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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.
Michael C. Fina was a family-owned fine goods retailer and worldwide employee recognition company, based and operated in New York City and known for its online store for bridal registries and home goods. The company was last run by the third generation of the Fina family. Steven Fina was President and Chief Merchant of the retail division. [1]
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 ...
Below is the résumé of scenes and dances taken from the theatre program of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet. It is the Imperial Ballet's production as staged by Marius Petipa that serves as the basis for all modern-day productions. Act I. no. 01 Prélude et Mazurka; no. 02 Valse et jalousie; no. 03 Scène; no. 04 Mazurka; no. 05 Scène
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.
George Platt Lynes (April 15, 1907 – December 6, 1955) was an American fashion and commercial photographer who worked in the 1930s and 1940s. [1] He produced photographs featuring many gay artists and writers from the 1940s that were acquired by the Kinsey Institute.