Coming Out Support Newsweekly: 11/01/10

Coming Out Support (COS) Newsweekly
Volume 13 No. 43 November 1, 2010
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com

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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: November 1-7, 2010

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

thru WED: 11/24/: New York, NY: So You Think You Can Drag. Fabulous queens compete for celebrity judges and audience approval. www.timeoutnylounge.com/soyouthinkyoucandrag

thru MON: 11/01: New York, NY: Queer Shabbaton. A weekend for LGBT Jews. http://www.nehirim.org/qsny

MON: 11/01: New York, NY: It Gets Better: Broadway Supports The Trevor Project. Broadway's leading voices, lending their support to this vital organization that provides suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ youth. Farah Alvin, Brent Barrett, Kevin Chamberlin, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Michelle Dowdy, Daisy Eagan, Eric Michael Gillett, Annie Golden, Randy Jones, Karen Mason, Liz McCartney, Judy McLane, Sarah Rice, Roz Ryan, Stephen Schwartz, Mary Stout, John Tartaglia, Stephen Wallem, Barbara Walsh, and Sally Wilfert star. www.smarttix.com.

MON: 11/01: New York, NY: Nothing Like a Dame. the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative Benefit. Charles Busch, Mario Cantone, Victoria Clark are amongst the stars. www.actorsfund.org

WED-SUN: 11/03-11/07: New York, NY: New York City Comedy Festival. Among those featured: Rosie O’Donnell and Margaret Cho. www.nycomedyfestival.com

WED: 11/03: San Francisco, CA: Armistead Maupin does a booksigning for his newest book of “Tales of The City”, “Mary Ann in Autumn”. Books Inc. Also: THU: Danville, CA: Rakestraw Books. SAT: 11/06: San Francisco, CA: Book Passage. http://www.armisteadmaupin.com/Events.html

WED: 11/03: New York, NY: Ricky Martin, out singer, signs copies of his memoir “Me”. 12:30PM. Border’s, Columbus Circle. Also: THU: 11/04: Ridgewood, NJ: 7PM. BookEnds. SAT: 11/06 Coral Gables, FL: 4PM. Books & Books, Aragon Avenue.

THU-SAT: 11/04-11/13: Chicago, IL: Reeling: Chicago Lesbian & Gay Int’l Film Fest.
www.reelingfilmfestival.org

FRI: 11/05: New York, NY: Portia de Rossi, star of "Arrested Development" signing copies of “Unbearable Lightness”. 6PM. Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Triangle.

FRI: 11/05: Las Vegas, NV: 16th Annual Honorarium, The Gay and Lesbian Community Center recognizing individuals from Southern Nevada who have distinguished themselves as leaders through their commitment to the LGBT community by giving of their time, talents or resources during the past year. www.thecenterlv.com

FRI-SUN: 11/05-11/07: Spokane, WA: Spokane LGBT Film Festival. www.spokanefilmfest.org

FRI: 11/05: New York, NY: Campus Pride College Fair and Prep Day. East Coast Region. http://www.campusclimateindex.org/events/default.aspx

SAT: 11/06: New York, NY: Glitter and Be Gay. New York City Opera’s LGBT after-party following a Leonard Bernstein concert with Cheyenne Jackson and Michael Urie. www.nycopera.com

SAT: 11/06: Boston, MA: Campus Pride College Fair and Prep Day. Northeast Region. http://www.campusclimateindex.org/events/default.aspx

SAT-SUN: 11/06-11/07: Bloomington, IN: Queering the Countryside: New Directions in Rural Queer Studies. Indiana University’s two-day, interdisciplinary conference and workshop. http://www.iub.edu/~gender/queering-the-countryside.html

Newsworthy:

Coming Out: Teacher Fired for Coming Out gets his job back. Seth Stambaugh reinstated in Oregon. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/10/teacher-fired-for-coming-out-to-student-gets-job-back.html

Prop 8: The 9th Circuit Court will hear arguments in the federal challenge against Proposition 8 on 12/06/10. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/10/21/Prop_8_Arguments_Set_for_Dec_6/

Campaign 2010: A few TG candidates in line for victories. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/us/politics/25transgender.html?_r=2&hp

