Global Queer Read-In: A Virtual Pride Event
Marathon begins at 12pm PT on Zoom and Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/thiswayout
This Way Out: International LGBTQ radio (OP/TWO) will host the event FREE to the public to honor and celebrate the power of the written word, but additionally serves as an optional fundraiser for OP/TWO (Overnight Productions, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation). Created by Brian DeShazor.
It’s free to the public at large but is an optional fundraiser for
This Way Out Radio (Overnight Productions, inc.) Get your ticket here!
https://www.betterunite.com/ThisWayOut-globalqueerread-inavirtualprideevent
With:
Kathleen Battles reading Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich
Peggy Berryhill reading Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Patrick Bristow reading Borrowed Time by Paul Monette
Jericho Brown reading his 2020 Pulitzer Prize winning The Tradition
MJ Brown/Miss Barbie-Q reading Defining Realness by Janet Mock
Charles Busch reading his memoirs in-progress, This Never Leaves the Dressing Room by Charles Busch
Mary A. Cherry reading Morris Kight: Humanist, Liberationist, Fantabulist by Mary A. Cherry
Alexis De Veaux reading Poet Warrior by Alexis De Veaux and works by Audre Lorde
James Gavin reading One Christmas by Truman Capote
Sophie B. Hawkins reading Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Jason Jenn performing historic LGBTQ love poetry from Let Love Flourish!
Don Kilhefner reading The Radical Faeries at 40: Rainbow Capitalism or Queer Liberation by Don Kilhefner
Sheri Lunn reading The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
Renee MacKenzie reading Kai’s Heart by Renee MacKenzie
Roger Q. Mason performing Age Sex Location by Roger Q. Mason
Dr. Bonnie Morris, Sappho’s Overhead Projector by Dr. Bonnie Morris
Paul Outlaw reading The American Dream and the American Negro by James Baldwin
Robert Patrick reading from, Temple Slave, by Robert Patrick
Steven Reigns reading Ceremonies by Essex Hemphill
Hugh Ryan reading When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan
Justin Sayer reading America and Sunflower Sutra by Allen Ginsberg
Jessica Stern reading Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book by Rita Mae Brown
Robin Tyler reading When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova
Phillip Ward, Quentin Crisp: The Last Word an Autobiography and Quentin Crisp: And One More Thing by Quentin Crisp, edited by Phillip Ward and Lawrence Watts
Anthony Wayne reading B Boy Blues by James Earl Hardy
Alfre Woodard reading The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Get Lit Poets featuring Tyris Winter, Jonah Henry and Jelina Hendrickson performing poetry by C. A. Conrad, Ocean Vuong, and Franny Choi plus their own original pieces.
LATheatreWorks “8” by Dustin Lance Black, Directed by Rob Reiner With Brad Pitt , George Clooney , Martin Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christine Lahti, John C. Reilly, Jane Lynch, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Matthew Morrison, Chris Colfer, Yeardley Smith, Matt Bomer, George Takei, Rory O’Malley, Cleve Jones, James Pickens Jr., Jansen Panettiere, Bridger Zadina, Vanessa Garcia and Campbell Brown
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