Coming Out Support (COS) Newsweekly
Volume 14 No. 26 July 4, 2011
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: July 4-10, 2011
For Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org. or http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
thru SAT: 8/06: New York, NY: HOT Festival, The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture with theatre, dance, music, burlesque, performance art, literature, and homoeroticism. 20th edition. http://www.hotfestival.org/
thru MON: 7/04: Washington, DC: DignityUSA 20th National Convention for LGBT Catholics. http://conv2011.dignityusa.org/
thru MON: 7/04: Atlanta, GA: Int’l Gay Square Dance Clubs Convention. www.iagsdc.org
WED: 7/06: New York, NY: Steven Petrow discusses his book “Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners” with Michael Musto. 6:30PM. LGBT Community Center. Also: THU: 7/07: Washington, DC 7PM. Barnes & Noble, 555 12th St. NW. .http://www.gaymanners.com/appearances-by-steven-petrow
THU-SUN: 7/07-7/17: Los Angeles, CA: Outfest LGBT Film/Video Festival. www.outfest.org
THU: 7/07: New York, NY: Broadway in Bryant Park. Free performances by the casts of “Sister Act” and “Stomp”. 12:30PM. www.1067litefm.com
FRI-SUN: 7/08-7/10: Boston, MA: National Asamblea for LGBT Latino/as and allies www.unidoslgbt.com
SAT: 7/09/: Rehoboth Beach, DE: Two Comics, One Voice, a benefit for Camp Rehoboth. The stand-up of Bob Smith and Eddie Sarfaty, performed by Sarfaty. Editor’s Note: Bob Smith was one of the Funny Gay Males. He has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, which has slurred his speech, so Sarfaty is giving his monologues voice. www.camprehoboth.com.
SAT-SAT: 7/09-7/16: Sandpiper, FL: Summer Camp 2011. R Family Vacations Club Med program for LGBT families. http://www.rfamilyvacations.com/vacations_2010/clubmed_florida.php
SAT:-TUE: 7/09-7/12: Orlando, FL: GCLS Literary Convention. Golden Crown Literary Society’s annual gathering to share & explore the many facets of lesbian literature. www.gclscon.com
Newsworthy:
New York: The Senate (33-29) approves marriage equality, 42 years after Stonewall. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/nyregion/gay-marriage-approved-by-new-york-senate.html?hp
New York II: Gay marriage will boost tourism. USAToday reports: http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2011/06/gay-marriage-law-set-to-boost-new-york-tourism/175646/1?csp=fbtravel
Arkansas: A local newspaper omitted the name of a deceased man’s male partner, until GLAAD intervened. GLAAD reports: http://glaadblog.org/2011/06/23/arkansas-paper-to-change-policy-to-include-partners-in-obits/
The Buzz (People Making News)
New York City’s Top Power Gays, according to the New York Observor. http://www.observer.com/2011/06/new-yorks-new-power-gays-the-top-50/
Transitions:
Engaged: Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka. The Huffington Post reports: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/25/neil-patrick-harris-david-burtka-engaged_n_884486.html
Engaged: Daniel O’Donnell, the NY State Rep who sponsored the marriage equality bill, is engaged to his longtime partner John Banta. OnTop Magazine reports: http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=8773&MediaType=1&Category=26
Photo Shoots, Audio and Video
Resource: Gay Rights Media: YouTube Channel offers a variety of news and information videos. http://www.youtube.com/GayRightsMedia
Photos: Celebrity Autobiography Gay Pride Edition. Theatermania reports: http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/06-2011/photo-flash-mario-cantone-sharon-gless-kristen-joh_38470.html
Photos: Daniel Radcliffe receives the Trevor Project’s Hero Award. From BroadwayWorld.com: http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Coverage-The-Trevor-Project-Honors-Daniel-Radcliffe-with-The-Hero-Award-20110628
Features
Coming Out: Sir Ian McKellan explains why he never came out to his parents, as he fronts a campaign to help gay teens who became homeless after coming out. The Pink News reports: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/06/26/sir-ian-mckellen-on-why-he-never-came-out-to-parents-as-he-fronts-gay-homelessness-campaign/
Trailblazing: A History of Gay Rights in New York from New York Magazine. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/06/trailblazing_a_history_of_gay.html
My First Gay Bar. LGBT authors share their “first times” with Slate. http://www.slate.com/id/2297605/
Profile: Mark Grisanti, the New York State Senator whose change of mind brought marriage equality to the Empire State. The Buffalo News reports: http://www.buffalonews.com/city/politics/article468372.ece
Transgender Rights: America’s next great civil rights struggle. The New Republic reports: http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/90519/transgender-civil-rights-gay-lesbian-lgbtq
Profile: Lindon Warren, the teen who channelled Judy Garland and subject of the new documentary “Finding Judy”. Instinct reports: http://instinctmagazine.com/blog/teen-who-channeled-judy-to-disarm-bullies-is-the-subject-of-new-documentary?directory=100011#comment-12824
The Resource Center:
Compete Sports Media: the gay sports network with radio, magazine, events listings and interactive. http://www.competenetwork.com/
In Print:
Resource: The Best LGBT Books of 2010: 80 Authors Select Their Favorites. Band of Thebes reports: http://bandofthebes.typepad.com/bandofthebes/2010/11/the-best-lgbt-books-of-2010.html
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***The Judy Show: My Life As A Sitcom. Out comic Judy Gold’s new comedy. www.judygold.com.
***Master Class. Tyne Daly stars as opera diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s drama with music to 8/14/11. www.manhatttantheatreclub.com
***The Normal Heart. Larry Kramer’s, landmark story of the early days of the AIDS pandemic. TonyAward for “Best Revival”. Joe Mantello, Ellen Barkin, and John Benjamin Hickey co-star. Talkbacks will be held after Tuesday performances. to 7/10/11.
***Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the musical based on the 1994 Australian film. Three drag queens head across the Outback in an old bus. www.priscillathemusical.com.
***Unnatural Acts, a new play about Harvard's “Secret Court” investigation and persecution of a group of gay students in 1920. Conceived and directed by Tony Speciale and the Plastic Theatre. to 7/10/11. www.classicstage.org
Elsewhere...
***Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, a new musical based on Maupin’s stories. By Jeff Whitty, Jake Shears (Scissors Sisters) and John Garden. to 7/31/11. San Francisco, CA. www.act-sf.org
***Bash’d, the gay rap opera. Los Angeles, CA. http://www.celebrationtheatre.com/onstage.html
***FTM, Patricia (“Brothers & Sisters”) Wettig’s new drama. A boy’s new identity is put to the test on parent’s weekend of his freshman year in college. to 7/10/11. Poughkeepsie, NY. www.powerhouse.vassar.edu
***Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche. A 1950’s brunchon gathering of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein.to 7/30/11. Chicago, IL. www.thenewcolony.org
***The Homosexuals. World premiere by Phillip Dawkins. A modern riff on “The Boys in The Band”. to 7/24/11. Chicago, IL. www.aboutfacetheatre.com.
***Seth’s Big Fat Broadway Show, Seth Rudetsky’s hilarious “deconstructing Broadway” show. to 9/03/11. Provincetown, MA. www.ptownarthouse.com
***The Who’s Tommy. Randy (Queer As Folk) Harrison stars. to 7/16/11. Pittsfield, MA. www.thecolonialtheatre.org
On Display
***Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, a collection of the out designer’s works from 1992-2010. through 7/31/11. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B55189B0E-51CF-4801-BC24-1D7CC67F7633%7D
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar. James Rasin’s documentary about the transgender Andy Warhol superstar, who died in 1974, at age 29.
***Beginners. Ewan McGregor plays an illustrator whose father (Christopher Plummer) comes out to him.
***Carol Channing: Larger Than Life. Dori Berinstein’s new documentary is a tribute to a Broadway legend. Stay for the end credits outtakes.
***Finding Judy. Gary Riotto’s new short about a Black Chicago kid who channels Judy Garland. At Film Festivals. http://www.garyriotto.com/Director.html
***Gen Silent,Stu Maddox’s new documentary about six LGBT elders and their caregivers in Boston. http://stumaddux.com/gen_silent_screenings.html
***Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill A Mockingbird. Mary McDonagh Murphy’s documentary about the illusive and reclusive aiuthor. At film festivals.
Out On Video & DVD
***Christopher and His Kind. The BBC adaptation of out author Christopher Isherwood’s autobiography. Isherwood wrote The Berlin Diaries, which was adapted as “Cabaret”, the musical.
***Kaboom, a new film from Gregg Araki. The world according to Smith, a bisexual Southern California cinema studies major (Thomas Dekker).
***Lead with Love, a documentary about strengthening families through the coming out process. Available for online viewing. http://LeadWithLoveFilm.com// The trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGxcb7Ih7N0&feature=youtu.be
***Rabbit Hole, John Cameron Mitchell (“Hedwig” and “Short Bus”) directs the movie version of the Broadway drama which stars Nicole Kidman. www.rabbitholefilm.com.
***Undertow. A Peruvian film about a man with a pregnant wife who takes a male lover.
***Violet Tendencies. Mindi Cohn (“The Facts of Life”) plays a fag hag in this new romantic comedy. www.violettendenciesmovie.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 frequently. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
***Ongoing: Happily Divorced. Fran Drescher plays a woman whose husband comes out. They stay best friends. Based on her real life. WED: 10:30PM. TV Land.
***July: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
For Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org. or http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
7/13/11-7/17/11: Denver, CO: Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf Annual Conference. LGBT deaf culture and identity. www.rad.org
7/15/11-7/17/11: Fire Island Pines, NY: Fire Island Dance Festival featuring performances by the best classical and modern dancers for Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. http://www.dradance.org/fireisland/
7/17/11: San Francisco, CA: AIDS Walk San Francisco. www.aidswalk.net
7/19/11: New York, NY: Broadway Barks, a fundraiser to get shelter animals adopted and benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. 13th annual event started by Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore. www.broadwaycares.org
7/21/11-7/24/11: Seattle, WA: Gender Odyssey. panels, workshops & meetings, entertainment, focus on transmen, transwomen & other gender variant people. www.genderodyssey.org
7/23/11: East Hampton, NY: The Gutter Ball. A dance party to benefit the LGBT Center of New York. East Hampton Bowl.. www.gaycenter.org
7/25/11-7/31/11: Vancouver, BC: North American Outgames. www.vancouver2011outgames.com
7/29/11-7/31/11: Tacoma, WA: OLOC (Old Lesbians Organizing for Change) Nat’l Gathering. women only • lesbians 60+ gather for workshops, guest speakers & entertainment to promote old lesbian pride & fight ageism www.oloc.org
7/30/11-8/06/11: Provincetown, MA: Family Week. Family Equality’s program for LGBT families. http://www.familyequality.org/site/PageServer
7/31/11: West Hollywood, CA: The Gay Elder: Archetype of the Spiritual Father. An interactive program to bring the contributions of elder gays to the community at large. http://www.gayeldercircle.org/
7/31/11: Raleigh Durham/Chapel Hill, NC: Crape Myrtle Festival. weeklong festival to support HIV/AIDS groups.
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 Getaways
1. Question: Name this LGBT summer resort, often called “The Nation’s Summer Capital”, a short hop from John Waters Land, the City of Brotherly Love, and other mid-Atlantic capitals. You’ll find the boys at “Poodle Beach”, near the Boardwalk at Queen Street. And, humorist Fay Jacobs captured the essence of this community in her bestselling trilogy.
2. Question: Name this state, which features a beachfront LGBT resort favored by Windy City folk, and an international music festival founded in 1976 Hint: No men make music here.
