This classic was written for the 1937 musical Babes In Arms, in which the song was sung to a character named Valentine “Val” LeMar. Written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.There are some true gems in here, and I’m willing to bet you’ll listen to a few of them differently after this. To mark the occasion, we’ve put together a sampling of music that connects the jazz community and the LGBTQ community. The LGBTQ community has always had strong ties to the world of jazz, including composers such as Cole Porter and Lorenz Hart, whose works populated the Great American Songbook, and some of the star performers of the idiom such as Fred Hersch, Ian Shaw, Chris Connor and Gary Burton.
It has been more than 50 years since the riots at the Stonewall Inn in the West Village area of Manhattan beginning on Jthe first time that members of the gay community stood up to the abusive treatment they’d received at the hands of authorities.Ī year and a half later, in March of 1970, the Christopher Street Liberation Day march effectively began a movement that is commemorated in marches and parades all over the world, including one of the biggest in North America that takes place annually right here in Toronto.