Coming Out Support (COS) Newsweekly
Volume 13 No. 26 July 5, 2010
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: July 5-11, 2010
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
thru SAT: 8/07: New York, NY: 19th annual HOT! Festival of queer culture and performance. www.hotfestival.org
WED: 7/07: New York, NY: A Midsummer Night Swing. Joey Arias, Justin Bond , Lea DeLaria and JC Hopkins Biggish Band bring a gay senisibility to Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park. www.MidsummerNightSwing.org.
THU-MON: 7/08-7/19: Philadelphia, PA: QFest.16th edition of the largest LGBT film festival on the east coast. http://www.QFest.com/
THU: 7/08: New York, NY: Broadway in Bryant Park. Free lunchtime (12:30PM) concerts featuring casts of “Promises, Promises” and “In The Heights”. www.1067litefm.com
SAT: 7/10: New York, NY: Broadway Barks 12. Bernadette Peters’ and Mary Tyler Moore’s annual adopt-a-thon for shelter pets. Some proceeds benefit Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS. www.broadwaycares.org.
Newsworthy:
Hartford, CT may be the next major American city with a gay mayor. Bay Windows reports: http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3&id=107433
Supreme Court Rules: A California Christian group can’t bar gays and get university funding. CBS News reports: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/28/national/main6626819.shtml
Supreme Court Rules II: The Supreme Court ruled 6/24/10 that the names of people who signed petitions in an attempt to overturn a new gay rights law in Washington could be made public, a victory for state officials who said the case was a test of open government laws. The Seattle Post-Intellegencer reports: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/421643_supco14.html
Iceland's Prime Minister was among the first gay people to marry in her country, as its marriage equality law went into effect on 6/27/10. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/27/Sigurdardottir_Weds_Longtime_Partner/
Jewish LGBT Organizations Merge Keshet announced 6/18/10 that it will merge with Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity to create the nation’s largest organization working for LGBT inclusion in the Jewish community. BayWindows reports: http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=community&sc=community_guide&sc2=news&sc3&id=107419
The Buzz (People Making News)
Coming Out: Danielle Staub of “Real Housewives of New Jersey” says she’s a member of the gay community, as she lobbies for marriage equality. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/23/Danielle_Staub_Member_of_the_Gay_Community/
Outed: Rev. Tom Brock, the anti-gay Lutheran pastor, has been outed by the Minneapolis-based Lavender Magazine. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/22/Gay_Mag_Outs_Antigay_Pastor/
In Memoriam:
Michael Collins, veteran radio broadcaster in Connecticut, died on 6/17/10 at age 63.
His death is being investigated. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/29/Gay_Journalists_Death_Investigated/
Photo Shoots and Video
Video Profile: True Colors: CNN profiles the Hartford, CT mentoring program for at-risk LGBT teens. http://www.towleroad.com/2010/06/watch-gay-teens-talk-their-truth-at-true-colors.html
Photos: Melissa Etheridge jams with Broadway’s “Million Dollar Quartet” (which stars out Levi Kreis). from BroadwayWorld.com: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Coverage_Melissa_Etheridge_Jams_with_MILLION_DOLLAR_QUARTET_20100624
Photos: Pride Weekend Celebrity Autobiography from BroadwayWorld.com: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Coverage_CELEBRITY_AUTOBIOGRAPHY_GAY_PRIDE_Edition_20100629
Features
A Lengthy Engagement. After six decades, two guys tie the knot. The Washington Post reports. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/06/25/GA2010062502571.html
A Stonewall Veteran Misses the Parade. Storme DeLarverie, an elderly nursing home patient, was a bouncer in a lesbian club during the Stonewall riots. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/nyregion/28storme.html?hp
Bisexual Males: The Last people out of the closet. CNN reports: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/06/28/bisexual.male.last.closet/
The Resource Center:
Resource: Gay Rights Media YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/gayrightsmedia/
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***Beautiful Thing. Jonathan Harvey’s award-winning play (on which the film is based) about two boyhood friends in the London slums, who come of age and come out. to 7/25/10. www.spoontheater.org
***Gay Blues. Matthew Cleaver’s one-man cantata on marriage equality. to 7/05/10. www.thefugitivekind.org
***Joan Rivers: Live in Times Square. A portion of the ticket sales benefit God’s Love We Deliver. 7/07/10-7/08/10. www.beechmantheatre.com.
***La Cage Aux Folles, a revival of the 1983 Jerry Herman/Harvey Fierstein musica, based on a French film, which inspired the film "Birdcage". Kelsey Grammer stars. www.LaCage.com
***My Big Gay Italian Wedding. Anthony J. Wilkinson's comedy. Reichen Lehmkuhl stars; www.BigGayItalianWedding.com.
***Promises, Promises. Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth star in the Burt Bacharach & Hal David & Neil Simon musical. www.promisespromisesbroadway.com.
***Thank You For Being A Friend. The unauthorized musical parody inspired by the
beloved TV sitcom “The Golden Girls,”. to 8/01/10. Kraine Theatre
www.SpinCycleNYC.com
Elsewhere...
***Blackbird: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas. a musical pastiche of queer music, written and performed by solo artist Seth Eisen. to 7/`10/10. San Francisco, CA. www.eyezen.org
***Celebrity Autobiography, the comedy where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrity’s autobiography. (Casts alternate). with Billy Porter and Bruce Vilanch to 7/12/10, Pittsburgh, PA;. with Bryan Batt, Mario Cantone and John Goodman 7/11/10, New Orleans, LA. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
***Endgame. Randy (Queer As Folk) Harrison stars in Samuel Beckett’s drama. to 7/24/10, Stockbridge, MA. www.berkshiretheatre.org
***F&*king Men. Joe DiPietro’s gay adaptation of “La Ronde”. to 7/25/10. Chicago, IL. www.fmenchicago.com.
***It’s A Bird...It’s a Plane...It’s Superman! Hunk Matt Cavenaugh plays the man of steel in a revisal of the musical. to 7/25/10. Dallas, TX. www.dallastheatercenter.org.
***Pearls Over Shanghai. San Francisco’s Longest-Running Cockettes Musical. to 8/01/10. San Francisco, CA: http://thrillpeddlers.com
***Slap and Tickle. David Parr’s new play, set in a bathhouse, about how drugs, politics,
HIV, and the internet have changed the social landscape for gay men in America. to 8/14/10. Provincetown, MA. www.slapandtickleonline.com
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Arias With a Twist. The incredible performance collaboration between performance artist Joey Arias and puppeteer Basil Twist is now a documentary. To see the trailer: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=759971528901
***Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride. Bob Christie’s documentary shows that Pride is more than a parade, it’s a giant step on the road to global human rights.
***8: The Mormon Proposition, initially a documentary about gay teen homelessness and suicide in Utah. Director Reed Cowan added the Mormon involvement in Proposition 8 into the mix.
***Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. A new documentary which follows from gig to gig, onstage and at home, and historically through the ups and downs of her career.
***The Kids Are All Right. Julianne Moore and Annette Bening star in a two-mom family dramedy. Their kids seek out their sperm donor father (Mark Ruffalo). http://www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/the_kids_are_all_right
***Stonewall Uprising, a new documentary by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner covering the 3-day Stonewall riots in 1969. http://firstrunfeatures.com/stonewalluprising_playdates.html
***The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls. A documentary about the provocative New Zealand comedic duo, twin sisters and singers. http://topptwins.com.
Out On Video & DVD
***A Single Man. Tom Ford's debut film, an adaptation of a Christopher Isherwood novel, about a day in the life of a gay man, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. .
***A Star is Born. The remastered and restored 1954 Judy Garland and James Mason classic film musical.
***Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, the documentary about the visionary civil rights activist and out mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King.
***Cinema Pride Collection. 10 time-tested queer films spanning 40 years of Hollywood from 1961 onward. http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=arts&sc=movies&sc2=news&sc3&id=106677
***Out in the Silence. A small town confronts a firestorm of controversy ignited by a same-sex wedding announcement in the local newspaper. Available for viewing online. http://www.hulu.com/watch/157306/out-in-the-silence
***Prima Donna the Story of an Opera . A BBC-produced documentary film follows the dramatic story of Rufus Wainwright's debut opera.
On TV Of Note: All times listed are ET. Check local listings for times in your area.
Resource:TV Gayed, GLAAD's Weekly Guide to What's LGBT on TV: Updated every Friday. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
***July: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
7/12/10: San Francisco, CA: One Night Only Cabaret with the touring casts of “Young Frankenstein” and “Wicked” and Bruce Vilanch to benefit the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Club Fugazi. 415-421- 4222
7/15/10: New York, NY: Broadway in Bryant Park. Free lunchtime (12:30PM) concerts featuring casts of “Billy Elliott” and “Memphis”. www.1067litefm.com
7/17/10: Warsaw, Poland: EuroPride 2010. www.europride.eu
7/17/10: Sag Harbor, NY: Mario Cantone hosts “Rock The Dock” the summer gala to benefit the Bay Street Theatre. www.baystreet.org.
7/19/10-8/08/10: New York, NY: International CringeFest. Theme nights include: Sex Encounters of a Disturbed Mind; Psycho Bitch Party; Is That a Corncob in Your Pocket?; Sex, Thugs & Rockin' Roles; Dow Jones Meets Deep Throat; and No Holes Barred. www.nyartists.org.
7/22/10: New York, NY: Broadway in Bryant Park. Free lunchtime (12:30PM) concerts featuring casts of “Chicago” and “A Little Night Music”. www.1067litefm.com
7/23/10-7/25/10: Concord, NH: TransForm New Hampshire, uniting the T with the LGB. the first annual conference to educate the LGBT and allies community about transgender identities in New England. http://transform.transmentors.org/nh/
7/23/10-7/26/10: Alexandria, MN: Family Camp 2010. Family Equality Council’s summer camp for LGBT families and friends. http://www.familyequality.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events_familycamp&AddInterest=1101
7/25/10: New York, NY: Broadway Impact Summer Series. Performance by Broadway’s “American Idiot” to benefit the marriage equality group. Joe’s Pub. www.joespub.com.
7/29/10: Pittsfield, MA: OUT@Barrington Stage. LGBT night at the theatre. Show: Yasmina Reza’s “Art”. Ticket discount by phone only: 413-236-8888
7/29/10: New York, NY: Broadway in Bryant Park. Free lunchtime (12:30PM) concerts featuring casts of “The Addams Family” and “Wicked”. www.1067litefm.com
7/30/10: Fire Island Pines, NY: Uncut. Alan Cumming, who plays Eli Gold on the CBS drama "The Good Wife," will perform in concert. Presented by the Fire Island Pines Arts Project. www.fipap.org.
7/31/10-8/07/10: Provincetown, MA: 15th Annual Family Week, for LGBT families and friends. http://www.familyequality.org/site/Calendar/1740357659?view=Detail&id=100061
7/31/10-8/07/10: Cologne, Germany: Gay Games, 8th edition of the quadrennial event. www.games-cologne.com
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: July Milestones
1. Question: Name this phenomenon, first mentioned in the New York Times on July 2, 1981. It had a major impact on the LGBT community before becoming a world-wide issue. Answer: AIDS, described by the newspaper then as “a rare cancer seen in homosexuals”.
2. Question: Name this gay naturalist and author, an advocate of civil disobedience, born on July 12, 1817. He wrote primarily of the life around his isolated cabin in the Boston suburbs. Answer: Henry David Thoreau, author of “Walden”.
3. Question: Name this professional athlete and buff boy who came out on July 1, 1989 in the sports magazine, “Iron Man”. Answer: Bob Paris, award-winning body-builder.
4. Question: Name this college city, which was the first city in America to pass a broad gay civil rights law on July 10, 1972. Hint: It’s not San Francisco. Answer: Ann Arbor, MI.
5. Question: Name this American TV, which made its debut on Showtime on July 13, 1984. It was the first American TV show with an openly gay lead character. Answer: Brothers.
This Week’s Trivia Quiz: Summer Camp
1. Question: Name this 1970 film, a camp classic by a noted political writer, in which a big-busted starlet and a gossip columnist shared the leading role of a TG heroine. A sex goddess from the early 20th century turned the movie into camp.
2. Question: Name this 2000 comedy about a high school girl whose parents assume she’s lesbian, and send her off to summer camp to be turned straight. RuPaul is her teacher.
3. Question: Name this 2003 movie musical, where a group of gay and straight teens discover their inner Sondheim. There are musical numbers from “Dreamgirls”, “Company” and “Promises, Promises”.
4. Question: Name this 2003 comedy about three “starlets” who room together in Hollywood while looking for fame. One of them is played by “the love child” of a Broadway legend and a “Poseidon Adventure” star whose marriage lasted 3-weeks.
5. Question: Name this 1958 comedy classic about parenting in the big city, where a young orphan is advised “always stir a martini--never shake or you’ll bruise the gin”. The movie, based on a play which was based on a novel, was also a musical. Angela Lansbury and Lucille Ball have been associated with adaptations.
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Coming Out Support (COS) Newsweekly
Volume 13 No. 25 June 28, 2010
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: June 28-July 4, 2010
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
thru WED: 6/30: San Francisco, CA: National Queer Arts Festival. LGBT performances & exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area highlighting artists from around the country. www.QueerCulturalCenter.org
thru SAT: 8/07: New York, NY: 19th annual HOT! Festival of queer culture and performance. Participants include: Julie Halston, Sweetie, Steve Hayes, David Ilku, Jody Lennon, Bradford Scobie, Clark Beasley, Greg Wallach, and Jay Rogers. www.hotfestival.org
MON: 6/28: Coral Gables, FL: Cat Cora, out star of "Iron Chef America" signs copies of “Cat Cora's Classics With A Twist”. 8PM Books and Books. Aragon Ave.
MON: 6/28: New York, NY: Vanessa Williams will be honored by The Trevor Project at its 10th annual East Coast gala,. The Trevor Project is the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ youth. www.thetrevorproject.org.
TUE: 6/29: Los Angeles, CA: Kathy Griffin, queen of the D-list, signing copies of Official Book Club Selection” 7:30PM. Barnes & Noble. Grove Drive.
THU: 7/01: Nprthridge, CA: Alison Arngrim, star of "Little House on the Prairie", signs copies of “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”. 7PM. Border’s, Tampa Avenue.
THU-SUN: 7/01-7/04: Chicago, IL: International Gay Square Dance Clubs Convention. www.iagsdc.org
SAT-SUN: 7/03-7/04: Seattle, WA: Emerald City Classic LGBT softball tournament. www.emeraldcitysoftball.org/ecc/
SUN: 7/04: Rehoboth Beach, DE: Readings/Booksignings by Lambda Literary Award winning LGBT authors including Fay Jacobs. 10AM. Proud Bookstore. www.aandmbooks.com
Newsworthy:
The Texas GOP Platform. Criminalize Gay Sex. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/06/texas-gop-platform-criminalize-gay-sex-and-imprison-anyone-who-issues-a-marriage-license-to-a-gay-co.html
Gay Workers Will Get Time to Care for Partner’s Sick Child The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/us/politics/22rights.html?hp
Farewell Happy Meals. In Frence, McDonald’s released a gay-friendly ad. A top executive at McDonald’s said that won’t happen in America. The National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, the largest LGBT business group in the US, has severed its relationship with the fast-food giant. The Huffington Post reports: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/17/mcdonalds-homophobic-comm_n_616458.html
Broadway Bares XX: Strip-opoly, which was presented 6/20/10 at the Roseland Ballroom, raised a record-breaking $1,015,985 to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. www.broadwaycares.org.
The Buzz (People Making News)
Coming Out: Vanessa Carlton, the singer known for the hit “A Thousand Miles”, has come out as bisexual. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/06/vanessa-carlton-comes-out-as-bisexual.html
Ramin Setoodeh, the out Newsweek writer who found himself in hot water after writing a piece questioning the believability of gay actors in straight roles, is leaving the magazine for a job at People. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/22/Gay_Actors_Writer_Leaves_Newsweek_for_People/
Awards and Honors:
Winners: NewNowNext Awards, presented by Logo to “next big thing artists”. Cheyenne Jackson co-hosted. Among the winners: Lea Michele, RuPaul, Johnny Weir. www.newnownext.com.