3 Question: Name this LGBT resort which dates back to 1822. Its name is an English corruption of its original Spanish name, “Bone Key”. It started life as a home to sailors, smugglers and whores, then became a literary capital, artist colony and one of the first American LGBT resorts.
4. Question: Name this LGBT summer resort, where the tea-dance originated. In the early 1960’s, a local hotelier served a complete English tea served by begowned drag queens. Later, music was added along with stronger libations, although the island nearby is known for a strong tea drink. Incidentally, pre-Stonewall, local ordinances prohibited speedos (unless covered by towels) or same-sex couples on the dance floor.
5. Question: Name this LGBT-friendly resort nation favored by Europeans. Its LGBT beach is just 20 minutes from some Gaudi masterpieces. One of its tonsorial masters inspired an opera and precipitation falls mainly on flatlands.
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Coming Out Support Newsweekly: 6/27/11
Coming Out Support (COS) Newsweekly
Volume 14 No. 25 June 27, 2011
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: June 27- July 03, 2011
For Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org. or http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
thru SAT: 8/06: New York, NY: HOT Festival, The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture with theatre, dance, music, burlesque, performance art, literature, and homoeroticism. 20th edition. http://www.hotfestival.org/
thru THU: 6/30: San Francisco, CA: National Queer Arts Festival. LGBT performances and exhibits throughout the Bay Area. www.QueerCulturalCenter.org
MON: 6/27: New York, NY: Trevor Live. The Trevor Project’s East Coast fundraiser at Capitale. Daniel Radcliffe to be honored. www.thetrevorproject.org/trevorlive
MON: 6/27: New York, NY: Broadway Sings for Pride. A benefit for the LGBT Community Center with Reichen Lehmkuhl, Randy Jones, Rory O’Malley, and more. www.gaycenter.org/node/6779
THU: 6/30: Raleigh, NC: Steven Petrow discusses his book “Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners”. 7:30PM. Quail Ridge Books. .http://www.gaymanners.com/appearances-by-steven-petrow
FRI-MON: 7/01-7/04: Washington, DC: DignityUSA 20th National Convention for LGBT Catholics. http://conv2011.dignityusa.org/
FRI-MON: 7/01-7/04: Atlanta, GA: Int’l Gay Square Dance Clubs Convention. www.iagsdc.org
Newsworthy:
The US Educaton Department affirms students’ rights to form gay-straight alliances. The Washington Blade reports: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/06/14/education-department-affirms-students-right-to-form-gsas/
California: Supporters of Proposition 8 were dealt a blow on 6/14/11, when a Federal Judge refused their request to throw out Judge Vaughn Walker’s Prop. 8 decision because he is gay and in a same-sex relationship. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/06/14/Fed_Judge_Won_t_Throw_Out_Prop_8_Decision/
John Boehner, US House Speaker, will not challenge a ruling declaring DOMA unconstitutional. On Top reports: http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=8675&MediaType=1&Category=26
Fighting Sports Homophobia. Hudson Taylor, the University of Maryland wrestler, has founded Athlete Ally to combat homophobia in sports. The Baltimore Sun reports: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bthesite/bal-wrestling-champion-hudson-taylor-fights-homophobia-in-sports-20110615,0,4870799.story
Coming Out: Therapists Who Help Gays Stay in the Closet. A controversial article by the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/magazine/therapists-who-help-people-stay-in-the-closet.html?hp
Pam’s House Blend, one of the finest LGBT blogs, is being folded into FireDogLake. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/06/17/Pams_House_Blend_Goes_in_New_Bigger_Direction/
Broadway Bares XXI broke the fund-raising record with over $1,100,000 raised for Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS. Playbill.com reports: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/152002-Broadway-Bares-XXI-Masterpiece-Breaks-Fund-Raising-Record
The Buzz (People Making News)
Jarrett Barrios, President of GLAAD, has resigned over a controversry surrounding letters to the FCC regarding the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/glaad-1.html
Ryan Murphy, creator of “Glee” is getting married. OnTop Magazine reports: http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=8697&MediaType=1&Category=22
Awards and Honors:
Winners: Daytime Emmys: Among those honored: Ellen Degeneres, For the list of winners: http://www.emmyonline.tv/
Photo Shoots, Audio and Video
Video: Gays in the Holocaust. A curator from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC discusses a diary of two gay men in Berlin as the Holocaust begins. A unique story about the exhibition “Do You Remember When?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY48eLz7Fbo
Photos and Video: Broadway Bares XXI from BroadwayWorld.com. http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Coverage-Backstage-at-BROADWAY-BARES-XXI-20110620
http://broadwayworld.com/videoplay.php?colid=249731
Features
Coming Out: Halfway Out. Why some people stay in the closet. ABC News reports: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/halfway-stay-closeted-workplace/story?id=13867006
Going Straight. Benoit Denizet-Lewis profiles his colleague Michael Glatze, a writer who became ex-gay. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/magazine/my-ex-gay-friend.html?_r=1
President Obama and Gay Marriage, The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/us/politics/19marriage.html?hp
Fathers’ Day. Two gay dads share their perspective on parenting. CBS News reports: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/19/sunday/main20072372.shtml
Profile: Nikolai Alexeyev, Russia’s best-known gay rights activist. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/world/europe/18russia.html?src=recg
Richard Dorr and John Mace have been together 61 years. They want to get married. OnTop Magazine reports: http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=8712&MediaType=1&Category=26
Interview: Michael Urie, “Ugly Betty” alum and star of “The Tempermentals” and “Angels in America”.is interviewed by Michael Portantiere. . BroadwayStars.com reports: http://broadwaystars.com/michael-portantiere/2011/06/michael-urie-celebrates-celebrities.shtml
Blogs Of Note
My First Gay Crush: http://myfirstgaycrush.blogspot.com/
The Resource Center:
The Gay Elder Circle provides gay men 55+ with an opportunity to support each other as elders of the Los Angeles area gay community. http://www.gayeldercircle.org/
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***The Judy Show: My Life As A Sitcom. Out comic Judy Gold’s new comedy. www.judygold.com.
***Master Class. Tyne Daly stars as opera diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s drama with music to 8/14/11. www.manhatttantheatreclub.com
***The Normal Heart. Larry Kramer’s, landmark story of the early days of the AIDS pandemic. TonyAward for “Best Revival”. Joe Mantello, Ellen Barkin, and John Benjamin Hickey co-star. Talkbacks will be held after Tuesday performances. to 7/10/11.
***One Arm. Moises (“The Laramie Project”) Kaufman’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams unproduced screen play about a boxing champ who loses his arm and returns to hustling to survive. www.thenewgroup.org.. to 7/02/11.
***Unnatural Acts, a new play about Harvard's “Secret Court” investigation and persecution of a group of gay students in 1920. Conceived and directed by Tony Speciale and the Plastic Theatre. to 7/10/11. www.classicstage.org
Elsewhere...
***Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, world premiere of a new musical based on Armistead Maupin’s stories. to 7/24/11. San Francisco, CA. www.act-sf.org
***Charles Busch performs at Seth Rudetsky’s series at The Art House. 7/02/11-7/03/11, Provincetown, MA. www.ptownarthouse.com
***FTM, Patricia (“Brothers & Sisters”) Wettig’s new drama. A boy’s new identity is put to the test on parent’s weekend of his freshman year in college. to 7/10/11. Poughkeepsie, NY. www.powerhouse.vassar.edu
***Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche. A 1950’s brunchon gathering of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein.to 7/30/11. Chicago, IL. www.thenewcolony.org
***The Homosexuals. World premiere by Phillip Dawkins. A modern riff on “The Boys in The Band”. to 7/24/11. Chicago, IL. www.aboutfacetheatre.com.
***The Pride. Alexi Kaye Campbell’s play about two men and a woman caught in a love triangle. to 7/03/11. San Francisco, CA. www.nctcsf.org
***Seth’s Big Fat Broadway Show, Seth Rudetsky’s hilarious “deconstructing Broadway” show. to 9/03/11. Provincetown, MA. www.ptownarthouse.com
***Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays. One acts about marriage equality. 6/27/11. Los Angeles, CA. http://www.standingonceremony.net/index2.html
On Display
***Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, a collection of the out designer’s works from 1992-2010. through 7/31/11. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B55189B0E-51CF-4801-BC24-1D7CC67F7633%7D
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar. James Rasin’s documentary about the transgender Andy Warhol superstar, who died in 1974, at age 29.
***Beginners. Ewan McGregor plays an illustrator whose father (Christopher Plummer) comes out to him.
***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.
***Making The Boys. A documentry about the production of “The Boys in The Band”, the first commercially-successful gay-themed drama which opened just before Stonewall. With Edward Albee, Mart Crowley (the playwright), Candis Cayne and others. Screening schedule on Facebook.
Out On Video & DVD
Resource: Snag Films has a lot of LGBT documentaries for viewing during Pride month. http://www.snagfilms.com/films/sections/category/Lesbian_Gay_Bisexual_and_Transgender_Pride_Month
***Christopher and His Kind. The BBC adaptation of out author Christopher Isherwood’s autobiography. Isherwood wrote The Berlin Diaries, which as adapted as “Cabaret”, the musical.
***Kaboom, a new film from Gregg Araki. The world according to Smith, a bisexual Southern California cinema studies major (Thomas Dekker).
***Lead with Love, a documentary about strengthening families through the coming out process. Available for online viewing. http://LeadWithLoveFilm.com// The trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGxcb7Ih7N0&feature=youtu.be
***Undertow. A Peruvian film about a man with a pregnant wife who takes a male lover.
***Violet Tendencies. Mindi Cohn (“The Facts of Life”) plays a fag hag in this new romantic comedy. www.violettendenciesmovie.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 frequently. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
***Ongoing: Happily Divorced. Fran Drescher plays a woman whose husband comes out. They stay best friends. Based on her real life. WED: 10:30PM. TV Land.
***June/July: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
For Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org. or http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
7/06/11: New York, NY: Steven Petrow discusses his book “Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners” with Michael Musto. 6:30PM. LGBT Community Center. Also: 7/07/11: Washington, DC 7PM. Barnes & Noble, 555 12th St. NW.; 7/11/11: Tempe, AZ: Changing Hands Bookstore. 7/12/11: San Francisco, CA: 7:30PM. Books Inc. .7/13/11: San Francisco, CA: 6PM. James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center. 7/14/11: Los Angeles, CA: 7PM. Book Soup. http://www.gaymanners.com/appearances-by-steven-petrow .
7/07/11-7/17/11: Los Angeles, CA: Outfest LGBT Film/Video Festival. www.outfest.org
7/08/11-7/10/11: Boston, MA: National Asamblea for LGBT Latino/as and allies www.unidoslgbt.com
7/09/11: Rehoboth Beach, DE: Two Comics, One Voice, a benefit for Camp Rehoboth. The stand-up of Bob Smith and Eddie Sarfaty, performed by Sarfaty. Editor’s Note: Bob Smith was one of the Funny Gay Males. He has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, which has slurred his speech, so Sarfaty is giving his monologues voice. www.camprehoboth.com.
