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Crying for Barbara Grier
She could raise you like a glorious garden. She could plough you under with the sharp tines of her raking words. She could see the promise of what you could yield or trample eager green first growth. Called a force of nature, she was more than that: she was the force itself and we were […]
Barbara Grier Broke the Silence
Barbara Grier (left, shown with partner Donna McBride) passed away November 10 at the age of 79…young from my perspective, but obviously an elder in the world of lesbians and of publishing. Her history will be written in essays and PhD theses still to come, but a glimpse reveals: she was one of the editors […]
Before Stonewall
Phyllis Lyon and The Temperamentals New Conservatory Theatre, which was the saintly producer of my play, Waiting for Giovanni, has an intriguing new play coming up on November 4th. The Temperamentals is an award-winning new play about Harry Hay his love affair with avant garde fashion designer, Rudi Gernreich and their founding of the first […]
Scared Little Dyke Writer
Now that I’ve been around for a while, new writers sometimes tell me how terrified they are of reading in public. All I have to offer them is enormous, sincere sympathy and the story of how I started my public life as a writer. No one warns us that we can’t hermit in our garrets […]
A Kaddish for Steve Jobs
Brilliant businessman geek of life filled our lives and blew our minds with miracle toys master of Factory City somewhere in Southern China where young and old get disfigured hands from repetitive motion assembly line humans making our lives fun waiting for iphone 4 all the i’s the workers dot using up their bodies we […]
The Butch Sewing Kit
I don’t know about butch guys, but butch women are a mass of incongruities. I used to know a butch who drove cement trucks for a living and was a minister in her free time. You don’t just drive a cement truck, you’re out there with the boys using your rake and shovel. You don’t […]
Be Who You Are
It all started when I wouldn’t get up on Sunday mornings to go to church. I was an energetic, nervous baby dyke, and I simply could not sit still that long with nothing to engage me. And the old guy up front was talking Latin, for pete’s sake. So, over some of my most formative […]
Dinah, Dinah, Dinah!
Thank you to Pirl Harbour for the comment on my blog about Amy Jade Winehouse  (I like to use her full name to separate the artist and person from the object that we and the media made of her). In the piece I said I was comparing her to Sarah Vaughn. My MISTAKE. I really […]
Back to Black
I had hoped that Amy Jade Winehouse would be one of those who made it out of the frightening forest of addiction and emotional instability. It’s not unusual for the indiscretions of artists and performers to be tracked and publicized…it goes with the territory. But I was often surprised at how people revealed their own […]
An Off Broadway Stage Manager-ess
In the early 1980s I worked as a stage manager for plays done in Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway theatres. I loved the collaborative nature of production: people, mostly strangers, come together to work intensely, intimately for several months, flying through the highs and lows of vulnerability necessary to creating real art. Then closing […]
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