Hollywood Walk-Of-Fame Honorees: Neil Patrick Harris and Melissa Etheridge are among the 30 celebrities who have been named Hollywood Walk of Fame recipients for the year 2011. www.hollywoodchamber.net.
Photo Shoots and Video
Photos: Broadway Bares XX: Strip-opoly from Broadway World.com:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Coverage_Broadway_Bares_Backstage_20000101
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Coverage_BROADWAY_BARES_XX_STRIPOPOLY_Opening_Number_20100621
Obama Pride: President Obama’s Speech at the White House LGBT Pride Reception on 6/22/10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUBI7dmUeb4&feature=player_embedded
Features
Broadway Bares XX: Strip-opoly: The Advocate recap: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/21/Broadway_Bares_All/
Superman with a Gay Twist. The gay playwright and comic book author Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa adapts the Broadway musical. The Dallas Voice reports: http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2010/jun/18/theater-preview-its-bird-its-plane-its-superman/
In Print:
Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro. by Andre Soares. University Press of Mississippi. A biography of Navarro, who shared the screen with the era’s top leading ladies, such as Greta Garbo, Myrna Loy, Joan Crawford, and Norma Shearer, and became Rudolph Valentino’s main rival in the “Latin Lover” category. The matinee idol was brutally murdered by a hustler.
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***A Night at the Tombs. World premiere musical written and performed by TG legend Bianca Leigh. . to 8/05/10. www.SpinCycleNYC.com.
***Gay Blues. Matthew Cleaver’s one-man cantata on marriage equality. 7/02/10-7/05/10. www.thefugitivekind.org
***La Cage Aux Folles, a revival of the 1983 Jerry Herman/Harvey Fierstein musica, based on a French film, which inspired the film "Birdcage". Kelsey Grammer stars. www.LaCage.com
***My Big Gay Italian Wedding. Anthony J. Wilkinson's comedy. Reichen Lehmkuhl stars; www.BigGayItalianWedding.com.
***Promises, Promises. Newly-out Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth star in the Burt Bacharach & Hal David & Neil Simon musical. www.promisespromisesbroadway.com.
***Thank You For Being A Friend. The unauthorized musical parody inspired by the
beloved TV sitcom “The Golden Girls,”. to 8/01/10. Kraine Theatre
www.SpinCycleNYC.com
Elsewhere...
***Blackbird: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas. a musical pastiche of queer music, written and performed by Seth Eisen depicting eccentric and inimitable gay performers from the 1930s to the present. to 7/`10/10. San Francisco, CA. www.eyezen.org
***Celebrity Autobiography, the comedy where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrity’s autobiography. with Billy Porter and Bruce Vilanch to 7/12/10, Pittsburgh, PA;.www.celebrityautobiography.com.
***F&*king Men. Joe DiPietro’s gay adaptation of “La Ronde”. to 7/25/10. Chicago, IL. www.fmenchicago.com.
***It’s Jewdy’s Show. Out comic Judy Gold stars in her new solo, co-written with Kate Moira Ryan. to 7/04/10, Williamstown, MA. www.wtfestival.org.
***It’s A Bird...It’s a Plane...It’s Superman! Hunk Matt Cavenaugh plays the man of steel in a revisal of the musical. to 7/25/10. Dallas, TX. www.dallastheatercenter.org.
***Legends. Lypsinka and James Lecesne take on James Kirkwood’s comedy about dueling divas (Mary Martin and Carol Channing were the originals). to 7/04/10. Washington, DC. www.studiotheatre.org.
***Pearls Over Shanghai. San Francisco’s Longest-Running Cockettes Musical. to 8/01/10. San Francisco, CA: http://thrillpeddlers.com
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Arias With a Twist. The incredible performance collaboration between performance artist Joey Arias and puppeteer Basil Twist is now a documentary. To see the trailer: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=759971528901
***Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride. Bob Christie’s documentary shows that Pride is more than a parade, it’s a giant step on the road to global human rights.
***8: The Mormon Proposition, initially a documentary about gay teen homelessness and suicide in Utah. Director Reed Cowan added the Mormon involvement in Proposition 8 into the mix.
***Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. A new documentary which follows from gig to gig, onstage and at home, and historically through the ups and downs of her career.
***Stonewall Uprising, a new documentary by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner covering the 3-day Stonewall riots in 1969. http://firstrunfeatures.com/stonewalluprising_playdates.html
***The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls. A documentary about the provocative New Zealand comedic duo, twin sisters and singers. http://topptwins.com.
Out On Video & DVD
***A Star is Born. The remastered and restored 1954 Judy Garland and James Mason classic film musical.
***Cinema Pride Collection. 10 time-tested queer films spanning 40 years of Hollywood from 1961 onward. http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=arts&sc=movies&sc2=news&sc3&id=106677
***David Hockney: A Bigger Picture. A documentary on the out artist, who returns to England after 25 years in Hollywood.
***Prima Donna the Story of an Opera . A BBC-produced documentary film follows the dramatic story of Rufus Wainwright's debut opera, “Prima Donna”.
***Prodigal Sons. Trans filmmaker Kimberly Reed’s autobiographical film about coming home after coming out and transitioning.
***Trinidad. The documentary about the Colorado town that has become “the sex change capital of the world. http://trinidadthemovie.com/
On TV Of Note: All times listed are ET. Check local listings for times in your area.
Resource:TV Gayed, GLAAD's Weekly Guide to What's LGBT on TV: Updated every Friday. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
7/08/10-7/19/10: Philadelphia, PA: QFest.16th edition of the largest LGBT film festival on the east coast. http://www.QFest.com/
7/10/10: New York, NY: Broadway Barks 12. Bernadette Peters’ and Mary Tyler Moore’s annual adopt-a-thon for shelter pets. Some proceeds benefit Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS. www.broadwaycares.org.
7/17/10: Warsaw, Poland: EuroPride 2010. www.europride.eu
7/19/10-8/08/10: New York, NY: International CringeFest. Theme nights include: Sex Encounters of a Disturbed Mind; Psycho Bitch Party; Is That a Corncob in Your Pocket?; Sex, Thugs & Rockin' Roles; Dow Jones Meets Deep Throat; and No Holes Barred. www.nyartists.org.
7/23/10-7/26/10: Alexandria, MN: Family Camp 2010. Family Equality Council’s summer camp for LGBT families and friends. http://www.familyequality.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events_familycamp&AddInterest=1101
7/31/10-8/07/10: Provincetown, MA: 15th Annual Family Week, for LGBT families and friends. http://www.familyequality.org/site/Calendar/1740357659?view=Detail&id=100061
7/31/10-8/07/10: Cologne, Germany: Gay Games, 8th edition of the quadrennial event. www.games-cologne.com
8/12/10-8/15/10: San Francisco, CA: Homo A Go Go. Queer arts festival. www.homoagogo.com.
8/13/10-8/29/10: New York, NY: New York International Fringe Festival. emerging theatre serious and otherwise from 197 theatre troupes at 20 venues in lower Manhattan. www.fringenyc.org.
8/22/10-8/29/10: Porter, ME: Camp Camp. Summer camp for LGBT adults.
www.campcamp.com
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: Symbols of Pride
1. Question: Name this Pride symbol of greek origins, which was originally chosen by the Gay Activist Alliance in New York in 1970. The GAA was a group which broke away from the larger Gay Liberation Front at the end of 1969, only six months after it's foundation in response to the Stonewall Riots. Answer: Lambda, the lower case Greek letter.
2. Question: Name this Pride symbol which has become one of the most widely used and recognised in the gay pride movement. It was developed in 1978 for the San Francisco Pride Parade. Answer: The Rainbow Flag, designed by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker.
3. Question: Name this Pride symbol whose origins are traced back to the Holocaust in Germany. When Hitler came to power, homosexuals were placed in concentration camps. This symbol identified them as a criminal class other than Jews, Gypsies, political prisoners and others. Answer: The Pink Triangle. An estimated 25,000 gays sent to prisons and later concentration camps. Their sentence also included sterilization, most commonly in the form of castration. In 1942, Hitler extended the punishment for homosexuality to death.
4. Question: Name this symbol that originated in the LGBT communnity and was created by singer/songwriter Paul Jabara and the New York-based Visual AIDS group in 1991. It was first seen worn by Jeremy Irons at the 1991 Tony Awards. Answer: The Red Ribbon, to educate the public about the transmission of AIDS and HIV and the needs of those living with AIDS. .
5. Question: Name this symbol that surfaced after the passage of Proposition 8. It was seen at the Oscars and the Tony Awards and will be visible during major Pride organizations. It supports marriage equality. Answer: The White Knot for Equality, dedicated to the premise that everyone should have the right to tie the knot. www.whiteknot.org.
This Week’s Trivia Quiz: July Milestones
1. Question: Name this phenomenon, first mentioned in the New York Times on July 2, 1981. It had a major impact on the LGBT community before becoming a world-wide issue.
2. Question: Name this gay naturalist and author, an advocate of civil disobedience, born on July 12, 1817. He wrote primarily of the life around his isolated cabin in the Boston suburbs.
3. Question: Name this professional athlete and buff boy who came out on July 1, 1989 in the sports magazine, “Iron Man”.
4. Question: Name this college city, which was the first city in America to pass a broad gay civil rights law on July 10, 1972. Hint: It’s not San Francisco.
5. Question: Name this American TV, which made its debut on Showtime on July 13, 1984. It was the first American TV show with an openly gay lead character.
The first person to submit the correct answers gets their name in print right here. Email your answers to: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com. If you do not want your email address to appear in the blog format of this newsletter, please indicate that. http://cosnewsweekly.blogspot.com/
Volume 13 No. 25 June 28, 2010
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: June 28-July 4, 2010
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
thru WED: 6/30: San Francisco, CA: National Queer Arts Festival. LGBT performances & exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area highlighting artists from around the country. www.QueerCulturalCenter.org
thru SAT: 8/07: New York, NY: 19th annual HOT! Festival of queer culture and performance. Participants include: Julie Halston, Sweetie, Steve Hayes, David Ilku, Jody Lennon, Bradford Scobie, Clark Beasley, Greg Wallach, and Jay Rogers. www.hotfestival.org
MON: 6/28: Coral Gables, FL: Cat Cora, out star of "Iron Chef America" signs copies of “Cat Cora's Classics With A Twist”. 8PM Books and Books. Aragon Ave.
MON: 6/28: New York, NY: Vanessa Williams will be honored by The Trevor Project at its 10th annual East Coast gala,. The Trevor Project is the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ youth. www.thetrevorproject.org.
TUE: 6/29: Los Angeles, CA: Kathy Griffin, queen of the D-list, signing copies of Official Book Club Selection” 7:30PM. Barnes & Noble. Grove Drive.
THU: 7/01: Nprthridge, CA: Alison Arngrim, star of "Little House on the Prairie", signs copies of “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”. 7PM. Border’s, Tampa Avenue.
THU-SUN: 7/01-7/04: Chicago, IL: International Gay Square Dance Clubs Convention. www.iagsdc.org
SAT-SUN: 7/03-7/04: Seattle, WA: Emerald City Classic LGBT softball tournament. www.emeraldcitysoftball.org/ecc/
SUN: 7/04: Rehoboth Beach, DE: Readings/Booksignings by Lambda Literary Award winning LGBT authors including Fay Jacobs. 10AM. Proud Bookstore. www.aandmbooks.com
Newsworthy:
The Texas GOP Platform. Criminalize Gay Sex. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/06/texas-gop-platform-criminalize-gay-sex-and-imprison-anyone-who-issues-a-marriage-license-to-a-gay-co.html
Gay Workers Will Get Time to Care for Partner’s Sick Child The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/us/politics/22rights.html?hp
Farewell Happy Meals. In Frence, McDonald’s released a gay-friendly ad. A top executive at McDonald’s said that won’t happen in America. The National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, the largest LGBT business group in the US, has severed its relationship with the fast-food giant. The Huffington Post reports: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/17/mcdonalds-homophobic-comm_n_616458.html
Broadway Bares XX: Strip-opoly, which was presented 6/20/10 at the Roseland Ballroom, raised a record-breaking $1,015,985 to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. www.broadwaycares.org.
The Buzz (People Making News)
Coming Out: Vanessa Carlton, the singer known for the hit “A Thousand Miles”, has come out as bisexual. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/06/vanessa-carlton-comes-out-as-bisexual.html
Ramin Setoodeh, the out Newsweek writer who found himself in hot water after writing a piece questioning the believability of gay actors in straight roles, is leaving the magazine for a job at People. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/22/Gay_Actors_Writer_Leaves_Newsweek_for_People/
Awards and Honors:
Winners: NewNowNext Awards, presented by Logo to “next big thing artists”. Cheyenne Jackson co-hosted. Among the winners: Lea Michele, RuPaul, Johnny Weir. www.newnownext.com.
Hollywood Walk-Of-Fame Honorees: Neil Patrick Harris and Melissa Etheridge are among the 30 celebrities who have been named Hollywood Walk of Fame recipients for the year 2011. www.hollywoodchamber.net.
Photo Shoots and Video
Photos: Broadway Bares XX: Strip-opoly from Broadway World.com:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Coverage_Broadway_Bares_Backstage_20000101
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Coverage_BROADWAY_BARES_XX_STRIPOPOLY_Opening_Number_20100621
Obama Pride: President Obama’s Speech at the White House LGBT Pride Reception on 6/22/10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUBI7dmUeb4&feature=player_embedded
Features
Broadway Bares XX: Strip-opoly: The Advocate recap: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/21/Broadway_Bares_All/
Superman with a Gay Twist. The gay playwright and comic book author Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa adapts the Broadway musical. The Dallas Voice reports: http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2010/jun/18/theater-preview-its-bird-its-plane-its-superman/
In Print:
Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro. by Andre Soares. University Press of Mississippi. A biography of Navarro, who shared the screen with the era’s top leading ladies, such as Greta Garbo, Myrna Loy, Joan Crawford, and Norma Shearer, and became Rudolph Valentino’s main rival in the “Latin Lover” category. The matinee idol was brutally murdered by a hustler.
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***A Night at the Tombs. World premiere musical written and performed by TG legend Bianca Leigh. . to 8/05/10. www.SpinCycleNYC.com.
***Gay Blues. Matthew Cleaver’s one-man cantata on marriage equality. 7/02/10-7/05/10. www.thefugitivekind.org
***La Cage Aux Folles, a revival of the 1983 Jerry Herman/Harvey Fierstein musica, based on a French film, which inspired the film "Birdcage". Kelsey Grammer stars. www.LaCage.com
***My Big Gay Italian Wedding. Anthony J. Wilkinson's comedy. Reichen Lehmkuhl stars; www.BigGayItalianWedding.com.
***Promises, Promises. Newly-out Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth star in the Burt Bacharach & Hal David & Neil Simon musical. www.promisespromisesbroadway.com.
***Thank You For Being A Friend. The unauthorized musical parody inspired by the
beloved TV sitcom “The Golden Girls,”. to 8/01/10. Kraine Theatre
www.SpinCycleNYC.com
Elsewhere...
***Blackbird: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas. a musical pastiche of queer music, written and performed by Seth Eisen depicting eccentric and inimitable gay performers from the 1930s to the present. to 7/`10/10. San Francisco, CA. www.eyezen.org
***Celebrity Autobiography, the comedy where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrity’s autobiography. with Billy Porter and Bruce Vilanch to 7/12/10, Pittsburgh, PA;.www.celebrityautobiography.com.
***F&*king Men. Joe DiPietro’s gay adaptation of “La Ronde”. to 7/25/10. Chicago, IL. www.fmenchicago.com.
***It’s Jewdy’s Show. Out comic Judy Gold stars in her new solo, co-written with Kate Moira Ryan. to 7/04/10, Williamstown, MA. www.wtfestival.org.
***It’s A Bird...It’s a Plane...It’s Superman! Hunk Matt Cavenaugh plays the man of steel in a revisal of the musical. to 7/25/10. Dallas, TX. www.dallastheatercenter.org.
***Legends. Lypsinka and James Lecesne take on James Kirkwood’s comedy about dueling divas (Mary Martin and Carol Channing were the originals). to 7/04/10. Washington, DC. www.studiotheatre.org.