7/09/11-7/16/11: Sandpiper, FL: Summer Camp 2011. R Family Vacations Club Med program for LGBT families. http://www.rfamilyvacations.com/vacations_2010/clubmed_florida.php
7/09/11-7/12/11: Orlando, FL: GCLS Literary Convention. Golden Crown Literary Society’s annual gathering to share & explore the many facets of lesbian literature. www.gclscon.com
7/13/11-7/17/11: Denver, CO: Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf Annual Conference. LGBT deaf culture and identity. www.rad.org
7/15/11-7/17/11: Fire Island Pines, NY: Fire Island Dance Festival featuring performances by the best classical and modern dancers for Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. http://www.dradance.org/fireisland/
7/17/11: San Francisco, CA: AIDS Walk San Francisco. www.aidswalk.net
7/19/11: New York, NY: Broadway Barks, a fundraiser to get shelter animals adopted and benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. 13th annual event started by Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore. www.broadwaycares.org
7/21/11-7/24/11: Seattle, WA: Gender Odyssey. panels, workshops & meetings, entertainment, focus on transmen, transwomen & other gender variant people. www.genderodyssey.org
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: The Pride Quiz
1. 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.
2. Question: Name this gay rights group, the first recognized gay rights organization in America, established in 1924. A few months after being chartered, the police shut it down and arrested its membership. It also produced the first American publication for homosexuals. Answer: The Society for Human Rights established by Henry Gerber and a group of friends in Chicago. It published "Friendship and Freedom". Gerber had lived in Germany, where he became familiar with the early German homosexual emancipation movement led by such people as Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld.
3. 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 is the basis for a recent Off-Broadway play. Answer: The Mattachine Society, brainchild of Harry Hay. "The Tempermentals" told the story of Hay, his lover, Rudi Gernreich, the designer, and others involved in the group's development.
4. Question: The Stonewall Riots happened in 1969. Which of the following occured prior to Stonewall ? A) Homosexual behavior legalised in Canada; B) Poland decriminalised gay prostitution; C) The Oscar Wilde Bookshop, the world's first gay-oriented bookstore opens and/or D) an Australian chapter of Daughters of Bilitis opens in Melbourne. Answer: C) The Oscar Wilde Bookshop, the world's first LGBT-oriented bookstore, opened in New York City in 1967. All the other events happened in 1969.
5. 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.
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 14 No. 25 June 27, 2011
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: June 27- July 03, 2011
For Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org. or http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
thru SAT: 8/06: New York, NY: HOT Festival, The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture with theatre, dance, music, burlesque, performance art, literature, and homoeroticism. 20th edition. http://www.hotfestival.org/
thru THU: 6/30: San Francisco, CA: National Queer Arts Festival. LGBT performances and exhibits throughout the Bay Area. www.QueerCulturalCenter.org
MON: 6/27: New York, NY: Trevor Live. The Trevor Project’s East Coast fundraiser at Capitale. Daniel Radcliffe to be honored. www.thetrevorproject.org/trevorlive
MON: 6/27: New York, NY: Broadway Sings for Pride. A benefit for the LGBT Community Center with Reichen Lehmkuhl, Randy Jones, Rory O’Malley, and more. www.gaycenter.org/node/6779
THU: 6/30: Raleigh, NC: Steven Petrow discusses his book “Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners”. 7:30PM. Quail Ridge Books. .http://www.gaymanners.com/appearances-by-steven-petrow
FRI-MON: 7/01-7/04: Washington, DC: DignityUSA 20th National Convention for LGBT Catholics. http://conv2011.dignityusa.org/
FRI-MON: 7/01-7/04: Atlanta, GA: Int’l Gay Square Dance Clubs Convention. www.iagsdc.org
Newsworthy:
The US Educaton Department affirms students’ rights to form gay-straight alliances. The Washington Blade reports: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/06/14/education-department-affirms-students-right-to-form-gsas/
California: Supporters of Proposition 8 were dealt a blow on 6/14/11, when a Federal Judge refused their request to throw out Judge Vaughn Walker’s Prop. 8 decision because he is gay and in a same-sex relationship. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/06/14/Fed_Judge_Won_t_Throw_Out_Prop_8_Decision/
John Boehner, US House Speaker, will not challenge a ruling declaring DOMA unconstitutional. On Top reports: http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=8675&MediaType=1&Category=26
Fighting Sports Homophobia. Hudson Taylor, the University of Maryland wrestler, has founded Athlete Ally to combat homophobia in sports. The Baltimore Sun reports: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bthesite/bal-wrestling-champion-hudson-taylor-fights-homophobia-in-sports-20110615,0,4870799.story
Coming Out: Therapists Who Help Gays Stay in the Closet. A controversial article by the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/magazine/therapists-who-help-people-stay-in-the-closet.html?hp
Pam’s House Blend, one of the finest LGBT blogs, is being folded into FireDogLake. The Advocate reports: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/06/17/Pams_House_Blend_Goes_in_New_Bigger_Direction/
Broadway Bares XXI broke the fund-raising record with over $1,100,000 raised for Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS. Playbill.com reports: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/152002-Broadway-Bares-XXI-Masterpiece-Breaks-Fund-Raising-Record
The Buzz (People Making News)
Jarrett Barrios, President of GLAAD, has resigned over a controversry surrounding letters to the FCC regarding the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/glaad-1.html
Ryan Murphy, creator of “Glee” is getting married. OnTop Magazine reports: http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=8697&MediaType=1&Category=22
Awards and Honors:
Winners: Daytime Emmys: Among those honored: Ellen Degeneres, For the list of winners: http://www.emmyonline.tv/
Photo Shoots, Audio and Video
Video: Gays in the Holocaust. A curator from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC discusses a diary of two gay men in Berlin as the Holocaust begins. A unique story about the exhibition “Do You Remember When?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY48eLz7Fbo
Photos and Video: Broadway Bares XXI from BroadwayWorld.com. http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Coverage-Backstage-at-BROADWAY-BARES-XXI-20110620
http://broadwayworld.com/videoplay.php?colid=249731
Features
Coming Out: Halfway Out. Why some people stay in the closet. ABC News reports: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/halfway-stay-closeted-workplace/story?id=13867006
Going Straight. Benoit Denizet-Lewis profiles his colleague Michael Glatze, a writer who became ex-gay. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/magazine/my-ex-gay-friend.html?_r=1
President Obama and Gay Marriage, The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/us/politics/19marriage.html?hp
Fathers’ Day. Two gay dads share their perspective on parenting. CBS News reports: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/19/sunday/main20072372.shtml
Profile: Nikolai Alexeyev, Russia’s best-known gay rights activist. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/world/europe/18russia.html?src=recg
Richard Dorr and John Mace have been together 61 years. They want to get married. OnTop Magazine reports: http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=8712&MediaType=1&Category=26
Interview: Michael Urie, “Ugly Betty” alum and star of “The Tempermentals” and “Angels in America”.is interviewed by Michael Portantiere. . BroadwayStars.com reports: http://broadwaystars.com/michael-portantiere/2011/06/michael-urie-celebrates-celebrities.shtml
Blogs Of Note
My First Gay Crush: http://myfirstgaycrush.blogspot.com/
The Resource Center:
The Gay Elder Circle provides gay men 55+ with an opportunity to support each other as elders of the Los Angeles area gay community. http://www.gayeldercircle.org/
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***The Judy Show: My Life As A Sitcom. Out comic Judy Gold’s new comedy. www.judygold.com.
***Master Class. Tyne Daly stars as opera diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s drama with music to 8/14/11. www.manhatttantheatreclub.com
***The Normal Heart. Larry Kramer’s, landmark story of the early days of the AIDS pandemic. TonyAward for “Best Revival”. Joe Mantello, Ellen Barkin, and John Benjamin Hickey co-star. Talkbacks will be held after Tuesday performances. to 7/10/11.
***One Arm. Moises (“The Laramie Project”) Kaufman’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams unproduced screen play about a boxing champ who loses his arm and returns to hustling to survive. www.thenewgroup.org.. to 7/02/11.
***Unnatural Acts, a new play about Harvard's “Secret Court” investigation and persecution of a group of gay students in 1920. Conceived and directed by Tony Speciale and the Plastic Theatre. to 7/10/11. www.classicstage.org
Elsewhere...
***Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, world premiere of a new musical based on Armistead Maupin’s stories. to 7/24/11. San Francisco, CA. www.act-sf.org
***Charles Busch performs at Seth Rudetsky’s series at The Art House. 7/02/11-7/03/11, Provincetown, MA. www.ptownarthouse.com
***FTM, Patricia (“Brothers & Sisters”) Wettig’s new drama. A boy’s new identity is put to the test on parent’s weekend of his freshman year in college. to 7/10/11. Poughkeepsie, NY. www.powerhouse.vassar.edu
***Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche. A 1950’s brunchon gathering of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein.to 7/30/11. Chicago, IL. www.thenewcolony.org
***The Homosexuals. World premiere by Phillip Dawkins. A modern riff on “The Boys in The Band”. to 7/24/11. Chicago, IL. www.aboutfacetheatre.com.
***The Pride. Alexi Kaye Campbell’s play about two men and a woman caught in a love triangle. to 7/03/11. San Francisco, CA. www.nctcsf.org
***Seth’s Big Fat Broadway Show, Seth Rudetsky’s hilarious “deconstructing Broadway” show. to 9/03/11. Provincetown, MA. www.ptownarthouse.com
***Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays. One acts about marriage equality. 6/27/11. Los Angeles, CA. http://www.standingonceremony.net/index2.html
On Display
***Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, a collection of the out designer’s works from 1992-2010. through 7/31/11. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B55189B0E-51CF-4801-BC24-1D7CC67F7633%7D
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar. James Rasin’s documentary about the transgender Andy Warhol superstar, who died in 1974, at age 29.
***Beginners. Ewan McGregor plays an illustrator whose father (Christopher Plummer) comes out to him.
***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.
***Making The Boys. A documentry about the production of “The Boys in The Band”, the first commercially-successful gay-themed drama which opened just before Stonewall. With Edward Albee, Mart Crowley (the playwright), Candis Cayne and others. Screening schedule on Facebook.
Out On Video & DVD
Resource: Snag Films has a lot of LGBT documentaries for viewing during Pride month. http://www.snagfilms.com/films/sections/category/Lesbian_Gay_Bisexual_and_Transgender_Pride_Month
***Christopher and His Kind. The BBC adaptation of out author Christopher Isherwood’s autobiography. Isherwood wrote The Berlin Diaries, which as adapted as “Cabaret”, the musical.
***Kaboom, a new film from Gregg Araki. The world according to Smith, a bisexual Southern California cinema studies major (Thomas Dekker).
***Lead with Love, a documentary about strengthening families through the coming out process. Available for online viewing. http://LeadWithLoveFilm.com// The trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGxcb7Ih7N0&feature=youtu.be
***Undertow. A Peruvian film about a man with a pregnant wife who takes a male lover.
***Violet Tendencies. Mindi Cohn (“The Facts of Life”) plays a fag hag in this new romantic comedy. www.violettendenciesmovie.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 frequently. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
***Ongoing: Happily Divorced. Fran Drescher plays a woman whose husband comes out. They stay best friends. Based on her real life. WED: 10:30PM. TV Land.
***June/July: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
For Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org. or http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
7/06/11: New York, NY: Steven Petrow discusses his book “Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners” with Michael Musto. 6:30PM. LGBT Community Center. Also: 7/07/11: Washington, DC 7PM. Barnes & Noble, 555 12th St. NW.; 7/11/11: Tempe, AZ: Changing Hands Bookstore. 7/12/11: San Francisco, CA: 7:30PM. Books Inc. .7/13/11: San Francisco, CA: 6PM. James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center. 7/14/11: Los Angeles, CA: 7PM. Book Soup. http://www.gaymanners.com/appearances-by-steven-petrow .
