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CYMK COVER STORY Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Highlights By Mary Damiano Treading Water, The Fourth Annual Miami Gay & Thursday, May 2, 7pm Lesbian Film Festival is back, with lots of Casey is in exile from her well-to-do film, premieres, panels and, of course, parties. Catholic family, living just across the bay The festival runs from April 26-May 5, and (but worlds apart) from their pristine will showcase feature films, documentaries, waterfront home, in a tiny house boat that shorts, presentations and panels that will she shares with her girlfriend Alex. But when entertain, inform and excite the expected Christmas rolls around, familial duty calls, audience of 15,000. and even the black sheep must make an All films will be shown at the Colony appearance. Director Lauren Himmel will Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami, except attend the screening. A South Florida the opening and closing night films. premiere. Tickets to the film and the post- Here are some highlights of this year’s screening Reel Women reception are $20. film offerings:

The Cockettes Tuesday, April 30 7pm An east coast premiere, this film captures The Cockettes, the legendary drag- musical theater phenomenon, and the rarified air of the free-love, acid-dropping, gender- Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House Circuit Saturday April 27, 2:30pm bending hippie capital of San Francisco they inhabited in the late 1960s. Features Sylvester Friday, May 3, 9:30pm If Dorothy and Blanche on The Golden Sugar Sweet Dirk Shafer’s hallucinatory new film finds Girls had ever (finally) come out, they’d Saturday, April 27, 9:30pm and Divine, who both appear in the film, along with other notable witnesses to history, such the soul of the circuit and seeks redemption be Ruthie and Connie, the real-life same- Naomi makes lesbian porn. But it’s not in the soul of everyone who dances, drugs sex couple who are the focus of this the over-the-top-dumb-dialogue kind of as John Waters and Holly Woodlawn. Directors Bill Weber & David Weissman will and screws their way across the screen. The delightful new documentary. While these lesbian porn that guys get off on, so her film revolves around John, a hunky but retired but still feisty Florida snowbirds producers demand a re-shoot. This is a campy attend. This is the MGLFF Centerpiece film. Tickets are $20 for the film; $30 includes closeted small-town cop, who moves to Los have found a way to stay together for more and sex-filled rambunctious trip through Angeles and cannot escape the allure of the than 40 years, there was a time when they Japanese urban dyke culture, filled with wacky screening and Centerpiece party at the Delano Hotel. scene. Director Dirk Shafer, and producers couldn’t even utter the word “lesbian” characters, that’s also a romantic movie, as Steven Wolfe and Michael Roth, will attend aloud. Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz will well. In Japanese with English subtitles. This the screening. A South Florida premiere. attend the screening to discuss the film, is a North American premiere, and director Tickets to the film and the post-screening and their lives, with the audience. United Desiree Lim will attend the screening. The party are $25 States. East Coast premiere. Sweet Thing party follows; tickets for the film and the party are $25. The Journey to Kafiristan Saturday, May 4, 7pm dance culture in the mix Bringing to mind the dreamy erotic Saturday, April 28, 11:30pm landscapes of The English Patient and The World premiere saluting the real heroes Sheltering Sky, this film is set in 1939 and a of the red-hot South Beach club scene, the Europe bracing for war. In an old Ford, two DJs and drag divas who can make a crowd of women embark on a road trip that will take thousands explode with propulsive rhythmic Love/Juice them to Afghanistan. They grow ever closer, energy. The film features an in-depth behind- Tuesday, April 30, 9pm exploring exotic cultures and their own the-scenes tour of the music, the parties and Love/Juice examines the world of Kyoko, shifting feelings for one another, in this Miami’s very own demimonde. With DJs a straight girl who is an uninhibited free-spirit, erotically-charged and breathtakingly Victor Calderone, David Knapp and Danny and her cool-headed, protective pal Chinatsu, photographed film. In German with English Tenaglia, and drag icons Connie Casserole, a budding lesbian exploring her sexual subtitles. Co-director Fosco Dubini will Power Infinity and Kitty Meow. Director identity. The intense connection between attend the screening. East Coast Premiere. Michelle Lindenberger will attend the these two is playfully erotic, laugh-out-loud screening. funny, exhilaratingly free, and achingly familiar. A Florida premiere, in Japanese with English subtitles.

I Love You Baby Food of Love Bette Midler: Dirty Girl in a Bathhouse Monday, April 29, 9:30pm Wednesday, May 1, 9pm Guardian of the Frontier Saturday, April 28, 4:30pm The sparks fly, literally, in this provocative A comedy of manners about Paul, an Sunday, May 5, 5pm This year’s clips-talk, sort of like The new comedy starring Belle Epoque’s Jorge aspiring musician on the edge of adulthood Described as a female Deliverance, three Celluloid Closet, only presented live, Sanz as Marcos, a country boy who comes to who’s smitten with his idol, Richard college friends embark on an innocent kayak pays homage to the Divine Miss M. and Madrid to find his fortune. Instead, he finds Kennington, a handsome concert pianist trip that starts out as a wilderness adventure also critically examines why gay and Daniel, played by Santiago Magill), a struggling who’s pushing 40. Based on the novel The but becomes an unsettling tale of sexual Jewish audiences particularly perceive her actor with a penchant for Boy George and an Page Turner by the award-winning novelist awakening, sunbathing in the nude and as a celebrity icon. idealistic approach to relationships. But fate David Leavitt, this film features twists of a flaunting the dangers that await in the Host Andrew Ingall leads the audience intervenes when Marcos gets a blow to the plot that includes a trip to Barcelona, a steamy unknown countryside. As two of the women through the highways and byways of head from falling disco ball and decides he is gay affair, a deceived mother and a grow sexually more intimate in a flirtatious Bette’s early career, using vintage footage really straight. suspicious lover. Director Ventura Pons will erotic dance, one embraces the darker side from 1971 to 1982 to illustrate her special A North American premiere, in Spanish attend the screening. U.S. premiere, from of her (hetero)sexuality. A North American brand of camp. with English subtitles. Germany and Spain. Premiere.

