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STEVE OLDFIELD, FOX-TV 'S/CRITICsfe — a I I I J Right on! | 1:42 p.m. June 19: The New York Assembly— B led by prime sponsor Daniel O’Donnell, brother of I Rosie—passes a bill to allow same-sex couples I equal access to marriage by a bipartisan vote of 85- I 61. 1 feel the earth move. I I I I I 8:18 p.m. June 19: The city’s queer communi- ty center gets $9 million in taxpayer-funded support. This same week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announces that he’s leaving the Republican Party. My kind of town. I | I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 2:36 p.m. June 21: It was 40 years ago today that the Summer of Love officially began. 1 celebrate the anniversary by checking out the Whitney Museum’s I I I I Ier greatest secret was her greatest gift. EVENING From the author of The Hours SCREE hpiat SUSAN MINOT wi MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM directed 8» LAJOS KOLTAI pi; 13 focus NOW PLAYING IN THEATRES EVERYWHERE^ MOBILE USERS For Showbnws Text EVENING with your ZIP CODE to 43KIX 1435491 Go to amajoncom /evening for an advance look a» ’EVENING' with exclusive clips, interviews and morel 12:49 a.m. June 19: Village Voice columnist Michael Musto bikes past me on Fifth Avenue. I’m on my way home from the True Colors Tour stop at Radio City Music Hall, where I just spent five hours among queer entertainment’s finest: Margaret Cho, Rosie O’Donnell, Debbie Harry, Erasure, Dresden Dolls, Cazwell with Amanda Lepore. For a Human Rights Campaign benefit, the lineup was surprisingly diverse, uncensored and multigenerational—and the voice of Gen Y belonged to Portland’s own The Gossip featuring world-famous, fat-positive, lungs-of-Janice-Joplin lead singer Beth Ditto, 26, who earned a standing ovation for her Radio City Music Hall debut. I I I I I I I I I I I I I suggests a Goldilocks and the Three Bears float. 1 suspect it’s been done before. Better yet, he adds, how about a spoof of The Transformers with its own theme song: “Transvestites, more than meets the eye! Transvestites, dudes in disguise!” I guess you had to be there. 10:39 p.m. June 23: I score the “godfather table” (back corner on a raised platform) at psychedelia exhibit, filled with trippy music posters and light shows, enlightening Vietnam-era politi- cal documentaries and a multicolored padded room for chilling. 1 nestle onto a curved cushion and fish out my iPod to play The Rolling Stones’ vastly appropriate “She’s a Rainbow." 5:55 a.m. June 22: Damn, I didn’t expect to be getting up this early while on vacation. But 1 didn’t expect that I’d be asked to volunteer at an AIDS soup kitchen—an opportunity that I graciously accepted from the woman who was letting me crash at her place in Stuyvesant Town. A friend of a friend of the family who 1 hadn’t met until arriving on her doorstep, Lydia never misses her Friday shift at God’s Love We Deliver. My duties include Detail from Keith Haring's racy mural at NYC's “burping” the air out of soup containers and sealing queer community center. main course trays with a “kah-joonk" contraption. G Lounge, a Chelsea hotspot filled with high- 1 reward myself afterward with a sinfully moist “Tres fashion eye candy. It’s fun to ogle, but eventually Leches” at Doughnut Plant. 1 need to experience some Portland-esque diversi 12:22 p.m. June 22: Lunch with my friend ty, so 1 suggest we head to the funkier East Village. who just joined a convent. Long story. Suffice it to say: Not everyone in my party is 6:15 p.m. June 22: Dinner in Brooklyn at pleased. Grimaldi’s, one of the city’s best pizzerias. 1:19 p.m. June 24: Back on Fifth Avenue at 8 p.m. June 22: Fresh off her Best Actress win my first-ever NYC Pride parade, I’m impressed with at the Tony Awards, Christine Ebersole takes the the diverse contingents of Argentinian, Uruguayan stage for Grey Gardens, based on the cult documen- and Caribbean queens. Along comes a float blaring tary of the same name about Jackie O’s infamously a token song from the “gay catalog,” this particular wacky cousin and aunt. Ebersole stars as both of the one being “Finally” by CeCe Peniston. Only thing spinsters—in Act 1, set in 1941, she plays Edith is it’s actually being sung by Ms. Peniston herself. Bouvier Beale as an overbearing socialite mother, (Cue “small-town awe” facial expression here.) and in Act 2, set in 1973, she plays “Little” Edie Although the route seems packed, 1 later read Beale as a lonely eccentric. The musical’s extreme in a New York Observer article that interest and “then and now" leap is powerfully effective in con- funds are waning rapidly at NYC Pride (the article’s veying the shattered dreams of these one-E)f-a-kind clever title: “Goodbye, Mr. Chaps”). One of the women. Each role allows Ebersole to ham it up— interviewees cites a simple reason: “I live in New but with class, a balancing act that she has perfect- York, and it’s sort of like every day is Gay Pride ed. Quite a career move since her 1981-82 season Parade.... I don’t need this special day when I’m on Saturday Night Live! out of the closet." Start spreading the news. © 9:24 a.m. June 23: En route to the Jersey Shore to see our 92-year-old grandmother, my cousin (one of the coolest straight guys around) brainstorms with Arts and Culture Editor J IM RADOSTA needs your me about how to spice up dull Gay Pride parades. He feedback. Write to jim@justout.com. JIM 38 JUStpUt
