Tagged With "Queer Memoir"
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60
And just the type of memoir that I adore here, but I am moving it to the appropriate forum- Jackie Legends Corner cause after reading it I don't think anyone would doubt that you were - and are -one!
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
I, too, have been motivated, touched, and intrigued by Wojnarowicz. In 1994 ETC Magazine, for whom I was writing back home (in Atlanta) sent me to the Toronto International Film Festival on assignment to cover what was becoming a "smorgasboard of queer cinema." I remember sitting in the theater, around 4 in the afternoon, when Postcards from America was screened. That was one of the most pivotal moments of my 20's. I had never seen anything like it; I had never heard of David, was not...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
I'm looking forward to reading that interview... and Glammy I really enjoyed our conversation pro & con JT the other night. I wish there were more negative opinions here, I really don't want to sound fatuous... But I haven't run across ANY negative reviews in re the prose yet. Just people hating the hype -- well who doesn't. Bobby, I finished "Running With Scissors" which you recommended as per a memoir of perverse childhood... I was pretty well-entertained by how stunningly stupid the...
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Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
God, what a gift your memory of Annie is! Putting out my request after stumbling across the Pyramid and Danceteria discussions, I don't think I realized what it would be like to actually read a post such as yours. It's wonderfully moving, to think of you thinking of her -- and your specific memories are like clues to recreating that fabulous and fractured time. Thank you! I DO remember her descriptions of Cafe Iguana, though I never caught a regular show. I know she thought of her job...
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Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
There are a lot of people waiting for that book!
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Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
Dear friends, I am so delighted and moved to be hearing from you about my sister, Ann Craig! I'm scanning some photos from our mother's archives to share with you --- and perhaps shake loose more memories! I'll put them up before the week's out. Meantime, I just heard from Eleanor -- our mom, the author of "The Moon is Broken," her memoir about Annie (it's on Amazon) -- that someone took movies/video of some of Ann's peroformances at La Mama. She was doing skits that had originated at the...
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Re: Bibliophile Part 2
Sometimes I luck out and find something good in the pile of books that my super Rico puts out by the trash every so often. Recently he told me that an old lady who lived in one of the other buildings he works in had just died, and here were a lot of her books. She had all kinds of classics and generally good stuff, so that I felt sad that whoever she was, I had never met her and she lived somewhere in the neighborhood. It seemed by looking at the books and their price tags that the late 80s...
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Re: Greer Lankton
A wonderful recent Memoir with some fantastic photos that I've never seen XXXOOO Satori ----------------------------- GREER LANKTON, A MEMOIR by Julia Morton At the funeral of East Village artist Greer Lankton, held just over ten years ago in November 1996, her grieving parents displayed a family picture showing an ordinary middle-class mother and father, brother and sister all standing on a beach in khaki shorts, tees and walking shoes. Their hair was blowing and their suntanned faces were...
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QUEER MEMOIR: CRUSH
Queer Memoir: Crush Saturday, Jan 29 8:00p LGBT Community Center, 203 W. 13TH street New York, NY Queer Memoir is NYC's LGBT storytelling show that performance artist Rachel Tryst has called “life changing.” Each show brings together folks who share true stories, giving voice to our collective queer experiences, and preserving and documenting our complex queer history...and sells out. The theme of this month's event is CRUSH. We've got an amazing line-up of storytellers: I Kramer Elliott...
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LOVIN' OUT LOUD! A Benefit Concert for Queer Rising
LOVIN’ OUT LOUD! A Benefit Concert For Queer Rising New York, NY – Queer Rising will host LOVIN’ OUT LOUD! A Benefit Concert For Queer Rising on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 7:00pm at Santo’s Party House nightclub (96 LaFayette St., between Walker and White Sts; 4,6,J,N,Q,Z train to Canal Station). $10 advance (via Facebook RSVP or online donation)/$20 at the door. NOTE: ONLY "I'M ATTENDING" WILL GUARANTEE REDUCED ADMISSION! A true variety show-style event, tonight’s all-star cast includes:...
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House Of Granite!
Many MotherboardsNYC members in New York City and Beyond are fans of the twisted genius that is Granite. Until now, most of us only had the opportunity to see new works every few years in New York, or at a Beltane gathering, or on visit to...
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Garrin Benfield @ Le Petit Versailles garden
Garren Benfield in concert! Saturday August 6 @ 8pm. Le Petit Versailles 346 East Houston St. < Avenue B & C> petitversailles@earthlink.net http://www.alliedproductions.org 212 529 8815 Subway: F/V- Second Ave. - J/M/F- Delancey/Essex "Garrin Benfield is a busy, busy fellow, splitting his time between NY and SF and continuing to enrich the music scene of both cities. He's no stranger to Acoustic Sunrise - Rosalie has been onto him for years - but it's the new...