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CYMK SixFeetUnderMusic.com Above Ground An Exclusive Express Interview with Six Feet Under Music Supervisors Thomas Golubic and Gary Calamar By Ian Drew began working together), have defined the The hit HBO series Six Feet Under has show with a cutting mix of musical genres all broken down boundaries in many ways. blended into one unusual sonic concept. The show takes a surreal-noir look at the Their wild mix of everything from PJ Fishers, a dysfunctional family who own and Harvey to Peggy Lee has recently been operate a funeral home in Los Angeles. The released as a soundtrack album, and the pair quirky mix of characters and in-depth look at spoke with The Express about cutting across their personal struggles have made it one of definitions to create the sound behind one of the most acclaimed shows on television, even television’s biggest hits. earning it a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Drama last year. Ian Drew: What was your initial idea in The show features what is possibly the creating the sound of Six Feet Under? first major gay character on television whose Thomas Golubic: Our big goal was to sexuality doesn’t define who he is, but is rather create a cohesive soundtrack to bring people just a part of who he is, much like real life. on a journey through Six Feet Under in a In step with such invention is the show’s parallel way. The show doesn’t fit into genres, eclectic musical narraration, as assembled by and neither does the music. We wanted it to music supervisors Thomas Golubic and Gary show that music is music, and genre Calamar. breakdowns are arbitrary. All music has The duo, who still host programs at inspiring and beautiful elements that are same. progressive Los Angeles public radio station ID: Where did you get the idea to use KCRW/89.9 FM (where they originally met and such variant styles in such a cohesive way? Thomas Golubic Gary Calamar: A lot of it ties back to our of each character’s oddities. The show experience at KCRW in that it is very eclectic constantly presents new challenges to and adventurous, but it is also music that reinterpret each character in the context of the needs exposure. Charlie Parker once said that world they are in. music is music, and defining it takes it away ID: How did you decide which songs to from its natural beauty. So we took that idea put on the soundtrack album? and put into the context of a real journey. It is GC: We wanted to use songs that best like life, and the life of this family, in that it is reflected the show, and songs that are under hard to define because it is so indefinable. The the radar that people didn’t already know. We music represents life in all of its complexities. feel these are hit songs, but they are the kind The Fisher family is very complicated, yet still of songs that need exposure. Like the song warm, loving and interesting. We try to reflect Heaven by Lamb. Their record label chose not that. to release their album in the US, but it is a very ID: How do you match it up with the affecting song and this is the only place to get storyline? that song here. These songs are like characters GC: There is different music that on the show in the sense that the show has represents each character. The music great characters that you might not be familiar represents an ensemble cast, and there is no with, but that you love anyway. main character, so there isn’t a main type of ID: Did you both know what a big hit the music. The father’s death is a turning point for show would be when you first read the script? each of their lives, and each character is on TG: Not really. We thought it was so their own journey. We knew where the journey smart and ambitious that mainstream was going and we tried to draft a way to America would ignore it. The story is so navigate each character’s journey through broad (and so weird), yet people love it. We music. now have homophobes cheering for Keith ID: How does that work? and David as a couple. Mainstream viewers TG: The music changes as they change. suddenly have a stake in a gay couple and If one of the characters is going through a part how they do. It is also inventive to introduce of their journey with hesitancy and fear, the stories of death, and how different cultures music changes within that journey. Like each respond to their own mortality, to a character’s path, each song represents different mainstream audience. joys and challenges. Different genres might fit For more information on Golubic and a character more, but it is more about the overall Calamar, visit www.supermusicvision.com. feel. Nate listens to a lot of rock and singer- For information on the soundtrack, visit songwriter stuff, while I love the moody groove www.sixfeetundermusic.com. Gary Calamar music of Brenda and the indie rock that fits Catch Six Feet Under on HBO Sunday Claire. But it does change. We take advantage Nights at 9 pm.

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CYMK MiamiGayLesbianFilm.com Come and See Gay TV Festival Offers Premieres of International Television Shows By Mary Damiano discuss his work with the audience. The extraordinary because it Talk about your big screen TVs. next three episodes will be shown on Sunday, deals with homophobia, For several different programs during the April 28, at 5pm. violence against Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, the Metrosexuality is another British import women and AIDS. The screen at the Colony Theatre will be which will have its South Florida debut at cast includes Angel, transformed into a giant boob tube, for three the festival. It’s a comedy about a who comes out to his unique imported television shows. multicultural collection of family and friends family and friends, and Bob & Rose, the new show from Russell in London, centering on a straight teenage Vicki, a lesbian who T. Davies, the creator of the original British boy trying to reunite his two gay dads. befriends one of the Queer as Folk, is a comedy/drama about a Rikki Beadle-Blair, who created the main characters. Rather gay man who falls in love with a straight series and also plays one of the dads, will than just a few woman. Though the premise might make attend the Thursday, May 2, 9pm screening episodes, the Sunday, Metrosexuality people go, “Huh?” the show is honestly of the first three episodes to discuss the May 5, 3pm screening written and acted, and flows in a way that show with the audience. The next three will include a makes the premise believable and inevitable. episodes will be shown Friday, May 3, at compilation of the past year’s episodes and the documentary with the audience, and This is the North American premiere of 7pm. a documentary about the making of the show. Virginia Lacayo will attend to talk about the Bob & Rose, which will be presented in two For those interested in a really different The documentary, Novela, Novela, will series. programs of three episodes each. Davies kind of TV show, Sexto Sentido may be just make it’s world premiere at the festival, the For more info and to purchase tickets, will attend the Saturday, April 27, 6:30pm the ticket. The show is the first telenovela show will make its North American debut. call 305.534.9924 or visit screening of the first three episodes, and will made by and for Nicaraguans, and Filmmaker Liz Miller will appear to discuss www.miamigaylesbianfilm.com moments, about what it’s like to have a body Keeping Herstory Alive with cancer. In the film, Nestle is seen dealing with Film Follows Life of Lesbian Pioneer and recovering from colon cancer. But the By Mary Damiano Warshow met Nestle. film was finished when, last June, a routine It’s appropriate that filmmaker Joyce In documenting Nestle’s life, mammogram showed an aggressive tumor. Warshow has documented Joan Nestle’s life, Warshow has made a film that also She is currently undergoing radiation for because Nestle has devoted much of her life documents the lesbian women’s breast cancer. “I’m not a warrior, and I don’t preserving the documentation of the women movement in the 1960’s and 1970s. see cancer as the enemy. I see it as something who came before her. “I had not actually intended to go that befalls the body,” Nestle says. “I’m not Hand on the Pulse examines Nestle’s there, but her talking about that and at war. I’ve done everything I was supposed life as a teacher, writer, feminist and co- giving me some literature, I found to do. I feel like a cancer veteran now. It founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, where that took me to be absolutely doesn’t scare me. It makes the film even more the largest and oldest lesbian archive in the fascinating.” wonderful for me.” world. The documentary will be screened as Nestle gave Warshow free Nestle says she is most proud of her part of the Ladies Who Lunch program, reign, and even the key to her teaching, the lesbian archives and her ability Sunday, April 28, at the Miami Gay & Lesbian apartment while she was away. to love Film Festival. The program includes a That honesty and accessibility “In my later years I think I’ve finally screening of Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s shows in the film. “We each do learned to love much better.” She believes Adventures in Plastic, the world premiere of what is easiest to do, and for me, that preserving the past is important for the the short, Size’em Up, and lunch at Segafredo. to give a portrait of my real life is future. Warshow and Nestle will both attend the the easiest thing for me to do,” “Caring enough to listen will keep us all screening and the lunch to answer questions Nestle says. alive,” she says. “If we pay attention to each about the film. Warshow, who was a other’s memory, as well as the present, death Warshow, who moved to Fort psychologist before becoming a Joan Nestle is just a physical loss, but experience is what Lauderdale in January, knew of Nestle but filmmaker, believes that her clinical gives us strength to continue.” had never met her when she decided to make background helps her movies. Ladies Who Lunch will be presented the documentary. While working on another “The depths that you have to go to to particularly for a gay person who’s as old as Sunday, April 28, at the Colony Theatre and project, Warshow discovered the positive understand someone’s story are similar. It I am, secrets are very isolating. The more on Lincoln Road, with lunch by Segafredo. information in the archives, and felt that both takes a while to develop that kind of trust, revealing you can be, but with integrity so it Hand on the Pulse will be screened at 11am Nestle’s story and the story of the archives that they’re willing to reveal some of the doesn’t sound sound self-intentioned, you and will include a discussion with Joan needed to be told. difficult things. If you hold a mirror up to realize that you’re not so different. It’s a way Nestle and Joyce Warshow. Lunch will be “There was this issue of memory,” says someone, and let them get a realistic picture of building bridges between communities and on Lincoln Road at 1pm. Lifetime Guarantee: Warshow. “It was that work and that of who they are, then they see how beautiful between people. For me it was a way of Phranc’s Adventures in Plastic and the world accessibility to that history and culture in they are,” she says. making sure my life has meaning.” premiere of Size’em Up, will be shown at the archives.” The documentary was meant Nestle believes that her writing allowed In Hand on the Pulse, Nestle speaks with 3pm. The cost for the entire program is $30. to be more about the Lesbian Herstory her to open herself up to the camera as her trademark honesty about her sexuality, For more information, call 305.534.9924 Archives, but took another path went honestly as she did. “I learned very early, her mother and, in particularly moving or visit www.miamigaylesbianfilm.com.

