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Countdown for Pride

The above was taken at the Stonewall Memorial a few days ago on one of our first post-vax escapades in the city. We’re already midway through Pride Month almost, which means that we’re amore than midway through a little project I am doing for Chelsea Community News. Each week I am doing a vintage celebrity show biz tribute representing each of the groups represented by the initials LGBTQ (there are 5 weeks in June this year). To wit:

L: Alla Nazimova

G: George Kelly

B: Paul Swan

T: Terri Rogers

Q: Tiny Tim

Also: please join me Friday, June 25 at 7pm for a free zoom talk on drag and queer performers in vaudeville. This is a version of a well-received talk I gave live in 2019 and in Dixon Place’s Hot! Festival in 2020. Go here to join (not now, when it’s time for the talk. If you go there now, you’ll be staring at a blank screen for several days. So what else is new?). Happy Pride Month.

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Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.