg Magazine [37] and history-themed lesbian feminist cultural events, exhibits, and literature. Cordova Fund.
I was skeptical about the new revival of West Side Story. Ramasar has been the object of protests after he was fired by the New York City Ballet for exchanging sexually explicit pictures of female company members. An arbitrator later decided he should only have been suspended, and he was reinstated ; expect protesters outside of the theater if you attend. I was concerned by reports that members of the cast were getting hurt in rehearsals. And I was furious that the choreography of Jerome Robbins — the man who had conceived of the original as Romeo and Juliet , but in dance and with street gangs — would be replaced by the work of contemporary Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.