ACT Turns 100

  
American Conservatory Theater turns 100 years old this weekend, and they are opening up their space for a free day-long celebration including backstage tours, prize drawings, and performances. Additionally, guests will be able to buy tickets to any performance Phedre for only $19.10. This is a free event for the whole family.

Visit ACT's website for more information.

Courage Campaign STILL Needs Signatures

    
Courage Campaign is getting close to reaching their 100,000 signatures mark by Friday at 9:00am. They are collecting signatures to demonstrate strong public support for televising the Prop. 8 Trial to Judge Vaughn Walker. Currently, a ruling has been made to televise the trial on delay through YouTube. The trial will not be televised by media organizations for live broadcast.

More here.

Sign the petition.

The Red Dot(s): December 1, 2009

     

I'm starting to type up old journal entries. The world is getting crazier for me, especially in 2010. The red dots are taking over, and I am having a difficult time distinguishing this world from the next. In fact, it sometimes seems that there are many different worlds and the red dots are portals to other places. But I am getting ahead of myself. I must try and put this in chronological order. 

This entry was written in my journal on December 1, 2009. 

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I went to a holiday party last night. It had a large Christmas tree, an abundance of sushi, and a chocolate fountain with a variety of treats for your dipping pleasure. It ended horribly. It was a complete misunderstanding. Yes, I am the one who cause it, but I swear it was the dots that made me do it. (God do I sound crazier than ever.)

Continue reading.

Too Much A Queer Marathon

    

Mama Calizo's Voice Factory is being transformed for Keith Hennessy's Too Much a Queer Marathon. It is a mixture of excitement, innovation, community, and chaos as paint flies, rooms get clean, and performers rehearse. Everyone is pitching in to make sure everything is ready for what is bound to be a whirlwind flurry of performances and art from queers the Bay over.

More here.

Box Turtle Bulletin's Video of Homophobe Scott Lively

  
This is an important video to watch not in that "feel good" kind of way, but in a "I had to see it to believe it" sort of way. It demonstrates exactly what the LGBTQ community is and has been up against for centuries. Sir Ian McKellen said it best, "I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims. But the leaders. . . . Why should I take the judgment of a declared celibate about my sexual needs? He's basing his judgment on laws that would fit life in the Bronze Age. So if I'm lost to God, organized religion is to blame." (From a November 2009 interview in the LA Times.)



For more in-depth reporting on Uganda's "Kill the gays bill", visit Box Turtle Bulletin.