Campaign 2010: Gay voters angry with Democrats could sway the election. The Washington Post reports: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/24/AR2010102401490.html?hpid=sec-politics

Facebook may be outing users to advertisers. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/10/21/Gay_Facebook_Ads_Reveal_Privacy_Issue/

News: Gay Teens, Bullying and Suicide

Day in Purple. National coverage for a cause. USAToday: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-10-19-gay-teens-purple_N.htm

Facebook is launching a network of support for LGBT teens. Switched.com reports: http://www.switched.com/2010/10/21/facebook-creates-network-of-support-for-lgbt-teens/

Features

Profile: Zachary Quinto. From “Star Trek” to “Angels in America”, the star’s career is on the rise. He supports all kinds of LGBT causes, but he won’t reveal anything about his private life. . The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/theater/24quinto.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1

In Print:

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward. Smithsonian Books. The companion volume to an exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, “Hide/Seek” highlights the often overlooked influence of gay and lesbian artists on American art and portraiture from Eakins, to O’Keeffe, to Rauschenberg, to Warhol, to Mapplethorpe.

Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi. Atria. De Rossi,shares her struggles with her eating disorders and her sexuality in this memoir.

Me. by Ricky Martin. Celebra Press. From Menudo to La Vida Loca to coming out, Ricky tells all in a new memoir.

In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance

New York City (and Broadway)

***Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Tony Kushner’s award-winning epic. thru 2/20/11. www.signaturetheatre.org.
***Back to New York. Gavin Creel of “Hair” and one of the founders of Broadway Impact, an organization fighting for equality and the LBGT community, returns to New York in concert. to 11/15/10. www.birdlandjazz.com.
***The Devil Boys from Beyond, the all-male sci-fi adventure. to 12/30/10.
***The Divine Sister. Charles Busch plays an indomitable Mother Superior driven to build a new school for her Pittsburgh convent. www.DivineSisterOnstage.com.
***The Lesbian Love Octagon. The musical comedy journey of Sue, a dyke with a broken heart, who loses her current girlfriend to her ex-girlfriend. 11/04/10-11/07/10. www.horseTRADE.info
***The Pee-wee Herman Show. Paul Reubens’ stage version of his TV hit. to 1/02/11.
***Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. A new musical based on out filmmaker Pedro Almodovar’s film. Patti LuPone, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Sherie Renee Scott star. www.lct.org.

Elsewhere...

***The Boys in the Band, Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking 1968 play about pre-Stonewall gay life. 11/05/10-12/12/10, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. www.risingactiontheatre.com.
***Boys Will Be Boys. The musical about a fundraiser to fight gay attention deficit disorder. to 11/20/10. Theatre Out, Santa Ana, CA. www.theatreout.com
***Jeffrey Johnson as Edie Beale. Johnson recreates Little Edie’s infamous 1978 cabaret act “Live at Reno Sweeney”. 11/05/10-11/06/10. San Francisco, CA. www.therrazzroom.com
***Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the musical based on the 1994 Australian film. Three drag queens cross the Outback in a battered old bus. Toronto, ON. to 11/28/10. www.priscillathemusical.com.
***Take Me Out. A baseball player comes out. to 12/19/10. Hollywood, CA. www.celebrationtheatre.com

On Display

thru 1/23/11: Washington, DC: Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. A display of portraits from the late 19th century through today illustrates the changing social attitudes towards sexual difference and how it is depicted. National Portrait Gallery. http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/museums/national-portrait-gallery-smithsonian-institution,793021.html

thru 3/26/11: San Francisco, CA: Exhibition: More Life! “Angels in America” at Twenty. Museum of Performance and Design. http://www.mpdsf.org/EXHIBITIONS/ANGELS/ANGELS.html

On Screen (and Video & DVD)

Out on Screen...

***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.
***HOWL, the docu-feature about Allen Ginsberg (James Franco) by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
***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
***Wild Target. Out actor Rupert Everett stars in the story of a con artist pursued by a top assassin after scamming a gangster.

