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Bryan Hlavinka (Houston, TX) wroteon April 20, 2009 at 3:19pm
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Opening, general discussion
9:02 pm
The Houston Transgender Unity Committee has opened ticket sales for the annual Houston Transgender Unity Banquet, which will be held on Saturday, May 2, at the Sheraton Brookhollow (3000 North Loop West), 6:30 p.m. until 1 a.m. Tickets are $50 in advance ($60 at the door) and can be purchased through the Unity Committee website, www.htuc.org. Tickets are also available at Vanity: A Trans-formation Studio (1440 Yale, 832/767-3252), the Heights boutique. Proceeds from Unity Banquet ticket sales support the Peggy Rudd Transgender Scholarship Fund. The Unity Committee will present two scholarships at the banquet to trans-identified students pursuing higher education. The Rudd Scholarship application is available at the Unity Committee website. The application deadline is March 16. Scott Turner Schofield, the Atlanta-based transgender performance artist, is the 2009 Unity Banquet keynote speaker. Schofields� works include the memoir Two Truths and a Lie (nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards) and Becoming a Man in 127 Steps. During the banquet, representatives from other local transgender groups will make presentations about their work. These groups include Helping TransGenders Anonymous, STAG/Some Transgenders Are Guys, Transgender Foundation for America TG Center, Tau Chi chapter of Tri-Ess, the Society for the Second Self, and Texas Association for Transsexual Support.
9:30 pm
Jamaica's leading LGBT advocacy group expresses concern over boycotts against their homophobic country launched by some gay activists in New York City and San Francisco; posters in Sadr City listing alleged homosexuals by name and targeting them for death underscore escalating violence against gay people in Iraq, where dozens have already reportedly been murdered, but the government has thus far failed to respond to appeals by Amnesty International and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission to take action to stop the brutality; the 13th annual National Day of Silence on the campuses of thousands of U.S. middle schools, high schools and colleges to protest harassment=2 0and cruelty against students perceived to be LGBT sadly coincides with what would have been the 12th birthday of bullied Massachusetts youngster Carl Walker-Hoover, who killed himself the week before after suffering months of homophobic abuse by his peers; Washington's legislature expands its 2007 domestic partnership law to give same-gender couples all the state rights of marriage, and Maryland's legislature approves a bill to exempt registered gay and lesbian domestic partners from state inheritance tax when property changes hands - each of which has their governor's support - but Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons vows to veto a just-introduced measure to grant some marriage-like rights to his state's same-gender couples, while New York Governor David Paterson introduces a marriage equality bill that appears to have a better chance of passage than a 2007 version introduced by his predecessor; and a group of defectors from the U.S. Log Cabin Republicans forms a rival group, GOProud, because they say the country's original GOP organization has drifted too far to the left with its emphasis on anti-bias and hate crime protections and marriage equality ( written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by DONNA-ANN WARD and CHRISTOPHER GAAL)
9:40 pm
Discussion
9:55 pm
Music
10:00 pm
PRIDE Houston is looking for the best singers in Houston to strut their stuff during the open auditions at the 3rd Annual Houston PRIDE Idol competition on Sunday, May 3, 2009, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Warehouse Live. Houston’s most popular annual singing competition, part of the 31st Annual PRIDE Houston festivities, kicks into gear with the biggest audition process to date. Anyone with talent, drive and a bit of fabulousness is encouraged to come out and audition. Bring your friends, family and fans to cheer you on and to enjoy the other auditions – and to hear what our judges have to say! more
10:17 pm
Music
10:22 pm
Betsy Brown (director) and Chris Rivera (Hedwig) of the production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch: This groundbreaking, Obie-winning, Off-Broadway smash also won multiple awards for its hit film adaptation. It tells the story of "internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing East German rock 'n' roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with just "an angry inch." This outrageous and unexpectedly hilarious story is dazzlingly performed by Hedwig (n�e Hansel) in the form of a rock gig/stand-up comedy routine backed by the hard-rocking band "The Angry Inch." Using songs and monologues, Hedwig tells her story, which began in the former East Berlin where as Hansel he meets Luther, an American GI who promises to take the young man to the States on the condition that he switch his sex. After the bungled operation, Luther abandons newly named Hedwig in a Kansas trailer park where she turns to music and meets geeky Tommy Speck, whom she takes under her wing and soon falls for. Tommy steals her songs, achieves rock star fame, and Hedwig is once again cast aside. She decides to demand redress and stalks Tommy's world tour, performing in the T.G.I. Friday's that are situated next door to his stadiums. Hedwig describes her life's search for "The Origin of Love" and her other half. It's a rocking ride, funny, touching and ultimately inspiring to anyone who has felt life gave them an inch when they deserved a mile A myriad of artistry and entertainme
10:40 pm
ORRIE MAY WELLBY refuses to do something most people take for granted. She refuses to be categorized as either male or female. Born a boy, Norrie grew up feeing more feminine. As a youth she dressed in women's clothes, and identified as more female than male. The Sydney, Australia-based iconoclast now proudly calls herself a eunuch. Reporter DHEERA SUJAN of Radio Netherlands (with transmittal thanks to Eric Beauchemin) chats with Norrie about how she's stayed true to herself in an often hazardous world
"TWO" Website Promo (voiced by SHERI LUNN) [:18] + ANN BANNON is the pen name of Ann Weldy, an American author who wrote six lesbian pulp fiction novels from 1957 to 1962 known as THE BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES. The books' enduring popularity and impact on lesbian identity has earned her the title "Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction". She chats with our STEVE PRIDE about being a "June Cleaver" housewife with a secret life as a lesbian icon - long before she came out herself (the first of a special 2-part feature interview, with an outro tag and tease for next week's conclusion)
Opening, general discussion
9:02 pm
The Houston Transgender Unity Committee has opened ticket sales for the annual Houston Transgender Unity Banquet, which will be held on Saturday, May 2, at the Sheraton Brookhollow (3000 North Loop West), 6:30 p.m. until 1 a.m. Tickets are $50 in advance ($60 at the door) and can be purchased through the Unity Committee website, www.htuc.org. Tickets are also available at Vanity: A Trans-formation Studio (1440 Yale, 832/767-3252), the Heights boutique. Proceeds from Unity Banquet ticket sales support the Peggy Rudd Transgender Scholarship Fund. The Unity Committee will present two scholarships at the banquet to trans-identified students pursuing higher education. The Rudd Scholarship application is available at the Unity Committee website. The application deadline is March 16. Scott Turner Schofield, the Atlanta-based transgender performance artist, is the 2009 Unity Banquet keynote speaker. Schofields� works include the memoir Two Truths and a Lie (nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards) and Becoming a Man in 127 Steps. During the banquet, representatives from other local transgender groups will make presentations about their work. These groups include Helping TransGenders Anonymous, STAG/Some Transgenders Are Guys, Transgender Foundation for America TG Center, Tau Chi chapter of Tri-Ess, the Society for the Second Self, and Texas Association for Transsexual Support.
