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Eventually, Gauntlet opened stores in San Francisco, New York City, and Seattle, as well as a franchise in Paris. The Gauntlet's clientele originated from the gay S&M communities of Southern California and Northern California and during the years that Ward ran his business from his home, many Gauntlet customers came from a group of gay Los ...
Born December 10, 1963 in Florence, Italy, Ippolita Rostagno is the daughter of an American artist and an Italian intellectual. [1] [2]Raised and educated in the hills of Tuscany, Ippolita attended elementary school in a one-room medieval schoolhouse and went on to study sculpture [2] and earn her baccalauréat degree from the Istituto D’Arte in Florence.
By the early 1960s, a campaign to rid New York City of gay bars was in full effect by order of Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr., who was concerned about the image of the city in preparation for the 1964 World's Fair. The city revoked the liquor licenses of the bars, and undercover police officers worked to entrap as many homosexual men as possible. [61]
The first school for openly lesbian and gay teenagers opens in New York City, Harvey Milk High School. By 1985, there had been 3,798 cumulative deaths by AIDS in New York. [10] 1986. By 1986, there had been 6,505 cumulative deaths by AIDS in New York. [10] 1987. ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) is founded in New York City at the ...
Club Cumming has been well received by both the public and the nightlife industry. In 2019, it won the title of Best Bar at the Glam Awards, an annual ceremony à la the Oscars for queer entertainers, promoters and venues in New York City. [43] The club ranked first on Time Out 's 2022 list of "the 24 best gay bars in NYC". [44]
Mondschein added wedding dresses and Georgian, Victorian, and Art Deco jewelry to the inventory. In the 1970s, he moved the store to the Upper East Side, and in 1986 legally changed his name to Fred Leighton. [1] Leighton began lending jewelry to celebrities in 1996 when client Miuccia Prada [2] borrowed a necklace for Nicole Kidman to wear to ...
In June 2020 the company is scheduled to perform Giselle of Loneliness, a modern take on the classical ballet Giselle where the title character is a gender non-conforming lesbian. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Ballez hosts open adult ballet classes at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange [ 6 ] [ 14 ] The company offers free YouTube videos of ballet class for people who ...
Next Magazine is a weekly gay lifestyle magazine that was published in New York City from July 1993 to September 2016. It addressed topics of fashion, life, entertainment, sex, and LGBT culture news, and was distributed freely in gay bars and other locations throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Long Island, and New Jersey.