Making Gay History -> High School!

[macbeth]

Posted: 10/29/20 at 7:43am

So much gets said about schools that censor or cancel shows that I think this one is worth applauding... and getting tickets to at https://www.deerfieldhstheatre.org

I WISH I had this in high school!

Deerfield High School Theatre in Deerfield, Illinois, is proud to announce that they will be the first high school in the world to produce Making Gay History: Before Stonewall, created by Joe Salvatore, adapted from Eric Marcus’s Making Gay History. The production will feature performers from the advanced acting classes and designers from the technical theatre design class. 

Many believe that the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement in the U.S. began with the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City’s Greenwich Village. But a rich history of activism, organizing, and resistance preceded those pivotal riots. Making Gay History: Before Stonewall weaves together the voices of twenty pioneers who blazed a trail for LGBTQ+ equality in the decades following World War II and whose brave and inspiring work helped to catalyze the Stonewall moment.

Drawing from interviews conducted by Eric Marcus—chronicled in Making History, Making Gay History, and subsequent podcast episodes—Making Gay History: Before Stonewall takes us back in time to the earliest days of the movement to tell the largely hidden stories of the people who helped a despised minority take its rightful place in society as full and equal citizens.

Directed by theatre program director, Britnee Kenyon, Making Gay History: Before Stonewall is an example of verbatim documentary theater, in which real people, rather than fictional characters, are investigated and performed. The interview excerpts on which the play’s script is based are performed verbatim, incorporating the original speakers’ stutters, stumbles, pauses, misspeaks, “uhms,” “uhs,” and so forth.

Given the current circumstances of our remote environment, Making Gay History: Before Stonewall will be streamed on ShowTix4U on Friday, November 13th, and Saturday, November 14th, at 7:30pm. On Monday, November 16th at 6:00pm, audiences can engage with the cast and crew on a Zoom talkback (link provided upon ticket purchase). We hope you join us for this timely, important production. Tickets and more information can be found on our website.

 

[Wayman_Wong]

Posted: 10/29/20 at 3:46pm

Congrats on Deerfield High School on ''Making Gay History: Before Stonewall''!

Meantime, HBO Max is currently showing ''Equal,'' a four-part docuseries about the landmark events and forgotten heroes of LGBTQ rights, many pre-Stonewall. It's produced by Greg Berlanti and Jim Parsons, and it's narrated by Tony winner Billy Porter (''Kinky Boots'' ). Among its cast are theater pros, like Cheyenne Jackson (''All Shook Up'' ). He plays Dale Jennings, a playwright and author who helped found the Mattachine Society, one of the earliest gay-rights groups in the U.S., in the 1950s. Anthony Rapp (''Rent'' ) portrays Harry Hays, who wrote ''The Call,'' a manifesto for gay rights in 1948. And Samira Wiley (from Off-Broadway's ''Daphne's Dive'' ) plays the legendary playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote ''A Raisin in the Sun.''

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooCxmWjhca8

Updated On: 10/29/20 at 03:46 PM

[uncageg]

Posted: 10/29/20 at 4:30pm

Wayman_Wong said: "Congrats on Deerfield High School on ''Making Gay History: Before Stonewall''!

Meantime, HBO Max is currently showing ''Equal,'' a four-part docuseries about the landmark events and forgotten heroes of LGBTQ rights, many pre-Stonewall. It's produced by Greg Berlanti and Jim Parsons, and it's narrated by Tony winner Billy Porter (''Kinky Boots'' ). Among its cast are theater pros, like Cheyenne Jackson (''All Shook Up'' ). He plays Dale Jennings, a playwright and author who helped found the Mattachine Society, one of the earliest gay-rights groups in the U.S., in the 1950s. Anthony Rapp (''Rent'' ) portrays Harry Hays, who wrote ''The Call,'' a manifesto for gay rights in 1948. And Samira Wiley (from Off-Broadway's ''Daphne's Dive'' ) plays the legendary playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote ''A Raisin in the Sun.''

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooCxmWjhca8"

 

So glad this part of our history is being told. During gay Pride the focus is always on the Stonewall when just around the corner the infamous "sip-in" happened at Julius Bar before the riots. Julius has a monthly sip in party that I have attended a few times.

https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/julius/