Awards are Out of This World Historia de amor en baño público (Love Story Planet Out Presents Annual Awards at Film Festival in a Public Toilet) When a young drifter spots a long- The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival the MGLFF. “It’s an incredible compliment Ladies Tea haired roughneck in a Buenos Aires train has been chosen to host the prestigious to us that in only three years we’ve landed In this dryly funny, ingenious station, it’s dangerous and hot love-at-first- Planet Out Short Film Awards during this in the top five [gay and lesbian film animated short a lesbian bar is sight. A North American premiere from year’s feast of film, which takes place April festival.]” deconstructed like a football field diagram. Argentina, directed by Pablo Oliverio. 26-May 5 at the Colony Theatre in South The short films will be featured in a A South Florida Premiere, directed by Paula Beach. single program at the festival, on Saturday, J. Durette. Stuck The Planet Out Awards had previously May 4 at 5pm. Everyone who attends the A long time lesbian couple hits a serious been presented at the San Francisco Out Fest. screening will be invited to stay for the The Confession bump in the road in this offbeat little fable This year, Planet Out partnered with HBO, awards ceremony, which will include several An aging gay male couple suffers an that dares to ask, “Will this be us in 30 years?” and decided to look for another festival to Audience Favorite Awards, based on voting unexpected rift over religion as one of them An East Coast premiere, directed by Jamie host the awards. The fact that they were on the Planet Out website. There will be a is drawn back to the Catholic church in this Babbit, who also directed the popular feature, even considered is proof that the MGLFF, reception afterwards at the Britto Gallery on loving and challenging film, directed by Carl But I’m a Cheerleader. Stuck also won an after only a few years, is recognized Lincoln Road. Pfirman. Honorable Mention for Short Filmmaking at internationally as one of the top gay and the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. lesbian film festivals in the United States, Interviews With My Next Girlfriend Losing Lois Directors Jamie Babbitt, Paula J. says Robert Rosenberg, executive director This is the ultimate hilarious, pain-free A Tampa lesbian police officer dies in Durette, Julie Hill, Cassandra Nicolaou, of the MGLFF. blind date: drop the woman in a chair and the line of duty and her life partner, Mickie Kathy Richter, Barbara Rosenthal and Pablo According to Rosenberg, Planet Out grill her with every intimate question you’ll Mashburn, seeks to claim the survivor Oliverio will attend the screening. For more was considering the biggest gay film ever need to ask. A South Florida premiere benefits. A South Florida Premiere, directed information, call the MGLFF at 305.534.9924 festivals for the awards, including New from Canada, directed by Cassandra by Julie Hill, Kathy Richter and Barbara or visit www.miamigaylesbianfilm.com. York, and he is thrilled that they selected Nicolaou. Rosenthal.

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Sagitario The Trip Film Festival Will Begin and End With Premieres and Parties MGLFF Changes Venue for Opening and Closing Night Films By Mary Damiano film from director Vicente Molina Foix, who, film only are $25. Arquette, who was a guest and panelist at The Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival along with actor Eusebio Poncela, will attend The MGLFF will end with a bang on Sunday, last year’s festival. Director Miles Swain and kicks off its fourth year with a gala opening the event. Sagitario is a dark May 5, with the closing night gala, featuring the stars Larry Sullivan and Steve Braun will night, with the North American premiere of a ensemble comedy about a group of 40- North American premiere of The Trip. attend the screening. Spanish film and a new festival venue. something friends in Madrid. The friendship The Trip tells the story of an on-again- The fun continues after the film with the Though all other films of the 10-day of the two main characters Jamie, a gay man, off-again love story, unfolding against two MGLFF closing night Festival Awards Party, festival will be shown at the MGLFF’s usual and Rosa, a straight woman, are at the center decades of gay history. held at the Miami City Club, 200 South theater, the Colony on Lincoln Road, The of the film. Things get crazy when Jamie Beginning in 1973 Los Angeles, The Trip Biscayne Boulevard. There will be great screenings of the opening night film, meets a young hunk who has ties to a follows two college-age protagonists from views forum the venue’s 55th floor as well as Sagitario, and the closing night film, The doomsday sex cult and Rosa meets a paella the time of the Stonewall riots to the AIDS great food and drink. The awards for the Trip, will he held at Gusman Center. delivery boy. Astrology figures into the epidemic, from Anita Bryant to Ronald best of the festival will also be announced The change of venue for opening and relationships of the characters in this dark Reagan. The film blends tragedy and farce, and handed out. closing nights is a sign of the MGLFF’s but fun comedy. fantasy and reality. Tickets to the film and post-screening growth. Rather than having to turn people There will be a pre-screening reception The Trip features excerpts of actual party are $50; tickets to the film only are $25. away because of sold-out shows at the at Gusman Center, with champagne and a news footage, a soundtrack of ‘70s and ‘80s Gusman Center for the Performing Arts Colony, the MGLFF feels confident that they food tasting sponsored by Laurent Perrier. classics, and quirky cameos from gay politico is located at 174 Flagler Street, in downtown can pretty much fill the much larger theater The post-film gala dinner will be held at the David Mixner and the ever-funny Julie Miami. For more information about the galas at Gusman. Intercontinental Hotel, 100 Chopin Way in Brown. The Trip also features Alexis and to purchase tickets, call 305.534.9924. Robert Rosenberg, executive director of the downtown Miami. Guests will dance to Latin MGLFF is excited about using Gusman. “I think Fusion by LeSpam Allstars, feast on dinner that theater being downtown gives prestige to from the hotel, and enjoy libations courtesy what we’re doing,” he says. “It’s been the center of Southern Wine and Spirits. of Miami cultural life for decades.” Tickets that include the reception, film The opening night gala on Friday, April and VIP dinner are $150; tickets for the 26 at 7:30, will feature Sagitario, a Spanish reception and film are $50; and tickets for the Fun in the Sun Aquagirl 2002 Raises Money for a Good Cause By Mary Damiano This year’s event will feature comedy Attention all Beach Babes and Surfer with Suzanne Westenhoefer, a beach/pool Girls—it’s time for Aquagirl 2002. party, Champagne Brunch, Aqua Tea Dance, Aquagirl, which takes place on Miami the big Sweet Charity party, a visit to a Miami Beach May 17-19, is an annual events that Sol game, a performance by Halcyon and benefits the Dade Human Rights spinning by DJ Pride. Foundation’s Women’s Fund. Aquagirl was founded in 1999 by promoter Alison Burgos. Burgos, in association with New York’s Shescape, gathered a group of women for a one-night event to benefit breast cancer. The event, Sweet Charity, was a huge success, prompting Burgos to expand the festivities and merge it with Aquagirl Weekend. Now in its fourth year, Aquagirl is the signature fundraising event for the DHRF Woman’s Fund, which works to raise awareness gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. Money raised by Aquagirl helps the Women’s Fund continue their work to strengthen, empower, educate and foster the women’s communities in South Florida. This year’s sponsors for Aquagirl include The Express, She Magazine, The Advocate, GayLauderdale.com, TWN, Curve, Pandora Events, Miami Bathing Sol and Ultra Events. Beauty from For tickets to Aquagirl 2002, call Aqua Girl 305.572.1841. 2001 For more information visit www.aquagirl.org.

