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From a press release - Thursday JThe 35 members of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics' theater wing announced the winners and finalists of its inaugural Dorian Theater Awards, honoring the best in Broadway and Off-Broadway. GALECA reveals winners of inaugural Dorian Theater Awards Memphis-based LGBTQ+ theater company Friends of George's filed a. District Judge Thomas Parkerwho was appointed by former President Donald Trumpruled that Tennessee's anti-drag show law is unconstitutional, per NPR. įederal judge rejects Tennessee's anti-drag law The classic musical West Side Story (by Jerome Robbins, with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Arthur Laurents) has gone through countless iterations from its 1957 origin, including the Oscar-winning. THEATER Queer performer Yurel Echezarreta tells his 'Side' of the 'Story' 'I kinda look like a 200-year-old pole dancer now! I don't think that's gonna happen, but thank you anyway.' -Sylvester Stallone's response when Sherri Shepherd asks if he'll wear his tank top and booty shorts in. The Bijou has never been pretty it has always been deliciously nasty and I'll keep it that way till I'm done, then I'll turn off the lights and go home.'īilly Masters: Cattrall passive-aggressively returns just like that It is what sex was in the 1970s and '80s.

'There is nothing in the world like the Bijou. People are still coming out at the Bijou, we have a lot of return customers, regulars, married men, tourists who come to the big city to experience what they would never do back home, people who want to see porn in a sexual environment with other men, people that want anonymous sex. We're always getting in new people from Chicago who have heard of us, seen our ads. 'The Bijou is too intimidating young men have to get to know themselves better. 'The Bijou customer, since the first day I opened the theater, has never been young, the 18-to-25-year-old crowd,' Toushin said. He told Windy City Times in 2011 that the previous five years had been difficult, given the advent of Internet pornography and a reduced amount of convention business in the city.

He has had a number of legal skirmishes over the years, including a conviction for tax evasion in the late '80s and a number of obscenity indictments. Toushin was put in charge of the Bijou in 1970 the venue began showing gay films exclusively in 1978. I received vacation and sick pay places that do that for a part-time job, I imagine, are few and far between these days.'īijou World, Toushin's mail-order and online video business, will remain open, but Toushin said he did not yet know where it will relocate to. They were gay-friendly, lesbian-friendly and trans-friendly there. He said, 'I got to see the gay community evolve in that place. 'We appreciate and thank the gay community, and have been grateful to be a part of it for 46 years.'Īctivist Michael O'Connor has had a part-time job at the theater for several years, and said he'll miss it. 'I'm working with David Boyer at Touche to put together something for the last week so that we can go out on a high note,' he said. When reached for comment, Toushin told Windy City Times that he had 'little to add' beyond the message. 'I wanted to have a bit more time if I was going to close down after all these years.' 'It's not the way I wanted to go out,' he said.

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Ownership changes of buildings and leases change.'īijou cannot move because its license is tied to the location, he added. 'The end of days has come to Bijou after 46 years,' Toushin said in the message.

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Its last full 24-hour day of operation will be Sept. 30.Īccording to a recorded message left by owner Steve Toushin at the theater's phone number, Bijou lost its lease at its longtime Old Town location. This article shared 25444 times since Fri Sep 11, 2015īijou Theater, 1349 N.

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