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1:42 p.m. June 19: The New York Assembly—
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8:18 p.m. June 19: The city’s queer communi-
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support. This same week, Mayor Michael
Bloomberg announces that he’s leaving the
Republican Party. My kind of town.
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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
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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.
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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
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