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Lesbians in Ballet: ‘Has Anyone Like Me Ever Walked These Halls?’
Ballet’s strict gender norms put pressure on women to conform. But dancers who don’t are finding they’re not alone.
Two Juliets: Audrey Malek, left, and Cortney Taylor Key, rehearsing a duet with the choreographer Adriana Pierce.Credit.Yael Malka for The New York Times
June 1, 2021, 12:00 p.m. ET
As a teenage ballet student in the 1990s, Katy Pyle had no interest in dating: not boys, not girls, not anyone. A serious love interest — all consuming, really — was already in the picture: ballet.
“I didn’t have space for any other relationships in my life,” Pyle, who uses the pronouns they and them, said in a phone interview from their home in Brooklyn. “It’s silly, but that was my true love.” ....

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