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Dame Edna Offers Ally Something to Chew On Those Nude Paintings Dame Edna Everage, of Madonna the drag alter-ego of Scottish artist Peter Howson is drawing Australian comedian Barry worldwide attention for an exhibit of 10 paintings Humphries, is proving that of Madonna, including two nudes, at a small life is a divine comedy on gallery in his hometown of Ayr on Scotland’s west recent episodes of the coast. Although Madonna did not pose for the primetime television series paintings, she has known Howson for 15 years. Ally McBeal. He has sent her copies of the 10 portraits, Despite the fact that including the two nudes, but has yet to get a the series will be cancelled response. Howson, 43, turned down large fees at the end of this season, from galleries in New York and Paris to open the Edna has become a regular exhibition at the Maclaurin Gallery. guest star after making two appearances on the show. The comedy tells the story of a ‘Queer as Folk’ Eats Crow Genre Develops Dual Personalities working girl and her trials and The GLADD Media Awards, which Genre Magazine, the pre-eminent tribulations in the single world. were handed out over the past few weeks in lifestyle magazine for gay men, will celebrate New York and She has already starred in two its May Travel and Art issue with two sexy Los Angeles, episodes of the current fifth series as honored the best ‘boys on the beach’ collectible covers. Claire Otoms, a woman involved in a in journalism, One cover will feature photography by faulty phone solicitation case that gets film, television Joe Oppedisano shot on location on Ipanema thrown out of court, according to the and theatre. Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Oppedisano’s work show’s official website. Queer as Folk, has been prominently featured in Vibe, Gear, Edna will only be a recurring guest which has The New York Times Magazine and Playboy. star on the show, an obvious last ditch rapidly become a The other cover will be a limited, special- attempt to win over viewers after a vague cliché of itself, was not among their edition illustrated cover featuring artwork by recipients. ratings slump that brought forth other Joe Phillips. A former illustrator for DC Everyone from Hedwig and the Angry celebrities, including rocker Jon Bon Inch to USA Today received awards—but not Comics, Joe Phillips is among the most highly Jovi, Mariah Carey, Elton John and Sting. Queer as Folk. regarded gay illustrators working today. His Dame Edna once starred in her own Resurrection Boulevard even took home work has been featured in numerous TV series, and she has also starred in a the trophy for Outstanding Individual Episode publications and advertisements. number of films and her own show on in a Series without a Regular Gay Character— The magazine will celebrate the new Broadway. Queer as Folk took home The Vapid Waste of covers at a special party at Fort Lauderdale’s Still, it seems that even Edna’s Space Crow Eaters Award. Cathode Ray Nightclub on Friday, April 26. appearance could not save the sinking Maybe they should take a cue from Ally Genre recently celebrated a redesign ship... Ally’s been canceled. McBeal. and relaunch for its 100th issue.

