Boys in Pink Dresses & Ex-Gay Queer Lectures

These are some of my favorite things!
My Friend Oliver Danni sent a link to a gorgeous article about a four-year-old boy who told his mom he wanted a pink dress, not for playing dress-up, but to wear to school. Sarah Hoffman writes,
At 4, Sam has been expressing his preference for pink for half his life. [...]

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Off to Indiana

I fly off to Indiana today for a week of performances, community connections and no doubt some surprises. First stop is Portland, IN, a small town with a new Gay Straight Alliance at the local high school. The group is sponsoring an event tomorrow night that will feature Christian singer and recently out gay man [...]

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Join Me in Phoenix!

Photo courtesy of TransMentors International.
From Tuscon Gay Examiner
TransMentors International has announced that it will hold its Transform Arizona conference October 16-18, 2009 at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix located at 4027 E. Lincoln Drive in Paradise Valley (map).
The purpose of this conference is to educate and raise awareness within the LGB community and the [...]

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Transgender on the Radio

About an hour ago I stepped out of the studios of WNPR, the Hartford local public radio stations, where I appeared on the Where We Live program to talk about transgender Bible characters as they appear in my play Transfigurations–Transgressing Gender in the Bible. Also on the show performance artist Scott Turner Schofield spoke about [...]

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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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Being Queer and the Fear of Death

In my play Queer 101–Now I Know My gAy,B,Cs I perform a scene as two characters–Chad, a queer studies major who has to take over the introductory to quee theory class since Dr. Eugenes, the transgender professor is out that day, and Federico Garcia Lorca, the early 20th Century Spanish poet and playwright. (see scene [...]

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Transgender Bible Characters–The Power of Narrative

I’ve been listening to a great podcast–Mandrake Society Radio and in particular to an interview with Steven G. Fullwood, founder of the Black Gay/Lesbian Archive, located in the Schomberg Center for Black Culture in the New York City Library. One theme that comces up more than once in the interview has to do with the [...]

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Gay to “Homo No Mo” to ex-Ex-Gay to Me: Identity Monologue

Of all the performance pieces I perform, The Identity Monologue seems to work well in every venue so far. Through eight characters in two minutes I tell my life story without actually mentioning that much of that story has to do with struggling over the fact that I was gay and that I spent nearly [...]

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Job of the Week–stirring up trouble on stage and as a Public Friend

Recently the UK-based website Ideas Tap interviewed me for their on-line magazine featuring me in their Job of the Week section. They were especially interested in potentially controversial aspects of my work as a queer theatrical performance activist.
People often ask me if I run into problems/opposition when I perform my plays. Really I rarely do, [...]

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Join Me in Pittsburgh!

July 16-18 I will be in Pittsburgh for the Metropolitan Church Region 3
and 5 Conference.
In addition to performing Transfigurations–Transgressing Gender in the Bible, my play about gender-variant and transgender Bible characters, I will also offer a workshop.
Homo No Mo?!? Orientation Gender and the Ex-Gay Movement will provide participants to take part in a workshop that [...]

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Doin’ Time on BBC Radio

The other day I am awoken from a truly bizarre dream (it was a Western, but that wasn’t the weird part) to a phone call from the producer of Religion and Ethics programming for BBC radio. She wanted to book me into a studio for about two hours so that I can sit for multiple [...]

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Transgender Bible Characters in London!

I write from Southampton where I have a performance tonight at the Uni, but tomorrow night, due to popular demand, I will return to London for a performance of Transfigurations–Transgressing Gender in the Bible.
St. Saviour Pimlico
Parish Hall
Lupus Street
(across from Pimlico Station)
London UK SW1V 9AL
Phone: 07788594018
Trans Bible Characters??? You betcha!
In this one-person play, theatrical performance activist, [...]

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