***Pearls Over Shanghai. San Francisco’s Longest-Running Cockettes Musical. to 8/01/10. San Francisco, CA: http://thrillpeddlers.com
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Arias With a Twist. The incredible performance collaboration between performance artist Joey Arias and puppeteer Basil Twist is now a documentary. To see the trailer: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=759971528901
***Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride. Bob Christie’s documentary shows that Pride is more than a parade, it’s a giant step on the road to global human rights.
***8: The Mormon Proposition, initially a documentary about gay teen homelessness and suicide in Utah. Director Reed Cowan added the Mormon involvement in Proposition 8 into the mix.
***Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. A new documentary which follows from gig to gig, onstage and at home, and historically through the ups and downs of her career.
***Stonewall Uprising, a new documentary by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner covering the 3-day Stonewall riots in 1969. http://firstrunfeatures.com/stonewalluprising_playdates.html
***The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls. A documentary about the provocative New Zealand comedic duo, twin sisters and singers. http://topptwins.com.
Out On Video & DVD
***A Star is Born. The remastered and restored 1954 Judy Garland and James Mason classic film musical.
***Cinema Pride Collection. 10 time-tested queer films spanning 40 years of Hollywood from 1961 onward. http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=arts&sc=movies&sc2=news&sc3&id=106677
***David Hockney: A Bigger Picture. A documentary on the out artist, who returns to England after 25 years in Hollywood.
***Prima Donna the Story of an Opera . A BBC-produced documentary film follows the dramatic story of Rufus Wainwright's debut opera, “Prima Donna”.
***Prodigal Sons. Trans filmmaker Kimberly Reed’s autobiographical film about coming home after coming out and transitioning.
***Trinidad. The documentary about the Colorado town that has become “the sex change capital of the world. http://trinidadthemovie.com/
On TV Of Note: All times listed are ET. Check local listings for times in your area.
Resource:TV Gayed, GLAAD's Weekly Guide to What's LGBT on TV: Updated every Friday. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
7/08/10-7/19/10: Philadelphia, PA: QFest.16th edition of the largest LGBT film festival on the east coast. http://www.QFest.com/
7/10/10: New York, NY: Broadway Barks 12. Bernadette Peters’ and Mary Tyler Moore’s annual adopt-a-thon for shelter pets. Some proceeds benefit Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS. www.broadwaycares.org.
7/17/10: Warsaw, Poland: EuroPride 2010. www.europride.eu
7/19/10-8/08/10: New York, NY: International CringeFest. Theme nights include: Sex Encounters of a Disturbed Mind; Psycho Bitch Party; Is That a Corncob in Your Pocket?; Sex, Thugs & Rockin' Roles; Dow Jones Meets Deep Throat; and No Holes Barred. www.nyartists.org.
7/23/10-7/26/10: Alexandria, MN: Family Camp 2010. Family Equality Council’s summer camp for LGBT families and friends. http://www.familyequality.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events_familycamp&AddInterest=1101
7/31/10-8/07/10: Provincetown, MA: 15th Annual Family Week, for LGBT families and friends. http://www.familyequality.org/site/Calendar/1740357659?view=Detail&id=100061
7/31/10-8/07/10: Cologne, Germany: Gay Games, 8th edition of the quadrennial event. www.games-cologne.com
8/12/10-8/15/10: San Francisco, CA: Homo A Go Go. Queer arts festival. www.homoagogo.com.
8/13/10-8/29/10: New York, NY: New York International Fringe Festival. emerging theatre serious and otherwise from 197 theatre troupes at 20 venues in lower Manhattan. www.fringenyc.org.
8/22/10-8/29/10: Porter, ME: Camp Camp. Summer camp for LGBT adults.
www.campcamp.com
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: Symbols of Pride
1. Question: Name this Pride symbol of greek origins, which was originally chosen by the Gay Activist Alliance in New York in 1970. The GAA was a group which broke away from the larger Gay Liberation Front at the end of 1969, only six months after it's foundation in response to the Stonewall Riots. Answer: Lambda, the lower case Greek letter.
2. Question: Name this Pride symbol which has become one of the most widely used and recognised in the gay pride movement. It was developed in 1978 for the San Francisco Pride Parade. Answer: The Rainbow Flag, designed by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker.
3. Question: Name this Pride symbol whose origins are traced back to the Holocaust in Germany. When Hitler came to power, homosexuals were placed in concentration camps. This symbol identified them as a criminal class other than Jews, Gypsies, political prisoners and others. Answer: The Pink Triangle. An estimated 25,000 gays sent to prisons and later concentration camps. Their sentence also included sterilization, most commonly in the form of castration. In 1942, Hitler extended the punishment for homosexuality to death.
4. Question: Name this symbol that originated in the LGBT communnity and was created by singer/songwriter Paul Jabara and the New York-based Visual AIDS group in 1991. It was first seen worn by Jeremy Irons at the 1991 Tony Awards. Answer: The Red Ribbon, to educate the public about the transmission of AIDS and HIV and the needs of those living with AIDS. .
5. Question: Name this symbol that surfaced after the passage of Proposition 8. It was seen at the Oscars and the Tony Awards and will be visible during major Pride organizations. It supports marriage equality. Answer: The White Knot for Equality, dedicated to the premise that everyone should have the right to tie the knot. www.whiteknot.org.
This Week’s Trivia Quiz: July Milestones
1. Question: Name this phenomenon, first mentioned in the New York Times on July 2, 1981. It had a major impact on the LGBT community before becoming a world-wide issue.
2. Question: Name this gay naturalist and author, an advocate of civil disobedience, born on July 12, 1817. He wrote primarily of the life around his isolated cabin in the Boston suburbs.
3. Question: Name this professional athlete and buff boy who came out on July 1, 1989 in the sports magazine, “Iron Man”.
4. Question: Name this college city, which was the first city in America to pass a broad gay civil rights law on July 10, 1972. Hint: It’s not San Francisco.
5. Question: Name this American TV, which made its debut on Showtime on July 13, 1984. It was the first American TV show with an openly gay lead character.
The first person to submit the correct answers gets their name in print right here. Email your answers to: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com. If you do not want your email address to appear in the blog format of this newsletter, please indicate that. http://cosnewsweekly.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Coming Out Support Newsweekly: 6/21/10
Coming Out Support (COS) Newsweekly
Volume 13 No. 24 June 21, 2010
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: June 21-27, 2010
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
thru WED: 6/30: San Francisco, CA: National Queer Arts Festival. LGBT performances & exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area highlighting artists from around the country. www.QueerCulturalCenter.org
thru SUN: 6/27: San Francisco, CA: Frameline: San Francisco Int’l LGBT Film Festival www.frameline.org
MON: 6/21: New York, NY: Spirit of Pride 2010 Celebration at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine (1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street) 7:30 pm. Free. www.stjohndivine.org
TUE: 6/22: New York, NY: Levi Kreis and “Million Dollar Quartet perform at a CD signing. 4PM. Barnes and Noble, Lincoln Triangle. www.bn.com
WED: 6/23: Tempe, AZ: Cat Cora, out star of "Iron Chef America" signs copies of “Cat Cora's Classics With A Twist”. 7PM. Changing Hands Books.
WED: 6/23: New York, NY: Melissa Etheridge joins the cast of Broadway’s “Million Dollar Quartet” for one set. www.milliondollarquartetlive.com.
THU: 6/24: Los Angeles, CA: Alison Arngrim, star of "Little House on the Prairie", signs copies of “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”. 7PM. Barnes & Noble, Grove Drive. Also: SAT: 6/26: Bloomington, MN: 6PM. Barnes & Noble, Mall of America.
THU: 6/24: New York, NY: Sean Hayes, Kristen Chenoweth and the cast of “Promises, Promises” perform at a CD signing. 5PM. Barnes and Noble, Lincoln Triangle. www.bn.com
SAT: 6/26: New York, NY: The Gay Pride Edition: Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words. Rachel Dratch, Cheyenne Jackson, Kristen Johnston, John Cameron Mitchell, Bruce Vilanch, and B.D. Wong star. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
SAT: 6/26: New York, NY: 41st Stonewall Veterans Association Conference and Reunion. http://www.stonewallvets.org/upcomingevents.htm
SAT-SAT: 6/26-8/07: New York, NY: 19th annual HOT! Festival of queer culture and performance. www.hotfestival.org
SUN: 6/27: New York, NY: Nathan Lane is Jordan Roth’s guest for “Broadway Talks”. 7:30PM. 92Y-Lexington Avenue. www.92Y.org/lectures
Newsworthy:
US Passport Rules Eased for TG Citizens. New passport rules announced 6/09/10 by the U.S. State Department have removed the strict requirement that applicants undergo gender reassignment surgery in order to qualify for a passport gender change. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/10/US_Passport_Rules_Eased_for_Transgender_People/
Iceland, the only country with an openly gay head of state, has legalized gay marriage. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/11/Iceland_Legalizes_Gay_Marriage/
Kameny Way. A two-block section of 17th Street, N.W., in the heart of one of Washington, DC’s most visible gay neighborhoods was renamed this week as “Frank Kameny Way” in honor of the veteran gay activist credited with founding the city’s LGBT civil rights movement. The Washington Blade reports: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2010/06/08/‘kameny-way’-ceremony-highlights-capital-pride-events/
The McDonald’s Gay Ad would not air in the USA, according to the company’s number two executive. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/15/McDonalds_COO_Gay_Ad_Would_Not_Air_in_US/
The Buzz (People Making News)
Coming Out: Josh Strickland, Broadway’s “Tarzan”, Las Vegas star of “Peep Show” and American Idol alum, comes out. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Television/Josh_Strickland,_Stripped/
Coming Out: David Maher, the mayor of Cambridge, Mass., came out during the city’s annual pride brunch on 6/12/10. He’s the third out mayor in a row in Cambridge. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/15/Cambridge_Mass_Mayor_Comes_Out/
Awards and Honors:
Tony Award Winners: Congrats to Levi Kreis, “La Cage Aux Folles”, Bill T. Jones, David Hyde Pierce, Tom Viola, and more. Playbill.com recaps the winners. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/140346-Red-Memphis-La-Cage-aux-Folles-Fences-Win-2010-Tony-Awards
More Tony Coverage:
***Sean Hayes mocks Newsweek with a hot straight kiss.
Towleroad recaps: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/06/sean-hayes-mocks-newsweek-story-with-hot-straight-kiss.html
***The Sean Hayes Video: “The Kiss”:http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/06/sean-hayes-makes-out-with-kristin-chenoweth-at-tony-awards/1
***The New York Times recap: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/06/14/theater/20100614_TONY.html
TV Guide’s 2010 Power List of the 25 most influential people in television. Among them: Neil Patrick Harris, “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy, and of course, Oprah. www.tvguide.com/magazine.
Point Foundation 2010 Scholarship Winners: The nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBT students of merit awarded 25 undergraduate and graduate students. http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/point-foundation-announces--scholar-class/
In Memoriam:
Patrick Lee, a frequent contributor to TheaterMania, passed away earlier this month at age 51. Lee was the creator and writer of his own popular blog, Justshowstogoyou.com. He was also a juror for the GLAAD Media Awards.
Photo Shoots and Video
Photos: Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays from BroadwayWorld.com: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Coverage_STANDING_ON_CEREMONY_The_Gay_Marriage_Plays_20100615
Features
New York Times Editorial: Marriage is a basic civil right. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/opinion/11fri1.html?ref=opinion
Frank Rich. Two weddings, a divorce, and “Glee”. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/opinion/13rich.html
The Resource Center:
LGBT News for Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Gazette’s first issue hit newsstands on 11/19/09. It publishes every other week and distributes throughout the state.
The newspaper covers a variety of local, national and international issues. www.wisconsingazette.com.
In Print:
Where’s my Wand?: One Boy’s Magical Triumph Over Alienation and Shag Carpeting by Eric Poole. Amy Einhorn Books. Penguin Press. A chronicle of a childhood gone hilariously and heartbreakingly awry in the Midwest of the 1970s.
On CD:
Recent Releases
***Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli "Live" at the London Palladium. a 2-CD set of the 1965 concert. DRG label.
***Glee: The Music, Volume 3: Showstoppers. Showtunes and pop hits from the TV series.
***The Addams Family. Decca Broadway. Cast recording from the new Broadway show based on the cartoons of Charles Addams. Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth co-star.
***Broadway Bares Openings. 13 original opening numbers from BC/EFA's popular annual burlesque show, sung by the stars who debuted them on the Broadway Bares stage. All proceeds go to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
***Promises, Promises. The Broadway revival cast album. Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth sing the music of Bacharach and David. Masterworks Broadway.
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***Alan Cumming brings his nightclub act to Feinstein’s at the Regency. to 6/26/10. www. feinsteinsatloewsregency.com
***A Night at the Tombs. World premiere musical written and performed by TG legend Bianca Leigh. to 8/05/10. www.SpinCycleNYC.com.
***Jackie Beat in 3-D. The Big and Bitter Drag Artist in her Pride show. 6/25/10-6/26/10. www.JackieBeatRules.com
***La Cage Aux Folles, a revival of the 1983 Jerry Herman/Harvey Fierstein musical, which inspired the film "Birdcage". Kelsey Grammer stars. www.LaCage.com
***Next Fall. Geoffrey Nauffts' provocative play about a gay couple; one partner is a devout Christian and the other is an atheist. www.nextfallbroadway.com
***Promises, Promises. Newly-out Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth star in the Burt Bacharach & Hal David & Neil Simon musical. www.promisespromisesbroadway.com.
***Thank You For Being A Friend. The unauthorized musical parody inspired by the
beloved TV sitcom “The Golden Girls,”. to 8/01/10. Kraine Theatre
www.SpinCycleNYC.com
Elsewhere...
***Blackbird: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas. a full-length, musical pastiche of queer music. to 7/`10/10. San Francisco, CA. www.eyezen.org
***Celebrity Autobiography, the comedy where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrity’s autobiography. (Casts alternate). with Billy Porter and Bruce Vilanch to 7/12/10, Pittsburgh, PA; with Florence Henderson, Brooke Shields and Michael Urie, 6/21/10, Los Angeles, CA. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
***Curtains. Out Malcom Gets stars in the musical whodunnit. Sally Struthers plays a Broadway producer. to 6/27/10. Pittsburgh, PA. www.pittsburghclo.org
***The Drowsy Chaperone. Carson Kressley (“Queer Eye”) plays the showtune loving man in the chair. to 6/26/10. Ogunquit, ME. www.ogunquitplayhouse.org
***Glitter and Be Gay. Seattle Men’s Chorus and Women’s Chorus salute Bernstein and Sondheim. 6/25/10-6/26/10, Seattle, WA. www.seattlemenschorus.org.
***It’s Jewdy’s Show. Out comic Judy Gold stars in her new solo, co-written with Kate Moira Ryan. to 7/04/10, Williamstown, MA. www.wtfestival.org.
***Legends. Lypsinka and James Lecesne take on James Kirkwood’s comedy about dueling divas (Mary Martin and Carol Channing were the originals). to 7/04/10. Washington, DC. www.studiotheatre.org.
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Arias With a Twist. The incredible performance collaboration between performance artist Joey Arias and puppeteer Basil Twist is now a documentary. To see the trailer: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=759971528901
***Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride. Bob Christie’s documentary shows that Pride is more than a parade, it’s a giant step on the road to global human rights.
***Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. A new documentary which follows from gig to gig, onstage and at home, and historically through the ups and downs of her career.
***Sex and The City 2, the sequel. Sarah Jessica Parker and friends.
***Stonewall Uprising, a new documentary by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner covering the 3-day Stonewall riots in 1969. http://firstrunfeatures.com/stonewalluprising_playdates.html
***The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls. A documentary about the provocative New Zealand comedic duo, twin sisters and singers. http://topptwins.com.
Out On Video & DVD
***A Star is Born. The remastered and restored 1954 Judy Garland and James Mason classic film musical. Release date: 6/22/10
***Cinema Pride Collection. 10 time-tested queer films spanning 40 years of Hollywood from 1961 onward. http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=arts&sc=movies&sc2=news&sc3&id=106677
***David Hockney: A Bigger Picture. A documentary on the put artist, who returns to England after 25 years in Hollywood. Release date: 6/15/10.
