Gay Gulags, Carrots and Jesus

Still buzzing from the amazing Gender Odyssey conference, today I fly from Seattle to Miami to be part of a Spanish language talk show (I feel so elated by the conference, I doubt I’ll need the plane.) No time to blog about what happened right now, but I will have something up in a few [...]

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Transgender Theater Trend?

Frank Rizzo of the Hartford Courant asks,
Is there a transgender show trend emerging?
He’s referring to back to back one-person performances about transgender issues happening in Hartford, CT next month.
Peterson Toscano will present his newest solo theater piece, Transfigurations: Transgressing Gender in the Bible on Sept. 11 at Hartford’s Charter Oak Cultural Center. It’s about “gender-variant [...]

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Special Appearances at some very cool venues

This weekend I will be home (aka Hartford, Connecticut) and it is a good thing too because lots of cool stuff is happening that I get to attend, AND I will also get to contribute to the coolness.
All day on Saturday will be the Trangender Lives Conference held at UCONN Health Center in Farmington, CT [...]

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Doin’ Time with Christopher Hitchens, Peter Gomes and Harold Kushner

I feel like I just stepped out of a Dr. Seuss book–Oh the Places You’ll Go!
Yesterday I spent about six hours with Christopher Hitchens, Peter Gomes, and Harold Kushner. No, I was not having a read-a-thon about faith or the need to annihilate it. Instead I had the privilege of volunteering for the Connecticut Forum, [...]

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