Coming Out Support Newsweekly: 9/20/10

Coming Out Support (COS) Newsweekly
Volume 13 No. 37 September 20, 2010
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com

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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: September 20-26, 2010

thru SUN: 10/24: Chicago, IL: The Great Plays of Terrence McNally. A series of readings and performances of the out playwright’s major works. Pride Films and Plays. www.pridefilmsandplays.com.

MON: 9/20: Huntington, NY: Patti LuPone, Broadway diva, signs copies of her new memoir. 7PM. Book Revue, New York Ave.

TUE: 9/21: New York, NY: Tim Gunn, star of "Project Runway" signing copies of his new book “Gunn’s Golden Rules”. 7PM. Barnes & Noble, Warren Street. Also: WED: 9/22: Huntington, NY: 7PM. Book Revue, New York Avenue.

TUE: 9/21: San Francisco, CA: Justin Spring does a reading/booksigning of his new book, “Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade”. 4PM. Hormel Center Reading Room, San Francisco Public Library. http://www.secrethistorian.com/events.htm

WED-SAT: 9/22-9/25: San Diego, CA: Gay and Lesbian Medical Association 28th Annual Conference. www.glma.org

THU-SAT: 9/23-9/25: Syracuse, NY: Transnationalizing LGBT Studies Conference. Syracuse University LGBT Studies Program. http://www.transnationalizinglgbt.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=58

THU-SUN: 9/23-9/26: Provincetown, MA: Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival, 5th annual presentation of works by Williams and those influenced by him. www.twptown.org

FRI: 9/24: Los Angeles, CA: Alison Arngrim, star of "Little House of the Prairie" signing copies of her new book “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch”. 7PM. Barnes & Noble, Grove Drive.

FRI: 9/24: Tulsa, OK: Michael Cunningham does a reading and booksigning of his new novel “By Nightfall”. Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers. http://www.michaelcunninghamwriter.com/tour/

SAT-SUN: 9/25-9/26: Dallas, TX:.Lone Star Ride Fighting AIDS. a two-day, 165-mile fully-supported cycling event through north Texas. The ride raises money for 3 north Texas organizations serving people impacted by HIV/AIDS. www.lonestarride.org

SAT-SUN: 9/25-9/26: Washington, DC: 2010 OUT for Work LGBTQA National College Student Career Conference. http://www.outforwork.org/conferences/2010/national/default.asp

SAT: 9/25: Pipersville, PA: Bucks County Cabaret, John Lloyd Young, Tony Award winning star of "Jersey Boys" headlines this benefit for amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. www.amfar.org.

SAT: 9/25: Los Angeles, CA: Point Foundation Gala honoring Alan Cumming and Brittany Snow. The organization is the nation's largest scholarship-granting group for LGBT students of merit. www.pointfoundation.org

SUN: 9/26: New York, NY: The 24th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. www.broadwaycares.org.

SUN: 9/26: New York, NY: The Wedding March. Marriage Equality New York’s 7th annual equality event. A march over the Brooklyn Bridge. http://www.meny.us/march.php

SUN: 9/26: New York, NY: GLAAD Media Awards in Advertising. .honoring individuals and projects in the advertising and marketing industries for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of theLGBT community.http://www.glaad.org/events

Newsworthy:

DADT Ruled Unconstitutional: A federal judge in Southern California on 9/02/10 declared the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional. AmericaBlog Gay reports: http://gay.americablog.com/2010/09/breaking-judge-rules-dadt-is.html

A DADT Ruling Analysis: Towleroad analyzes the ruling: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/09/dont-ask-dont-tell-unconstitutional.html

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) intends to schedule a vote next week on major defense budget legislation that contains “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal language, regardless of any objection from members of the U.S. Senate. The Washington Blade reports: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2010/09/13/reid-to-schedule-dont-ask-vote-next-week/

GLSEN Study: 9 of 10 LGBT Youth face harassment at school. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/09/study-9-of-10-lgbt-students-face-harassment-at-school.html

Another Teen Suicide after anti-gay bullying. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/09/indiana-teen-commits-suicide-after-anti-gay-bullying-at-school.html

Election Recaps: Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/09/cicilline-wins-in-ri-stachowski-loses-in-ny-odonnell-wins-in-de.html

The Buzz (People Making News)

Coming Out: Ryan Buell, host of A&E’s “Paranormal State”, has come out as bisexual. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/09/14/A_and_E_Host_Comes_Out_as_Bi/

Monica Marquez will be the first lesbian and the first Latina to sit on the Colorado supreme court, Gov. Bill Ritter announced 9/08/10. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/09/09/Colo_Gov_OKs_Lesbian_Latina_Supreme_Court_Justice/

In Memoriam:

Brian C. Smith, the South Florida theatre pioneer, died 9/07/10 at age 70. The Miami Herald reports: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/08/1813902/brian-c-smith-south-florida-theater.html

Seymour Pine, the deputy police inspector who led the raid on the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village gay bar in 1969 (a moment that helped start the gay liberation movement), died 9/02/10, at age 91. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/nyregion/08pine.html?_r=1&hpw