***Prima Donna the Story of an Opera . A BBC-produced documentary film follows the dramatic story of Rufus Wainwright's debut opera, “Prima Donna”.
***Prodigal Sons.Trans filmmaker Kimberly Reed’s autobiographical film about coming home after coming out and transitioning.
***Trinidad. The documentary about the Colorado town that has become “the sex change capital of the world. http://trinidadthemovie.com/
On TV Of Note: All times listed are ET. Check local listings for times in your area.
Resource:TV Gayed, GLAAD's Weekly Guide to What's LGBT on TV: Updated every Friday. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
***June: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
***June: Elaine Paige: Celebrating a Life on Stage, a concert documentary about the British musical theatre actress. PBS. Check local listings.
***SUN: 6/27: Daytime Emmy Awards. Regis Philbin hosts. Live. CBS. www.emmyonline.tv.
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
7/01/10-7/04/10: Chicago, IL: International Gay Square Dance Clubs Convention. www.iagsdc.org
7/03/10-7/04/10: Seattle, WA: Emerald City Classic LGBT softball tournament. www.emeraldcitysoftball.org/ecc/
7/04/10: Rehoboth Beach, DE: Readings/Booksignings by Lambda Literary Award winning LGBT authors and Fay Jacobs. 10AM. Proud Bookstore. www.aandmbooks.com
7/08/10-7/19/10: Philadelphia, PA: QFest.16th edition of the largest LGBT film festival on the east coast. http://www.QFest.com/
7/10/10: New York, NY: Broadway Barks 12. Bernadette Peters’ and Mary Tyler Moore’s annual adopt-a-thon for shelter pets. Some proceeds benefit Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS. www.broadwaycares.org.
7/17/10: Warsaw, Poland: EuroPride 2010. www.europride.eu
7/19/10-8/08/10: New York, NY: International CringeFest. Theme nights include: Sex Encounters of a Disturbed Mind; Psycho Bitch Party; Is That a Corncob in Your Pocket?; Sex, Thugs & Rockin' Roles; Dow Jones Meets Deep Throat; and No Holes Barred. www.nyartists.org.
7/23/10-7/26/10: Alexandria, MN: Family Camp 2010. Family Equality Council’s summer camp for LGBT families and friends. http://www.familyequality.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events_familycamp&AddInterest=1101
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: All Things Stonewall
1. Question: Name this gay rights group, the earliest lasting gay rights organization in the United States, founded in 1950. Based in Los Angeles, it had chapters in San Francisco, New York, Washington and other locales. The national group disbanded in 1961, but chapters continued to operate nationally. the group took its name from a term to describe Medieval French secret societies of masked men. The story of its founding was the basis for a play which was a recent Off-Broadway hit. Answer: The Mattachine Society, brainchild of Harry Hay. "The Tempermentals" with Michael ("Ugly Betty") Urie, told the story of Hay, his lover, Rudi Gernreich, the designer, and others involved in the group's development.
2. Question: Name this gay rights group, which morphed out of the group mentioned in Question #1. In 1952, it spread its wings, and admitted lesbians to its ranks. In 1953, the group began publishing the first U.S. pro-gay publication, and sold it openly on the streets of Los Angeles. In 1954 the U.S. Postal Service declared the magazine 'obscene'., but the group won in 1958 as part of the landmark First Amendment case, Roth v. United States. The magazine continued until 1967. Answer: ONE, Inc. ONE Magazine’s first editors included founders of Mattachine Society and also The Knights of the Clock, a support group for interracial gay couples that had begun in Los Angeles in 1950. ONE also published ONE Institute Quarterly (now the Journal of Homosexuality). It began to run symposia, and contributed greatly to scholarship on the subject of same-sex love (then called 'homophile studies').
3. Question: Name this award-winning actor who is one of the founders of Stonewall, Europe's largest LGBT rights lobbying group. Equally at home playing contemporary and Shakespearean roles, he's one of filmdom's first out actors. Answer: Sir Ian McKellan, who helped organize the group in 1989.
4. Question: Name this actor featured as a cop in a film about Stonewall. He was later kicked off a TV series for homophobic remarks against a fellow out colleague. Answer: Isaiah Washington, who played "Burke" on "Grey's Anatomy" was featured in the 1995 film "Stonewall", directed by Nigel Finch. Washington's comments about ellow actor TR Knight ended his stint on the medical drama.
5. Question: Name this group that has made fruits absolutely fabulous since 1991. They can't wait to be jammed. Answer: Stonewall Kitchens, the specialty gourmet foods company known for its jams and preserves. www.stonewallkitchen.com.
This Week’s Trivia Quiz: Symbols of Pride
1. Question: Name this Pride symbol of greek origins, which was originally chosen by the Gay Activist Alliance in New York in 1970. The GAA was a group which broke away from the larger Gay Liberation Front at the end of 1969, only six months after it's foundation in response to the Stonewall Riots.
2. Question: Name this Pride symbol which has become one of the most widely used and recognised in the gay pride movement. It was developed in 1978 for the San Francisco Pride Parade.
3. Question: Name this Pride symbol whose origins are traced back to the Holocaust in Germany. When Hitler came to power, homosexuals were placed in concentration camps. This symbol identified them as a criminal class other than Jews, Gypsies, political prisoners and others.
4. Question: Name this symbol that originated in the LGBT communnity and was created by singer/songwriter Paul Jabara and the New York-based Visual AIDS group in 1991. It was first seen worn by Jeremy Irons at the 1991 Tony Awards.
5. Question: Name this symbol that surfaced after the passage of Proposition 8. It was seen at the Oscars and the Tony Awards and will be visible during major Pride organizations. It supports marriage equality.
The first person to submit the correct answers gets their name in print right here. Email your answers to: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com. If you do not want your email address to appear in the blog format of this newsletter, please indicate that. http://cosnewsweekly.blogspot.com/
Volume 13 No. 24 June 21, 2010
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: June 21-27, 2010
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
thru WED: 6/30: San Francisco, CA: National Queer Arts Festival. LGBT performances & exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area highlighting artists from around the country. www.QueerCulturalCenter.org
thru SUN: 6/27: San Francisco, CA: Frameline: San Francisco Int’l LGBT Film Festival www.frameline.org
MON: 6/21: New York, NY: Spirit of Pride 2010 Celebration at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine (1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street) 7:30 pm. Free. www.stjohndivine.org
TUE: 6/22: New York, NY: Levi Kreis and “Million Dollar Quartet perform at a CD signing. 4PM. Barnes and Noble, Lincoln Triangle. www.bn.com
WED: 6/23: Tempe, AZ: Cat Cora, out star of "Iron Chef America" signs copies of “Cat Cora's Classics With A Twist”. 7PM. Changing Hands Books.
WED: 6/23: New York, NY: Melissa Etheridge joins the cast of Broadway’s “Million Dollar Quartet” for one set. www.milliondollarquartetlive.com.
THU: 6/24: Los Angeles, CA: Alison Arngrim, star of "Little House on the Prairie", signs copies of “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”. 7PM. Barnes & Noble, Grove Drive. Also: SAT: 6/26: Bloomington, MN: 6PM. Barnes & Noble, Mall of America.
THU: 6/24: New York, NY: Sean Hayes, Kristen Chenoweth and the cast of “Promises, Promises” perform at a CD signing. 5PM. Barnes and Noble, Lincoln Triangle. www.bn.com
SAT: 6/26: New York, NY: The Gay Pride Edition: Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words. Rachel Dratch, Cheyenne Jackson, Kristen Johnston, John Cameron Mitchell, Bruce Vilanch, and B.D. Wong star. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
SAT: 6/26: New York, NY: 41st Stonewall Veterans Association Conference and Reunion. http://www.stonewallvets.org/upcomingevents.htm
SAT-SAT: 6/26-8/07: New York, NY: 19th annual HOT! Festival of queer culture and performance. www.hotfestival.org
SUN: 6/27: New York, NY: Nathan Lane is Jordan Roth’s guest for “Broadway Talks”. 7:30PM. 92Y-Lexington Avenue. www.92Y.org/lectures
Newsworthy:
US Passport Rules Eased for TG Citizens. New passport rules announced 6/09/10 by the U.S. State Department have removed the strict requirement that applicants undergo gender reassignment surgery in order to qualify for a passport gender change. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/10/US_Passport_Rules_Eased_for_Transgender_People/
Iceland, the only country with an openly gay head of state, has legalized gay marriage. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/11/Iceland_Legalizes_Gay_Marriage/
Kameny Way. A two-block section of 17th Street, N.W., in the heart of one of Washington, DC’s most visible gay neighborhoods was renamed this week as “Frank Kameny Way” in honor of the veteran gay activist credited with founding the city’s LGBT civil rights movement. The Washington Blade reports: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2010/06/08/‘kameny-way’-ceremony-highlights-capital-pride-events/
The McDonald’s Gay Ad would not air in the USA, according to the company’s number two executive. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/15/McDonalds_COO_Gay_Ad_Would_Not_Air_in_US/
The Buzz (People Making News)
Coming Out: Josh Strickland, Broadway’s “Tarzan”, Las Vegas star of “Peep Show” and American Idol alum, comes out. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Television/Josh_Strickland,_Stripped/
Coming Out: David Maher, the mayor of Cambridge, Mass., came out during the city’s annual pride brunch on 6/12/10. He’s the third out mayor in a row in Cambridge. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/15/Cambridge_Mass_Mayor_Comes_Out/
Awards and Honors:
Tony Award Winners: Congrats to Levi Kreis, “La Cage Aux Folles”, Bill T. Jones, David Hyde Pierce, Tom Viola, and more. Playbill.com recaps the winners. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/140346-Red-Memphis-La-Cage-aux-Folles-Fences-Win-2010-Tony-Awards
More Tony Coverage:
***Sean Hayes mocks Newsweek with a hot straight kiss.
Towleroad recaps: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/06/sean-hayes-mocks-newsweek-story-with-hot-straight-kiss.html
***The Sean Hayes Video: “The Kiss”:http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/06/sean-hayes-makes-out-with-kristin-chenoweth-at-tony-awards/1
***The New York Times recap: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/06/14/theater/20100614_TONY.html
TV Guide’s 2010 Power List of the 25 most influential people in television. Among them: Neil Patrick Harris, “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy, and of course, Oprah. www.tvguide.com/magazine.
Point Foundation 2010 Scholarship Winners: The nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBT students of merit awarded 25 undergraduate and graduate students. http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/point-foundation-announces--scholar-class/
In Memoriam:
Patrick Lee, a frequent contributor to TheaterMania, passed away earlier this month at age 51. Lee was the creator and writer of his own popular blog, Justshowstogoyou.com. He was also a juror for the GLAAD Media Awards.
Photo Shoots and Video
Photos: Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays from BroadwayWorld.com: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Coverage_STANDING_ON_CEREMONY_The_Gay_Marriage_Plays_20100615
Features
New York Times Editorial: Marriage is a basic civil right. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/opinion/11fri1.html?ref=opinion
Frank Rich. Two weddings, a divorce, and “Glee”. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/opinion/13rich.html
The Resource Center:
LGBT News for Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Gazette’s first issue hit newsstands on 11/19/09. It publishes every other week and distributes throughout the state.
The newspaper covers a variety of local, national and international issues. www.wisconsingazette.com.
In Print:
Where’s my Wand?: One Boy’s Magical Triumph Over Alienation and Shag Carpeting by Eric Poole. Amy Einhorn Books. Penguin Press. A chronicle of a childhood gone hilariously and heartbreakingly awry in the Midwest of the 1970s.
On CD:
Recent Releases
***Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli "Live" at the London Palladium. a 2-CD set of the 1965 concert. DRG label.
***Glee: The Music, Volume 3: Showstoppers. Showtunes and pop hits from the TV series.
***The Addams Family. Decca Broadway. Cast recording from the new Broadway show based on the cartoons of Charles Addams. Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth co-star.
***Broadway Bares Openings. 13 original opening numbers from BC/EFA's popular annual burlesque show, sung by the stars who debuted them on the Broadway Bares stage. All proceeds go to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
***Promises, Promises. The Broadway revival cast album. Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth sing the music of Bacharach and David. Masterworks Broadway.
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***Alan Cumming brings his nightclub act to Feinstein’s at the Regency. to 6/26/10. www. feinsteinsatloewsregency.com
***A Night at the Tombs. World premiere musical written and performed by TG legend Bianca Leigh. to 8/05/10. www.SpinCycleNYC.com.
***Jackie Beat in 3-D. The Big and Bitter Drag Artist in her Pride show. 6/25/10-6/26/10. www.JackieBeatRules.com
***La Cage Aux Folles, a revival of the 1983 Jerry Herman/Harvey Fierstein musical, which inspired the film "Birdcage". Kelsey Grammer stars. www.LaCage.com
***Next Fall. Geoffrey Nauffts' provocative play about a gay couple; one partner is a devout Christian and the other is an atheist. www.nextfallbroadway.com
***Promises, Promises. Newly-out Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth star in the Burt Bacharach & Hal David & Neil Simon musical. www.promisespromisesbroadway.com.
***Thank You For Being A Friend. The unauthorized musical parody inspired by the
beloved TV sitcom “The Golden Girls,”. to 8/01/10. Kraine Theatre
www.SpinCycleNYC.com
Elsewhere...
***Blackbird: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas. a full-length, musical pastiche of queer music. to 7/`10/10. San Francisco, CA. www.eyezen.org
***Celebrity Autobiography, the comedy where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrity’s autobiography. (Casts alternate). with Billy Porter and Bruce Vilanch to 7/12/10, Pittsburgh, PA; with Florence Henderson, Brooke Shields and Michael Urie, 6/21/10, Los Angeles, CA. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
***Curtains. Out Malcom Gets stars in the musical whodunnit. Sally Struthers plays a Broadway producer. to 6/27/10. Pittsburgh, PA. www.pittsburghclo.org
***The Drowsy Chaperone. Carson Kressley (“Queer Eye”) plays the showtune loving man in the chair. to 6/26/10. Ogunquit, ME. www.ogunquitplayhouse.org
***Glitter and Be Gay. Seattle Men’s Chorus and Women’s Chorus salute Bernstein and Sondheim. 6/25/10-6/26/10, Seattle, WA. www.seattlemenschorus.org.
***It’s Jewdy’s Show. Out comic Judy Gold stars in her new solo, co-written with Kate Moira Ryan. to 7/04/10, Williamstown, MA. www.wtfestival.org.
***Legends. Lypsinka and James Lecesne take on James Kirkwood’s comedy about dueling divas (Mary Martin and Carol Channing were the originals). to 7/04/10. Washington, DC. www.studiotheatre.org.
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Arias With a Twist. The incredible performance collaboration between performance artist Joey Arias and puppeteer Basil Twist is now a documentary. To see the trailer: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=759971528901
***Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride. Bob Christie’s documentary shows that Pride is more than a parade, it’s a giant step on the road to global human rights.
***Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. A new documentary which follows from gig to gig, onstage and at home, and historically through the ups and downs of her career.
***Sex and The City 2, the sequel. Sarah Jessica Parker and friends.
***Stonewall Uprising, a new documentary by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner covering the 3-day Stonewall riots in 1969. http://firstrunfeatures.com/stonewalluprising_playdates.html
***The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls. A documentary about the provocative New Zealand comedic duo, twin sisters and singers. http://topptwins.com.
Out On Video & DVD
***A Star is Born. The remastered and restored 1954 Judy Garland and James Mason classic film musical. Release date: 6/22/10
***Cinema Pride Collection. 10 time-tested queer films spanning 40 years of Hollywood from 1961 onward. http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=arts&sc=movies&sc2=news&sc3&id=106677
***David Hockney: A Bigger Picture. A documentary on the put artist, who returns to England after 25 years in Hollywood. Release date: 6/15/10.
***Prima Donna the Story of an Opera . A BBC-produced documentary film follows the dramatic story of Rufus Wainwright's debut opera, “Prima Donna”.
***Prodigal Sons.Trans filmmaker Kimberly Reed’s autobiographical film about coming home after coming out and transitioning.
