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New York State’s second largest town, Buffalo has an unexpectedly beautiful skyline, making it an interesting place for architecture buffs. Eighty of its buildings, including many of its classic skyscrapers, are National Historic Landmarks or on the National Register of Historic Places. Most major architects of the 19th and 20th century built masterpieces in Buffalo, and many are still standing. If you’re into art-deco design, you’ll be in heaven here.
Niagara Falls is the long-standing big tourist attraction around here, right at the border with Canada.
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery has one of the world’s most extraordinary modern and contemporary art collections, especially rich in post-war American and European works. They also host The Buffalo News Summer Jazz Series of free concerts on the Delaware Stairs, overlooking Hoyt Lake, on five Sundays every July and August.
The Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center features visual arts and media, music and other performances. The Burchfield Penny Art Ce
Back then, Barres was a middle-aged married male with children and a job at Kodak by morning, and a covert “cross-dresser” by darkness eager for acceptance of her original self. She start it at Rosie’s, a lesbian exclude on Monroe Street.
“It was one of the limited places I could be totally me,” said Barres, now a year-old gender non-conforming woman. “I was very, very secret most of my life. And I was afraid of anybody finding out.”
More than 30 years has passed since those days, and Rosie’s, love dozens of other gay bars in Rochester and hundreds across the region, has closed. Still, the rush of relief Barres experienced has not left her.
“There was a lot of fear, but excitement at the matching time, and it felt so excellent to go someplace and feel that I wasn’t going to be overcome up,” she said. “I wasn’t going to be screamed at or told how sick I was, or things like that, which we were all afraid of.”
For decades, gay bars were among the limited places that homosexual people could accumulate in relative shelter. To th
When John Cage blew up at Buffalo&#;s gay scene
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norman lebrecht
May 01,
From a article by Jeff Simon of the Buffalo News, reprinted with his permission:
The most dramatic thing I ever covered for this newspaper was a shocking explosion of temper and bewilderment by Cage at a seminar during Morton Feldman’s first “June in Buffalo” festival. What enraged Cage was a show of some pieces from his “Song Books” by the S.E.M. Ensemble in which ensemble member Julius Eastman “brought out a young, blond man and a young black woman and proceeded to spiel out a broadly funny new ‘system of love’ with virulent homosexual overtones. At the end of it, the young man was undressed and the subject of the performer’s (Eastman’s) gay advances.”
That’s my description of the event according to Renee Levine Packer in her new book with Mary Jane Leach, “Gay Guerilla: Julius Eastman and His Music” (University of Rochester Press, pages, $). I had reviewed that concert.
“Cage was furious,” Packer writes in her biography of Eastman. “In his seminar the next morning, he was visibly agi
LGBTQ Buffalo – A Metropolis With a Warm Western New York Welcome
Situated on the shore of Lake Erie near the Niagara River, Buffalo is Unused York’s second-biggest city. It is a warm, warm city with a prosperous arts and culture scene, and a thriving, diverse, LGBTQ community. If you’re interested in finding your place in Buffalo, peruse on about all that this Western New York town offers to view, do, and enjoy.
A Bit of Buffalo History
Buffalo was initially founded at the junction of the east-west transportation route of preceding French trappers and Jesuit missionaries. The first trading post in the area was established in the mids and eventually, by the time of the War of , became the American military headquarters for operations on the Niagara frontier. The urban area was officially incorporated as the Village of Buffalo in , named not after the buffalo or bison living in the area as many would expect, but from the French for beau fleuve, meaning “beautiful river”. Buffalo began experiencing rapid development during the early s, following the creation of the Erie Canal and th