Out On Video & DVD

***Cher: The Film Collection. A set of her greatest films including “Moonstruck”, “Silkwood” and “Tea With Mussolini”.
***Evening Primrose, the 1966 musical teleplay by James Goldman from from John Collier short story, with a score by Stephen Sondheim. Anthony Perkins stars.
***Modern Family: The Complete First Season. Follow the story of Mitchell and Cameron.
***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
***Score. Radley Metzger’s 1972 film based on an off-Broadway play. One of the first mass-market films to explore couples who swing both ways. A gay sex scene with Cal Culver (Casey Donovan) was restored for the DVD release.
***Sex and The City 2. Carrie and the girls and a gay wedding with Liza.

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

***November: 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.
***Weekdays The Talk. Out “Roseanne” alum Sara Gilmore produces a new version of “The View” with Marissa Jaret Winokur, Julie Chen, and Sharon Osbourne. CBS Weekdays. Check local listings.

Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events

11/08/10: New York, NY: Fashion Forward 2010, a fundraiser for the GMHC hosted by Tim Gunn. http://www.gmhc.org/donate/special-events/fashion-forward-2010

11/08/10: New York, NY: Ali Forney Center Benefit Concert with David Raleigh, Alan Cumming, Billy Porter, and Ari Gold. www.thefriendsproject.org.

11/09/10: New York, NY: 2010 Emery Awards, honor “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy. A benefit for the Hetrick-Martin Institute (Harvey Milk School). www.hmi.org.

11/10/10-11/14/10: Hartford, CT: 12th EROS Film Festival. http://www.outfilmct.org/

11/13/10: Los Angeles, CA: LA Gay and Lesbian Center Gala and Auction. Lily Tomlin hosts. Matthew Morrison and Jane Lynch appear. www.lagaycenter.org.

11/13/10: Hartford, CT: One Big Event, a benefit for the Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective. http://www.hglhc.org/onebigevent/index.html

11/22/10: New York, NY: You Are Not Alone. Betty Buckley headlines a benefit for The Trevor Project. http://www.youarenotalonebenefit.com/

Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: November Milestones

1. Question: Name this successful LGBT news magazine, subject of a front page profile in the Wall Street Journal on November 3, 1975. It continues to be one of the leading LGBT news sources today. Answer: The Advocate.

2. Question: Name this out comic, the first openly-gay cast member of “Saturday Night Live”. He joined the company on November 9, 1985, and did a great “Nancy Reagan”. Answer: Terry Sweeney.

3. Question: Name this bisexual American designer born November 19, 1942. Many people have his name below their belts. When Mark Wahlberg teamed up with him, Times Square had fender benders for days. Answer: Calvin Klein. MarkyMark’s billboard in Times Square (in his Calvins) caused fender benders along Broadway.

4. Question: Name this gay photographer and artist, born November 4, 1946. He was known for his “uptown” floral portraits, but his “downtown” nudes and S&M pictures caused a censorship controversy in the 1980s. Answer: Robert Mapplethorpe.

5. Question: Name this award-winning play (and subsequent film), which opened on Broadway on November 20, 1934. It profiled two schoolteachers accused of being lesbians. Its author, one of the most celebrated female playwrights in 20th century literature, wrote a play which made Talullah Bankhead an American icon. Answer: The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman, author of “The Little Foxes”.

This Week’s Trivia Quiz: LGBT Veterans

Veteran’s Day is November 11. Despite the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy which discriminates against LGBT service personnel, many have served with honor. Thank them.

1. Question: Name this Middle Eastern nation that has permitted gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military since 1993.

2. Question: Name this American author who profiled the discrimination of gays and lesbians in the US military (from the Vietnam War to the Persian Gulf). Hint: He also wrote a best-seller about the AIDS Movement in America.

3. Question: Which was the first nation to ban discrimination against gays in the military.

4. Question: Name this doctor, humanitarian, and writer, who was dishonorably discharged from the military for being gay. As a navy doctor, he supervised a medical assistance program for more than 600,000 refugees fleeing North Vietnam. After his discharge, he established a network of clinics in South East Asia. He died at age 34.

5. Question: Name this Vietnam veteran, recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star, who was one of the best-known openly gay men in America in the 1970's. His fight to remain in the military put him on the cover of TIME Magazine in 1975.

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