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Veteran gay activist Peter Tatchell has turned down an invitation to an event at the Queen’s platinum jubilee because of the monarch’s “neglectful stance towards the LGBT+ community”.
In the UK, Queen Elizabeth is celebrating her 70 years on the throne this year. The national celebrations contain a four-day drawn-out weekend of events in early June.
Australian-born, UK-based activist Peter Tatchell has campaigned on LGBTIQ+ rights since
Tatchell said he&#;d received an invite to participate the big June 5 finale outside Buckingham Palace among a group of “national treasures&#; paying tribute to Her Majesty”.
The national treasures are &#;celebrated, valued and admired people from many spheres – theatre, production, television, music, literature, sport, the sciences and business,” according to the invite.
But Tatchell, a self-described &#;lifelong republican and a thorn in the side of the establishment,&#; told The Guardian he&#;d declined the admittedly &#;gracious&#; invitation to the &#;gigantic universal relations exercise&#; for a &#;flawed institution&#;.
&#;I do not aspire to parti
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This was an interesting theatre less for its architecture – although its curved marquee had its merits but for its chequered history and how tough it was to make a go of it sometimes in the ’s Opened on March 26, as the Pacific East/Avco Embassy East - yes one mention for each screen as East side companions to Pacific’s Cinerama/Penthouse twins on Broadway. Seth Lewis writes, “I remember seeing Steve McQueen in "The Reivers” at the Pacific East". The other screen was largely dedicated to films from Joseph E. Levine’s Avco Embassy distribution. This brand lasted maybe two or three years when the RKO Stanley Warner chain rebranded them as the East 59th Street Twins with an odd mix of hard/soft core porn and later (with yet another logo) of MGM programming (on a circuit famous as 4 Star Theatres) and Cinerama Releasing / American International blaxploitation fodder. In the original incarnation the theatre did have an interesting two tone square marquee and probably some of the brightest interior colours for the age. The end of t This venue was originally known as Henry Miller’s Theater. One fairly victorious gay-themed play appeared at the Henry Miller prior to the Wales Padlock Law (), which forbade the depiction of “sex perversion” on stage. Noel Coward had get a sensation in England in his play The Vortex, which he transferred here for his American debut in Coward’s character was a closeted gay man. The biggest LGBT-associated hit at the Henry Miller was Born Yesterday (), with Judy Holliday (opened at the Lyceum Theater). Another big hit was Dear Ruth (), with John Dall. Productions by LGBT creators and with LGBT performers at the Henry Miller included:
Manhattan 1 and 2
Stephen Sondheim Theater (originally Henry Miller’s Theater)
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