7/07/11-7/17/11: Los Angeles, CA: Outfest LGBT Film/Video Festival. www.outfest.org
7/08/11-7/10/11: Boston, MA: National Asamblea for LGBT Latino/as and allies www.unidoslgbt.com
7/09/11: Rehoboth Beach, DE: Two Comics, One Voice, a benefit for Camp Rehoboth. The stand-up of Bob Smith and Eddie Sarfaty, performed by Sarfaty. Editor’s Note: Bob Smith was one of the Funny Gay Males. He has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, which has slurred his speech, so Sarfaty is giving his monologues voice. www.camprehoboth.com.
7/09/11-7/16/11: Sandpiper, FL: Summer Camp 2011. R Family Vacations Club Med program for LGBT families. http://www.rfamilyvacations.com/vacations_2010/clubmed_florida.php
7/09/11-7/12/11: Orlando, FL: GCLS Literary Convention. Golden Crown Literary Society’s annual gathering to share & explore the many facets of lesbian literature. www.gclscon.com
7/13/11-7/17/11: Denver, CO: Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf Annual Conference. LGBT deaf culture and identity. www.rad.org
7/15/11-7/17/11: Fire Island Pines, NY: Fire Island Dance Festival featuring performances by the best classical and modern dancers for Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. http://www.dradance.org/fireisland/
7/17/11: San Francisco, CA: AIDS Walk San Francisco. www.aidswalk.net
7/19/11: New York, NY: Broadway Barks, a fundraiser to get shelter animals adopted and benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. 13th annual event started by Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore. www.broadwaycares.org
7/21/11-7/24/11: Seattle, WA: Gender Odyssey. panels, workshops & meetings, entertainment, focus on transmen, transwomen & other gender variant people. www.genderodyssey.org
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: The Pride Quiz
1. 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.
2. Question: Name this gay rights group, the first recognized gay rights organization in America, established in 1924. A few months after being chartered, the police shut it down and arrested its membership. It also produced the first American publication for homosexuals. Answer: The Society for Human Rights established by Henry Gerber and a group of friends in Chicago. It published "Friendship and Freedom". Gerber had lived in Germany, where he became familiar with the early German homosexual emancipation movement led by such people as Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld.
3. 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 is the basis for a recent Off-Broadway play. Answer: The Mattachine Society, brainchild of Harry Hay. "The Tempermentals" told the story of Hay, his lover, Rudi Gernreich, the designer, and others involved in the group's development.
4. Question: The Stonewall Riots happened in 1969. Which of the following occured prior to Stonewall ? A) Homosexual behavior legalised in Canada; B) Poland decriminalised gay prostitution; C) The Oscar Wilde Bookshop, the world's first gay-oriented bookstore opens and/or D) an Australian chapter of Daughters of Bilitis opens in Melbourne. Answer: C) The Oscar Wilde Bookshop, the world's first LGBT-oriented bookstore, opened in New York City in 1967. All the other events happened in 1969.
5. 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.
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/
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Coming Out Support Newsweekly: 6/20/11
Coming Out Support (COS) Newsweekly
Volume 14 No. 24 June 20, 2011
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: June 20-26, 2011
For Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org. or http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
thru THU: 6/30: San Francisco, CA: National Queer Arts Festival. LGBT performances and exhibits throughout the Bay Area. www.QueerCulturalCenter.org
thru SUN: 6/26: San Francisco, CA: Frameline: San Francisco Int’l LGBT Film Festival. www.frameline.org
Just Added: SAT: 6/18: Pittsfield, MA: Not A Dress Rehearsal. a fundraiser for the Berkshire Stonewall Community Coalition. Spice Dragon. http://berkshirestonewall.org/2011/05/not-a-dress-rehearsal/
TUE: 6/21: New York, NY: Talk Out Tuesday at “The Normal Heart”. Post-performance conversation. http://thenormalheartbroadway.com/talkout.php.
TUE: 6/21: Washington, DC: Night OUT. at the Nationals. Washington Nationals play the Seattle Mariners. http://www.teamdc.org/noan.html
WED: 6/22: Atlanta, GA: Don Lemon does a reading and booksigning of his new book “Transparent”. Outwrite Books. www.outwritebooks.com.
FRI: 6/24: San Francisco, CA: Chaz Bono, child of Sonny and Cher, signs copies of “Transition”. 7:30PM. Books Inc. Market Street.
SAT: 6/25: New York, NY: Stonewall Veterans Association commemorates the 42nd anniversary of Stonewall. www.stonewallvets.org
SAT: 6/25: Washington, DC: The Sondheim Celebration 10th Anniversary Concert . Kennedy Center honors the out composer with a free concert and an all-star cast. www.kennedy-center.org.
SAT: 6/25: New York, NY: Celebrity Autobiography: Gay Pride Edition. Celebrities read autobiographies by Susan Lucci, Justin Bieber, Cher, Dolly Parton, Ivana Trump, Madonna and Elizabeth Taylor, and more. Gina Gershon, Mario Cantone, Rachel Dratch, Michael Urie, and Sharon Gless star. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
SUN: 6/26: New York, NY: Harvey Fierstein is featured at Broadway Talks with Jordan Roth. http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/03-2011/daniel-radcliffe-harvey-fierstein-to-join-jordan-r_35065.html
Newsworthy:
Adoption by gay couples rises, according to the Census. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/us/14adoption.html?hp
Aspiring Gay Political Candidates train in campaign strategy via the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund seminars. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/us/11train.html?_r=1&hpw
Tennessee: A law suit has been filed against the new bill banning anti-LGBT discrimination. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/tennesseans-file-suit-against-recently-passed-law-prohibiting-local-lgbt-anti-discrimination-statute.html
It’s Fake Lesbian Blogger Week. Gawker reports: http://gawker.com/5811566/lesbian-editor-who-published-fake-lesbian-blogger-also-fake
Republican Presidential Wanna-bes state their stances on DADT andf same-sex marriage in the New Hampshire debates. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/ssmdadt.html
Santorum Supporters attempt to fix his frothy mix Google problem. The Washington Examiner explains: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/yeas-nays/2011/06/supporters-try-fixing-santorums-google-problem
The Buzz (People Making News)
Coming Out: Ben Alley is a courageous Iowa teen who moved forward after his family kicked him out. The DesMoines Register reports: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110610/BASU/106100328/Basu-Iowa-teen-moves-forward-after-family-dumps-him?odyssey=mod%7Cmostcom
Carolyn A. Martin, the out chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will become president of Amherst College. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/education/15amherst.html?_r=1
Awards and Honors:
Dan Savage accepted a special Webby Award for the “It Gets Better” campaign. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/savagewebby.html
Tony Awards: The Winners from The Tony Awards website: http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/winners.html
Tony Awards Recap: “It’s Not Just for Gays Anymore”. AfterElton reports: http://www.afterelton.com/tv/2011/06/tony-awards-nosebleed-seats
Tony Awards Recap with video highlights from Towleroad: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/book-of-mormon-wins-big-at-the-tonys.html
Photo Shoots, Audio and Video
Video: Broadway’s Not Just for Gays Anymore. Neil Patrick Harris’ Tony Awards opening number. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6S5caRGpK4
Video: Ira Glass presents Dan Savage with a Webby Award. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHzuDfo-xdk
Features
Profile: Josh Wood, the biggest gay party promoter in New York. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/fashion/the-party-planner-and-fund-raiser-josh-wood-up-close.html?_r=1
Gay Aspiring Political Candidates train in campaign strategy. The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund seminars. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/us/11train.html?_r=1&hpw
Tabloids Moment: Sean Connery Gay Secret. He kissed a guy on camera. It was the first man-on-man TV kiss. The Ntional Enquirer reports: http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/sean-connery-gay-secret
Anti-Gay “Sissy Therapy” Destroyed a man and his family. Anderson Cooper reported on the ex-gay work of Dr. George Alan Rekers. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/watch-how-anti-sissy-therapy-destroyed-a-m.html
The Resource Center:
New York City Up & OUT: The Big Apple’s gay resource to arts, entertainment and culture. Free weekly e-newsletter available. http://www.nycupandout.com/
Born This Way Blog. Fascinating look about how we LGBTQ people perceive ourselves from the time we first realized we were LGBTQ. http://borngaybornthisway.blogspot.com/
In Print:
The Book of Mormon: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical, by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone. Newmarket Press. Paperback. The script of the multi-award-winning musical (the original cast CD is also available) and well worth the read. The song “Turn It Off” explains how Mormons view being closeted.
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***Anything Goes. Gay Cole Porter’s madcap musical. Sutton Foster stars. www.roundabouttheatre.org.
***Book of Mormon, the new multi-Tony wainning musical penned by "South Park" co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker and “Avenue Q” Tony winner Robert Lopez.
***Master Class. Tyne Daly stars as opera diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s drama. to 8/14/11. www.manhatttantheatreclub.com
***The Normal Heart. Larry Kramer’s, landmark story of the early days of the AIDS pandemic. First produced 25+ years ago, it makes its Broadway debut. Talkbacks will be held after Tuesday performances.
***One Arm. Moises (“The Laramie Project”) Kaufman’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams unproduced screen play about a boxing champ who loses his arm and returns to hustling to survive. www.thenewgroup.org.. to 7/02/11.
***The Other Day, a new drama by Mark Jason Williams about a fragile gay relationship. Proceeds benefit the Hetrick Martin Institute. to 6/26/11. www.planetconnections.org.
***Unnatural Acts, a new play about Harvard's “Secret Court” investigation and persecution of a group of gay students in 1920. Conceived and directed by Tony Speciale and the Plastic Theatre. to 7/10/11. www.classicstage.org
Elsewhere...
***Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, world premiere of a new musical based on Armistead Maupin’s stories. to 7/24/11. San Francisco, CA. www.act-sf.org
***Bash’d, the gay rap opera. Los Angeles, CA. http://www.celebrationtheatre.com/onstage.html
***Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche. A 1950’s brunchon gathering of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein. to 7/30/11. Chicago, IL. www.thenewcolony.org
***The Homosexuals. World premiere by Phillip Dawkins. A modern riff on “The Boys in The Band”. to 7/24/11. Chicago, IL. www.aboutfacetheatre.com.
***The Pride. Alexi Kaye Campbell’s play about two men and a woman caught in a love triangle. to 7/03/11. San Francisco, CA. www.nctcsf.org
***Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays. One acts about marriage equality. Mondays to 6/27/11. Los Angeles, CA. http://www.standingonceremony.net/index2.html
***Tru. SNL vet Darrell Hammond plays Truman Capote in the one-man biography. to 6/26/11. Sag Harbor, NY. http://www.baystreet.org/
On Display
***Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, a collection of the out designer’s works from 1992-2010. through 7/31/11. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B55189B0E-51CF-4801-BC24-1D7CC67F7633%7D
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar. James Rasin’s documentary about the transgender Andy Warhol superstar, who died in 1974, at age 29.
***Beginners. Ewan McGregor plays an illustrator whose father (Christopher Plummer) comes out to him.
***Making The Boys. A documentry about the production of “The Boys in The Band”, the first commercially-successful gay-themed drama which opened just before Stonewall. Screening schedule on Facebook.
***Twelve Thirty. Jonathan Groff and Mamie Gummer star in a quirky film about a broken family (Dad is bi). www.twelvethirtymovie.com.
Out On Video & DVD
***Equality U. The documentary about the 2006 Soul Force Equality Ride, a cross-country journey to confront antigay discrimination.
***Kaboom, a new film from Gregg Araki. The world according to Smith, a bisexual Southern California cinema studies major (Thomas Dekker).
