San Francisco
December First in San Francisco. What an amazing evening!
I have barely caught my breath let alone caught up since I got home on Tuesday night from my visit to see my family in California and to see and hear “New World Waking!” in San Francisco on Monday, World AIDS Day and the 30th anniversary of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. Thank you, …
Get thee… or family and friends to San Francisco for this!
Check it out!Music as an alternative to violenceand thisS.F. Gay Men’s Chorus marks 30 years I am going with Alec. Leaving today and staying with my sister. If you can get to this I recommend it. If you know others near there… tell them. Okay, I am off the machine to sync it for the …
Why we are going to be in San Francisco on December 1st
In his blog post Bay Area Reporter on “‘New World Waking!” today Steve Schalchlin wrote: Just posted: A terrific article by Richard Dodds in the Bay Area Reporter on New World Waking! When we did the interview I wasn’t sure I was making any sense at all. It was my first time to discuss the …
MILK
In MILK — A Great Movie Trailer. Steve Schalchlin wrote: The Gus Van Sant movie about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected politician, a man assassinated for nothing more than being gay and refusing to pretend otherwise, looks incredible. I actually began to tear up in the theater just watching it. Filmed in San …
Happy anniversary Colette!
Colette Beighley grew up in the San Francisco Bay area (where I came of age) and she now lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan and works as the West Michigan Field Organizer for Triangle Foundation, a terrific organization that Carolyn Wagner introduced me to. Read two of her recent bloggings to see why I admire her. …
The next best thing …
… to being there is reading Steve Schalchlin’s blog Living in the Bonus Round and listening to his songs. The truth is I haven’t even seen The Big Voice: God or Merman, and I can’t see it now. But I saw The Last Session three times (New York City, Denver Colorado, and Laguna Beach California). …
Glorious! Schalchlin & Brochu do San Francisco
A Fantastic First Preview. By the end of the show, they were on their feet immediately. The most enthusiastic ovation imaginable. And afterwards, in the lobby, we hugged everyone, of course. Our favorite thing. It was fantastic. And so many of them commented on how glad they were that that show was not amplified. Hey! …
I’ve made another friend across the miles
I received an email today that led me to this article: When he was in eighth grade, Ari Beighley told his closest friends at school he was gay. But he kept his silence at home for two more years, his homosexuality hidden in the midst of his conservative evangelical Christian family. “Then I just didn’t …