Beyond Stonewall: Why We March (St. Louis)
a short play in support of the National Equality March
a short play in support of the National Equality March
Host: Show Me No Hate - St. Louis
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Price: FREE
Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Saint Louis
Street: 1919 South Broadway (near St. Louis Bread Company)
City/Town: Saint Louis, MO www.MCCGSL.org
Come attend this FREE performance of "Beyond Stonewall: Why We March," a short play written by Joan Lipkin of That Uppity Theatre Company and Tennessee Playwright Sharon Brandy.
This performance is being performed in support of the National Equality March scheduled in October.
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Excerpt from St. Louis Post-Dispatch 9/6/09 article by Doug Moore:
After the Post-Dispatch posted to STLtoday.com its April story about prominent gays turning to activism, the reader comments swelled to more than 330, many of them negative. Several targeted Bill Donius, former chairman of Pulaski Bank, who was featured in the story.
"It is ridiculous that there is a story about a successful gay man in the paper," wrote "W. Champion," the screen name of one reader.
It is one of 16 reader comments sprinkled throughout a new play Lipkin has written with Sharon Bandy, a playwright from Chattanooga, Tenn.
In a conversation shortly after the story was published, Donius suggested to Lipkin that she turn the reader comments into some kind of performance piece.
"I like the idea of all the different voices, but I didn't feel like it was sufficiently dramatic. It didn't have a spine," said Lipkin.
Then their conversation turned to the National Equality March in Washington next month. Activists from across the country plan to march on the National Mall and urge Congress and President Barack Obama to make gay rights a priority. This push is something that many commenters on the story thought was a bad idea.
"The country has undeniable fundamental values, and the gay lifestyle is not one of them," wrote reader USF1965.
But the march gave the playwrights the spine of their story
Street: 1919 South Broadway (near St. Louis Bread Company)
City/Town: Saint Louis, MO www.MCCGSL.org
Come attend this FREE performance of "Beyond Stonewall: Why We March," a short play written by Joan Lipkin of That Uppity Theatre Company and Tennessee Playwright Sharon Brandy.
This performance is being performed in support of the National Equality March scheduled in October.
---
Excerpt from St. Louis Post-Dispatch 9/6/09 article by Doug Moore:
After the Post-Dispatch posted to STLtoday.com its April story about prominent gays turning to activism, the reader comments swelled to more than 330, many of them negative. Several targeted Bill Donius, former chairman of Pulaski Bank, who was featured in the story.
"It is ridiculous that there is a story about a successful gay man in the paper," wrote "W. Champion," the screen name of one reader.
It is one of 16 reader comments sprinkled throughout a new play Lipkin has written with Sharon Bandy, a playwright from Chattanooga, Tenn.
In a conversation shortly after the story was published, Donius suggested to Lipkin that she turn the reader comments into some kind of performance piece.
"I like the idea of all the different voices, but I didn't feel like it was sufficiently dramatic. It didn't have a spine," said Lipkin.
Then their conversation turned to the National Equality March in Washington next month. Activists from across the country plan to march on the National Mall and urge Congress and President Barack Obama to make gay rights a priority. This push is something that many commenters on the story thought was a bad idea.
"The country has undeniable fundamental values, and the gay lifestyle is not one of them," wrote reader USF1965.
But the march gave the playwrights the spine of their story