Virginia B. Smith, a lawyer and economist who helped shape the contours of higher education as president of Vassar College, as a high public official in Washington and as a member of influential private research groups, died on 8/27/10 at age 87. Ms. Smith is survived by her partner of 57 years, Florence Oaks. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/education/08smith.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=vassar&st=cse

Features

Coming Out: Audio: “Outing 20 Year Later”. Michelangelo Signorile’s panel at the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association Convention. http://www.signorile.com/2010/09/audio-outing-20-years-later.html

The New “Gay”. Polyamorists in Canada are seeking legitimacy for consensual, familial relationships between non-related adults... a lot of them. Or, at least, more than the usual two. EDGE on the net reports: http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc&sc2=news&sc3&id=110153

TR Knight talks Broadway. Playbill.com reports: http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/article/142893-PLAYBILLCOMS-BRIEF-ENCOUNTER-With-TR-Knight

Profile: Nate Berkus, stylist turned talk-show host. New York Magazine talks with him about his relationship with Oprah, his new show, and about the loss of his boyfriend in the tsunami and his public coming out. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/09/oprah_designer_nate_berkus_i_f.html

In Print:

Why Are You Telling Me This?: Christopher Isherwood's Commonplace Book. Edited by Don Bachardy (Isherwood's partner) and James P. White. Alyson Books. Christopher Isherwood's (Berlin Stories, the basis for Cabaret) written record of personal reading. An annotated list of readings selected during the last forty-five years of his life. Among the works excerpted are novels, essays, and letters by Saint Augustine, Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, Henry James, Marcel Proust, E.M. Forster, Federico García Lorca, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler, Tennessee Williams, Shirley Jackson, Ian Fleming, Andy Warhol, and John Lennon.

In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance

New York City (and Broadway)

Fall Guide to Broadway from BroadwayWorld.com: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BroadwayWorlds_2010_Fall_Season_Guide_is_Here_20100909

***A Life in The Theatre. T.R. Knight stars with Patrick Stewart who plays an elderly actor and Knight’s mentor in David Mamet’s play. to 1/02/11.
***Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Tony Kushner’s award-winning epic. Both parts of the play, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, will alternate in repertory from this first preview. thru 2/20/11. www.signaturetheatre.org.
***Another American: Asking and Telling. Mark Wolf’s tour-de-force one man show about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”. Mondays to 10/04/10. Proceeds benefit several LGBT non-profits. http://www.facebook.com/anotheramerican
***Brief Encounter, a multimedia revival of gay Noel Coward’s play. thru 12/05/10. www.roundabouttheatre.org.
***The Divine Sister. Charles Busch’s new play. Busch plays an indomitable Mother Superior driven to build a new school for her Pittsburgh convent. www.DivineSisterOnstage.com.
***Orlando. young man turned immortal woman still lives, now as a stage character in Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Woolf’s 1928 novel. to 10/07/10. www.classicstage.org.
***Paulo Szot, out opera star, makes his New York cabaret debut at The Carlyle. to 9/25/10. 212-744-1600.
***Z Chromosome. A new theatre piece from drag artist Joey Arias and puppeteer Basil Twist. Theirry Mugler designs. to 10/09/10. http://www.abronsartscenter.org/

Elsewhere...

***Jerry Springer the Opera, the West Coast premiere of the opera about Jerry’s colorful guests. thru 10/16/10. San Francisco, CA. www.roltheatre.com
***The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. The Tectonic Theater Project’s docudrama about the aftermath of the Matthew Shepard murder. to 10/02/10, Boston, MA. http://www.tectonictheaterproject.org/Tectonic.html
***Sassy Gay Friend Comedy Show. Brian Gallivan of The Second City Comedy comedy troupe, creator of and star of “Sassy Gay Friend” entertains with SGF stories and his own story of coming out. Los Angeles, CA. thru October. http://www.secondcity.com/performances/detail/338/
***Take Me Out. Richard Greenberg’s award-winning drama about a major league baseball player who comes out. to 10/31/10. Los Angeles, CA.
www.celebrationtheatre.com
***Transfiguration: Transgressing Gender in The Bible. Activist Peterson Toscano finds gay Biblical people. 9/23/10, Berkeley, CA. http://www.petersontoscano.com/Schedule

On Screen (and Video & DVD)

Resource: GLAAD's Guide to What's LGBT in Film: http://glaadblog.org/whats-lgbt-in-film/

Out on Screen...

***HOWL, the docu-feature about Allen Ginsberg (James Franco) by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Also starring David Strathairn, Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker and Jeff Daniels.
***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

Out On Video & DVD

***Glee. The Complete First Season.
***LA Mission. Benjamin Bratt is a barrio tough guy who discovers that his son is involved in a relationship with another boy.
***Mädchen in Uniform, the 1958 lesbian classic.
***The Matthew Shepard Story. Stockard Channing plays Judy Shepard in the Lifetime network film about Matthew’s murder. Her performance is incredible.
***Modern Family: The Complete First Season. Follow the story of Mitchell and Cameron.
***My Trip Down The Pink Carpet. Leslie Jordan’s one-man autobiographical show. A recent Off-Broadway hit. www.mytripdownthepinkcarpet.com.
***The Pirates of Penzance. Gilbert & Sullivan reinterperted by Kevin Kline, Linda Ronstadt, Angela Lansbury and Rex Smith.