***Trinidad. The documentary about the Colorado town that has become “the sex change capital of the world. http://trinidadthemovie.com/
On TV Of Note: All times listed are ET. Check local listings for times in your area.
Resource:TV Gayed, GLAAD's Weekly Guide to What's LGBT on TV: Updated every Friday. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
***June: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
***June: Elaine Paige: Celebrating a Life on Stage, a concert documentary about the British musical theatre actress. PBS. Check local listings.
***SUN: 6/27: Daytime Emmy Awards. Regis Philbin hosts. Live. CBS. www.emmyonline.tv.
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
7/01/10-7/04/10: Chicago, IL: International Gay Square Dance Clubs Convention. www.iagsdc.org
7/03/10-7/04/10: Seattle, WA: Emerald City Classic LGBT softball tournament. www.emeraldcitysoftball.org/ecc/
7/04/10: Rehoboth Beach, DE: Readings/Booksignings by Lambda Literary Award winning LGBT authors and Fay Jacobs. 10AM. Proud Bookstore. www.aandmbooks.com
7/08/10-7/19/10: Philadelphia, PA: QFest.16th edition of the largest LGBT film festival on the east coast. http://www.QFest.com/
7/10/10: New York, NY: Broadway Barks 12. Bernadette Peters’ and Mary Tyler Moore’s annual adopt-a-thon for shelter pets. Some proceeds benefit Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS. www.broadwaycares.org.
7/17/10: Warsaw, Poland: EuroPride 2010. www.europride.eu
7/19/10-8/08/10: New York, NY: International CringeFest. Theme nights include: Sex Encounters of a Disturbed Mind; Psycho Bitch Party; Is That a Corncob in Your Pocket?; Sex, Thugs & Rockin' Roles; Dow Jones Meets Deep Throat; and No Holes Barred. www.nyartists.org.
7/23/10-7/26/10: Alexandria, MN: Family Camp 2010. Family Equality Council’s summer camp for LGBT families and friends. http://www.familyequality.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events_familycamp&AddInterest=1101
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: All Things Stonewall
1. Question: Name this gay rights group, the earliest lasting gay rights organization in the United States, founded in 1950. Based in Los Angeles, it had chapters in San Francisco, New York, Washington and other locales. The national group disbanded in 1961, but chapters continued to operate nationally. the group took its name from a term to describe Medieval French secret societies of masked men. The story of its founding was the basis for a play which was a recent Off-Broadway hit. Answer: The Mattachine Society, brainchild of Harry Hay. "The Tempermentals" with Michael ("Ugly Betty") Urie, told the story of Hay, his lover, Rudi Gernreich, the designer, and others involved in the group's development.
2. Question: Name this gay rights group, which morphed out of the group mentioned in Question #1. In 1952, it spread its wings, and admitted lesbians to its ranks. In 1953, the group began publishing the first U.S. pro-gay publication, and sold it openly on the streets of Los Angeles. In 1954 the U.S. Postal Service declared the magazine 'obscene'., but the group won in 1958 as part of the landmark First Amendment case, Roth v. United States. The magazine continued until 1967. Answer: ONE, Inc. ONE Magazine’s first editors included founders of Mattachine Society and also The Knights of the Clock, a support group for interracial gay couples that had begun in Los Angeles in 1950. ONE also published ONE Institute Quarterly (now the Journal of Homosexuality). It began to run symposia, and contributed greatly to scholarship on the subject of same-sex love (then called 'homophile studies').
3. Question: Name this award-winning actor who is one of the founders of Stonewall, Europe's largest LGBT rights lobbying group. Equally at home playing contemporary and Shakespearean roles, he's one of filmdom's first out actors. Answer: Sir Ian McKellan, who helped organize the group in 1989.
4. Question: Name this actor featured as a cop in a film about Stonewall. He was later kicked off a TV series for homophobic remarks against a fellow out colleague. Answer: Isaiah Washington, who played "Burke" on "Grey's Anatomy" was featured in the 1995 film "Stonewall", directed by Nigel Finch. Washington's comments about ellow actor TR Knight ended his stint on the medical drama.
5. Question: Name this group that has made fruits absolutely fabulous since 1991. They can't wait to be jammed. Answer: Stonewall Kitchens, the specialty gourmet foods company known for its jams and preserves. www.stonewallkitchen.com.
This Week’s Trivia Quiz: Symbols of Pride
1. Question: Name this Pride symbol of greek origins, which was originally chosen by the Gay Activist Alliance in New York in 1970. The GAA was a group which broke away from the larger Gay Liberation Front at the end of 1969, only six months after it's foundation in response to the Stonewall Riots.
2. Question: Name this Pride symbol which has become one of the most widely used and recognised in the gay pride movement. It was developed in 1978 for the San Francisco Pride Parade.
3. Question: Name this Pride symbol whose origins are traced back to the Holocaust in Germany. When Hitler came to power, homosexuals were placed in concentration camps. This symbol identified them as a criminal class other than Jews, Gypsies, political prisoners and others.
4. Question: Name this symbol that originated in the LGBT communnity and was created by singer/songwriter Paul Jabara and the New York-based Visual AIDS group in 1991. It was first seen worn by Jeremy Irons at the 1991 Tony Awards.
5. Question: Name this symbol that surfaced after the passage of Proposition 8. It was seen at the Oscars and the Tony Awards and will be visible during major Pride organizations. It supports marriage equality.
The first person to submit the correct answers gets their name in print right here. Email your answers to: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com. If you do not want your email address to appear in the blog format of this newsletter, please indicate that. http://cosnewsweekly.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Coming Out Support Newsweekly: 6/14/10
Coming Out Support (COS) Newsweekly
Volume 13 No. 23 June 14, 2010
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: June 14-20, 2010
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
thru SUN: 6/20: Chicago, IL: Five Decades of Great Gay Plays. An exploration of scripts written for the stage (some adapted for the screen. www.pridefilmsandplays.com
thru WED: 6/30: San Francisco, CA: National Queer Arts Festival. LGBT performances & exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area highlighting artists from around the country. www.QueerCulturalCenter.org
SUN: 6/13: Nationwide: The Tony Awards, honoring the best of Broadway. Tony redcarpet webcast at 6PM on www.tonyawards.com. Creative Arts Awards webcast at 7PM on www.tonyawards.com. Sean Hayes hosts the major awards at 8PM on CBS.
MON: 6/14: New York, NY: Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays.
A benefit for the Human Rights Campaign, Marriage Equality New York, and New York Theatre Workshop. www.nytw.org/standing_benefit.asp
MON-SUN: 6/14=6/20: Berkeley, CA: David Sedaris workshops new stories from an upcoming book in front of a live audience at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. www.berkeleyrep.org
TUE: 6/15/10: New York, NY: Alison Arngrim, star of "Little House on the Prairie", signs copies of “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”. 7PM. Border’s at Columbus Circle.
WED: 6/16: Atlanta, GA: Pam Grier, cult favorite and star of "The L Word", signs copies of “Foxy: My Life In Three Acts”. 5PM at Outwrite Books; 7:30PM at Border’s, Peachtree Road NE
WED-SUN: 6/16-6/20: Provincetown, MA: Provincetown International Film Festival. www.ptownfilmfest.org
THU-SUN: 6/17-6/27: San Francisco, CA: Frameline: San Francisco Int’l LGBT Film Festival www.frameline.org
FRI: 6/18: New York, NY: Street Theatre. Doric Wilson’s historic Stonewall satire performed as a benefit for the LGBT Community Center. http://www.gaycenter.org/node/5342
SUN: 6/20: New York, NY: Broadway Bares XX: Stripopoly. Broadway boys and girls take it all off for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The 20th anniversary edition. http://broadwaybares.com/home-flash.php
Newsworthy:
Oklahoma: state representative Sally Kern, who has called gay people more dangerous to the country than terrorists, will face a transgender opponent, attorney Brittany Novotny, in the general election for the Oklahoma City seat this fall. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/09/Sally_Kern_to_Face_Transgender_Challenger/
Campaign 2010: Openly LGBT candidates made gains in primary elections across the country Tuesday, with wins in states including California, Montana and Maine. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/09/Out_Candidates_Win_Big_in_Primaries/
The IRS will recognize gay couples in California for tax purposes. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/06/irs-will-recognize-gay-couples-for-tax-purposes-in-california.html
HUD Grantees Can’t Discriminate Against Gays. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Monday that it will now require grant applicants seeking HUD funding to comply with state and local anti-discrimination laws that protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. The Advocate reports: http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/07/HUD_Grantees_Must_Comply_With_Laws_Protecting_LGBT_People/
New Study: Children of Lesbians may do better than their peers. Time Magazine reports: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1994480,00.html
Another Study: Gay Men Slimmer, Lesbians Heavier Than Straight Counterparts. According to Kerith Conron and Boston researchers. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/06/study-gay-men-slimmer-lesbians-heavier-than-straight-counterparts.html
New Theatre Award Named for Gay Couple: A new award has been named in honor of Tony Award-winning playwright and director Arthur Laurents and his late partner of 52 years, Tom Hatcher. The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award is the first major award for playwrighting to be named in honor of a gay couple. Playbill.com reports: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/140016-New-Award-Named-for-Arthur-Laurents-and-His-Partner-the-Late-Tom-Hatcher
The Buzz (People Making News)
Coming Out: Angelo Garcia of the music group Menudo (bandmate of Ricky Martin) has come out. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/07/Ricky_Martins_Former_Menudo_Bandmate_Angelo_Garcia_is_Gay/
Fran Drescher “comes out”: her ex-husband is gay. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/02/Fran_Drescher_My_ExHusband_Is_Gay/
Weddings, Civil Unions and Engagements:
Just Married: Jane Lynch (“Glee”) and partner Lara Embry. (Editor’s Note: They married at one of the nicest restaurants in my neighborhood).
Theatermania reports: http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/news/06-2010/glees-jane-lynch-and-lara-embry-marry_27818.html
The New York Times wedding announcement: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/fashion/weddings/06JLYNCH.html?ref=style
Awards and Honors:
Bill T. Jones, out dancer/choreographer, will receive the Jacob's Pillow Festival annual dance award at the organization's gala. www.jacobspillow.org.
Sharon Gless will receive the "Bridge to Unity" Award from The Lesbian and Gay Police Association-Gay Officers Action League of Chicago. www.hannahtree.com
In Memoriam:
Rue McClanahan, one of the Golden Girls, died on 6/03/10, at age 76. The Advocate reports: http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/03/Rue_McClanahan_Dies_at_76/
Donald Windham, the novelist and memoirist, died 5/31/10 at age 89. He was an intimate of Tennessee Williams, Lincoln Kirstein and Truman Capote. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/arts/04windham.html?ref=arts
Claudia Asbury, the Broadway dancer, died on 5/30/20 at age 58. She went from musicals to gay rights activism, a star on both stages. The Orlando Sentinel reports: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-05-31/news/os-obituary-claudia-asbury-20100531_1_dance-choreographed-broadway
Photo Shoots and Video
Video: Remembering Rue McClanahan: Golden Girls’ “Lesbian Lovers of Miami”. http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Comedy/Blanches_Best_Gay_Moments/
Photos: The amFAR Gala. from BroadwayWorld.com: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Coverage_amFAR_Party_backstage_20000101
Photos: The Isaac Mizrahi production of “A Little Night Music” in St. Louis: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Flash_Irving_Phillips_Raines_Begin_A_LITTLE_NIGHT_MUSIC_in_St_Louis_20100607
Features
Profile: Aubrey Sarvis, the activist behind Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Politico reports: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37950.html
Gay ? Whatever Dude. Charles M. Blow reports for the The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/opinion/05blow.html?src=me&ref=general
A Gay Catholic speaks out against marriage equality. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/us/05beliefs.html
The Resource Center:
The MetLife Mature Market Institute has released a legal planning guide designed to assist LGBT Baby Boomers in making decisions about legacy planning, employee benefits, health care, financial planning, and retirement planning. Bay Windows reports: http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3&id=106639
LGBT Radio in Vermont: Gay hosts. Gay guests. Gay topics. Gay music. Rinse and repeat. Tune in to "This Show is So Gay;" the hit Vermont rainbow radio experience and see what all the talk is about. FMI: www.ThisShowIsSoGay.com
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***La Cage Aux Folles, a revival of the 1983 Jerry Herman/Harvey Fierstein musical, based on a French film, which inspired the film "Birdcage". Kelsey Grammer stars. www.LaCage.com
***My Big Gay Italian Wedding. Anthony J. Wilkinson's comedy. Reichen Lehmkuhl stars; www.BigGayItalianWedding.com.
***My Trip Down The Pink Carpet. Leslie Jordan’s one-man show. to 7/03/10. www.mytripdownthepinkcarpet.com
***Next Fall. Geoffrey Nauffts' provocative play about a gay couple; one partner is a devout Christian and the other is an atheist. www.nextfallbroadway.com
***Promises, Promises. Newly-out Sean ("Will & Grace") Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth star in the Burt Bacharach & Hal David & Neil Simon musical. www.promisespromisesbroadway.com.
***Thank You For Being A Friend. The unauthorized musical parody inspired by the
beloved TV sitcom “The Golden Girls,”. to 8/01/10. Kraine Theatre
www.SpinCycleNYC.com
Elsewhere...
***Celebrity Autobiography, the comedy where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrity’s autobiography. (Casts alternate). with Billy Porter and Bruce Vilanch to 7/12/10, Pittsburgh, PA; with Florence Henderson, Brooke Shields and Michael Urie, 6/21/10, Los Angeles, CA. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
***The Drowsy Chaperone. Carson Kressley (“Queer Eye”) plays the showtune loving man in the chair. to 6/26/10. Ogunquit, ME. www.ogunquitplayhouse.org
***F&*king Men. Joe DiPietro’s gay adaptation of “La Ronde”. to 7/25/10. Chicago, IL. www.fmenchicago.com.
***Glitter and Be Gay. Seattle Men’s Chorus and Women’s Chorus salute Bernstein and Sondheim. 6/20/10, Tacoma, WA. www.seattlemenschorus.org.
***It’s A Bird...It’s a Plane...It’s Superman! Hunk Matt Cavenaugh plays the man of steel in a revisal of the musical. to 7/25/10. Dallas, TX. www.dallastheatercenter.org.
***L'Amour. The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles salutes the films of Baz Luhrmann. 6/19/10-6/20/10. Hollywood, CA. www.gmcla.org.
***The Lady Behind The Moustache, Varla Jean Merman’s new show. 6/18/10. Hartford, CT. www.varlaonline.com.
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Arias With a Twist. The incredible performance collaboration between performance artist Joey Arias and puppeteer Basil Twist is now a documentary. To see the trailer: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=759971528901
***Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride. Bob Christie’s documentary shows that Pride is more than a parade, it’s a giant step on the road to global human rights.
***Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. A new documentary which follows from gig to gig, onstage and at home, and historically through the ups and downs of her career.
***Sex and The City 2, the sequel. Sarah Jessica Parker and friends.
***Stonewall Uprising, a new documentary by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner covering the 3-day Stonewall riots in 1969. http://firstrunfeatures.com/stonewalluprising_playdates.html
***The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls. A documentary about the New Zealand comedic duo, lesbian twin sisters and singers. http://topptwins.com.
Out On Video & DVD
***Cinema Pride Collection. 10 time-tested queer films spanning 40 years of Hollywood from 1961 onward. http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=arts&sc=movies&sc2=news&sc3&id=106677
***David Hockney: A Bigger Picture. A documentary on the put artist, who returns to England after 25 years in Hollywood.
***Hannah Free. Sharon Gless stars in the film adaptation of Claudia Allen's play about a woman who fights to see her lesbian partner one last time in a nursing home. www.hannahfree.com
***Prodigal Sons. Trans filmmaker Kimberly Reed’s autobiographical film about coming home after coming out and transitioning.
***Trinidad. The documentary about the Colorado town that has become “the sex change capital of the world. http://trinidadthemovie.com/
On TV Of Note: All times listed are ET. Check local listings for times in your area.
Resource:TV Gayed, GLAAD's Weekly Guide to What's LGBT on TV: Updated every Friday. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
***June: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
***June: Elaine Paige: Celebrating a Life on Stage, a concert documentary about the British musical theatre actress. PBS. Check local listings.