***Lead with Love, a documentary about strengthening families through the coming out process. Available for online viewing. http://LeadWithLoveFilm.com//
***The Times of Harvey Milk. The award-winning documentary about the gay rights leader.
***Undertow. A Peruvian film about a man with a pregnant wife who takes a male lover.
***Violet Tendencies. Mindi Cohn (“The Facts of Life”) plays a fag hag in this new romantic comedy. www.violettendenciesmovie.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 frequently. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
***June: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
For Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org. or http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
6/27/11: New York, NY: Trevor Live. The Trevor Project’s East Coast fundraiser at Capitale. Daniel Radcliffe to be honored. www.thetrevorproject.org/trevorlive
7/01/11-7/04/11: Washington, DC: DignityUSA 20th National Convention for LGBT Catholics. http://conv2011.dignityusa.org/
7/01/11-7/04/11: Atlanta, GA: Int’l Gay Square Dance Clubs Convention. www.iagsdc.org
7/07/12-7/13/12: Denver, CO: GALA Festival 2012. Gay and Lesbian Choruses. http://www.galachoruses.org/events/festival2010_denver.htm
7/07/11-7/17/11: Los Angeles, CA: Outfest LGBT Film/Video Festival. www.outfest.org
7/08/11-7/10/11: Boston, MA: National Asamblea for LGBT Latino/as and allies www.unidoslgbt.com
7/09/11-7/16/11: Sandpiper, FL: Summer Camp 2011. R Family Vacations Club Med program for LGBT families. http://www.rfamilyvacations.com/vacations_2010/clubmed_florida.php
7/09/11-7/12/11: Orlando, FL: GCLS Literary Convention. Golden Crown Literary Society’s annual gathering to share & explore the many facets of lesbian literature. www.gclscon.com
7/13/11-7/17/11: Denver, CO: Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf Annual Conference. LGBT deaf culture and identity. www.rad.org
7/19/11: New York, NY: Broadway Barks, a fundraiser to get shelter animals adopted and benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. 13th annual event started by Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore. www.broadwaycares.org
7/21/11-7/24/11: Seattle, WA: Gender Odyssey. panels, workshops & meetings, entertainment, focus on transmen, transwomen & other gender variant people. www.genderodyssey.org
7/25/11-7/31/11: Vancouver, BC: North American Outgames. www.vancouver2011outgames.com
7/29/11-7/31/11: Tacoma, WA: OLOC (Old Lesbians Organizing for Change) Nat’l Gathering. women only • lesbians 60+ gather for workshops, guest speakers & entertainment to promote old lesbian pride & fight ageism www.oloc.org
7/30/11-8/06/11: Provincetown, MA: Family Week. Family Equality’s program for LGBT families. http://www.familyequality.org/site/PageServer
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: Father’s Day
1. Question: Name this bisexual film director, who married into British theatrical royalty. One of his daughters was an AIDS activist before dying in a freak ski accident. His father-in-law was gay. Answer: Tony Richardson, best known for the film “Tom Jones”. He married Vanessa Redgrave, daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave. Daughter Natasha, star of stage and screen, died recently. She was an AIDS activist with the American Foundation for AIDS Research to honor her father, who died of AIDS.
2. Question: Namre this American political figure with an out daughter and a wife who wrote a gay-themed novel. He was president of the USA for a little over an hour. Answer: Dick Cheney, former Vice President of the United States. His daughter Mary, encouraged her father to support same-sex marriage. Cheney was president on June 29, 2002 from 11:09AM to 1:24PM, while then President George W. Bush was knocked out for a colonoscopy.
3. Question: Name this gay dad who launched a program to build self-esteem amongst LGBT and questioning teens. He’s a well-known author and journalist. When he chronicled his quest (with his partner) to adopt a child, the story was turned into an Off-Broadway musical. Answer: Dan Savage of the “It Gets Better” Projecty to prevent suicide amongst gay youth. “The Kid”, a hit musical in 2009, won several awards. http://www.thekidthemusical.com/
4. Question: Name this gay dad of twins, who was a child star. As an adult, he’s starred on a hit TV series and become a sought-after awards show host. His partner is a musical theatre star who turned chef. Answer: Neil Patrick Harris, star of “How I Met Your Mother”. He hosted the Tony Awards this year; his performance in Sondheim’s musical “Company” gets screened this week in theatres nationwide. His partner is David Burtka.
5. Question: Name this gay man, married to a woman, and father of a child, who directed a hit musical about a boy who chooses ballet over other sports. A new gay parent wrote the music. Answer: Stephen Daldry (married to performance artist Lucy Sexton) whop directed “Billy Elliot”, the musical with music by Elton John.
This Week’s Trivia Quiz: The Pride Quiz
1. 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.
2. Question: Name this gay rights group, the first recognized gay rights organization in America, established in 1924. A few months after being chartered, the police shut it down and arrested its membership. It also produced the first American publication for homosexuals.
3. 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 is the basis for a recent Off-Broadway play..
4. Question: The Stonewall Riots happened in 1969. Which of the following occured prior to Stonewall ? A) Homosexual behavior legalised in Canada; B) Poland decriminalised gay prostitution; C) The Oscar Wilde Bookshop, the world's first gay-oriented bookstore opens and/or D) an Australian chapter of Daughters of Bilitis opens in Melbourne.
5. 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.
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 14 No. 24 June 20, 2011
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: June 20-26, 2011
For Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org. or http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
thru THU: 6/30: San Francisco, CA: National Queer Arts Festival. LGBT performances and exhibits throughout the Bay Area. www.QueerCulturalCenter.org
thru SUN: 6/26: San Francisco, CA: Frameline: San Francisco Int’l LGBT Film Festival. www.frameline.org
Just Added: SAT: 6/18: Pittsfield, MA: Not A Dress Rehearsal. a fundraiser for the Berkshire Stonewall Community Coalition. Spice Dragon. http://berkshirestonewall.org/2011/05/not-a-dress-rehearsal/
TUE: 6/21: New York, NY: Talk Out Tuesday at “The Normal Heart”. Post-performance conversation. http://thenormalheartbroadway.com/talkout.php.
TUE: 6/21: Washington, DC: Night OUT. at the Nationals. Washington Nationals play the Seattle Mariners. http://www.teamdc.org/noan.html
WED: 6/22: Atlanta, GA: Don Lemon does a reading and booksigning of his new book “Transparent”. Outwrite Books. www.outwritebooks.com.
FRI: 6/24: San Francisco, CA: Chaz Bono, child of Sonny and Cher, signs copies of “Transition”. 7:30PM. Books Inc. Market Street.
SAT: 6/25: New York, NY: Stonewall Veterans Association commemorates the 42nd anniversary of Stonewall. www.stonewallvets.org
SAT: 6/25: Washington, DC: The Sondheim Celebration 10th Anniversary Concert . Kennedy Center honors the out composer with a free concert and an all-star cast. www.kennedy-center.org.
SAT: 6/25: New York, NY: Celebrity Autobiography: Gay Pride Edition. Celebrities read autobiographies by Susan Lucci, Justin Bieber, Cher, Dolly Parton, Ivana Trump, Madonna and Elizabeth Taylor, and more. Gina Gershon, Mario Cantone, Rachel Dratch, Michael Urie, and Sharon Gless star. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
SUN: 6/26: New York, NY: Harvey Fierstein is featured at Broadway Talks with Jordan Roth. http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/03-2011/daniel-radcliffe-harvey-fierstein-to-join-jordan-r_35065.html
Newsworthy:
Adoption by gay couples rises, according to the Census. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/us/14adoption.html?hp
Aspiring Gay Political Candidates train in campaign strategy via the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund seminars. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/us/11train.html?_r=1&hpw
Tennessee: A law suit has been filed against the new bill banning anti-LGBT discrimination. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/tennesseans-file-suit-against-recently-passed-law-prohibiting-local-lgbt-anti-discrimination-statute.html
It’s Fake Lesbian Blogger Week. Gawker reports: http://gawker.com/5811566/lesbian-editor-who-published-fake-lesbian-blogger-also-fake
Republican Presidential Wanna-bes state their stances on DADT andf same-sex marriage in the New Hampshire debates. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/ssmdadt.html
Santorum Supporters attempt to fix his frothy mix Google problem. The Washington Examiner explains: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/yeas-nays/2011/06/supporters-try-fixing-santorums-google-problem
The Buzz (People Making News)
Coming Out: Ben Alley is a courageous Iowa teen who moved forward after his family kicked him out. The DesMoines Register reports: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110610/BASU/106100328/Basu-Iowa-teen-moves-forward-after-family-dumps-him?odyssey=mod%7Cmostcom
Carolyn A. Martin, the out chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will become president of Amherst College. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/education/15amherst.html?_r=1
Awards and Honors:
Dan Savage accepted a special Webby Award for the “It Gets Better” campaign. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/savagewebby.html
Tony Awards: The Winners from The Tony Awards website: http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/winners.html
Tony Awards Recap: “It’s Not Just for Gays Anymore”. AfterElton reports: http://www.afterelton.com/tv/2011/06/tony-awards-nosebleed-seats
Tony Awards Recap with video highlights from Towleroad: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/book-of-mormon-wins-big-at-the-tonys.html
Photo Shoots, Audio and Video
Video: Broadway’s Not Just for Gays Anymore. Neil Patrick Harris’ Tony Awards opening number. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6S5caRGpK4
Video: Ira Glass presents Dan Savage with a Webby Award. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHzuDfo-xdk
Features
Profile: Josh Wood, the biggest gay party promoter in New York. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/fashion/the-party-planner-and-fund-raiser-josh-wood-up-close.html?_r=1
Gay Aspiring Political Candidates train in campaign strategy. The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund seminars. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/us/11train.html?_r=1&hpw
Tabloids Moment: Sean Connery Gay Secret. He kissed a guy on camera. It was the first man-on-man TV kiss. The Ntional Enquirer reports: http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/sean-connery-gay-secret
Anti-Gay “Sissy Therapy” Destroyed a man and his family. Anderson Cooper reported on the ex-gay work of Dr. George Alan Rekers. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/watch-how-anti-sissy-therapy-destroyed-a-m.html
The Resource Center:
New York City Up & OUT: The Big Apple’s gay resource to arts, entertainment and culture. Free weekly e-newsletter available. http://www.nycupandout.com/
Born This Way Blog. Fascinating look about how we LGBTQ people perceive ourselves from the time we first realized we were LGBTQ. http://borngaybornthisway.blogspot.com/
In Print:
The Book of Mormon: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical, by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone. Newmarket Press. Paperback. The script of the multi-award-winning musical (the original cast CD is also available) and well worth the read. The song “Turn It Off” explains how Mormons view being closeted.
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***Anything Goes. Gay Cole Porter’s madcap musical. Sutton Foster stars. www.roundabouttheatre.org.
***Book of Mormon, the new multi-Tony wainning musical penned by "South Park" co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker and “Avenue Q” Tony winner Robert Lopez.
***Master Class. Tyne Daly stars as opera diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s drama. to 8/14/11. www.manhatttantheatreclub.com
***The Normal Heart. Larry Kramer’s, landmark story of the early days of the AIDS pandemic. First produced 25+ years ago, it makes its Broadway debut. Talkbacks will be held after Tuesday performances.
***One Arm. Moises (“The Laramie Project”) Kaufman’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams unproduced screen play about a boxing champ who loses his arm and returns to hustling to survive. www.thenewgroup.org.. to 7/02/11.
***The Other Day, a new drama by Mark Jason Williams about a fragile gay relationship. Proceeds benefit the Hetrick Martin Institute. to 6/26/11. www.planetconnections.org.
***Unnatural Acts, a new play about Harvard's “Secret Court” investigation and persecution of a group of gay students in 1920. Conceived and directed by Tony Speciale and the Plastic Theatre. to 7/10/11. www.classicstage.org
Elsewhere...
***Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, world premiere of a new musical based on Armistead Maupin’s stories. to 7/24/11. San Francisco, CA. www.act-sf.org
***Bash’d, the gay rap opera. Los Angeles, CA. http://www.celebrationtheatre.com/onstage.html
***Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche. A 1950’s brunchon gathering of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein. to 7/30/11. Chicago, IL. www.thenewcolony.org
***The Homosexuals. World premiere by Phillip Dawkins. A modern riff on “The Boys in The Band”. to 7/24/11. Chicago, IL. www.aboutfacetheatre.com.
***The Pride. Alexi Kaye Campbell’s play about two men and a woman caught in a love triangle. to 7/03/11. San Francisco, CA. www.nctcsf.org
***Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays. One acts about marriage equality. Mondays to 6/27/11. Los Angeles, CA. http://www.standingonceremony.net/index2.html
***Tru. SNL vet Darrell Hammond plays Truman Capote in the one-man biography. to 6/26/11. Sag Harbor, NY. http://www.baystreet.org/
On Display
***Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, a collection of the out designer’s works from 1992-2010. through 7/31/11. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B55189B0E-51CF-4801-BC24-1D7CC67F7633%7D
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar. James Rasin’s documentary about the transgender Andy Warhol superstar, who died in 1974, at age 29.
***Beginners. Ewan McGregor plays an illustrator whose father (Christopher Plummer) comes out to him.
***Making The Boys. A documentry about the production of “The Boys in The Band”, the first commercially-successful gay-themed drama which opened just before Stonewall. Screening schedule on Facebook.
***Twelve Thirty. Jonathan Groff and Mamie Gummer star in a quirky film about a broken family (Dad is bi). www.twelvethirtymovie.com.
Out On Video & DVD
***Equality U. The documentary about the 2006 Soul Force Equality Ride, a cross-country journey to confront antigay discrimination.
***Kaboom, a new film from Gregg Araki. The world according to Smith, a bisexual Southern California cinema studies major (Thomas Dekker).
***Lead with Love, a documentary about strengthening families through the coming out process. Available for online viewing. http://LeadWithLoveFilm.com//
***The Times of Harvey Milk. The award-winning documentary about the gay rights leader.
***Undertow. A Peruvian film about a man with a pregnant wife who takes a male lover.
***Violet Tendencies. Mindi Cohn (“The Facts of Life”) plays a fag hag in this new romantic comedy. www.violettendenciesmovie.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 frequently. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
***June: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
For Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org. or http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
6/27/11: New York, NY: Trevor Live. The Trevor Project’s East Coast fundraiser at Capitale. Daniel Radcliffe to be honored. www.thetrevorproject.org/trevorlive
7/01/11-7/04/11: Washington, DC: DignityUSA 20th National Convention for LGBT Catholics. http://conv2011.dignityusa.org/
7/01/11-7/04/11: Atlanta, GA: Int’l Gay Square Dance Clubs Convention. www.iagsdc.org
7/07/12-7/13/12: Denver, CO: GALA Festival 2012. Gay and Lesbian Choruses. http://www.galachoruses.org/events/festival2010_denver.htm
7/07/11-7/17/11: Los Angeles, CA: Outfest LGBT Film/Video Festival. www.outfest.org
7/08/11-7/10/11: Boston, MA: National Asamblea for LGBT Latino/as and allies www.unidoslgbt.com
7/09/11-7/16/11: Sandpiper, FL: Summer Camp 2011. R Family Vacations Club Med program for LGBT families. http://www.rfamilyvacations.com/vacations_2010/clubmed_florida.php
7/09/11-7/12/11: Orlando, FL: GCLS Literary Convention. Golden Crown Literary Society’s annual gathering to share & explore the many facets of lesbian literature. www.gclscon.com
7/13/11-7/17/11: Denver, CO: Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf Annual Conference. LGBT deaf culture and identity. www.rad.org
7/19/11: New York, NY: Broadway Barks, a fundraiser to get shelter animals adopted and benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. 13th annual event started by Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore. www.broadwaycares.org
7/21/11-7/24/11: Seattle, WA: Gender Odyssey. panels, workshops & meetings, entertainment, focus on transmen, transwomen & other gender variant people. www.genderodyssey.org
7/25/11-7/31/11: Vancouver, BC: North American Outgames. www.vancouver2011outgames.com
7/29/11-7/31/11: Tacoma, WA: OLOC (Old Lesbians Organizing for Change) Nat’l Gathering. women only • lesbians 60+ gather for workshops, guest speakers & entertainment to promote old lesbian pride & fight ageism www.oloc.org
7/30/11-8/06/11: Provincetown, MA: Family Week. Family Equality’s program for LGBT families. http://www.familyequality.org/site/PageServer
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: Father’s Day
1. Question: Name this bisexual film director, who married into British theatrical royalty. One of his daughters was an AIDS activist before dying in a freak ski accident. His father-in-law was gay. Answer: Tony Richardson, best known for the film “Tom Jones”. He married Vanessa Redgrave, daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave. Daughter Natasha, star of stage and screen, died recently. She was an AIDS activist with the American Foundation for AIDS Research to honor her father, who died of AIDS.
2. Question: Namre this American political figure with an out daughter and a wife who wrote a gay-themed novel. He was president of the USA for a little over an hour. Answer: Dick Cheney, former Vice President of the United States. His daughter Mary, encouraged her father to support same-sex marriage. Cheney was president on June 29, 2002 from 11:09AM to 1:24PM, while then President George W. Bush was knocked out for a colonoscopy.
3. Question: Name this gay dad who launched a program to build self-esteem amongst LGBT and questioning teens. He’s a well-known author and journalist. When he chronicled his quest (with his partner) to adopt a child, the story was turned into an Off-Broadway musical. Answer: Dan Savage of the “It Gets Better” Projecty to prevent suicide amongst gay youth. “The Kid”, a hit musical in 2009, won several awards. http://www.thekidthemusical.com/
4. Question: Name this gay dad of twins, who was a child star. As an adult, he’s starred on a hit TV series and become a sought-after awards show host. His partner is a musical theatre star who turned chef. Answer: Neil Patrick Harris, star of “How I Met Your Mother”. He hosted the Tony Awards this year; his performance in Sondheim’s musical “Company” gets screened this week in theatres nationwide. His partner is David Burtka.
5. Question: Name this gay man, married to a woman, and father of a child, who directed a hit musical about a boy who chooses ballet over other sports. A new gay parent wrote the music. Answer: Stephen Daldry (married to performance artist Lucy Sexton) whop directed “Billy Elliot”, the musical with music by Elton John.
This Week’s Trivia Quiz: The Pride Quiz
1. 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.
2. Question: Name this gay rights group, the first recognized gay rights organization in America, established in 1924. A few months after being chartered, the police shut it down and arrested its membership. It also produced the first American publication for homosexuals.
3. 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 is the basis for a recent Off-Broadway play..
4. Question: The Stonewall Riots happened in 1969. Which of the following occured prior to Stonewall ? A) Homosexual behavior legalised in Canada; B) Poland decriminalised gay prostitution; C) The Oscar Wilde Bookshop, the world's first gay-oriented bookstore opens and/or D) an Australian chapter of Daughters of Bilitis opens in Melbourne.
5. 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.
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/
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Coming Out Support Newsweekly: 6/13/11
Coming Out Support (COS) Newsweekly
Volume 14 No. 23 June 13, 2011
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: June 13-19, 2011
For Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org. or http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
thru THU: 6/30: San Francisco, CA: National Queer Arts Festival. LGBT performances and exhibits throughout the Bay Area. www.QueerCulturalCenter.org
thru SAT: 6/18: Chicago, IL: Windy City Gay Idol talent competition. www.windycitymediagroup. com
Just Added: SUN: 6/12: Nationwide: Tony Awards Parties from Playbill.com: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/151512-Wheres-the-Party-Playbillcoms-Tony-Awards-Celebration-Round-Up
MON: 6/13: Chicago, IL: 4th Annual Bab Fab, a celebration of all things Streisand. www.theaterwit.com
MON: 6/13: New York, NY: A Night of a Thousand Judys, all things Garland. A benefit for the Ali Forney Center and its mission to assist LGBT homeless youth. www.joespub.com.
TUE: 6/14/: New York, NY: Talk Out Tuesday at “The Normal Heart”. Post-performance conversation. The Fight for Marriage Equality in New York with Brian Ellner, HRC Senior Campaign Strategist. http://thenormalheartbroadway.com/talkout.php.
WED: 6/15: Santa Barbara, CA: Meredith Baxter, newly out star of “Family Ties”, does a reading and booksigning of her autobiography “Untied“. 7PM. Chaucer’s Bookstore, Main Street.
WED-SUN: 6/15-6/19: Provincetown, MA: Provincetown Int’l Film Festival. www.ptownfilmfest.org
THU-SUN: 6/16-6/26: San Francisco, CA: Frameline: San Francisco Int’l LGBT Film Festival. www.frameline.org
FRI: 6/17: New York, NY: Thank GLAAD It’s Friday. National networking event series for young LGBT professionals and straight allies. http://www.glaad.org/events/tgif/nyc
SUN: 6/19: New York, NY: Folsom Street East. Leather street festival. http://www.folsomstreeteast.org/
SUN: 6/19: New York, NY: Broadway Bares XXI: Masterpiece. The annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit that offers up a modern-day burlesque show packed with museum-quality human canvases that would make an art critic blush. www.broadwaybares.com
Newsworthy:
Coming Out: New York Times “Coming Out” Series: LGBT teens in their own words, made its debut on 5/23/11. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/us/23out.html?_r=1
AARP (The American Association of Retired People) has launched a LGBT micro-site. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/aarp-launches-lgbt-microsite.html
The Buzz (People Making News)
Coming Out: Fran Fried, former New Haven Register arts writer, explains her transgender experience as she comes out to The Register. http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/06/02/news/doc4de6bb67224d0875861956.txt
Coming Out: Jason Page of Sports Talk Radio has come out. The Hartford Courant reports: http://www.courant.com/sports/other/hc-jason-page-0605-20110604,0,4527621.story
Jane Lynch of “Glee” will host the 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards in September. The Advocate reports: http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/06/02/Its_Official_Jane_Lynch_Hosts_Emmys/
Features
Coming Out: NPR Fresh Air Profile: Beginners. Mike Mills’ film about an older man, played by Christopher Plummer, who comes out to his son. http://www.npr.org/2011/06/02/136499797/beginners-a-sons-love-letter-to-his-gay-father?sc=fb&cc=fp
30 Years In, We’re Still Learning from AIDS. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/health/31aids.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=AIDS&st=Search
Coming Out: Wanda Sykes talks with Piers Morgan about coming out and being lesbian. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/sykes.html
After Elton’s 39 Hottest Guys in Theatre. http://www.afterelton.com/people/39-hottest-guys-in-theater?page=0%2C0
Rory O’Malley, Tony nominee, and co-founder of Broadway Impact, is profiled by Peter Filichia. http://www.theatermania.com/peterfilichia/index.cfm?mode=viewentry&id=525AE7B2-2219-54E7-B9C8D24F57493576
In Print:
A Vigil for Joe Rose: Stories of Being Out in High School. by Michael Whatling. iUniverse Press. 8 short stories and a novella chart the journey of those coming out and coming of age. http://JoeRose.Jigsy.com/
Transparent by Don Lemon. Health Communications. In this unique memoir, Primetime CNN anchor Don Lemon takes readers behind the scenes of journalism, detailing his own struggle to become one of the most prominent African American men in television news-and inside some of the biggest stories of our times, including his being a victim of sexual abuse and later coming out.
