Queer Places:
Millbrook School, 131 Millbrook School Rd, Millbrook, NY 12545
McGill University, 845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
Concordia University, 1455 Boulevard de Maisonneuve O, Montréal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada
Hotel Chelsea, 222 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011, Stati Uniti
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is an American-Canadian[6]
singer, songwriter, and composer.[7]
He has recorded seven albums of original music and numerous tracks on
compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written a classical opera and
set Shakespeare sonnets to music for a theater piece by Robert Wilson.
Wainwright's self-titled debut album was released through DreamWorks Records in May 1998. His second album, Poses, was released in June 2001. Wainwright's third and fourth studio albums, Want One (2003) and Want Two (2004), were repackaged as the double album Want in 2005. In 2007, Wainwright released his fifth studio album Release the Stars and his first live album Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall. His second live album Milwaukee at Last!!! was released in 2009, followed by the studio albums All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (2010) and Out of the Game (2012). The double album Prima Donna (2015), was a recording of his opera of the same name. His ninth studio album Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets (2016), featured nine adaptions of Shakespeare's sonnets.
Wainwright is the son of musicians Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, and the older brother of singer Martha Wainwright.
In late 2010 Wainwright became engaged to his partner Jörn Weisbrodt.[50] The couple moved to Toronto, Ontario in early 2012 after Weisbrodt was named artistic director of Toronto's annual Luminato festival.[51]
In April 2010, Wainwright came out publicly in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage in the United States because he wanted to marry his partner, Jörn Weisbrodt. Wainwright stated, "I wasn’t a huge gay marriage supporter before I met Jörn because I love the whole old-school promiscuous Oscar Wilde freak show of what 'being gay' once was. But since meeting Jörn that all changed."[66]
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Hotel Chelsea, New York City
In 2011, Wainwright announced that he and childhood friend Lorca Cohen, daughter of Leonard Cohen, had had a child in a parenting partnership.[52] He announced on his website: "Darling daughter Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen was born on February 2, 2011 in Los Angeles, California to proud parents Lorca Cohen, Rufus Wainwright, and Deputy Dad Jorn Weisbrodt. The little angel is evidently healthy, presumably happy, and certainly very very beautiful."[53]
On August 23, 2012 Rufus Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt married in Montauk, New York.[58] Artist Justin Vivian Bond officiated.[59]
Rufus Wainwright (born 1973), Frances Norma Loring (1887-1968) and Prescott Townsend (1894-1973), all descend from the same Pilgrims, Elizabeth Blossom and her husband Edward Fitzrandolph, and John Tilley and his wife Joan Hurst (arrived with the Mayflower).
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Scupham-Bilton - Mayflower 400 Queer Bloodlines
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