***FRI: 6/11: Sean Hayes visits David Letterman. 11:35PM. CBS.
***TUE: 6/15: Liza Minnelli appears on Kathy Griffin's popuiar TV show “My Life on the D List”. 9PM. Bravo.
***SUN: 6/20: The Real "L Word:" The new reality series about real characters used to create characters on “The L Word”. Series debut: Showtime. Check local listings. http://www.sho.com/site/reallword/home.do
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
6/21/10: New York, NY: Spirit of Pride 2010 Celebration at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine (1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street) 7:30 pm. Free. www.stjohndivine.org
6/26/10: New York, NY: The Gay Pride Edition: Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words. Rachel Dratch, Cheyenne Jackson, Kristen Johnston, John Cameron Mitchell, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Bruce Vilanch, and B.D. Wong star. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
7/01/10-7/04/10: Chicago, IL: International Gay Square Dance Clubs Convention. www.iagsdc.org
7/03/10-7/04/10: Seattle, WA: Emerald City Classic LGBT softball tournament. www.emeraldcitysoftball.org/ecc/
7/08/10-7/19/10: Philadelphia, PA: QFest.16th edition of the largest LGBT film festival on the east coast. http://www.QFest.com/
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: The Tony Awards
1. Question. Name this actor/dancer/choreographer/director. He’s one of two out theatre people to have received Tony Awards in four different categories. He won playing a gay dancer/choreographer, one playing a tap-dancing aviator, one choreographing a musical about a Ziegfeld cowboy, and one staging a musical about the hospitality industry. Hint: Harvey Fierstein was the other guy to win in four categories. Answer: Tommy Tune of “Seesaw”, “My One and Only”, “The Will Rogers Follies” and “Grand Hotel”.
2. Question: Although several performers have won Tonys for roles that have involved cross dressing, only two have won for performing in roles in which the character is actually a member of the opposite sex. Harvey Fierstein won a Tony playing Edna Turblad in the musical "Hairspray". Name the other. Hint: This actor, known for a tropical shampoo and rinse role, had a child who became one of TV's most beloved villians. Offstage, the actor was known for a "close relationship" with another actor of the same sex. Answer: Mary Martin, Tony Winner in the title role of "Peter Pan", the actor who made "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair" a "South Pacific" hit, the mother of "Dallas" star Larry Hagman (J.R.Ewing) and often-linked with Janet Gaynor.
3. Question: Name this Tony loser. All of the following actors played the famous stage mother Rose in “Gypsy”. (Incidentally, historians have written that Mamma Rose and her daughter Gypsy Rose Lee both had lesbian relationships). Which performance did not win the Tony? Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, Patti LuPone. Answer: Ethel Merman, who created the role.
4. Question: Name this gay composer, who has won more Tony Awards than any other composer. He's won Tonys (8 total) for musicals with petite sunset waltzes, fairy tale characters, non-commital bachelors, and a vengeful barber with a Betty Crocker girlfriend. Do you know the shows ? Answer: Stephen Sondheim, composer of "A Little Night Music", "Into The Woods", "Company", and "Sweeney Todd".
5. Question: Name this one-person play, about an East German transvestite. It’s the only one-person play to win a “Best Play” Tony; its star, who won a Best Actor Tony, played multiple real-life characters. The show also won the Pulitzer. Answer: I Am My Own Wife by Douglas Wright. Jefferson Mays played Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazis and the Communists.
This Week’s Trivia Quiz: All Things Stonewall
1. Question: Name this gay rights group, the earliest lasting gay rights organization in the United States, founded in 1950. Based in Los Angeles, it had chapters in San Francisco, New York, Washington and other locales. The national group disbanded in 1961, but chapters continued to operate nationally. the group took its name from a term to describe Medieval French secret societies of masked men. The story of its founding was the basis for a play which was a recent Off-Broadway hit.
2. Question: Name this gay rights group, which morphed out of the group mentioned in Question #1. In 1952, it spread its wings, and admitted lesbians to its ranks. In 1953, the group began publishing the first U.S. pro-gay publication, and sold it openly on the streets of Los Angeles. In 1954 the U.S. Postal Service declared the magazine 'obscene'., but the group won in 1958 as part of the landmark First Amendment case, Roth v. United States. The magazine continued until 1967.
3. Question: Name this award-winning actor who is one of the founders of Stonewall, Europe's largest LGBT rights lobbying group. Equally at home playing contemporary and Shakespearean roles, he's one of filmdom's first out actors.
4. Question: Name this actor featured as a cop in a film about Stonewall. He was later kicked off a TV series for homophobic remarks against a fellow out colleague.
5. Question: Name this group that has made fruits absolutely fabulous since 1991. They can't wait to be jammed.
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Volume 13 No. 23 June 14, 2010
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: June 14-20, 2010
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
thru SUN: 6/20: Chicago, IL: Five Decades of Great Gay Plays. An exploration of scripts written for the stage (some adapted for the screen. www.pridefilmsandplays.com
thru WED: 6/30: San Francisco, CA: National Queer Arts Festival. LGBT performances & exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area highlighting artists from around the country. www.QueerCulturalCenter.org
SUN: 6/13: Nationwide: The Tony Awards, honoring the best of Broadway. Tony redcarpet webcast at 6PM on www.tonyawards.com. Creative Arts Awards webcast at 7PM on www.tonyawards.com. Sean Hayes hosts the major awards at 8PM on CBS.
MON: 6/14: New York, NY: Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays.
A benefit for the Human Rights Campaign, Marriage Equality New York, and New York Theatre Workshop. www.nytw.org/standing_benefit.asp
MON-SUN: 6/14=6/20: Berkeley, CA: David Sedaris workshops new stories from an upcoming book in front of a live audience at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. www.berkeleyrep.org
TUE: 6/15/10: New York, NY: Alison Arngrim, star of "Little House on the Prairie", signs copies of “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”. 7PM. Border’s at Columbus Circle.
WED: 6/16: Atlanta, GA: Pam Grier, cult favorite and star of "The L Word", signs copies of “Foxy: My Life In Three Acts”. 5PM at Outwrite Books; 7:30PM at Border’s, Peachtree Road NE
WED-SUN: 6/16-6/20: Provincetown, MA: Provincetown International Film Festival. www.ptownfilmfest.org
THU-SUN: 6/17-6/27: San Francisco, CA: Frameline: San Francisco Int’l LGBT Film Festival www.frameline.org
FRI: 6/18: New York, NY: Street Theatre. Doric Wilson’s historic Stonewall satire performed as a benefit for the LGBT Community Center. http://www.gaycenter.org/node/5342
SUN: 6/20: New York, NY: Broadway Bares XX: Stripopoly. Broadway boys and girls take it all off for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The 20th anniversary edition. http://broadwaybares.com/home-flash.php
Newsworthy:
Oklahoma: state representative Sally Kern, who has called gay people more dangerous to the country than terrorists, will face a transgender opponent, attorney Brittany Novotny, in the general election for the Oklahoma City seat this fall. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/09/Sally_Kern_to_Face_Transgender_Challenger/
Campaign 2010: Openly LGBT candidates made gains in primary elections across the country Tuesday, with wins in states including California, Montana and Maine. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/09/Out_Candidates_Win_Big_in_Primaries/
The IRS will recognize gay couples in California for tax purposes. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/06/irs-will-recognize-gay-couples-for-tax-purposes-in-california.html
HUD Grantees Can’t Discriminate Against Gays. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Monday that it will now require grant applicants seeking HUD funding to comply with state and local anti-discrimination laws that protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. The Advocate reports: http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/07/HUD_Grantees_Must_Comply_With_Laws_Protecting_LGBT_People/
New Study: Children of Lesbians may do better than their peers. Time Magazine reports: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1994480,00.html
Another Study: Gay Men Slimmer, Lesbians Heavier Than Straight Counterparts. According to Kerith Conron and Boston researchers. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/06/study-gay-men-slimmer-lesbians-heavier-than-straight-counterparts.html
New Theatre Award Named for Gay Couple: A new award has been named in honor of Tony Award-winning playwright and director Arthur Laurents and his late partner of 52 years, Tom Hatcher. The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award is the first major award for playwrighting to be named in honor of a gay couple. Playbill.com reports: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/140016-New-Award-Named-for-Arthur-Laurents-and-His-Partner-the-Late-Tom-Hatcher
The Buzz (People Making News)
Coming Out: Angelo Garcia of the music group Menudo (bandmate of Ricky Martin) has come out. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/07/Ricky_Martins_Former_Menudo_Bandmate_Angelo_Garcia_is_Gay/
Fran Drescher “comes out”: her ex-husband is gay. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/02/Fran_Drescher_My_ExHusband_Is_Gay/
Weddings, Civil Unions and Engagements:
Just Married: Jane Lynch (“Glee”) and partner Lara Embry. (Editor’s Note: They married at one of the nicest restaurants in my neighborhood).
Theatermania reports: http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/news/06-2010/glees-jane-lynch-and-lara-embry-marry_27818.html
The New York Times wedding announcement: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/fashion/weddings/06JLYNCH.html?ref=style
Awards and Honors:
Bill T. Jones, out dancer/choreographer, will receive the Jacob's Pillow Festival annual dance award at the organization's gala. www.jacobspillow.org.
Sharon Gless will receive the "Bridge to Unity" Award from The Lesbian and Gay Police Association-Gay Officers Action League of Chicago. www.hannahtree.com
In Memoriam:
Rue McClanahan, one of the Golden Girls, died on 6/03/10, at age 76. The Advocate reports: http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/06/03/Rue_McClanahan_Dies_at_76/
Donald Windham, the novelist and memoirist, died 5/31/10 at age 89. He was an intimate of Tennessee Williams, Lincoln Kirstein and Truman Capote. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/arts/04windham.html?ref=arts
Claudia Asbury, the Broadway dancer, died on 5/30/20 at age 58. She went from musicals to gay rights activism, a star on both stages. The Orlando Sentinel reports: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-05-31/news/os-obituary-claudia-asbury-20100531_1_dance-choreographed-broadway
Photo Shoots and Video
Video: Remembering Rue McClanahan: Golden Girls’ “Lesbian Lovers of Miami”. http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Comedy/Blanches_Best_Gay_Moments/
Photos: The amFAR Gala. from BroadwayWorld.com: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Coverage_amFAR_Party_backstage_20000101
Photos: The Isaac Mizrahi production of “A Little Night Music” in St. Louis: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Flash_Irving_Phillips_Raines_Begin_A_LITTLE_NIGHT_MUSIC_in_St_Louis_20100607
Features
Profile: Aubrey Sarvis, the activist behind Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Politico reports: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37950.html
Gay ? Whatever Dude. Charles M. Blow reports for the The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/opinion/05blow.html?src=me&ref=general
A Gay Catholic speaks out against marriage equality. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/us/05beliefs.html
The Resource Center:
The MetLife Mature Market Institute has released a legal planning guide designed to assist LGBT Baby Boomers in making decisions about legacy planning, employee benefits, health care, financial planning, and retirement planning. Bay Windows reports: http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3&id=106639
LGBT Radio in Vermont: Gay hosts. Gay guests. Gay topics. Gay music. Rinse and repeat. Tune in to "This Show is So Gay;" the hit Vermont rainbow radio experience and see what all the talk is about. FMI: www.ThisShowIsSoGay.com
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***La Cage Aux Folles, a revival of the 1983 Jerry Herman/Harvey Fierstein musical, based on a French film, which inspired the film "Birdcage". Kelsey Grammer stars. www.LaCage.com
***My Big Gay Italian Wedding. Anthony J. Wilkinson's comedy. Reichen Lehmkuhl stars; www.BigGayItalianWedding.com.
***My Trip Down The Pink Carpet. Leslie Jordan’s one-man show. to 7/03/10. www.mytripdownthepinkcarpet.com
***Next Fall. Geoffrey Nauffts' provocative play about a gay couple; one partner is a devout Christian and the other is an atheist. www.nextfallbroadway.com
***Promises, Promises. Newly-out Sean ("Will & Grace") Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth star in the Burt Bacharach & Hal David & Neil Simon musical. www.promisespromisesbroadway.com.
***Thank You For Being A Friend. The unauthorized musical parody inspired by the
beloved TV sitcom “The Golden Girls,”. to 8/01/10. Kraine Theatre
www.SpinCycleNYC.com
Elsewhere...
***Celebrity Autobiography, the comedy where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrity’s autobiography. (Casts alternate). with Billy Porter and Bruce Vilanch to 7/12/10, Pittsburgh, PA; with Florence Henderson, Brooke Shields and Michael Urie, 6/21/10, Los Angeles, CA. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
***The Drowsy Chaperone. Carson Kressley (“Queer Eye”) plays the showtune loving man in the chair. to 6/26/10. Ogunquit, ME. www.ogunquitplayhouse.org
***F&*king Men. Joe DiPietro’s gay adaptation of “La Ronde”. to 7/25/10. Chicago, IL. www.fmenchicago.com.
***Glitter and Be Gay. Seattle Men’s Chorus and Women’s Chorus salute Bernstein and Sondheim. 6/20/10, Tacoma, WA. www.seattlemenschorus.org.
***It’s A Bird...It’s a Plane...It’s Superman! Hunk Matt Cavenaugh plays the man of steel in a revisal of the musical. to 7/25/10. Dallas, TX. www.dallastheatercenter.org.
***L'Amour. The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles salutes the films of Baz Luhrmann. 6/19/10-6/20/10. Hollywood, CA. www.gmcla.org.
***The Lady Behind The Moustache, Varla Jean Merman’s new show. 6/18/10. Hartford, CT. www.varlaonline.com.
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Arias With a Twist. The incredible performance collaboration between performance artist Joey Arias and puppeteer Basil Twist is now a documentary. To see the trailer: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=759971528901
***Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride. Bob Christie’s documentary shows that Pride is more than a parade, it’s a giant step on the road to global human rights.
***Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. A new documentary which follows from gig to gig, onstage and at home, and historically through the ups and downs of her career.
***Sex and The City 2, the sequel. Sarah Jessica Parker and friends.
***Stonewall Uprising, a new documentary by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner covering the 3-day Stonewall riots in 1969. http://firstrunfeatures.com/stonewalluprising_playdates.html
***The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls. A documentary about the New Zealand comedic duo, lesbian twin sisters and singers. http://topptwins.com.
Out On Video & DVD
***Cinema Pride Collection. 10 time-tested queer films spanning 40 years of Hollywood from 1961 onward. http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=arts&sc=movies&sc2=news&sc3&id=106677
***David Hockney: A Bigger Picture. A documentary on the put artist, who returns to England after 25 years in Hollywood.
***Hannah Free. Sharon Gless stars in the film adaptation of Claudia Allen's play about a woman who fights to see her lesbian partner one last time in a nursing home. www.hannahfree.com
***Prodigal Sons. Trans filmmaker Kimberly Reed’s autobiographical film about coming home after coming out and transitioning.
***Trinidad. The documentary about the Colorado town that has become “the sex change capital of the world. http://trinidadthemovie.com/
On TV Of Note: All times listed are ET. Check local listings for times in your area.
Resource:TV Gayed, GLAAD's Weekly Guide to What's LGBT on TV: Updated every Friday. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
***June: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
***June: Elaine Paige: Celebrating a Life on Stage, a concert documentary about the British musical theatre actress. PBS. Check local listings.
***FRI: 6/11: Sean Hayes visits David Letterman. 11:35PM. CBS.
***TUE: 6/15: Liza Minnelli appears on Kathy Griffin's popuiar TV show “My Life on the D List”. 9PM. Bravo.
***SUN: 6/20: The Real "L Word:" The new reality series about real characters used to create characters on “The L Word”. Series debut: Showtime. Check local listings. http://www.sho.com/site/reallword/home.do
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
6/21/10: New York, NY: Spirit of Pride 2010 Celebration at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine (1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street) 7:30 pm. Free. www.stjohndivine.org
6/26/10: New York, NY: The Gay Pride Edition: Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words. Rachel Dratch, Cheyenne Jackson, Kristen Johnston, John Cameron Mitchell, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Bruce Vilanch, and B.D. Wong star. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
7/01/10-7/04/10: Chicago, IL: International Gay Square Dance Clubs Convention. www.iagsdc.org
7/03/10-7/04/10: Seattle, WA: Emerald City Classic LGBT softball tournament. www.emeraldcitysoftball.org/ecc/
7/08/10-7/19/10: Philadelphia, PA: QFest.16th edition of the largest LGBT film festival on the east coast. http://www.QFest.com/
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: The Tony Awards
1. Question. Name this actor/dancer/choreographer/director. He’s one of two out theatre people to have received Tony Awards in four different categories. He won playing a gay dancer/choreographer, one playing a tap-dancing aviator, one choreographing a musical about a Ziegfeld cowboy, and one staging a musical about the hospitality industry. Hint: Harvey Fierstein was the other guy to win in four categories. Answer: Tommy Tune of “Seesaw”, “My One and Only”, “The Will Rogers Follies” and “Grand Hotel”.