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner. TCG Hardcover. A 20th anniversary edition of “Millenium Approaches” and “Perestroika”.
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***Master Class. Tyne Daly stars as opera diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s drama with music to 8/14/11. www.manhatttantheatreclub.com
***The Normal Heart. Larry Kramer’s, landmark story of the early days of the AIDS pandemic. Joe Mantello, Ellen Barkin, and John Benjamin Hickey co-star.
***One Arm. Moises (“The Laramie Project”) Kaufman’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams unproduced screen play about a boxing champ who loses his arm and returns to hustling to survive. www.thenewgroup.org.. to 7/02/11.
***The Other Day, a new drama by Mark Jason Williams about a fragile gay relationship. Proceeds benefit the Hetrick Martin Institute. to 6/26/11. www.planetconnections.org.
***Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the musical based on the 1994 Australian film. The story of three drag queens who head west across the Outback in their battered old bus. www.priscillathemusical.com.
***Quartet. Four gay-themed plays by Mario (“Nine”) Fratti. to 6/19/11. www.theaterforthenewcity.net
***Unnatural Acts, a new play about Harvard's “Secret Court” investigation and persecution of a group of gay students in 1920. Conceived and directed by Tony Speciale and the Plastic Theatre. to 7/10/11. www.classicstage.org
Elsewhere...
***Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, world premiere of a new musical based on Armistead Maupin’s stories. . to 7/24/11. San Francisco, CA. www.act-sf.org
***Bare, the rock musical about repressed teens in a Catholic high school, including two guys who have to deal with their romance. to 6/25/11. St. Louis, MO. www.newlinetheatre.com
***Fighting Mac. the story of English general Sir Hector MacDonald, who was gay. to 6/26/11, San Francisco, CA. www.therhino.org.
***The Homosexuals. World premiere by Phillip Dawkins. A modern riff on “The Boys in The Band”. to 7/24/11. Chicago, IL. www.aboutfacetheatre.com.
***The Laramie Project, the story of Matthew Shepard’s murder and its impact on the people of a Wyoming town. to 6/18/11. Larkspur, CA. 415-827-1373
***The Pride. Alexi Kaye Campbell’s play about two men and a woman caught in a love triangle. to 7/03/11. San Francisco, CA. www.nctcsf.org
***Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays. One acts about marriage equality. Mondays to 6/27/11. Los Angeles, CA. http://www.standingonceremony.net/index2.html
***Tru. SNL vet Darrell Hammond plays Truman Capote in the one-man biography. to 6/26/11. Sag Harbor, NY. http://www.baystreet.org/
On Display
***Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, a collection of the out designer’s works from 1992-2010. through 7/31/11. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B55189B0E-51CF-4801-BC24-1D7CC67F7633%7D
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar. James Rasin’s documentary about the transgender Andy Warhol superstar, who died in 1974, at age 29.
***Beginners. Ewan McGregor plays an illustrator whose father (Christopher Plummer) comes out to him.
***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.
***Company. Sondheim’s musical filmed at Lincoln Center with Neil Patrick Harris as bachelor Robert. His friends include: Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert and an all-star cast. Screening: 6/15/11.
***Making The Boys. A documentry about the production of “The Boys in The Band”, the first commercially-successful gay-themed drama which opened just before Stonewall. With Edward Albee, Mart Crowley (the playwright), Candis Cayne and others. Screening schedule on Facebook.
Out On Video & DVD
***Equality U. The documentary about the 2006 Soul Force Equality Ride, a cross-country journey to confront antigay discrimination.
***Kaboom, a new film from Gregg Araki. The world according to Smith, a bisexual Southern California cinema studies major (Thomas Dekker).
***Lead with Love, a documentary about strengthening families through the coming out process. Available for online viewing. http://LeadWithLoveFilm.com// The trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGxcb7Ih7N0&feature=youtu.be
***Undertow. A Peruvian film about a man with a pregnant wife who takes a male lover.
***Violet Tendencies. Mindi Cohn (“The Facts of Life”) plays a fag hag in this new romantic comedy. www.violettendenciesmovie.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 frequently. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
***June: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
For Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org. or http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
6/21/11: Washington, DC: Night OUT. at the Nationals. Washington Nationals play the Seattle Mariners. http://www.teamdc.org/noan.html
6/25/11: New York, NY: Stonewall Veterans Association commemorates the 42nd anniversary of Stonewall. www.stonewallvets.org
6/25/11: New York, NY: Celebrity Autobiography: Gay Pride Edition. Celebrities read autobiographies by Susan Lucci, Justin Bieber, Cher, Dolly Parton, Ivana Trump, Madonna and Elizabeth Taylor, and more. Gina Gershon, Mario Cantone, Rachel Dratch, Michael Urie, and Sharon Gless star. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
6/27/11: New York, NY: Trevor Live. The Trevor Project’s East Coast fundraiser at Capitale. Daniel Radcliffe to be honored. www.thetrevorproject.org/trevorlive
7/01/11-7/04/11: Washington, DC: DignityUSA 20th National Convention for LGBT Catholics. http://conv2011.dignityusa.org/
7/01/11-7/04/11: Atlanta, GA: Int’l Gay Square Dance Clubs Convention. www.iagsdc.org
7/07/12-7/13/12: Denver, CO: GALA Festival 2012. Gay and Lesbian Choruses. http://www.galachoruses.org/events/festival2010_denver.htm
7/07/11-7/17/11: Los Angeles, CA: Outfest LGBT Film/Video Festival. www.outfest.org
7/08/11-7/10/11: Boston, MA: National Asamblea for LGBT Latino/as and allies www.unidoslgbt.com
7/09/11-7/16/11: Sandpiper, FL: Summer Camp 2011. R Family Vacations Club Med program for LGBT families. http://www.rfamilyvacations.com/vacations_2010/clubmed_florida.php
7/09/11-7/12/11: Orlando, FL: GCLS Literary Convention. Golden Crown Literary Society’s annual gathering to share & explore the many facets of lesbian literature. www.gclscon.com
7/13/11-7/17/11: Denver, CO: Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf Annual Conference. LGBT deaf culture and identity. www.rad.org
7/17/11: San Francisco, CA: AIDS Walk San Francisco. www.aidswalk.net
7/19/11: New York, NY: Broadway Barks, a fundraiser to get shelter animals adopted and benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. 13th annual event started by Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore. www.broadwaycares.org
7/21/11-7/24/11: Seattle, WA: Gender Odyssey. panels, workshops & meetings, entertainment, focus on transmen, transwomen & other gender variant people. www.genderodyssey.org
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: The Tony Awards
1. Question: Name this composer who has the most Tony Awards (more than any other composer) to his credit. His musicals have included stories about: fairy tales, bachelors at a cross-road, and aging showgirls losing their minds. Answer: Stephen Sondheim, winner of 7 Tony Awards for musicals like “Into The Woods”, “Company” and “Follies”, and a Lifetime Achievement Tony.
2. Question: While several actors have received Tony Awards for cross-dressing characters, only two have received Tony Awards for playing a character of the opposite sex. Name them. Hint: One is an out man who made his musical theatre debut in a divine role. The other, who was bi, played a high-flying character, followed by a an alpine nanny. Answer: Harvey Fierstein (Edna Turnblad in “Hairspray”) and Mary Martin (“Peter Pan”).
3. Question: Name this out Broadway baby, who is one of two individuals to receive Tony Awards in four different categories. His Tonys include Best Actor in a Musical, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical, Best Choreographer, and Best Director of a Musical. He’s a tap master and a tall order. Answer: Tommy Tune.
4. Question: Name this out Broadway baby, who is the other of two individuals to receive Tony Awards in four different categories. He received Tonys for writing and starring in his play; for writing a musical (which he recently starred in), and is related to the answer in #2. Answer: Harvey Fierstein.
5. Question: Name this actor nominated this for his performance in a transgender role. He has played the role globally. His has previously starred in a musical as a cross-dressing Broadway director who liked to keep things gay; he won several awards in a Harvey Fierstein play. His aunt had a top 40 hit with a feminist anthem. Answer: Tony Sheldon, nominee for his performance as Bernadette in “Priacilla, Queen of the Desert”. He starred in the Australian productions of “The Producers” and “Torch Song Trilogy”. His aunt is Helen Reddy.
This Week’s Trivia Quiz: Father’s Day
1. Question: Name this bisexual film director, who married into British theatrical royalty. One of his daughters was an AIDS activist before dying in a freak ski accident. His father-in-law was gay.
2. Question: Namre this American political figure with an out daughter and a wife who wrote a gay-themed novel. He was president of the USA for a little over an hour.
3. Question: Name this gay dad who launched a program to build self-esteem amongst LGBT and questioning teens. He’s a well-known author and journalist. When he chronicled his quest (with his partner) to adopt a child, the story was turned into an Off-Broadway musical.
4. Question: Name this gay dad of twins, who was a child star. As an adult, he’s starred on a hit TV series and become a sought-after awards show host. His partner is a musical theatre star who turned chef.
5. Question: Name this gay man, married to a woman, and father of a child, who directed a hit musical about a boy who chooses ballet over other sports. A new gay parent wrote the music.
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 14 No. 23 June 13, 2011
Newsletter Editor: M. G. Auerbach Email: COSNewsweekly@gmail.com
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The Gay Agenda: Datebook: June 13-19, 2011
For Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org. or http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
thru THU: 6/30: San Francisco, CA: National Queer Arts Festival. LGBT performances and exhibits throughout the Bay Area. www.QueerCulturalCenter.org
thru SAT: 6/18: Chicago, IL: Windy City Gay Idol talent competition. www.windycitymediagroup. com
Just Added: SUN: 6/12: Nationwide: Tony Awards Parties from Playbill.com: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/151512-Wheres-the-Party-Playbillcoms-Tony-Awards-Celebration-Round-Up
MON: 6/13: Chicago, IL: 4th Annual Bab Fab, a celebration of all things Streisand. www.theaterwit.com
MON: 6/13: New York, NY: A Night of a Thousand Judys, all things Garland. A benefit for the Ali Forney Center and its mission to assist LGBT homeless youth. www.joespub.com.
TUE: 6/14/: New York, NY: Talk Out Tuesday at “The Normal Heart”. Post-performance conversation. The Fight for Marriage Equality in New York with Brian Ellner, HRC Senior Campaign Strategist. http://thenormalheartbroadway.com/talkout.php.
WED: 6/15: Santa Barbara, CA: Meredith Baxter, newly out star of “Family Ties”, does a reading and booksigning of her autobiography “Untied“. 7PM. Chaucer’s Bookstore, Main Street.