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Susan Tyrrell
Just saw John Waters " Crybaby" again last night on TV and had forgotten about the divine Susan "SuSu" Tyrrell. She was a true exotic beauty in her day too.LA Weekly November 2000By Paul CullemPhoto by Anne FishbeinIn late April of this year, after...
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Quentin Crisp: The Naked Bon Vivant! A 100th Birthday Extravaganza!
The fabulously flamboyant and witty gay icon Quentin Crisp (who died in 1999 at age 90) gets a party fit for a queen. The lively literary salon includes readings, recollections and performances by some of Crisp’s most ardent admirers.The event...
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A CRUCIBLE - A Queer New Play This January
Perfect Disgrace Theater Proudly Presents Brian Bauman’s A CRUCIBLE @ The Wild Project Pregnant Catholic School Girls Destroy American Theater A CRUCIBLE follows the drama club at Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception high school as it sets out to stage Arthur Miller's classic play, The Crucible. Conflicts erupt when ideas about sexuality and contemporary performance begin to influence the young performers and their approach to the production. The young women and men, fueled by a passion for...
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NEW PLAY THIS JANUARY - Heather Litteer aka Jessica Rabbit Domination Stars!
Perfect Disgrace Theater Proudly Presents Brian Bauman’s A CRUCIBLE @ The Wild Project Pregnant Catholic School Girls Destroy American Theater A CRUCIBLE follows the drama club at Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception high school as it sets out to stage Arthur Miller's classic play, The Crucible. Conflicts erupt when ideas about sexuality and contemporary performance begin to influence the young performers and their approach to the production. The young women and men, fueled by a passion for...
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A Crucible - A Queer New Play This January
Perfect Disgrace Theater Proudly Presents Brian Bauman’s A CRUCIBLE @ The Wild Project Pregnant Catholic School Girls Destroy American Theater A CRUCIBLE follows the drama club at Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception high school as it sets out to stage Arthur Miller's classic play, The Crucible. Conflicts erupt when ideas about sexuality and contemporary performance begin to influence the young performers and their approach to the production. The young women and men, fueled by a passion for...
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Writing Workshop on NYPL with Gerry Visco
[IMG:top] [/IMG] You can't try to do things; you simply must do them. Ray Bradbury People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter. Anonymous Are you a talker or a writer? A thinker or a doer? If you have a...
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HOWL! float salutes EV queer culture - Pride March 6/25
SUNDAY JUNE 25 HOWL! ARTS IN THE PRIDE MARCH One of our biggest JACKIE FACTORY Summer 2017 projects is co-producing the first-ever HOWL! ARTS float with JONATHAN BEE in this year's HERITAGE OF PRIDE MARCH on Sunday June 25. This marks the first Pride March for the busy HOWL! East Village Arts collective, the force behind HOWL! HAPPENING GALLERY on East 1st Street, the HOWL EMERGENCY LIFE PROJECT (EV wing of THE ACTOR'S FUND) and the HOWL! FESTIVAL in Tompkins Square Park, currently on...
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
This article made us sad: Anne Rice comes to Jesus NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- It's Halloween, and Anne Rice has a new book -- a memoir, in fact -- that's climbing best-seller lists. Everything is normal, then. Anne Rice says she hopes to take her skills writing vampire books and "redeem myself." Normal if it were 1994 -- the height of Rice's megaselling fame as a queen of Southern Gothic pulp. For those who haven't been paying attention lately to vampire lit, America's most famous...
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Re: Tom Spanbauer
Thought I'd dust off this topic. For Spanbauer-philes: Tom and his partner, Michael Sage Ricci, both have short memoir pieces just published in PORTLAND QUEER - TALES OF THE ROSE CITY, Lit Star Press. Both pieces are, of course, fantastic. Currently, I'm being hosted in Portland by "Andy," who you can meet in Sage's piece.
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Re: Paris Hilton & Nicole Ritchie
She is to American society now like what her tiny pooch is to her, and that is like what the dwarf court jester used to be to the royals. In fact the description of her character you quote Anna, really amounts to saying Paris Hilton is a developmental dwarf. Under the heat of her gargantuanly priviledged life and way too much media her personality never had a chance to be anything but stunted. As proof of this: her 'memoir' is being published this month - it is all of 129 pages long! At...
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Re: It's A Jackie Thing, Okay?