2. Question: Although several performers have won Tonys for roles that have involved cross dressing, only two have won for performing in roles in which the character is actually a member of the opposite sex. Harvey Fierstein won a Tony playing Edna Turblad in the musical "Hairspray". Name the other. Hint: This actor, known for a tropical shampoo and rinse role, had a child who became one of TV's most beloved villians. Offstage, the actor was known for a "close relationship" with another actor of the same sex. Answer: Mary Martin, Tony Winner in the title role of "Peter Pan", the actor who made "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair" a "South Pacific" hit, the mother of "Dallas" star Larry Hagman (J.R.Ewing) and often-linked with Janet Gaynor.
3. Question: Name this Tony loser. All of the following actors played the famous stage mother Rose in “Gypsy”. (Incidentally, historians have written that Mamma Rose and her daughter Gypsy Rose Lee both had lesbian relationships). Which performance did not win the Tony? Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, Patti LuPone. Answer: Ethel Merman, who created the role.
4. Question: Name this gay composer, who has won more Tony Awards than any other composer. He's won Tonys (8 total) for musicals with petite sunset waltzes, fairy tale characters, non-commital bachelors, and a vengeful barber with a Betty Crocker girlfriend. Do you know the shows ? Answer: Stephen Sondheim, composer of "A Little Night Music", "Into The Woods", "Company", and "Sweeney Todd".
5. Question: Name this one-person play, about an East German transvestite. It’s the only one-person play to win a “Best Play” Tony; its star, who won a Best Actor Tony, played multiple real-life characters. The show also won the Pulitzer. Answer: I Am My Own Wife by Douglas Wright. Jefferson Mays played Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazis and the Communists.
This Week’s Trivia Quiz: All Things Stonewall
1. Question: Name this gay rights group, the earliest lasting gay rights organization in the United States, founded in 1950. Based in Los Angeles, it had chapters in San Francisco, New York, Washington and other locales. The national group disbanded in 1961, but chapters continued to operate nationally. the group took its name from a term to describe Medieval French secret societies of masked men. The story of its founding was the basis for a play which was a recent Off-Broadway hit.
2. Question: Name this gay rights group, which morphed out of the group mentioned in Question #1. In 1952, it spread its wings, and admitted lesbians to its ranks. In 1953, the group began publishing the first U.S. pro-gay publication, and sold it openly on the streets of Los Angeles. In 1954 the U.S. Postal Service declared the magazine 'obscene'., but the group won in 1958 as part of the landmark First Amendment case, Roth v. United States. The magazine continued until 1967.
3. Question: Name this award-winning actor who is one of the founders of Stonewall, Europe's largest LGBT rights lobbying group. Equally at home playing contemporary and Shakespearean roles, he's one of filmdom's first out actors.
4. Question: Name this actor featured as a cop in a film about Stonewall. He was later kicked off a TV series for homophobic remarks against a fellow out colleague.
5. Question: Name this group that has made fruits absolutely fabulous since 1991. They can't wait to be jammed.
The first person to submit the correct answers gets their name in print right here. Email your answers to: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com. If you do not want your email address to appear in the blog format of this newsletter, please indicate that. http://cosnewsweekly.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Coming Out Support Newsweekly: 6/07/10
Coming Out Support (COS) Newsweekly
Volume 13 No. 22 June 7, 2010
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: June 7-13, 2010
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
thru SUN: 6/20: Chicago, IL: Five Decades of Great Gay Plays. An exploration of scripts written for the stage (some adapted for the screen. www.pridefilmsandplays.com
thru MON: 6/07: Orlando, FL: Gay Days Orlando including Gay Day at Disney World. www.gaydays.com
thru WED: 6/30: San Francisco, CA: National Queer Arts Festival. LGBT performances & exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area highlighting artists from around the country. www.QueerCulturalCenter.org
thru SUN: 6/13: New York, NY: NewFest, the New York LGBT Film Festival. http://newfest.org/wordpress/
MON: 6/07: San Francisco, CA: Help is On The Way. Jai Rodriguez, Marga Gomez and RJ Helton, along with the cast of In the Heights, perform a benefit for the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation (REAF) and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. www.helpisontheway.org.
MON: 6/07: New York, NY: John Waters, American filmmaker , writer, and bad boy of American cinema (“Hairspray”, “Pink Flamingos”, “Serial Mom”, reads and signs from his new book “Role Models”. www.nypl.org/events Also: TUE: 6/08 Los Angeles, CA: www.aloula.org. Also: THU: 6/10/10: Boston, MA: Boston Public Library.
WED: 6/09: Las Vegas, NV: LGBT Travel Symposium. www.lvccld.org
THU: 6/10: Kansas City, MO: Chely Wright, newly out country music star, signs copies of “Like Me”. 7PM. Unity Temple.
FRI: 6/11: Chicago, IL: Pam Grier, cult favorite and star of "The L Word", signs copies of “Foxy: My Life In Three Acts” 12:30PM. Borders Books. State Street. Also: SUN: 6/13: Largo, MD: 4PM. Borders Books. Capitol Centre Blvd..
SUN: 6/13: Baltimore, MD: 3rd Annual Tony Awards Party at the Club Hippo in Mt. Vernon. Admission is a donation to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS: 410-488-5180
Newsworthy:
June has been proclaimed by President Obama as LGBT Pride Month. The proclamation: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-pride-month
DADT: The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a measure 5/27/10 16-12 that would begin the process of dismantling the 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that prohibits gays and lesbians for serving openly in the military. The Advocate reports: http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/05/27/Senate_Committee_Passes_DADT_Amendment/
Toronto: The historic Glad Day bookstore is on the verge of closing. The Globe and Mail reports: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/historic-gay-bookstore-at-risk-of-closing/article1586260/?cmpid=rss1
Awards and Honors:
Honorary Tony Awards will be presented to David Hyde Pierce (the Isabelle Stevenson Award) for his volunteerism in the fight against Alzheimer’s and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Executive Director Tom Viola. www.tonyawards.com.
In Memoriam:
Peter Orlovsky, the poet and partner of Allen Ginsberg, died 5/30/10 at age 76. The Los Angeles Times reports: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/05/peter-orlovsky-poet-and-partner-to-allen-ginsberg-has-died.html
Photo Shoots and Video
Coming Out: Video: French McDonald’s Ad features closeted teen and father: http://jezebel.com/5551307/come-as-you-are-french-mcdonalds-ad-features-closeted-teen-and-father
Photos: Tony Awards nominees, as photographed for Vanity Fair. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/05/tonys-slide-show-201005#slide=1
Video: Documentary: A History of Trans and transgender like veterans from Pam’s House Blend via The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/05/31/A_History_of_Trans_and_Trans-Like_Veterans/
In Print:
My Queer War by James Lord. Farrar Straus and Giroux. An autobiography. In 1942, a timid, inexperienced twenty-one-year-old Lord reports to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the U.S. Army. His career in the armed forces takes him to Nevada and California, to Boston, to England, and eventually to France and Germany, where he witnesses firsthand the ravages of total war on Europe’s land and on its people. Along the way he comes to terms with his own sexuality, experiences the thrill of first love and the chill of disillusionment with his fellow man, and in a moment of great rashness makes the acquaintance of the world’s most renowned artist, who will show him the way to a new life.
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***La Cage Aux Folles, a revival of the 1983 Jerry Herman/Harvey Fierstein musica, based on a French film, which inspired the film "Birdcage". Kelsey Grammer stars. www.LaCage.com
***My Big Gay Italian Wedding. Anthony J. Wilkinson's comedy. Reichen Lehmkuhl stars; www.BigGayItalianWedding.com.
***My Trip Down The Pink Carpet. Leslie Jordan’s one-man show. to 7/03/10. www.mytripdownthepinkcarpet.com
***Next Fall. Geoffrey Nauffts' provocative play about a gay couple; one partner is a devout Christian and the other is an atheist. www.nextfallbroadway.com
***Promises, Promises. Newly-out Sean ("Will & Grace") Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth star in the Burt Bacharach & Hal David & Neil Simon musical. www.promisespromisesbroadway.com.
***Thank You For Being A Friend. The unauthorized musical parody inspired by the
beloved TV sitcom “The Golden Girls,”.to 8/01/10. Kraine Theatre
www.SpinCycleNYC.com
Elsewhere...
***A Little Night Music. Sondheim's all-waltz musical as directed by Isaac Mizrahi. to 6/19/10. St. Louis, MO. www.opera-stl.org/Season_Operas_show3.aspx
***An Evening with David Sedaris, the humorist, who previews his new book “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary”. to 6/13/10. Chicago, IL. www.steppenwolf.org.
***Boys Will Be Boys. a new musical. A benefit for a man who suffers from Gay Attention Deficit Disorder. to 6/26/10. San Francisco, CA. www.nctcsf.org
***The Drowsy Chaperone. Carson Kressley (“Queer Eye”) plays the showtune loving man in the chair. to 6/26/10. Ogunquit, ME. www.ogunquitplayhouse.org
***Hot Greeks. A Revival of the Cockettes’ 1972 Musical Extravaganza. to 6/27/10. San Francisco, CA. http://thrillpeddlers.com
***Pearls Over Shanghai. San Francisco’s Longest-Running Cockettes Musical. to 8/01/10. San Francisco, CA: http://thrillpeddlers.com
***Varla Jean Merman is The Loose Chanteuse to 9/04/10. Provincetown, MA. http://varlaonline.com/index.php?option=com_eventlist&view=eventlist&Itemid=12
***Yellow. A new dysfunctional family comedy by Del (“Sordid Lives”) Shores. to7/25/10. West Hollywood, CA. www.yellowbydelshores.somc
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Arias With a Twist. The incredible performance collaboration between performance artist Joey Arias and puppeteer Basil Twist is now a documentary. To see the trailer: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=759971528901
***Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride. Bob Christie’s documentary shows that Pride is more than a parade, it’s a giant step on the road to global human rights.
***Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. A new documentary which follows from gig to gig, onstage and at home, and historically through the ups and downs of her career.
***LA Mission. Benjamin Bratt is a barrio tough guy who discovers that his son is involved in a relationship with another boy.
***Sex and The City 2, the sequel. Sarah Jessica Parker and friends.
***Stonewall Uprising, a new documentary by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner covering the 3-day Stonewall riots in 1969. http://firstrunfeatures.com/stonewalluprising_playdates.html
***The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls. A documentary about the provocative New Zealand comedic duo, twin sisters and singers. Followed by our second party for more food, drink and dancing. http://topptwins.com.
Out On Video & DVD
***Hannah Free. Sharon Gless stars in the film adaptation of Claudia Allen's play about a woman who fights to see her lesbian partner one last time in a nursing home. Premiere screening:www.hannahfree.com
***My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story. The documentary about the bond between people and their pets. Among the people stars : Edward Albee, Glenn Close, Billy Greg Louganis, Nellie McKay, Christopher Meloni, and Isaac Mizrahi. www.docurama.com.
***One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard. Concert DVD.
***Prodigal Sons. Trans filmmaker Kimberly Reed’s autobiographical film about coming home after coming out and transitioning.
***Sordid Lives, the TV series. A Black comedy about white trash, based on the Del Shores play and film.
***Trinidad. The documentary about the Colorado town that has become “the sex change capital of the world. http://trinidadthemovie.com/
On TV Of Note: All times listed are ET. Check local listings for times in your area.
Resource:TV Gayed, GLAAD's Weekly Guide to What's LGBT on TV: Updated every Friday. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
***June: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
***WED: 6/09: Elaine Paige: Celebrating a Life on Stage. The British musical star (“Evita”) in a televised concert. 8PM. PBS. Check local listings.
***SUN: 6/13: The 64th Annual Tony Awards honoring excellence on Broadway. Sean Hayes hosts. 8PM. Live. CBS. www.TonyAwards.com
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
6/14/10: New York, NY: Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays.
Featuring Jillian Armenante, Amy Brenneman, Kevin Chamberlain, Frankie Faison, Randy Harrison, Jefferson Mays, Kathy Najimy, Christopher Sieber, Mary Testa, Mary Louise Wilson, and B.D. Wong. A benefit for the Human Rights Campaign, Marriage Equality New York, and New York Theatre Workshop. www.nytw.org/standing_benefit.asp
6/14/10-6/20/10: Berkeley, CA: David Sedaris workshops new stories from an upcoming book in front of a live audience at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. www.berkeleyrep.org
6/15/10: New York, NY: Alison Arngrim, star of "Little House on the Prairie", signs copies of “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”. 7PM. Border’s at Columbus Circle. Also: 6/24/10: Los Angeles, CA: 7PM. Barnes & Noble, Grove Drive. Also: 6/26/10: Bloomington, MN: 6PM. Barnes & Noble, Mall of America.
6/16/10-6/20/10: Provincetown, MA: Provincetown International Film Festival. www.ptownfilmfest.org
6/17/10-6/27/10: San Francisco, CA: Frameline: San Francisco Int’l LGBT Film Festival www.frameline.org
6/20/10: New York, NY: Broadway Bares XX: Stripopoly. Broadway boys and girls take it all off for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The 20th anniversary edition. http://broadwaybares.com/home-flash.php
6/21/10: New York, NY: Spirit of Pride 2010 Celebration at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine (1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street) 7:30 pm. Free. www.stjohndivine.org
6/22/10: New York, NY: Levi Kreis and “Million Dollar Quartet perform at a CD signing. 4PM. Barnes and Noble, Lincoln Triangle. www.bn.com
6/23/10: Tempe, AZ: Cat Cora, out star of "Iron Chef America" signs copies of “Cat Cora's Classics With A Twist”. 7PM. Changing Hands Books.
6/24/10: New York, NY: Sean Hayes, Kristen Chenoweth and the cast of “Promises, Promises” perform at a CD signing. 5PM. Barnes and Noble, Lincoln Triangle. www.bn.com
6/26/10: New York, NY: The Gay Pride Edition: Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words. Rachel Dratch, Cheyenne Jackson, Kristen Johnston, John Cameron Mitchell, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Bruce Vilanch, and B.D. Wong star. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
6/27/10: New York, NY: Nathan Lane is Jordan Roth’s guest for “Broadway Talks”. 7:30PM. 92Y-Lexington Avenue. www.92Y.org/lectures
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: June Milestones
1. Question: Name this event, on June 22, 1969, which triggered anguish within the gay community and may have led (according to legend) to the Stonewall riots. Answer: Judy Garland’s death. Several days later, after her funeral, when cops raided the Stonewall Bar in Greenwich Village, the patrons fought back.
2. Question: Name this landmark legislation on June 26, 2003. When The Supreme Court acted, this fueled the revival of an intense LGBT civil rights movement. Answer: Lawrence vs.Texas (Sodomy Law) was struck down as unconstitutional.
3. Question: Name this event, which first started on June 28, 1970, to commemorate the Stonewall riots. New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and smaller cities saw this event. Answer: Pride March.
4. Question: Name this gay composer, known for his spicy lyrics, born June 9, 1892. He gave Ethel Merman the showstopping Reno Sweeney, and rhymed “heinous” with “Coriolanus”. His film bio was released in 2004. Answer: Cole Porter, composer of “Anything Goes” and “Kiss Me Kate”. Kevin Kline played Porter in the movie bio; Ashley Judd starred as Porter’s wife, Linda.
5. Question: Name this Canadian pop singer who came out in the Advocate on June 16, 1992. Her star continues to rise, and she recently completed a global tour with Tony Bennett. Answer: k.d.lang.