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CYMK Live Theater • Dance Music • Art Exhibitions QCultural Events Radio • Television Events improvisation. We are sure as you learn you’ll have Through Sunday, May 26: “Rodgers & Tuesday, April 30: “Dramatic Dvorak” - lots of fun and meet new friends! The fee is $25 per Hart, A Musical Celebration” – From their first Young conducting phenomenon Michael Christie Through May 5: The Fourth Annual class. Classes are held Saturdays from 1:30 - 3:30 hit song in 1925 through their final show-stopper joins the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra in Miami Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - This p.m. To enroll go to www.soltheatre.com, or call in 1943, Rodgers & Hart continually redefined the native Ellen Gaffe Zwilich’s newest piano concerto. has quickly become one of the best film festivals in (954) 525-6555. musical theatre with their wit, freshness and A masterful and dramatic symphony by Dvorak the country and we are lucky enough to have it Sunday, May 5 & 12: GLBT Meditation- intelligence. This show features their songs and a closes the concert. 8 p.m. at the Broward Center’s right it our own backyard. This will be a week filled Experience B.L.I.S.S. (Buddies & Lesbians in Sacred brief narration highlights their success. Au-Rene Theater, 201 Southwest Fifth Avenue. For with wonderful independent films, parties and the Session), a GLBT meditation class offering spiritual Performances are at The Broward Stage Door information and tickets call (954) 462-0222 or 1- hosting of the PlanetOut Short Movie Awards. For living techniques and study of the great masters. No Theatre, 8036 W. Sample Rd., Coral Springs in 800 564-9539. more information visit charge. Sundays at 2 p.m. in N. Dade. Call Frank theatre #2. Tickets are $27. For performance times Friday, May 10: “Summer Doo Wop II” – www.miamigaylesbianfilm.com or call (305) 534- (954) 391-3103, or William (305) 947-9115. and tickets call (954) 344-7765. Rock and roll never forgets and you’ll remember 9924. Saturday & Sunday, May 4 how good the music makes you feel when “Summer Tuesday, April 23: “Bone Key” –Local & 5: Arbor Day Plant Sale - Doo Wop II” comes to the Au-Rene Theater stage. suspense author Les Standiford is discussing and Celebrating Arbor Day at the On hand to rock around the clock will be Bill Haley’s signing his new book about a 70 year-old mystery Deerfield Beach Arboretum, a non- Comets (“Shake Rattle and Roll”), The Buck Ram of piracy and murder. This free discussion starts at profit fledgling tropical garden, Platters (“Only You”), The Penguins (“Earth 7:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, 2051 N. Federal Hwy, which is offering a wonderful Angel”), Walt Maddox’s Marcells (“Blue Moon”) (954) 561- 3732. opportunity to purchase plants from and the Angels (“My Boyfriend’s Back”). 8 p.m. at Wednesday, April 24: Your Public their nursery and several other local the Broward Center’s Au-Rene Theater, 201 Speaking Workout – Do you get sweaty palms at nurseries. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Southwest Fifth Avenue. For information and tickets the thought of speaking out in public? Co-authors Deerfield Beach Arboretum, call (954) 462-0222 or 1-800 564-9539. Dorothy Lynn and Jessica Selasky will discuss and Constitution Park, 2841 W. Sunday & Monday, May 12 & 13: Jethro sign their book that will help you work out the Hillsboro Boulevard in Deerfield Tull – This Broward Center concert features two of nerves and instill the confidence you need. This Beach. Admission is free. For Further the original band members: Ian Anderson (flute and free discussion starts at 7:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, Information Contact Zeke Landis, vocals) and Martin Barre (guitar). Joining the original 2051 N. Federal Hwy, (954) 561- 3732. Friends of the Deerfield Beach members are Doane Perry on drums; Andrew Wednesday, April 24: Expo Alfresco – This Arboretum. Email Giddings on keyboards; and Jonathon Noyce on bass. is the “ultimate networking party” and features [email protected], call (954) 475- 8 p.m. at the Broward Center’s Au-Rene Theater, tastings from 40 area restaurants. There will be 0474, or visit www.treezoo.com. 201 Southwest Fifth Avenue. For information and entertainment, corporate displays and a Kids Town. Friday - Sunday, May 17 – tickets call (954) 462-0222 or 1-800 564-9539. Benefits Broward Outreach. The Expo will be from 19: Aqua Girl 2002 - A packed Sunday, May 19: PINK – Double platinum 5 – 8:30 p.m. in Downtown Hollywood on Harrison weekend of lavish parties, including, best selling pop star Pink brings her “Get This Party Street, east of Dixie Hwy. Admission is $10/person the Aqua Beach Ball, the Aqua T, Started Tour” to the Au-Rene Theater. This in advance and $15 at the gate. For information Miami Sol WNBA Game, Sweet ambitious singer/songwriter will be performing songs and tickets call (954) 923-4000. Charity, the Champagne Brunch, the from her new album “M!ssundaztood,” as well as Thursday, April 25: Estate Planning for Lincoln Road Dine Around, and favorites like “There You Go” and “Just to Be Unmarried Couples – Come learn valuable “Come Out Laughing” with Suzanne Loving You” from her freshman album. Don’t miss information about estate and financial planning. Westenhoefer. Party alongside girls the party! The show starts at 7:30 p.m. at the This informational session starts at 6:30 p.m. at from all over the country as they Broward Center’s Au-Rene Theater, 201 Southwest Morgan Stanley, 2400 East Commercial Blvd., Suite descend upon South Beach to Fifth Avenue. For information and tickets call (954) 1200 in Fort Lauderdale. Call Stephanie Small for experience all Aqua Girl has to offer. 462-0222 or 1-800 564-9539. details at (954) 267-5672. Entertainment includes Halcyon, DJ Saturday, April 27: “The Preacher’s Son” Kimberly S. (Girl Bar/L.A.), DJ - Marc Adams is the author of the Lambda Literary Art Exhibitions Pride, Maryell Epps, Lela Lombardi Award finalist and Silver Pen Award recipient Through April 28: “Picturing the and more. All proceeds benefit the autobiography, “The Preacher’s Son.” He will discuss Century”- Six of the most well-known artists Dade Human Rights Foundation his life growing up gay as the son of a fundamentalist commissioned by the Federal Government are Women’s Fund. For more Baptist minister in rural Pennsylvania where he featured in “Picturing the Century: One Hundred information visit www.aquagirl.org endured a childhood of physical, emotional and Years of Photography from the National Archives.” or call (305) 572-1841. spiritual abuse. This is part of a series on Religion Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 June and July: French and Homosexuality presented by River of Grass a.m. – 4 p.m. Thursday form 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Classes – The Alliance Francaise Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 1087 Shotgun Sunday from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Admission is $5/person, de Fort Lauderdale is a non profit Road in Weston (In Broward Lakes Business Park). $3/students and free for members. This exhibition organization promoting French The presentation begins at 1 p.m. For more is at the Art & Culture Center of Hollywood. For language and culture. Summer classes information call (954) 476-8401 or go to information call (954) 921-3274. are forming and dates are TBA. For www.riverofgrass.org. Through May 17: “Out of the Asher: New information call (954) 523-9052. Saturday, April 27: Kuumba Festival 2002 Visions in Glass” – Works by artists Drew Cobb, – This festival celebrates creativity and features Shawn Lipe, Thomas Strang and James Thibeaux Through June 23: “Victor Victoria” – For the Derek Mack Band, an African-American- Live Theatre and Dance will be on display from 6 – 10 p.m. at Crystal Vision information and show times for this infamous show Caribbean Marketplace, food and a children’s area. Through Sunday, April 28: “Mamma Studio and Gallery, 1400 NE 4th Ave, Ft. Lauderdale. contact the Stage Door Theatre at (954) 344-7765. The festival runs from 12noon to 7 p.m. at Young Mia!” – This international hit musical has For information call (954) 764-0469. The Coral Springs Stage Door Theatre is located at Circle Park. The festival admission is free but there captivated standing room only crowds wherever it Ongoing: Jazz Memories- Works by 8036 W. Sample Rd. is an entrance fee to the park. For information call plays. It’s ABBA’s greatest hits woven into three Herman Leonard features photos of jazz greats such Sunday, April 21: “A Visit with Eleanor (954) 921-3404. wonderful love stories: a young girl about to be as Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Roosevelt” – This is a free performance and Tuesday, April 30: GLSEN Meeting – married; her mother about to confront the past; Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and many many more. discussion with actress Joan Wolfberg. This event Socializing starts at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting begins and the best love story of all - the audience about to 12 noon – 7 p.m. at the Barbara Gillman Gallery, will be held at 2 p.m. at the Center Gallery, located at 7:30 p.m. at The Floridian, 1410 E Las Olas jump out of their seats with joy! This heartwarming 5582 NE 4th Court #5, Miami. For information at 1650 Harrison St. in Hollywood. For more Blvd. For more information email: and hilarious tale, together with over 20 classic call (305) 759-9155. information call (954) 921-3274. [email protected]. ABBA songs will have you singing and dancing in The Espanola Way FESTIVART- Every April 26 - May 19: “Falsettos” - The Shores Tuesday, April 30: “Florida Poems” – This the aisles. International Emmy Award winner Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m.- midnight at Washington Performing Arts Theatre proudly announces the presentation by Campbell McGrath begins at 7 p.m. Phyllida Lloyd directs, with a book by Catherine Ave. and Espanola Way, Miami Beach. Live music. final show in its 2001-2002 Season. “Falsettos” is a at the Broward County Main Library, 100 S. Andrews Johnson. Performances are at the Broward Center, For more information call (305) 673-4166. seamless pairing of “March of Falsettos” and Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, (954) 357-7444. Admission 201 Southwest Fifth Avenue. For information and “Falsettoland,” acclaimed off-Broadway musicals is free. tickets call (954) 462-0222 or 1-800 564-9539. written nearly a decade apart, “Falsettos” won 1992 Radio Friday – Sunday, May 3 – 5: “Fun-in-the http://www.curtainup.org/ Tony Awards for best book and musical score. It is The Alternative Radio Show - The only Sun” – This is the “Annual Fun-in-the Sun Spring Through Sunday, May 12: “Swingtime the jaunty tale of Marvin who leaves his wife and GLBT Talk and Entertainment radio program in SAA Dive Festival” in the Keys at Kelly’s On the Canteen”- This is a nostalgic tribute to Marion young son to live with another man. His ex-wife South Florida, the Keys and the Bahamas. Live every Bay. The fee for the weekend is $230 for members Ames, an MGM movie star, and her all female band marries his psychiatrist, and Marvin ends up alone. Thursday evening at 9 p.m. on WAXY 790 AM and and $255 for non-members. Package includes two who entertained American troops during WWII. Two years later, Marvin is reunited with his lover worldwide on the Internet at night’s accommodations, breakfast on Saturday and Over 30 vintage classics like “Boogie Woogie Bugle on the eve of his son’s bar mitzvah, just as AIDS is www.radioalternative.com. Sunday, lunch and dinner on Saturday, dives on Boy”, and “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree” are beginning it’s insidious spread. Show Times: Fridays Saturday and Sunday mornings and snacks and soda featured in this musical comedy. Playing at Stage & Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Ticket on board the boat. For more information contact Door’s 26th St. Theatre, 1444 NE 26th St. in Wilton Television prices: $30 Evenings/$28 Matinees. For tickets call [email protected]. Manors. Tickets are $27. To order by phone (add April: “A Matter of Choice” - “Nightline” (305) 751-0562. Shores Theater, 9806 NE 2nd Saturday, May 4: GLCCSF Flea Market – $1 per ticket) call (954) 344-7765. will broadcast a special five-part series exploring Avenue, Miami Shores. The GLCCSF is the place to be this Saturday for Through Sunday, May 12: “A Lesson the lives of gay and lesbian people in America Fridays: “Separate Checks”- This Comedy antiques, bric-a-brac, food, clothing, jewelry, plants Before Dying”- This powerful play by Romulus beginning Monday, April 8. “A Matter of Choice?” Improv Troupe performs every Friday night at 9:30 and yard sale items. Vendors are welcome to call Linney, based on the Book by Ernest Gaines is about reported and anchored by Ted Koppel, takes an in- p.m. at the Hollywood Playhouse, 2640 Washington Kobi at (954) 565 7752. The Flea Market is from 8 the search for grace and dignity in Louisiana in depth look at the complexities of the gay experience, St., (954) 922-0404. a.m. – 2 p.m. and the GLCC is located at 1717 N. 1948, when an innocent young black man is being from senior citizens facing unique challenges in their Andrews Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, (954) 463-9005. executed. “Passionate! Powerful!” - New York twilight years to teenagers grappling with issues of Saturday, May 4:Happy Birthday WIN! - Times. “Flawless!” - New York Magazine. Playing Music sexual identity. Check you local listings. WIN’s 15th Birthday Party and Dance is from 8-11 at the Gable Stage in the eastern section of the Saturday & Sunday, April 27 & 28: “An SoFla Q TV- Television for the alternative p.m. at the Esther L. Grossman Women’s Health & Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables. American Cantata” - This work for chorus and lifestyle. For information call (305) 534-3975 or Resource Center, 4320 Sheridan St., Hollywood. Valet parking is available. Free parking is available orchestra by Maury Yeston, The composer of visit www.soflaqtv.com. Advance sale tickets are $7/Members, $12/Non- in the Biltmore parking area west of the hotel. For Broadway’s recent hit “Titanic.” “An American members. At the Door $10/Members, $15/Non- more information or to purchase tickets, call the Cantata” is a three-movement work that celebrates members. Dance Music, entertainment and awards, GableStage Box Office at (305) 445-1119 or visit the achievement of the idea of individuality, liberty smoke free environment and raffle. Call Joanne www.gablestage.org. and equality, along with our inherent and universal (954) 929-9491 for tickets. Through May 18: “Shoot” – Miami Light entitlement to it, and the sanctity of each human Sunday, May 5: Jazz Brunch - Enjoy Project presents a Mad Cat production of life, as our civilization’s single greatest intellectual Get you event listed! email gourmet brunch and entertainment showcasing “Shoot.” This is a viscerally powerful drama by accomplishment of the past thousand years. The South Florida’s finest jazz musicians on five stages local playwright/actor David Cirone about three DCA Choral, Harmony Plus and the DCA Symphonic at the Riverwalk in Downtown Fort Lauderdale. teenage girls who plot a sinister revenge on their Orchestra combine their talents to present this new [email protected] 11a.m. – 2 p.m. Free. For more information call teacher in a small southern town high school. masterpiece. Texts include excerpts from the Magna the Jazz Brunch Hotline (954) 828-5985 Performance days are Thursdays, Fridays and Carta, the writings of Thomas Jefferson, Dr. Martin Saturday, May 4 & 11: Workshop Acting Saturdays at 8 p.m. There is a special performance Luther King and original lyrics by the composer. 0r fax 954.568.5110 Classes- ‘Acting I’ is currently being offered at Monday, May 13. General Admission is $10 plus the Performances are Saturday at 8:15 p.m. and Sunday Sol Theatre Project, 1140 NE Flagler Drive in Fort roll of a single die. Students are $7 with valid I.D. All at 2:15 p.m. at the Broward Center’s Amaturo Lauderdale. Novice actors will learn the basics of performances are at The Light Box, 3000 Biscayne Theater, 201 Southwest Fifth Avenue. For information relaxation, vocal exercise, objectives, obstacles and Boulevard. Call (305) 576-6377 for more information and tickets call (954) 462-0222 or 1-800 564-9539. Q8 www.ExpressGayNews.com • April 22, 2002