9:30 pm
Jamaica's leading LGBT advocacy group expresses concern over boycotts against their homophobic country launched by some gay activists in New York City and San Francisco; posters in Sadr City listing alleged homosexuals by name and targeting them for death underscore escalating violence against gay people in Iraq, where dozens have already reportedly been murdered, but the government has thus far failed to respond to appeals by Amnesty International and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission to take action to stop the brutality; the 13th annual National Day of Silence on the campuses of thousands of U.S. middle schools, high schools and colleges to protest harassment=2 0and cruelty against students perceived to be LGBT sadly coincides with what would have been the 12th birthday of bullied Massachusetts youngster Carl Walker-Hoover, who killed himself the week before after suffering months of homophobic abuse by his peers; Washington's legislature expands its 2007 domestic partnership law to give same-gender couples all the state rights of marriage, and Maryland's legislature approves a bill to exempt registered gay and lesbian domestic partners from state inheritance tax when property changes hands - each of which has their governor's support - but Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons vows to veto a just-introduced measure to grant some marriage-like rights to his state's same-gender couples, while New York Governor David Paterson introduces a marriage equality bill that appears to have a better chance of passage than a 2007 version introduced by his predecessor; and a group of defectors from the U.S. Log Cabin Republicans forms a rival group, GOProud, because they say the country's original GOP organization has drifted too far to the left with its emphasis on anti-bias and hate crime protections and marriage equality ( written by GREG GORDON, with thanks to REX WOCKNER with BILL KELLEY, and reported this week by DONNA-ANN WARD and CHRISTOPHER GAAL)
9:40 pm
Discussion
9:55 pm
Music
10:00 pm
PRIDE Houston is looking for the best singers in Houston to strut their stuff during the open auditions at the 3rd Annual Houston PRIDE Idol competition on Sunday, May 3, 2009, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Warehouse Live. Houston’s most popular annual singing competition, part of the 31st Annual PRIDE Houston festivities, kicks into gear with the biggest audition process to date. Anyone with talent, drive and a bit of fabulousness is encouraged to come out and audition. Bring your friends, family and fans to cheer you on and to enjoy the other auditions – and to hear what our judges have to say! more
10:17 pm
Music
10:22 pm
Betsy Brown (director) and Chris Rivera (Hedwig) of the production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch: This groundbreaking, Obie-winning, Off-Broadway smash also won multiple awards for its hit film adaptation. It tells the story of "internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing East German rock 'n' roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with just "an angry inch." This outrageous and unexpectedly hilarious story is dazzlingly performed by Hedwig (n�e Hansel) in the form of a rock gig/stand-up comedy routine backed by the hard-rocking band "The Angry Inch." Using songs and monologues, Hedwig tells her story, which began in the former East Berlin where as Hansel he meets Luther, an American GI who promises to take the young man to the States on the condition that he switch his sex. After the bungled operation, Luther abandons newly named Hedwig in a Kansas trailer park where she turns to music and meets geeky Tommy Speck, whom she takes under her wing and soon falls for. Tommy steals her songs, achieves rock star fame, and Hedwig is once again cast aside. She decides to demand redress and stalks Tommy's world tour, performing in the T.G.I. Friday's that are situated next door to his stadiums. Hedwig describes her life's search for "The Origin of Love" and her other half. It's a rocking ride, funny, touching and ultimately inspiring to anyone who has felt life gave them an inch when they deserved a mile A myriad of artistry and entertainme
10:40 pm
ORRIE MAY WELLBY refuses to do something most people take for granted. She refuses to be categorized as either male or female. Born a boy, Norrie grew up feeing more feminine. As a youth she dressed in women's clothes, and identified as more female than male. The Sydney, Australia-based iconoclast now proudly calls herself a eunuch. Reporter DHEERA SUJAN of Radio Netherlands (with transmittal thanks to Eric Beauchemin) chats with Norrie about how she's stayed true to herself in an often hazardous world
"TWO" Website Promo (voiced by SHERI LUNN) [:18] + ANN BANNON is the pen name of Ann Weldy, an American author who wrote six lesbian pulp fiction novels from 1957 to 1962 known as THE BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES. The books' enduring popularity and impact on lesbian identity has earned her the title "Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction". She chats with our STEVE PRIDE about being a "June Cleaver" housewife with a secret life as a lesbian icon - long before she came out herself (the first of a special 2-part feature interview, with an outro tag and tease for next week's conclusion)
