My play Dear Anita Bryant was performed last evening at the Desert Rose Playhouse in Rancho Mirage, CA. The 100 seat theater provided such anm intimate take on this emotional, sometimes funny story of LGBT history through a letter written to Anita Bryant. The cast was spot on, the audience was deeply engaged, and I
RIP TO A MAVERICK: John McCain(1936-2018), a longtime senator, war hero and political force has died at 81 after battling brain cancer. Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – August 26 1904, UK – English-American novelist Christopher Isherwood (August 26, 1904 – January 4,
Learning our history IS resistance! Thanks for taking this journey with me. Now go write your story! Today in LGBT History – August 18 1721, Germany – Catherina Margaretha Linck(died 1721)is executed for female sodomy. She was a Prussianwoman who for most of her adult life presented herself as a man named Anastasius Lagrantius Rosenstengel. She
Kelly and I continue with On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (2017). Snyder presents twenty lessons from the 20th century, adapted to the circumstances of today’s politics. On this blog, I present one lesson each day for 20 days (though I may insert a personal thought among the days). Kelly is posting them on our FB
I am interrupting our Tyranny lesson for today to share some of an article by Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, director of the Social Justice Organizing Program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and a member of the Board of The Shalom Center. The Rabbi marched with over 50 other clergy in Charlottesville. I think it is no