CYMK MiamiGayLesbianFilm.com Radically Traditional Documentary Locks in the Freshness of an Original By Mary Damiano she says. “There’s no one to share all this Phranc has made a career out of being incredible stuff with.” different, and knows that sometimes, the most One of the most pleasant themes of different thing one can do is also the most Lifetime Guarantee is Phranc’s acceptance traditional. into the world of Tupperware by the other On the surface, a folk-singing milkman- Tupperware Ladies. She looks different than uniform-wearing lesbian surfer with a flat top the other salespeople, and one woman even may not exactly shout Tupperware® lady, makes the comment that it’s nice to see a but look a little deeper and you’ll find that man selling Tupperware, prompting Phranc Phranc is about as traditional as you can get. to gently explain that suit and flat top Though she is a successful entertainer notwithstanding, she’s still a girl. The and has toured the world with bands that Tupperware Ladies seen in the film recognize include the Dead Kennedys, The Smiths and the common bond they share with Phranc— Morrissey, a few years ago, Phranc decided that her constant touring was taking her away from home too often. She looked for a career that would allow her to spend more time with her partner and toddler daughter. She found her answer in Tupperware. Lifetime Guarantee, Phranc’s Adventures in Plastic, is featured at the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Sunday, April 28, part of the Ladies Who Lunch program that includes Hand on the Pulse, the world premiere of the short, Size’em Up, and lunch at Segafredo. The documentary is a funny, poignant and refreshing look at Phranc’s first year as a Tupperware Lady. The film follows her through her parties, at which she sings a song she wrote extolling the virtues of Tupperware, her sales meetings, and her pilgrimage to Tupperware Phranc Headquarters and the annual Jubilee in Orlando. “This is the last thing I ever thought I’d she too, is a woman who has chosen to put be doing and it’s the most fun I’ve ever had,” her family first, and has carved out a new Phranc says about her unexpected career. career that makes that possible. “It’s the greatest part-time job or full-time Udelson says her favorite aspect of the job that anyone could have.” Phranc is not film was the camaraderie of the other only making great money selling Tupperware, Tupperware Ladies. “The Tupperware but she’s on her fourth Tupperware- women are just incredible. I loved that it was supplied car, a perk she’s earned for her high not about what Phranc looked like or race or sales. sexual orientation, but that it was about the Filmmaker Lisa Udelson knew love of Tupperware.” immediately that Phranc’s new career would Through Tupperware, Phranc has make a great film. “I’d gotten a message on found a way to combine her family life, a our answering machine that Phranc was high-paying career and her music. She has inviting us to her grand opening party,” she not abandoned her performing; she still says. “The minute I heard that, I thought, does concert tours and will have a new documentary.” CD released in the fall. “What makes it so Udelson discussed the film with Phranc terrific is that it’s real life,” Phranc says, that night, and soon she was following the referring to her Tupperware business. newly minted Tupperware Lady to parties “Concerts are real, because you’re with and meetings, documenting each step with real people. But the business of the her camera. Udelson had only planned to do entertainment world is very unreal. This a quick short, but 80 hours of footage later, gives me such great balance. I can Lifetime Guarantee was born. entertain, I can work in the entertainment Throughout the process, Udelson was world, and then daily, I’m grounded in real impressed by Phranc’s blend of entertainment life. It really balances out nicely.” and salesmanship. “You can’t help but want Ladies Who Lunch will be presented to buy tons of Tupperware,” Udelson says. Sunday, April 28, at the Colony Theatre “She’s an amazing salesperson. There’s a and on Licoln Road, with lunch by way in which she presents the product. You Segafredo. Hand on the Pulse will be can’t imagine how you ever lived without screened at 11am and will include a that ice tray.” discussion with Joan Nestle and Joyce While making the film, Phranc and Warshow. Lunch will be on Lincoln Road Udelson became friends. “It was fun for her at 1pm. Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s to have a confidante, to have someone there Adventures in Plastic and the world to go through this crazy Tupperworld, as she premiere of Size’em Up, will be shown at calls it,” Udelson says. “It’s always more 3pm. The cost for the entire program is fun to have a pal with you.” $30. For more information, call 305.534.9924 Phranc concurs. “It was nice to have or visit www.miamigaylesbianfilm.com. someone to share it with me because as a For more information about Phranc’s solo performer, I’ve been all over the world music or to make her your Tupperware Lady, singing. But most of the time, I’m alone,” visit www.phranc.net.

