When a Valedictorian Spoke of His Queer Identity, the Principal Cut Off His Speech The principal also took away the valedictorian’s prepared remarks, so the student recited the speech from memory. Mr. Dershem’s father reposted a clip of his son’s speech on YouTube.

In this fourteenth installment of our "Male Ballet Dancers" we are proud to feature classical training and dancing by three principal solo dancers: Steve McRae, principal ballet dancer, London Royal Opera Ballet; Kimin Kim, Marinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg; and, Ivan Vasilev, former Bolshoi Princ

Jovani Furlan is a Brazilian ballet dancer. He joined the Miami City Ballet in 2012, and was promoted to principal dancer in 2017. In 2019, he left the company to join the New York City Ballet as a soloist, and became a principal dancer in 2022.

n this thirty-fourth installment of Male Ballet Dancers we showcase the work of talented and renown dancer Artemy Belyakov principal dancer at the Bolshoi ballet. Born in Tver. In 2010 graduated from The Moscow State Academy of Choreography (class of Ilya Kuznetsov) and joined the Bolshoi Ballet Com

In this insrtalment of our Male Ballet Dancers series we showcase two master ballet dancer; Denys Cherevychko, Principal Dancer of the Vienna State Opera peerformning Mazurka choreographed by Serge Lifar as well as french Paul Marque who was named in 2020 an étoile (literally, "star"), the highest

In this seventeen episode of Male Ballet Dancers we present principal dancers from Brazil. We feature Gabriel Figaredo, Grand Peix winner and dancer at the Stuttgart, Germany Ballet, and Victor Gaixeta who was born in Uberlândia, Brazil and trained as a dancer at the Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin

Roberto Bolle is an Italian ballet dancer. He is currently a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and a principal dancer étoile at La Scala Theatre Ballet. Here we see him performing the Bolero de Ravel at the San Remo Festival 2024.

Fire Island Dance Fesitval 16, produced by and benefiting Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS, raised over $260,000.
FIDF 16 performers included: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Camille A. Brown, Fabrice Calmels & Erica Lynette Edwards (Principal, Joffr...

Starring Billy Eichner, the first openly gay man to co-write and star in his own major studio film—and featuring an entirely LGBTQ+ principal cast, including Luke Macfarlane (Killjoys) Bobby Lieber, an "out and proud but also scared and self-doubting. New York City museum curator, is hired to writ

Eighteen-year-old Evan Young was supposed to be the 2015 class valedictorian of Twin Peaks Charter Academy High School in Longmont, Colorado. But his principal prevented him from giving his graduation speech after learning he would announce he is gay. Instead, two weeks later, Young got to give his