MACY GRAY strips for Elton John AIDS Foundation

Macy Strips For Elton 

by Jed Lang

365Gay.com Entertainment

Note to Janet Jackson: "I'll see your boob and raise it two".

Singer Macy Gray didn't show a boob.  She bared everything. 
The outrageous star strutted on stage in London Monday in nothing but a pair of Jimmy Choo heels.

Macy had been fully clothed for most of her two-hour stint at the Coronet in London's Elephant and Castle.

But shortly before the end of the show, she left the stage
only to return naked apart from the heels.

She closed the concert with a rendition of her 1999 hit, "I Try".

The performance brought cheers from the audience at the fundraiser for  the Elton John Aids Foundation.  

"Never before has a major artist gone so far in aid of a good cause,"
a spokesperson for the singer said.

"Macy was invited to be part of a celebrity auction in which photographs of stars wearing Jimmy Choo shoes went under the hammer.

"She wanted to do something special for it, so decided that in her photograph she would be naked on stage.
It is a very sexy statement."
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SUN comments:

Please visit the Elton John AIDS Foundation at:

[ http://www.ejaf.org/ ]
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PS-- Here's a
CALENDAR 4 FREEDOM-SEEKERS,
mainly for the SF Gay Area:
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Please FORWARD freely, as appropriate.
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CAL: SF: 9-10 JULY: nude dance performances:

"Night Marsh", Eric Kupers' culmination of the UNDRESSED Project,
returns to San Francisco.

A vibrant ecosystem of naked bodies,
challenging cultural notions about
body, image, beauty and death.

June 25 and 26,
July 2 and 3,
July 9 and 10.
Fridays and Saturdays, 8pm
$10 - 15
Jon Sims Center for the Arts, San Francisco
1519 Mission St. (415) 554-0402
[ http://www.jonsimsctr.org ]

NIGHT MARSH contains full nudity.
For mature audiences. No one under 18 admitted without a parent/guardian.

Kupers directs a cast of 15 dancers, diverse in size, shape,
color, age, orientation and physical ability,
in an intricately choreographed journey through a world of naked bodies.

Beginning with an investigation of our culture's attitudes towards body diversity and nudity,
the piece then looks deeper at fears of the body as it is,
and their relationship to fears of death and dying.

NIGHT MARSH is performed completely naked, using nudity as a
tool for uncovering the often forgotten place of humans in the
wide spectrum of animals and the natural world.
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JULY 2004:
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CAL: SF: ___ (mid-July?) Demonstrate nude for peace at clothing-optional weekend DADAFEST?
(If it happens at all this year? Each year it's been billed as "the last" dadafest.....
And as of 5 July 2004, the Dadafest website still presents info for the event which began on 12 July 2003, a Saturday.
No mention of 2004, in which 12 July falls on a Monday. Alas.)
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CAL: SF____ (mid to late July?)
Nude yoga demos at Fisherman's Wharf ????
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USA: July 12: U.S. Senate begins debate on a so-called "Federal Marriage Amendment", which would ban same-sex marriages, etc. Bigots would need 2/3 majority (67 votes) to pass a constitutional amendment through the Senate.
Republican leaders don't expect to get 67, but they do hope anti-queer debate will distract voters' attention from Iraq.
For details, please see June report in SF Chronicle:
[ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/06/19/MNGVD790E91.DTL ]

The U.S. House of Representatives may also debate this queer-bashing amendment,
probably before the Democratic Party national convention.
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MASS: Boston: July 25, Sunday, starting around 12 noon at Boston Commons:
demonstration(s) near Democratic Party national convention.
Make and bring your own equal-rights signs!
Wear wedding costumes?

For frequent updates, please visit Boston Indymedia
( http://boston.indymedia.org )

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CAL: SF:___ late July: Demonstrate nude for peace at clothing-optional Dore Alley Fair.

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CAL, southern: ___ late July:
Wear wedding costumes at San Diego Pride?
[No nudity allowed there, unlike SF.]
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