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CYMK Pumping It Up With By Ian Drew Maximum Volume New Album Releases J To Tha L-O! The Remixes Jennifer Lopez (Epic) Queer As Folk: Music from the Showtime Original Actress/dancer Jennifer Lopez has staked out quite a musical career for herself as the new Series Second Season Various Artists (RCA Victor) century’s version of a Prince protégé, but lack of singing ability aside, her pervasive hits are Just as the hit Showtime series Queer as Folk waters undeniable. down gay life into a series of banal stereotypes, this Timing is everything in Lopez’s career, and she upcoming soundtrack to the second season does the same luckily came along at another point in musical history with the show’s limited musical scope. where, much like a great director can make the most From listening to this collection, one would think talentless supermodel into an Oscar-winning actress, that all of gay life centers around cheesy and overplayed the right team of hitmakers can make a mediocre dance music, just as gay life on the show seems to center actress into a Grammy winner. around the fictional dance club that the music is played in. Lopez’s greatest remixes are visited on this It is not that gays don’t ever listen to rock, jazz or collection, including her recent Ja Rule-teamed #1 hits (gasp) hip-hop, but the producers of the series and the Ain’t It Funny and the nauseatingly overplayed I’m soundtrack seem to think that it might not be as marketable Real, as she continues to try to use her sugary pop to be less limited. confections to give herself proper street creds. That said, this collection offers some of the biggest Ex-beau P. Diddy returns to respin Feelin’ So current gay dance club anthems in one collection. Good, and rap luminaries Fat Joe, Irv Gotti and All of the songs that everybody is already sick of are here and mixed by DJ Manny Lehman, Rodney Jerkins, who has been using the same including Deborah Cox’s never-ending Absolutely Not and Kim English’s Everyday. elements from his 1998 Brandy/Monica track The Boy is Mine in every song he has produced Still, there are a few highlights, including Daft Punk’s francophone gem Harder, Better, since then, replay such Lopez radio staples as Love Don’t Cost a Thing, If You Had My Love Faster, Stronger and an interesting remix of jazz baby Etta James’s Miss You. and Waiting for Tonight. It seems that a group of straight guys asked their few gay friends what songs were hot in the In an attempt to really become the new Appolonia, Lopez decides to pen her own material clubs to produce the compilation, and it is a shame that they couldn’t take the time to dig deeper on the new track, Alive. to let go of such narrow definitions. Though this trend is now common among those who tire of simply being the completely fabricated pop stars that they are, Lopez also drags in the untried talents of her new husband Chris Judd for this humdrum effort. Rapture Kimberly S. The album has already become the first remix album in history to debut at #1 on the Billboard charts, proving that charisma and slick packaging are enough to overshadow even the (AM Records) weakest voice. The circuit party world certainly likes to create stars of its own, and DJ Kimberly S is no exception. Tell Me That You’re Gay L.A. Shake! Sure, the scene is vapid and dull, and you (Msongs) have to either be on or have taken drugs to This song sucks. appreciate this kind of music, but it does have a The one song is available in 12 different small following and this album is made just for children’s Casio synthesizer-produced versions, that crowd. and it can only be available by ordering it from This disc brings up more of the tribal www.msongs.net. rhythms and blaring vocals that have been a part The track is an amateurishly produced of Kimberly’s sonic spell over the circuit world, wannabe circuit anthem with the title words and is a great way to take the live experience all spoken over an annoying beat. the way home. The listener gets to choose that beat from Highlights include clubland diva Celeda’s Let the Music Use You Up, which waves and smacks English pop, club and Spanish versions, probably down the vocals around the beat, and the surprise appearance of Jennifer Holliday on Rosabel’s determined by options 3 through 15 on the anthem And I’m Telling You I am Not Going, which offers a powerful gospel thrust to the mix. synthesizer. This collection is a true circuit experience, featuring such party favorites as vocalist Pepper What else can I say? Not much from what I Mashay and DJs Eddie Baez and Victor Calderone. heard. Those that don’t get it won’t, but those that do will be saying, “Play on, play on.”

Q10 www.ExpressGayNews.com • April 22, 2002

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CYMK Theater Preview Falsettos Focuses on Family Tony Award Winner Presented at the Shores Theatre By Mary Damiano extended family is. As a gay man who has co- and segue it into a song. You have to tell Falsettos proves that a man doesn’t have to parented a daughter, now 14 years old, I know the story as you’re singing.” lose his family when he comes out of the closet. I’ve never seen a role onstage that reflects what Though they’ve only been He can redefine what a family is. I’ve gone through or felt raising a child. And how rehearsing together a short time, Stacy Falsettos is a funny and poignant musical many gays and lesbians are parents or in a parental Schwartz and Cyrilla Baer have mastered that takes place in the early 1980s and revolves role in the real world? Probably too many to the chemistry of their characters, around a new kind of family: Marvin, his wife, count.” affectionately known as the lesbians Trina, their son, Jason, Marvin and Trina’s “You’re looking at issues that are next door. Schwartz, who was last seen psychiatrist, Mendel, Marvin’s lover, Whizzer, and surrounding these people and how they’re as Judy Denmark in Ruthless at the the lesbians next door, Dr. Charlotte and Cordelia. creating their own family,” says Doug Williford, Hollywood Playhouse, was not familiar The seven characters come tome together to the popular entertainer who plays Whizzer. “In with Falsettos when Simone called her create a different kind of family, and together face the middle of their family being blown apart, they’re to audition for the role of Cordelia. “He the new disease that attacks one of their members. creating family, and treating each other as family.” said, ‘She’s a lesbian, but—she’s a The Shores Performing Arts Theatre Both Williford and Doug Blevins, who plays kosher caterer, very Jewish.’ I said, ‘I’ll Cast of Falsettos production of Falsettos will give South Florida Marvin, saw Falsettos in New York around 1992. be there.’” She listened to the CD audiences a rare opportunity to see the show in Blevins felt a very personal connection to the before the audition and was struck by the gay play. “When I’ve seen this show performed, its entirety. Falsettos is actually two different musical when he first saw it. “I was a flight beauty of the score. “It brought me to tears the audience is equally as moved, regardless of plays, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland. attendant and I happened to be flying with a good several times,” she says. “It’s gorgeous.” their sexual preference,” he says. “Seeing that When the two parts were put together as friend who was HIV positive,” says Blevins. “I Though Baer was originally trained in opera, glimpse of reality, to me, is what really good theatre Falsettoland, the production won two Tony had just found that out. The storyline was so she decided that she’d rather spend her time on is all about, and conveying this information to the Awards, one for Best Book and the other for Best funny and poignant that when I got out of the stage being funny and belting out songs. As uninformed is a way to bridge the gaps between Score. theater, my T-shirt was wet from crying. I’d always soon as she heard the Shores Theatre was going the gay and straight communities.” While Falsettos deals with the beginning of dreamed as an actor of doing this role one day.” to do Falsettos, she knew she wanted to play Dr. “It’s always going to be timely to anyone the AIDS crisis, director and cast member Rich “I love the emotion of,” says Wiliford. Charlotte and was thrilled when Simone asked who lost anyone to the plague,” says Baer. “You Simone will not have the show dismissed as an “That’s what drew me to it. It’s so real.” her to audition. “It’s such an amazing character,” don’t forget the friends you lost.” AIDS play. “It’s not a musical about AIDS,” he Falsettos presents some challenges for its Baer says. “She’s a woman who sees things Falsettos runs April 27-May 19, at the says. “It’s just something that happens, kind of cast—the entire piece is sung. “Technically, it’s going on around her because so many of her Shores Performing Arts Theatre, 9806 NE 2 like in real life.” opera, but I think it’s still a music theater piece, a friends are gay and yet cannot get anyone to Avenue, Miami Shores. There will be a special Though he chose the play as the final show sung through music theater piece,” says Blevins, listen to her and cannot make the connection gala performance on April 26. Showtimes are of the season because of it’s score, Simone says who was recently seen as the opera singer in The herself.” Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sundays at Falsettos is about family, and feels a special Dead at the GableStage Theatre and in several The cast believes that even though Falsettos 2pm. Tickets are $30 for evening performances connection to that aspect of the play. “It’s roles in The King and I. “For me, and this piece, takes place 20 years ago, when AIDS didn’t even and $28 for matinees. Tickets for the opening groundbreaking in the fact that it is the only show vocally you have to match the emotion all the have a name, the story is still relevant. Simone night gala are $50. For more information and I know of that really deals with what a modern, time. It’s not like you have time to take dialogue also believes that it’s unfair to just call Falsettos a to buy tickets, call 305.751.0562.