This Week’s Trivia Quiz: The Tony Awards
The Tony Awards air live on CBS on Sunday, June 13. Sean Hayes hosts. Curtain is 8PM.
1. Question. Name this actor/dancer/choreographer/director. He’s one of two out theatre people to have received Tony Awards in four different categories. He won playing a gay dancer/choreographer, one playing a tap-dancing aviator, one choreographing a musical about a Ziegfeld cowboy, and one staging a musical about the hospitality industry. Hint: Harvey Fierstein was the other guy to win in four categories.
2. Question: Although several performers have won Tonys for roles that have involved cross dressing, only two have won for performing in roles in which the character is actually a member of the opposite sex. Harvey Fierstein won a Tony playing Edna Turblad in the musical "Hairspray". Name the other. Hint: This actor, known for a tropical shampoo and rinse role, had a child who became one of TV's most beloved villians. Offstage, the actor was known for a "close relationship" with another actor of the same sex.
3. Question: Name this Tony loser. All of the following actors played the famous stage mother Rose in “Gypsy”. (Incidentally, historians have written that Mamma Rose and her daughter Gypsy Rose Lee both had lesbian relationships). Which performance did not win the Tony? Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, Patti LuPone.
4. Question: Name this gay composer, who has won more Tony Awards than any other composer. He's won Tonys (8 total) for musicals with petite sunset waltzes, fairy tale characters, non-commital bachelors, and a vengeful barber with a Betty Crocker girlfriend. Do you know the shows ?
5. Question: Name this one-person play, about an East German transvestite. It’s the only one-person play to win a “Best Play” Tony; its star, who won a Best Actor Tony, played multiple real-life characters. The show also won the Pulitzer.
The first person to submit the correct answers gets their name in print right here. Email your answers to: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com. If you do not want your email address to appear in the blog format of this newsletter, please indicate that. http://cosnewsweekly.blogspot.com/
Volume 13 No. 22 June 7, 2010
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
The Fine Print
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: June 7-13, 2010
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
thru SUN: 6/20: Chicago, IL: Five Decades of Great Gay Plays. An exploration of scripts written for the stage (some adapted for the screen. www.pridefilmsandplays.com
thru MON: 6/07: Orlando, FL: Gay Days Orlando including Gay Day at Disney World. www.gaydays.com
thru WED: 6/30: San Francisco, CA: National Queer Arts Festival. LGBT performances & exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area highlighting artists from around the country. www.QueerCulturalCenter.org
thru SUN: 6/13: New York, NY: NewFest, the New York LGBT Film Festival. http://newfest.org/wordpress/
MON: 6/07: San Francisco, CA: Help is On The Way. Jai Rodriguez, Marga Gomez and RJ Helton, along with the cast of In the Heights, perform a benefit for the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation (REAF) and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. www.helpisontheway.org.
MON: 6/07: New York, NY: John Waters, American filmmaker , writer, and bad boy of American cinema (“Hairspray”, “Pink Flamingos”, “Serial Mom”, reads and signs from his new book “Role Models”. www.nypl.org/events Also: TUE: 6/08 Los Angeles, CA: www.aloula.org. Also: THU: 6/10/10: Boston, MA: Boston Public Library.
WED: 6/09: Las Vegas, NV: LGBT Travel Symposium. www.lvccld.org
THU: 6/10: Kansas City, MO: Chely Wright, newly out country music star, signs copies of “Like Me”. 7PM. Unity Temple.
FRI: 6/11: Chicago, IL: Pam Grier, cult favorite and star of "The L Word", signs copies of “Foxy: My Life In Three Acts” 12:30PM. Borders Books. State Street. Also: SUN: 6/13: Largo, MD: 4PM. Borders Books. Capitol Centre Blvd..
SUN: 6/13: Baltimore, MD: 3rd Annual Tony Awards Party at the Club Hippo in Mt. Vernon. Admission is a donation to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS: 410-488-5180
Newsworthy:
June has been proclaimed by President Obama as LGBT Pride Month. The proclamation: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-pride-month
DADT: The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a measure 5/27/10 16-12 that would begin the process of dismantling the 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that prohibits gays and lesbians for serving openly in the military. The Advocate reports: http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/05/27/Senate_Committee_Passes_DADT_Amendment/
Toronto: The historic Glad Day bookstore is on the verge of closing. The Globe and Mail reports: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/historic-gay-bookstore-at-risk-of-closing/article1586260/?cmpid=rss1
Awards and Honors:
Honorary Tony Awards will be presented to David Hyde Pierce (the Isabelle Stevenson Award) for his volunteerism in the fight against Alzheimer’s and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Executive Director Tom Viola. www.tonyawards.com.
In Memoriam:
Peter Orlovsky, the poet and partner of Allen Ginsberg, died 5/30/10 at age 76. The Los Angeles Times reports: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/05/peter-orlovsky-poet-and-partner-to-allen-ginsberg-has-died.html
Photo Shoots and Video
Coming Out: Video: French McDonald’s Ad features closeted teen and father: http://jezebel.com/5551307/come-as-you-are-french-mcdonalds-ad-features-closeted-teen-and-father
Photos: Tony Awards nominees, as photographed for Vanity Fair. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/05/tonys-slide-show-201005#slide=1
Video: Documentary: A History of Trans and transgender like veterans from Pam’s House Blend via The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/05/31/A_History_of_Trans_and_Trans-Like_Veterans/
In Print:
My Queer War by James Lord. Farrar Straus and Giroux. An autobiography. In 1942, a timid, inexperienced twenty-one-year-old Lord reports to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the U.S. Army. His career in the armed forces takes him to Nevada and California, to Boston, to England, and eventually to France and Germany, where he witnesses firsthand the ravages of total war on Europe’s land and on its people. Along the way he comes to terms with his own sexuality, experiences the thrill of first love and the chill of disillusionment with his fellow man, and in a moment of great rashness makes the acquaintance of the world’s most renowned artist, who will show him the way to a new life.
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***La Cage Aux Folles, a revival of the 1983 Jerry Herman/Harvey Fierstein musica, based on a French film, which inspired the film "Birdcage". Kelsey Grammer stars. www.LaCage.com
***My Big Gay Italian Wedding. Anthony J. Wilkinson's comedy. Reichen Lehmkuhl stars; www.BigGayItalianWedding.com.
***My Trip Down The Pink Carpet. Leslie Jordan’s one-man show. to 7/03/10. www.mytripdownthepinkcarpet.com
***Next Fall. Geoffrey Nauffts' provocative play about a gay couple; one partner is a devout Christian and the other is an atheist. www.nextfallbroadway.com
***Promises, Promises. Newly-out Sean ("Will & Grace") Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth star in the Burt Bacharach & Hal David & Neil Simon musical. www.promisespromisesbroadway.com.
***Thank You For Being A Friend. The unauthorized musical parody inspired by the
beloved TV sitcom “The Golden Girls,”.to 8/01/10. Kraine Theatre
www.SpinCycleNYC.com
Elsewhere...
***A Little Night Music. Sondheim's all-waltz musical as directed by Isaac Mizrahi. to 6/19/10. St. Louis, MO. www.opera-stl.org/Season_Operas_show3.aspx
***An Evening with David Sedaris, the humorist, who previews his new book “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary”. to 6/13/10. Chicago, IL. www.steppenwolf.org.
***Boys Will Be Boys. a new musical. A benefit for a man who suffers from Gay Attention Deficit Disorder. to 6/26/10. San Francisco, CA. www.nctcsf.org
***The Drowsy Chaperone. Carson Kressley (“Queer Eye”) plays the showtune loving man in the chair. to 6/26/10. Ogunquit, ME. www.ogunquitplayhouse.org
***Hot Greeks. A Revival of the Cockettes’ 1972 Musical Extravaganza. to 6/27/10. San Francisco, CA. http://thrillpeddlers.com
***Pearls Over Shanghai. San Francisco’s Longest-Running Cockettes Musical. to 8/01/10. San Francisco, CA: http://thrillpeddlers.com
***Varla Jean Merman is The Loose Chanteuse to 9/04/10. Provincetown, MA. http://varlaonline.com/index.php?option=com_eventlist&view=eventlist&Itemid=12
***Yellow. A new dysfunctional family comedy by Del (“Sordid Lives”) Shores. to7/25/10. West Hollywood, CA. www.yellowbydelshores.somc
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Arias With a Twist. The incredible performance collaboration between performance artist Joey Arias and puppeteer Basil Twist is now a documentary. To see the trailer: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=759971528901
***Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride. Bob Christie’s documentary shows that Pride is more than a parade, it’s a giant step on the road to global human rights.
***Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. A new documentary which follows from gig to gig, onstage and at home, and historically through the ups and downs of her career.
***LA Mission. Benjamin Bratt is a barrio tough guy who discovers that his son is involved in a relationship with another boy.
***Sex and The City 2, the sequel. Sarah Jessica Parker and friends.
***Stonewall Uprising, a new documentary by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner covering the 3-day Stonewall riots in 1969. http://firstrunfeatures.com/stonewalluprising_playdates.html
***The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls. A documentary about the provocative New Zealand comedic duo, twin sisters and singers. Followed by our second party for more food, drink and dancing. http://topptwins.com.
Out On Video & DVD
***Hannah Free. Sharon Gless stars in the film adaptation of Claudia Allen's play about a woman who fights to see her lesbian partner one last time in a nursing home. Premiere screening:www.hannahfree.com
***My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story. The documentary about the bond between people and their pets. Among the people stars : Edward Albee, Glenn Close, Billy Greg Louganis, Nellie McKay, Christopher Meloni, and Isaac Mizrahi. www.docurama.com.
***One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard. Concert DVD.
***Prodigal Sons. Trans filmmaker Kimberly Reed’s autobiographical film about coming home after coming out and transitioning.
***Sordid Lives, the TV series. A Black comedy about white trash, based on the Del Shores play and film.
***Trinidad. The documentary about the Colorado town that has become “the sex change capital of the world. http://trinidadthemovie.com/
On TV Of Note: All times listed are ET. Check local listings for times in your area.
Resource:TV Gayed, GLAAD's Weekly Guide to What's LGBT on TV: Updated every Friday. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
***June: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
***WED: 6/09: Elaine Paige: Celebrating a Life on Stage. The British musical star (“Evita”) in a televised concert. 8PM. PBS. Check local listings.
***SUN: 6/13: The 64th Annual Tony Awards honoring excellence on Broadway. Sean Hayes hosts. 8PM. Live. CBS. www.TonyAwards.com
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
Ongoing: Global: 2010 Pride Season. Parades, fairs, festivals celebrating LGBT Pride around the world. www.interpride.org
6/14/10: New York, NY: Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays.
Featuring Jillian Armenante, Amy Brenneman, Kevin Chamberlain, Frankie Faison, Randy Harrison, Jefferson Mays, Kathy Najimy, Christopher Sieber, Mary Testa, Mary Louise Wilson, and B.D. Wong. A benefit for the Human Rights Campaign, Marriage Equality New York, and New York Theatre Workshop. www.nytw.org/standing_benefit.asp
6/14/10-6/20/10: Berkeley, CA: David Sedaris workshops new stories from an upcoming book in front of a live audience at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. www.berkeleyrep.org
6/15/10: New York, NY: Alison Arngrim, star of "Little House on the Prairie", signs copies of “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”. 7PM. Border’s at Columbus Circle. Also: 6/24/10: Los Angeles, CA: 7PM. Barnes & Noble, Grove Drive. Also: 6/26/10: Bloomington, MN: 6PM. Barnes & Noble, Mall of America.
6/16/10-6/20/10: Provincetown, MA: Provincetown International Film Festival. www.ptownfilmfest.org
6/17/10-6/27/10: San Francisco, CA: Frameline: San Francisco Int’l LGBT Film Festival www.frameline.org
6/20/10: New York, NY: Broadway Bares XX: Stripopoly. Broadway boys and girls take it all off for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The 20th anniversary edition. http://broadwaybares.com/home-flash.php
6/21/10: New York, NY: Spirit of Pride 2010 Celebration at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine (1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street) 7:30 pm. Free. www.stjohndivine.org
6/22/10: New York, NY: Levi Kreis and “Million Dollar Quartet perform at a CD signing. 4PM. Barnes and Noble, Lincoln Triangle. www.bn.com
6/23/10: Tempe, AZ: Cat Cora, out star of "Iron Chef America" signs copies of “Cat Cora's Classics With A Twist”. 7PM. Changing Hands Books.
6/24/10: New York, NY: Sean Hayes, Kristen Chenoweth and the cast of “Promises, Promises” perform at a CD signing. 5PM. Barnes and Noble, Lincoln Triangle. www.bn.com
6/26/10: New York, NY: The Gay Pride Edition: Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words. Rachel Dratch, Cheyenne Jackson, Kristen Johnston, John Cameron Mitchell, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Bruce Vilanch, and B.D. Wong star. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
6/27/10: New York, NY: Nathan Lane is Jordan Roth’s guest for “Broadway Talks”. 7:30PM. 92Y-Lexington Avenue. www.92Y.org/lectures
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: June Milestones
1. Question: Name this event, on June 22, 1969, which triggered anguish within the gay community and may have led (according to legend) to the Stonewall riots. Answer: Judy Garland’s death. Several days later, after her funeral, when cops raided the Stonewall Bar in Greenwich Village, the patrons fought back.
2. Question: Name this landmark legislation on June 26, 2003. When The Supreme Court acted, this fueled the revival of an intense LGBT civil rights movement. Answer: Lawrence vs.Texas (Sodomy Law) was struck down as unconstitutional.
3. Question: Name this event, which first started on June 28, 1970, to commemorate the Stonewall riots. New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and smaller cities saw this event. Answer: Pride March.
4. Question: Name this gay composer, known for his spicy lyrics, born June 9, 1892. He gave Ethel Merman the showstopping Reno Sweeney, and rhymed “heinous” with “Coriolanus”. His film bio was released in 2004. Answer: Cole Porter, composer of “Anything Goes” and “Kiss Me Kate”. Kevin Kline played Porter in the movie bio; Ashley Judd starred as Porter’s wife, Linda.
5. Question: Name this Canadian pop singer who came out in the Advocate on June 16, 1992. Her star continues to rise, and she recently completed a global tour with Tony Bennett. Answer: k.d.lang.
This Week’s Trivia Quiz: The Tony Awards
The Tony Awards air live on CBS on Sunday, June 13. Sean Hayes hosts. Curtain is 8PM.
1. Question. Name this actor/dancer/choreographer/director. He’s one of two out theatre people to have received Tony Awards in four different categories. He won playing a gay dancer/choreographer, one playing a tap-dancing aviator, one choreographing a musical about a Ziegfeld cowboy, and one staging a musical about the hospitality industry. Hint: Harvey Fierstein was the other guy to win in four categories.
2. Question: Although several performers have won Tonys for roles that have involved cross dressing, only two have won for performing in roles in which the character is actually a member of the opposite sex. Harvey Fierstein won a Tony playing Edna Turblad in the musical "Hairspray". Name the other. Hint: This actor, known for a tropical shampoo and rinse role, had a child who became one of TV's most beloved villians. Offstage, the actor was known for a "close relationship" with another actor of the same sex.
3. Question: Name this Tony loser. All of the following actors played the famous stage mother Rose in “Gypsy”. (Incidentally, historians have written that Mamma Rose and her daughter Gypsy Rose Lee both had lesbian relationships). Which performance did not win the Tony? Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, Patti LuPone.
4. Question: Name this gay composer, who has won more Tony Awards than any other composer. He's won Tonys (8 total) for musicals with petite sunset waltzes, fairy tale characters, non-commital bachelors, and a vengeful barber with a Betty Crocker girlfriend. Do you know the shows ?
5. Question: Name this one-person play, about an East German transvestite. It’s the only one-person play to win a “Best Play” Tony; its star, who won a Best Actor Tony, played multiple real-life characters. The show also won the Pulitzer.
The first person to submit the correct answers gets their name in print right here. Email your answers to: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com. If you do not want your email address to appear in the blog format of this newsletter, please indicate that. http://cosnewsweekly.blogspot.com/
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