WED-SUN: 6/15-6/19: Provincetown, MA: Provincetown Int’l Film Festival. www.ptownfilmfest.org
THU-SUN: 6/16-6/26: San Francisco, CA: Frameline: San Francisco Int’l LGBT Film Festival. www.frameline.org
FRI: 6/17: New York, NY: Thank GLAAD It’s Friday. National networking event series for young LGBT professionals and straight allies. http://www.glaad.org/events/tgif/nyc
SUN: 6/19: New York, NY: Folsom Street East. Leather street festival. http://www.folsomstreeteast.org/
SUN: 6/19: New York, NY: Broadway Bares XXI: Masterpiece. The annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit that offers up a modern-day burlesque show packed with museum-quality human canvases that would make an art critic blush. www.broadwaybares.com
Newsworthy:
Coming Out: New York Times “Coming Out” Series: LGBT teens in their own words, made its debut on 5/23/11. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/us/23out.html?_r=1
AARP (The American Association of Retired People) has launched a LGBT micro-site. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/aarp-launches-lgbt-microsite.html
The Buzz (People Making News)
Coming Out: Fran Fried, former New Haven Register arts writer, explains her transgender experience as she comes out to The Register. http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/06/02/news/doc4de6bb67224d0875861956.txt
Coming Out: Jason Page of Sports Talk Radio has come out. The Hartford Courant reports: http://www.courant.com/sports/other/hc-jason-page-0605-20110604,0,4527621.story
Jane Lynch of “Glee” will host the 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards in September. The Advocate reports: http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/06/02/Its_Official_Jane_Lynch_Hosts_Emmys/
Features
Coming Out: NPR Fresh Air Profile: Beginners. Mike Mills’ film about an older man, played by Christopher Plummer, who comes out to his son. http://www.npr.org/2011/06/02/136499797/beginners-a-sons-love-letter-to-his-gay-father?sc=fb&cc=fp
30 Years In, We’re Still Learning from AIDS. The New York Times reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/health/31aids.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=AIDS&st=Search
Coming Out: Wanda Sykes talks with Piers Morgan about coming out and being lesbian. Towleroad reports: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/06/sykes.html
After Elton’s 39 Hottest Guys in Theatre. http://www.afterelton.com/people/39-hottest-guys-in-theater?page=0%2C0
Rory O’Malley, Tony nominee, and co-founder of Broadway Impact, is profiled by Peter Filichia. http://www.theatermania.com/peterfilichia/index.cfm?mode=viewentry&id=525AE7B2-2219-54E7-B9C8D24F57493576
In Print:
A Vigil for Joe Rose: Stories of Being Out in High School. by Michael Whatling. iUniverse Press. 8 short stories and a novella chart the journey of those coming out and coming of age. http://JoeRose.Jigsy.com/
Transparent by Don Lemon. Health Communications. In this unique memoir, Primetime CNN anchor Don Lemon takes readers behind the scenes of journalism, detailing his own struggle to become one of the most prominent African American men in television news-and inside some of the biggest stories of our times, including his being a victim of sexual abuse and later coming out.
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner. TCG Hardcover. A 20th anniversary edition of “Millenium Approaches” and “Perestroika”.
In Performance: Onstage:Theatre/Music/Dance
New York City (and Broadway)
***Master Class. Tyne Daly stars as opera diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s drama with music to 8/14/11. www.manhatttantheatreclub.com
***The Normal Heart. Larry Kramer’s, landmark story of the early days of the AIDS pandemic. Joe Mantello, Ellen Barkin, and John Benjamin Hickey co-star.
***One Arm. Moises (“The Laramie Project”) Kaufman’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams unproduced screen play about a boxing champ who loses his arm and returns to hustling to survive. www.thenewgroup.org.. to 7/02/11.
***The Other Day, a new drama by Mark Jason Williams about a fragile gay relationship. Proceeds benefit the Hetrick Martin Institute. to 6/26/11. www.planetconnections.org.
***Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the musical based on the 1994 Australian film. The story of three drag queens who head west across the Outback in their battered old bus. www.priscillathemusical.com.
***Quartet. Four gay-themed plays by Mario (“Nine”) Fratti. to 6/19/11. www.theaterforthenewcity.net
***Unnatural Acts, a new play about Harvard's “Secret Court” investigation and persecution of a group of gay students in 1920. Conceived and directed by Tony Speciale and the Plastic Theatre. to 7/10/11. www.classicstage.org
Elsewhere...
***Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, world premiere of a new musical based on Armistead Maupin’s stories. . to 7/24/11. San Francisco, CA. www.act-sf.org
***Bare, the rock musical about repressed teens in a Catholic high school, including two guys who have to deal with their romance. to 6/25/11. St. Louis, MO. www.newlinetheatre.com
***Fighting Mac. the story of English general Sir Hector MacDonald, who was gay. to 6/26/11, San Francisco, CA. www.therhino.org.
***The Homosexuals. World premiere by Phillip Dawkins. A modern riff on “The Boys in The Band”. to 7/24/11. Chicago, IL. www.aboutfacetheatre.com.
***The Laramie Project, the story of Matthew Shepard’s murder and its impact on the people of a Wyoming town. to 6/18/11. Larkspur, CA. 415-827-1373
***The Pride. Alexi Kaye Campbell’s play about two men and a woman caught in a love triangle. to 7/03/11. San Francisco, CA. www.nctcsf.org
***Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays. One acts about marriage equality. Mondays to 6/27/11. Los Angeles, CA. http://www.standingonceremony.net/index2.html
***Tru. SNL vet Darrell Hammond plays Truman Capote in the one-man biography. to 6/26/11. Sag Harbor, NY. http://www.baystreet.org/
On Display
***Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, a collection of the out designer’s works from 1992-2010. through 7/31/11. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B55189B0E-51CF-4801-BC24-1D7CC67F7633%7D
On Screen (and Video & DVD)
Out on Screen...
***Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar. James Rasin’s documentary about the transgender Andy Warhol superstar, who died in 1974, at age 29.
***Beginners. Ewan McGregor plays an illustrator whose father (Christopher Plummer) comes out to him.
***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.
***Company. Sondheim’s musical filmed at Lincoln Center with Neil Patrick Harris as bachelor Robert. His friends include: Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert and an all-star cast. Screening: 6/15/11.
***Making The Boys. A documentry about the production of “The Boys in The Band”, the first commercially-successful gay-themed drama which opened just before Stonewall. With Edward Albee, Mart Crowley (the playwright), Candis Cayne and others. Screening schedule on Facebook.
Out On Video & DVD
***Equality U. The documentary about the 2006 Soul Force Equality Ride, a cross-country journey to confront antigay discrimination.
***Kaboom, a new film from Gregg Araki. The world according to Smith, a bisexual Southern California cinema studies major (Thomas Dekker).
***Lead with Love, a documentary about strengthening families through the coming out process. Available for online viewing. http://LeadWithLoveFilm.com// The trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGxcb7Ih7N0&feature=youtu.be
***Undertow. A Peruvian film about a man with a pregnant wife who takes a male lover.
***Violet Tendencies. Mindi Cohn (“The Facts of Life”) plays a fag hag in this new romantic comedy. www.violettendenciesmovie.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 frequently. www.glaad.org/tvgayed
***June: In the Life. LGBT news magazine. PBS. Check local listings. http://www.itl.tv/inthelife/episodes/
Conferences, Seminars, Benefits, and Special Events
For Pride Events worldwide: www.interpride.org. or http://www.gayfriendlybiz.com/calendar.html
6/21/11: Washington, DC: Night OUT. at the Nationals. Washington Nationals play the Seattle Mariners. http://www.teamdc.org/noan.html
6/25/11: New York, NY: Stonewall Veterans Association commemorates the 42nd anniversary of Stonewall. www.stonewallvets.org
6/25/11: New York, NY: Celebrity Autobiography: Gay Pride Edition. Celebrities read autobiographies by Susan Lucci, Justin Bieber, Cher, Dolly Parton, Ivana Trump, Madonna and Elizabeth Taylor, and more. Gina Gershon, Mario Cantone, Rachel Dratch, Michael Urie, and Sharon Gless star. www.celebrityautobiography.com.
6/27/11: New York, NY: Trevor Live. The Trevor Project’s East Coast fundraiser at Capitale. Daniel Radcliffe to be honored. www.thetrevorproject.org/trevorlive
7/01/11-7/04/11: Washington, DC: DignityUSA 20th National Convention for LGBT Catholics. http://conv2011.dignityusa.org/
7/01/11-7/04/11: Atlanta, GA: Int’l Gay Square Dance Clubs Convention. www.iagsdc.org
7/07/12-7/13/12: Denver, CO: GALA Festival 2012. Gay and Lesbian Choruses. http://www.galachoruses.org/events/festival2010_denver.htm
7/07/11-7/17/11: Los Angeles, CA: Outfest LGBT Film/Video Festival. www.outfest.org
7/08/11-7/10/11: Boston, MA: National Asamblea for LGBT Latino/as and allies www.unidoslgbt.com
7/09/11-7/16/11: Sandpiper, FL: Summer Camp 2011. R Family Vacations Club Med program for LGBT families. http://www.rfamilyvacations.com/vacations_2010/clubmed_florida.php
7/09/11-7/12/11: Orlando, FL: GCLS Literary Convention. Golden Crown Literary Society’s annual gathering to share & explore the many facets of lesbian literature. www.gclscon.com
7/13/11-7/17/11: Denver, CO: Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf Annual Conference. LGBT deaf culture and identity. www.rad.org
7/17/11: San Francisco, CA: AIDS Walk San Francisco. www.aidswalk.net
7/19/11: New York, NY: Broadway Barks, a fundraiser to get shelter animals adopted and benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. 13th annual event started by Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore. www.broadwaycares.org
7/21/11-7/24/11: Seattle, WA: Gender Odyssey. panels, workshops & meetings, entertainment, focus on transmen, transwomen & other gender variant people. www.genderodyssey.org
Last Week’s Trivia Quiz: The Tony Awards
1. Question: Name this composer who has the most Tony Awards (more than any other composer) to his credit. His musicals have included stories about: fairy tales, bachelors at a cross-road, and aging showgirls losing their minds. Answer: Stephen Sondheim, winner of 7 Tony Awards for musicals like “Into The Woods”, “Company” and “Follies”, and a Lifetime Achievement Tony.
2. Question: While several actors have received Tony Awards for cross-dressing characters, only two have received Tony Awards for playing a character of the opposite sex. Name them. Hint: One is an out man who made his musical theatre debut in a divine role. The other, who was bi, played a high-flying character, followed by a an alpine nanny. Answer: Harvey Fierstein (Edna Turnblad in “Hairspray”) and Mary Martin (“Peter Pan”).
3. Question: Name this out Broadway baby, who is one of two individuals to receive Tony Awards in four different categories. His Tonys include Best Actor in a Musical, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical, Best Choreographer, and Best Director of a Musical. He’s a tap master and a tall order. Answer: Tommy Tune.
4. Question: Name this out Broadway baby, who is the other of two individuals to receive Tony Awards in four different categories. He received Tonys for writing and starring in his play; for writing a musical (which he recently starred in), and is related to the answer in #2. Answer: Harvey Fierstein.
5. Question: Name this actor nominated this for his performance in a transgender role. He has played the role globally. His has previously starred in a musical as a cross-dressing Broadway director who liked to keep things gay; he won several awards in a Harvey Fierstein play. His aunt had a top 40 hit with a feminist anthem. Answer: Tony Sheldon, nominee for his performance as Bernadette in “Priacilla, Queen of the Desert”. He starred in the Australian productions of “The Producers” and “Torch Song Trilogy”. His aunt is Helen Reddy.
This Week’s Trivia Quiz: Father’s Day
1. Question: Name this bisexual film director, who married into British theatrical royalty. One of his daughters was an AIDS activist before dying in a freak ski accident. His father-in-law was gay.
2. Question: Namre this American political figure with an out daughter and a wife who wrote a gay-themed novel. He was president of the USA for a little over an hour.
3. Question: Name this gay dad who launched a program to build self-esteem amongst LGBT and questioning teens. He’s a well-known author and journalist. When he chronicled his quest (with his partner) to adopt a child, the story was turned into an Off-Broadway musical.
4. Question: Name this gay dad of twins, who was a child star. As an adult, he’s starred on a hit TV series and become a sought-after awards show host. His partner is a musical theatre star who turned chef.
5. Question: Name this gay man, married to a woman, and father of a child, who directed a hit musical about a boy who chooses ballet over other sports. A new gay parent wrote the music.
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