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 frequently. www.glaad.org/tvgayed

***September: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
***Weekdays: The Nate Berkus Show. Oprah’s out protege goes hourly in syndication. Check local listings.

***MON: 9/20: Dancing With The Stars season premiere starring Margaret Cho amongst others. Cast pairings: http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/09-2010/margaret-cho-maksim-chmerkovskiy-florence-henderso_30076.html. 8PM. ABC.
***TUE: 9/21: Glee season premiere. 8PM ET. Fox.

Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events

9/28/10-12/02/10: Nationwide: David Sedaris does a book tour with his new book: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Beastiary by David Sedaris. http://www.barclayagency.com/speakers/appearances/sedaris.html

10/01/10: Los Angeles, CA: The PFLAG LA Event. PFLAG’s first Los Angeles event at the London West Hollywood. www.pflag.org.

10/02/10-10/08/10: Atlanta, GA: Out on Film. www.outonfilm.com

10/02/10: Anaheim, CA: Youth Programs at Gay Days (at Disneyland). Programs for the under 21 set. www.gaydaysanahaeim.com.

10/02/10: Charlotte, NC: Campus Pride College Fair and Prep Day. Southeast Region. http://www.campusclimateindex.org/events/default.aspx

10/03/10: San Francisco, CA: Castro Street Fair. Street fair started by Harvey Milk.
www.castrostreetfair.org

10/04/10: New York, NY: Broadway Takes The Runway. Carson Kressley and Sara Ramirez (“Grey’s Anatomy”) hostan evening of song to benefit the Al D. Rodriguez Liver Foundation. Artists will be dressed by Broadway designers. www.AlDRodriguezLiverFoundation.com

10/07/10-10/10/10: Los Angeles, CA: The World Goes Round, a benefit for the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Jeffrey Goodman Special Care Clinic. www.lagaycenter.org/worldgoesround.

10/07/10-10/09/10: Sacramento, CA: Sacramento Int’l Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. www.siglff.org

10/08/10-10/09/10: Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Queer Studies Conference. lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu

10/08/10-10/10/10: Palm Desert, CA: Families in the Desert. Family Equality Council’s weekend for LGBT families and friends. http://www.familyequality.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events_calendar

10/11/10: Nationwide: National Coming Out Day. www.hrc.com/ncop

Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: Glee


1. Question: Name the film that “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy wrote and directed which was based on an out author’s experiences growing up with a crazy family in a town known for being a major lesbian community. Answer: Running with Scissors, based on Augusten Burroughs’ memoir about growing up in Northampton, MA.

2. Question: Which “Glee” star made his Broadway debut as a John Waters hero, got a Tony nomination for a role performed in Italian in an American musical, and learned that prejudice is learned and not innate in a Broadway musical. Answer: Matthew Morrison (Will Schuester), who starred as Link in “Hairspray”; as the non-English speaking Fabrizio Nacarelli in “The Light on The Piazza” and as Lt. Cable in Lincoln Center’s “South Pacific”.

3. Question: Which “Glee” star, currently on the London stage in a gay-themed thriller, became famous portraying a sex-crazed post-winter teen on Broadway and is a major activist for Broadway Impact, the group of Broadway and Hollywood folks fighting for LGBT equality. Answer: Jonathan Groff (Jesse St. James), currently starring in “Deathtrap” in London (in the Christopher Reeve part). He became famous after starring in “Spring Awakening”.

4. Question: Name this out “Glee” star, recently married to her partner just north of the town in Question #1. Seen in “The L Word”, she was named as one of POWER UP's "10 Amazing Gay Women in Showbiz” in 2005. Answer: Jane Lynch, who plays Sue Sylvester.

This Week’s Trivia Quiz: Touchdown

1. Question: Name this NFL running back, who is 1975, became one of the first professional athletes to come out. He was an All-American running back at The University of Washington, where he was signed by the San Francisco 49ers. He played pro-football from 1964 to 1972.

2. Question: Name this NFL offensive lineman with the New York Giants and later with the Washington Redskins during Super Bowl XVIII in 1984. In 1992, he came out on the Phil Donahue Show.

3. Question: Name this NFL defensive lineman, born of Samoan ancestry, and nicknamed "Mr. Aloha". He reached the Super Bowl in 1998 while playing with the Atlanta Falcons. He also played for the Carolina Panthers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers during his career. He came out on HBO's "Real Sports" in 2002.

4. Question: Name this gay or bi football player who was a tight end for the NFL's Washington Redskins from 1965–1977. Sports Illustrated called him "an outstanding receiver among tight ends, with the ability to break open for a long gain." He was the first former professional football player to die of AIDS.

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