Was Juli Caar gay? Here are the ntemporary rerdgs regardg the sexualy of Juli Caar and whether he was gay, homosexual, or bisexual.
Contents:
- JULI CAAR, YOUNG AND GAY: A GROUNDBREAKG 1971 OPERA GETS REVIVED FOR A NEW ERA
- WAS JULI CAAR GAY? THE TTH ON CAAR’S SEXUALY
JULI CAAR, YOUNG AND GAY: A GROUNDBREAKG 1971 OPERA GETS REVIVED FOR A NEW ERA
When the Enunters mic seri Pasana asked for an opera, Harrison was at a loss for a subject until his partner, Bill Colvig, proposed 1969 that he explore a gay subject.
The rult was what may well have been the first overtly male gay opera history, plete wh a love affair between the teenage Juli Caar, as an emissary om Rome, and Nies, the kg of distant Bhynia, on the south shore of the Black Sea.
It even had a gay y, picted wh opera was a ttimony to Harrison and Colvig’s then-new love, speculat Yuval Sharon, the Los Angel Philharmonic’s artist-llaborator, stage director of “Young Caar” and lear of the performance group the Indtry. In 1987, the Portland Gay Men’s Chos Oregon missned a new versn (wh assistance om another beloved Californian, the patron Betty Freeman).
WAS JULI CAAR GAY? THE TTH ON CAAR’S SEXUALY
In honour of LGBTQIA+ history month, Ancient History alumni Ollie Burns tak a closer look at the social, polil, and cultural implitns of homosexualy ancient Rome.
Trigger Warng: sexual vlence, homophobia, paedophilia, nudy. The prentatn and perceptn of homosexualy the Roman world was vastly different than how is today, and giv an example of how homosexualy has been libly lked wh munitns of power and thory antiquy.