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Gender Mystic: Benefit for Rights of Passage Scheduled for April 2011
Didik Nini Thowok before a performance Top Stories In Indonesia, transgender culture has existed for centuries and its proponents were considered healers, shamans and spiritual leaders. But in recent...
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The Daily Grind
Top Stories Daily life has a way of competing for your constant attention. Keeping your head above water and meeting your responsibilities is more than a full-time job. We hustle, bustle, moan, groan,...
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Watchful Eye on Egypt
Top Stories Last week the world was watching as the tri-decade rule of dictator Hosni Mubarak ended. Even more miraculous was that there was limited violence and bloodshed. Peaceful activism was the...
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Continuing the SF & Indonesia Connection
Top Stories The rumors are true. The next draft of our play Rights of Passage will be read at NCTC on April 3, 2011 at 2pm.In other breaking news...We just received word from the US Office of Homeland...
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Rights of Passage: Play in Progress
Top Stories On Sunday April 3, 2011 we held our third public reading of Rights of Passage. We are happy to report, and our invited audiences agree, the play has taken another huge leap forward. One of...
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Vote to Save Gay Lives
Top Stories David Kato, Ugandan LGBT activist who was brutally murdered earlier this year. Photo by Projo.com.We have less than 48 hours to help save thousands of gay Ugandans from possible execution....
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Anti-Gay Bill Off The Table For Now!
Top Stories The media has reported that Uganda's parliament adjourned without debating a controversial bill which includes the death penalty for some homosexual acts.First introduced in 2009, the bill...
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Interviewing Human Rights Activist Peter Tatchell in London
Top Stories The way to fast forward a memorable interview is to spill tea all over your guest. That is a sure way to sear the event into memory and a very good way to stain clothing. Human rights...
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Roosters, martinis and nibbling fish
Top Stories Mosque and Hindu Temple at Lake Bratan, BaliEach morning the crowing roosters and the delicate chiming of temple bells meant only one thing; we weren't in San Francisco, but 10,000 miles...
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Melvin Dwork is a Very Desirable Man
Top Stories Don't Ask Don't Tell is within a hair's breadth of being flushed down the toilet of bad compromises. I can almost hear the gurgling water as I type this. Apparently, there are still some...
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Honoring Paula Ettelbrick
Top Stories Photo: Paula Ettelbrick and Ed Decker at IGLHRC headquarters in New York.Paula Ettelbrick, a courageous leader in the queer civil rights movement, passed away on October 7, 2011 in New...
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Close to Home
Top Stories We held our fifth (and likely final) public reading of Rights of Passage a few weeks ago. As per usual, our ensemble of 8 actors led by director Arturo Catricala were stunning. The packed...
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A Jolting Walk Down Memory Lane
Top Stories The winter holidays have come to an exhausted close and 2012 is upon us. The last of the Christmas cookies have been eaten and dried out spruce trees line the sidewalks waiting to be...
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It Takes a World of Courage to Just Be Who You Are
Top Stories Last weekend was a watershed moment for Rights of Passage. We had a brainstorming meeting that included talented designers and technicians who have signed on to bring the play to life....
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A Slow Spin
Top Stories In a recent interview with Christiane Amanpour the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, maintains that although homosexuality is illegal there is no discrimination against gays in his...
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A beaming visage seen by thousands
It’s now common knowledge that as a teenager Mitt Romney took the lead in attacking a fellow student, holding him down, and cutting off his long hair. Common knowledge to everyone except Mitt that is....
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Kickstarting Rights of Passage
The activity around Rights of Passage is heating up. Production meetings are in full swing and casting is all but complete. Costumes, puppets, music and sets are in the minds and hands of an...
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Down to the Wire
Top Stories It's a balancing act as we enter the final days of our Kickstarter Campaign. We have until July 1 at 3pm to raise the remaining 8K balance of our 30K goal to produce the world premiere of...
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Article 6
Hi Folks,With Robert on video camera and me with flyers in hand, we work the Pride Sunday crowd at Civic Center in SF:We've only one week left to meet our Rights of Passage Kickstarter Campaign $30K...
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Break the Bank
Hello again everyone!We're in the final days of the Kickstarter Campaign, and we have only $2,600 left to raise for Rights of Passage!We have just under 70 hours to go; check out this video of Robert...
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