Marcelo Gomes On Being An Out Gay Ballet Star Whose Roles Are Always Hetero

“He says he doesn’t ever wonder why all the roles for men in ballet are straight – ‘that’s where your acting ability comes in, and when I’m kissing Juliet, I’m not myself” – but it is a little odd that a discipline that outsiders so strongly associate with gay men is built entirely on a canon of straight love stories.”

source ArtsJournal http://ift.tt/20TtHPS

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