| 词条 | Garden of Allah (cabaret) |
| 释义 |
The Garden of Allah was a mid-20th century gay cabaret that opened in 1946[1][1] in the basement of the Victorian-era Arlington Hotel in Seattle's Pioneer Square. It was Seattle's most popular gay cabaret in the late 1940s and 1950s[2] and one of the first gay-owned gay bars in the United States.[3] Prior to becoming a cabaret, the space had been a speakeasy, during Prohibition, and then a tavern. The Garden catered to both gay men and lesbians, though hetero tourists and military personnel on leave also visited. Acts were primarily female impersonation, though some male impersonators also performed; the former sometimes included stripping. One act was the professional female-impersonation Jewel Box Revue,[4] though that act was largely geared to and supported by hetero people.[3] Patrons report that the cabaret became like a "family" or "support group,"[2] and Don Paulson, author of An Evening at the Garden of Allah: A Gay Cabaret in Seattle, noted that he believes the sense of community and group consciousness produced by the Garden was what made the gay rights movement of later decades possible.[3] The Garden closed in 1956, when a combination of a rate raise from the musicians' union and a raise in city taxes on locales that provided both entertainment and alcohol put it out of business.[2] References1. ^{{Cite book |title=Incongruous entertainment: camp, cultural value, and the MGM musical |last=Cohen |first=Steven |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7YwJOFkYsRwC&pg=PA12 |page=12 |publisher=Duke University Press |year=2005}} 2. ^1 2 {{Cite book |pages=62- |title=Gay Seattle: stories of exile and belonging |last=Atkins |first=Gary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V_wymDz62v4C |publisher=University of Washington Press |year=2003}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{Cite book |last=Paulson |first=Don |title=An evening at the Garden of Allah: a gay cabaret in Seattle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CU-9C9ubAK8C |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=1996}} 4. ^{{Cite book |title=Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia |last=Haggerty |first=George E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA158 |page=158 |year=2000 |publisher=Taylor & Francis}} External links
5 : 1946 establishments in Washington (state)|1956 disestablishments in Washington (state)|Cabaret|History of Seattle|LGBT culture in Seattle |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。