All posts by Doug Rule
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Maps and Mythology
The specter of AIDS haunts Steven Dietz's Lonely Planet – and yet the disease is never mentioned by name. But it is AIDS causing the...
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Gay Skate: Xanadu
''It appeals to more than just the gay audience, but for some reason it appeals to our sensibility the most,'' says Matthew Gardiner. In fact,...
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Donna Summer’s everlasting dance
When I first came out as a college student in the mid-‘90s, the gay dance club in Columbia, Mo., would end the night with Donna...
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Martyr Complex
Was Saint Sebastian gay? History is actually iffy on the subject. But the celebrated, martyred Christian is sometimes referred to as ''a homosexual icon,'' in...
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School Dances
''Do you know that I performed at the national festival 20 years ago?'' Diane DeFries of the American College Dance Festival Association says she hears...
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Golden Tribute
Maybe you don't love Judy Garland. Maybe you don't understand or – gasp! – respect her ties to the gay community, or why she still...
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Gershwin Jukebox
They're no Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, but Kelli O'Hara and Matthew Broderick make quite the dancing pair in the new Broadway musical Nice Work...
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Pool Party
''Some of the front rows of the audience ,'' says Constellation Theatre Company's managing director A.J. Guban. ''Just a little splash, just a little...
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Swing Time
This summer, Steven Reineke will perform with Idina Menzel at Wolf Trap, supporting the Broadway and TV star with the National Symphony Orchestra Pops. But...
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The Hole Truth
You often hear about pop artists and bands partying hard, being reckless with life and drugs. But you rarely see it. ''I didn't really want...
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Bad Faith
Every night right now at Broadway's St. James Theatre, officials are taking donations, passing around collection plates as if the audience were a congregation at...
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Reflective Rufus
Rufus Wainwright is 38 going on 60. His new album Out Of The Game starts with an older man's jokey lament about his wilder days...
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Dancing to Memories
''It started out as kind of a stutter,'' says Kyle Abraham, about his father's aphasia, a type of brain damage. ''Two years later, it started...
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Black Bluegrass
The black string music tradition predates the blues. It even influenced and echoes what is today commonly known as traditional folk and bluegrass. But don't...
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Uplifted: Pilobolus
Nile Russell was all ready to give up dancing. ''In modern dance, there were people freaking out the audience just for the sake of freaking...
