[OutVoice] Sandy Rapp thanks Pride in the Arts

[SandyRapp at aol.com]

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Re Pride in the Arts: Many thanks to whomever among you  nominated me for 
the Lifetime Achievement in Music Award. I rather like this,  being in the 
company of Harvey Fierstein et .al.! In the Year Of Our Stonewall,  1969 I was 
indeed singing at Chez Pat, a Manhattan women's bar in the  Volney Hotel. 
In those days we had to stop singing and just play when a stranger  walked 
in, lest it be an anti-gay SLA (State Liquor Authority) rep scouting to  send 
in the cops for a raid because we couldn't have singing without a cabaret  
licence. Of course all the straight bars had precisely that, but selective  
enforcement was the rule, not the exception. Last month I was singing 
"Everyone  Was At Stonewall" at the NOW-NYS Convention, and this month I turn 64. 
So I  guess it is getting to be a lifetime; and I am starting to feel 
historic :) At  any rate, thanks in advance to any of you who vote for me and; have 
a  listen at _MySpace.com/sandyrapp_ (http://myspace.com/sandyrapp) .