Lesbians in Ballet: âHas Anyone Like Me Ever Walked These Halls?â
Balletâs strict gender norms put pressure on women to conform. But dancers who donât are finding theyâre not alone.
Two Juliets: Audrey Malek, left, and Cortney Taylor Key, rehearsing a duet with the choreographer Adriana Pierce.Credit.Yael Malka for The New York Times
June 1, 2021, 12:00 p.m. ET
As a teenage ballet student in the 1990s, Katy Pyle had no interest in dating: not boys, not girls, not anyone. A serious love interest â all consuming, really â was already in the picture: ballet.
âI didnât have space for any other relationships in my life,â Pyle, who uses the pronouns they and them, said in a phone interview from their home in Brooklyn. âItâs silly, but that was my true love.â
Biden officially recognizes June as Pride Month and vows to fight for L.G.B.T.Q. rights.
Waving a Pride flag outside the Supreme Court in Washington last June.Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
June 1, 2021, 12:36 p.m. ET
President Biden on Tuesday issued a presidential proclamation recognizing June as Pride Month, vowing to fight for full equality for the L.G.B.T.Q. community to be codified into law.
The acknowledgment of Pride, a month defined for many in the L.G.B.T.Q. community by marches, parades and parties across the United States, also offered Mr. Biden his latest opportunity to contrast his own behavior and priorities with those of his predecessor in office.
Activists are trying to preserve the prison he was sent to after his conviction for “indecency,” saying his life is an important part of Britain’s history.
‘You Feel Goose Bumps’: The Push to Preserve Where Wilde Was Jailed for Being Gay
Activists are trying to preserve the prison he was sent to after his conviction for “indecency,” saying his life is an important part of Britain’s history.
The perimeter wall, right, of the now closed Victorian jail where Oscar Wilde was incarcerated in 1895 on a charge of “gross indecency.” The ancient Reading Abbey is on the left.Credit.Mary Turner for The New York Times
June 1, 2021Updated 4:32 p.m. ET
READING, England -The metal stairway creaks and groans underfoot on the way to cell C. 3.3, a bare oblong room of painted brick behind a large and forbidding prison door.