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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]
Beginning in 1992, several of the Gauntlet body piercers were awarded the certification of Senior and Master Piercer. Many of these individuals went on to become influential in the body piercing community, training later generations of body piercers, owning their own stores and evolving the craft to suit the needs of their clients, maintaining sterility standards as well as jewelry trends.
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 ...
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 ...
A La Vieille Russie is a New York City-based antique store specializing in European and American antique jewelry, Imperial Russian works of art, 18th-century European gold snuff boxes, and objets d’art. [1] Founded in Kiev in 1851, A La Vieille Russie later relocated to Paris around 1920 and to New York thereafter.
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 ...
David Carr – first openly gay Republican member of the New York City Council [234] Daniel Dromm – member of the New York City Council (January 2010 to January 2022) [235] Thomas Duane – the first openly gay member of the New York State Senate, in which he served from 1999 to 2012 and former New York City Council member (1991 to 1999) [236]