A beautiful memoir of a first visit to Jackie by the much-missed Holly Ramos (ex-Fur) on her blog http://hollyramos.blogspot.com...8/jackie-six-oh.html
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Re: LOVIN' OUT LOUD! A Benefit Concert for Queer Rising
Thanks, Pretty! We're quite excited. Really, a lot of stellar artists coming together. Attached is the e-flyer...
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Re: LOVIN' OUT LOUD! A Benefit Concert for Queer Rising
Let me ask you how to RSVP if one is not on Facebook.
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Re: LOVIN' OUT LOUD! A Benefit Concert for Queer Rising
Seven! You can always donate directly to the Queer Rising group via their web site, queerrising.org/donate no later than 12noon on Sunday, Feb. 13. Treasurer(s) are tracking those. If that's not an option, e-mail me directly. Yes, Sneed. Dangery!
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Re: LOVIN' OUT LOUD! A Benefit Concert for Queer Rising
Thanks Joe. I think I will just cough up the full price at the door to support the whole thing. It's an amazing line up.
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Re: LOVIN' OUT LOUD! A Benefit Concert for Queer Rising
Since I am planning to attend AND MCing the Vampire Ball there the night before, I will be seeing more of Santos than my home next weekend! xxoo Mr. Joe, please post any rough timetable as we get closer, would hate to miss Hattie or a few others..
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Re: LOVIN' OUT LOUD! A Benefit Concert for Queer Rising
Hi Motherboarders! We're a few days away, and the lineup looks as follows: 7p - 8p: DJ Baby K and Drumming 8pm: Alberto Cortes Mike Albo M. Lamar Hattie Hathaway (plus 3 Teens Kill 4 members) DJ Baby K music break 9:30pm: Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith Pamela Sneed Hooray For Goodbye Transgendered Jesus We look forward to seeing everyone come out on Sunday. Thanks again for supporting this important group!
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Re: LOVIN' OUT LOUD! A Benefit Concert for Queer Rising
Thanks for posting timetable of the nite. This helps me to decide the hight of heels that I wear! BTW, I found Hooray for Goodbye at the last event you organized, and I really liked them, Thank U
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Re: bibliophile
"Irving Klaw" just lent me a book entitled, "Practicalities" ("La Vie Materielle") by Marguerite Duras, one of the greatest, and most overlooked writers of the last century. The book is a kind of memoir, originally transcribed from tape recordings, and then edited and reworked into very short vignettes. Ms. Duras also wrote the script for Hiroshima, Mon Amour, one of the all-time great French New Wave films of the 1960's. I highly recommend both. Breathtaking.
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Re: bibliophile
Barnes & Noble 18th St. Presents S e x W o r k e r L i t e r a t i "The literary equivalent of thong panties" -- New York Times Thursday, Sept. 26th, 2002, 6:30PM Performances, Readings & Discussion DAVID HENRY STERRY, TRACY QUAN, VERONICA VERA SEX WORKER LIT, AS DESCRIBED IN THE NY TIMES, IS THE NEWEST WAVE, COMBINING GRITTY URBAN REALISM WITH THE TIMELESSNESS OF AN UNDERDOG SURVIVING... DAVID HENRY STERRY is the author of the best selling memoir CHICKEN: SELF-PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG...
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Re: bibliophile
I am reading " Young Man From The Provinces" by Alan Helms.The back of the book blurbs as follows: Young, intelligent, and handsome, Alan Helms left a brutal midwestern childhood for New York City in 1955. Denied a Rhodes scholarship because of his sexual orientation, he soon became an object of desire in a gay underground scene frequented by, amoung many others,Noel Coward, Leonard Bernstien, Rudolph Nureyev,Rock Hudson and Marlene Dietrich. In this unsually vivid and sensitive account,...
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Re: bibliophile
It's been awhile since I've posted anything, with no good excuse. One book I've really been enjoying is Celeste Albaret's memoir of her life taking care of Marcel Proust, during the last ten years of his life. I had a lovely time visiting Terence with Foxy, and discovering that she had a lovely old copy of that book as well. It's very good and something which was long out of print, then brought back in by the New York Review of Books imprint. They bring back some really wonderful things,...
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Re: Los Angeles--do you hate it?
Variety Magazine published an excerpt from famed screenwriter Joe Eszterhas's new bombshell tell-all memoirs about Hollywood. Quite a scathing portrait of L.A. and an ugly picture of Malibu too. When I think of Malibu I always see an incoherent Barbara Parkins in a Pucci caftan wallowing in the surf on dolls. Guess it's not really that fab.