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CYMK MiamiGayLesbianFilm.com Family Matters Gay & Lesbian Film Fest Presents Family Day By Mary Damiano Carol Coombes, program director of the “The weird thing about our family is how MGLFF, says that there were an normal it is,” says a woman featured in overwhelming number of films about gay Naming Prairie, one of the films featured in families submitted to be shown at the festival. the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival’s first “There are many titles that have the word ever Family Day. family in them, and they’re all about lesbians That sentiment sums up the themes of having children, gay men having children, the films offered in a special presentation and it’s all about defining family because Saturday, May 4. Whether it’s gay men taking that’s where we are politically in queer politics different roads to becoming dads, or three in the U.S.” sisters trying to understand a transgendered This influx of family-themed films relative, each film explores how the gay prompted the MGLFF to present a special community is redefining what it means to be Family Day on Saturday, May 4, featuring a family. kid-friendly films in a festive atmosphere “The topic of family is part of this year’s complete with balloons and free child-friendly film titles than any of subject,” says Robert refreshments. “Our intention is to attract Rosenberg, executive director of the MGLFF. straight, lesbian and gay parents with “The festival tries to reflect what is currently children 10 and older to the Colony and out there in gay film. Family is clearly a Lincoln Road to enjoy these films in a family- significant part of the zeitgeist of the gay friendly environment,” says Rosenberg, community and is reflected the films being who’s own son is now 12. “Family Day will made by and about gays and lesbians.” be an open forum for topics that kids are Rosenberg got firsthand knowledge of curious about.” teaching a child through film when he brought Children under 10 years of age will be his then 7 year old son to see a documentary admitted free to the theater. If parents prefer about AIDS at a university. Rosenberg to see the films without their younger brought along crayons and coloring books children, the MGLFF will provide free, in case the child got bored, but his son professional child care for children between wanted to watch the movie. During the the ages of 2 and 10 at the Happy Kids Day question and answer session, the boy even Care Center, 1700 Jefferson Avenue, three raised his hand and asked a few questions. blocks from the Colony Theatre. Parents who “It is possible for kids to understand such want to guarantee a slot are asked to make a material, based, of course, on the parent’s reservation by calling the MGLFF office, at judgment as to whether their child is ready.” 305.534.9924. Family Day Schedule Saturday, May 4, 1pm Saturday, May 4, 3pm Naming Prairie and Celebration Naming Prairie features a glimpse into the lives of lesbian moms and includes a baby naming ceremony. The film features director Cheryl Dunye, who directed last year’s MGLFF hit Stranger Inside. Dunye appears with her partner, Naming Prairie’s director, Alexandra Julhasz, and their daughter, Simone. The two women and other lesbian couples discuss what it means to create a family. In Celebration, a young boy gets an interesting response when he makes an announcement about himself. Both films make their East Coast premieres at the festival.

Oliver Button is a Star Based on the classic children’s book, Oliver Button is a Sissy, this documentary uses animation, a classroom discussion and a performance by a gay men’s chorus to tell a tale of stereotypes and what it’s like to grow up knowing you’re different. Tomie di Paola tells how he came to write Oliver Button is a Sissy and several other adults, arctic explorer Ann Bancroft, make-up artist Kevyn Daddy & Papa Aucoin and dancer Bill C. Jones, share their childhood experiences as a tomboy and sissies. This documentary, sponsored by The Express, is a comprehensive look at gay men who took different paths to becoming gay dads. As writer/director Johnny Symons says in the film, he heard his “non-biological clock ticking,” and his partner, William, had already heard his alarm go off. Symons documents the couple’s negotiation of the adoption maze, from being grilled by social workers to catalog shopping for a baby. One unexpected hurdle was baby Zachary’s foster mother, a homophobic, Pentecostal Christian against the adoption. Symons also examines three other gay dads No Dumb Questions and their families, including South Florida residents A funny and frank documentary short in Doug Houghton and his foster son Oscar, who are which three sisters discuss their Uncle Bill’s involved in the lawsuit to help overturn Florida’s transition into Aunt Barbara. In addition to their anti-gay adoption laws. Oscar’s grandparents are questions about whether he’s going to get his penis candidly interviewed and say that they believe amputated, and whether he’ll use the men’s or Houghton, not their son, is Oscar’s real dad. ladies room, the girls are also concerned about Another side of the issue is examined with their new aunt’s happiness. The girls’ Kelly Wallace, a single man who adopted two understanding of the concepts of gay, lesbian and brothers and speaks of both the joy of being a dad transgendered are sweet and honest and very and the loneliness of not having a partner. And we candid. In one scene, 11-year-old Chelsea talks meet Fanny, a girl who’s more worried that her two about how she exhibited her own knowledge about dads have split up than the fact that they are gay. transgendered people in her sex education class. This is the Florida premiere of Daddy & Papa. The sisters are seen before during and after meeting Symons will appear at the 3pm screening to discuss their newly transitioned aunt. the film.

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CYMK Naked Curiosity Expressions Sexual Divide By Dennis Scott-Bush

Oliver is plugged into the political scene Oliver considered their embraced by either the gay in Washington. situation to be the ideal community or the straight Some catty folks would say that’s arrangement for him. It world. He’d been told he was because plenty of politicians have been addressed his need for sexually indecisive and self- plugged into Oliver and spilled the seeds of emotional and intellectual loathing and that he wanted insider gossip, in the process. consistency while allowing him to have his cake and eat Those connections and bits of to indulge his voracious everyone else’s cake, too. But, information notwithstanding, I prefer to appetite for sexual variety. instead of being angry and attribute his insights to the fact that he’s a Usually, they kept the resentful, he felt compelled to savvy media consultant. Oliver has his finger details of their conquests to encourage acceptance in both on the pulse beat of governmental goings themselves but one night, camps. on. If his finger finds its way to other places, Oliver mentioned that, earlier in He was like an or if his bedroom sees more traffic than a the day, he’d been with a hot ambassador. He lobbied for busy Metro stop, that’s his business. guy he’d picked up at the gym. understanding of gay issues, Recently, he started e-mailing me about It had been aggressive, among his straight buddies. his new boyfriend, Jack. They met at a small wrestle-fight kind of sex and And he gave his friends and dinner party hosted by a mutual friend. Oliver had the scratches and lovers on our side of the Before they’d gotten to dessert, Oliver had bruises to prove it. Telling Jack sexual divide insight into the agreed to go home with the handsome and about his dalliance didn’t seem awkward. It been in such intimate proximity to a woman. fears and concerns of the hetero guys. He charming environment attorney. According was even arousing. They were so evolved So, Oliver said bi bi to his boyfriend. was a conduit of tolerance. to Oliver, the sex was more than good enough and sexually liberated. Oliver was living his Through the years, I’ve encountered We need to encourage our bisexual to warrant a second date. They had a natural dream. plenty of guys who like to play with both brothers to be more like Will. But we have to ease with each other and their spirited Then, the alarm went off. dick and Jane. Many of them seemed more offer them more than lip service, so to speak. conversations made them both think that Jack had gotten laid that day, too. And like don’t-call-me-gay gay men but there were If we expect them to advocate for us, we have there might actually be long-term potential his partner of choice had been a woman. some who had a genuine visceral attraction to fully accept them for who they are not for their coupling. Oliver had no words. He felt sick. to both genders. who we think they may be. We’ve put their On their third date, Oliver proposed a Jack began to elaborate on his steamy A friend of mine dated a guy named Will B in our GLBT and we have them march in sort of non-exclusive exclusivity. He wanted session but Oliver clamped his hand over who took his bisexuality seriously. He was our parades but our connection hasn’t gone the freedom to have sex with other guys but his bisexual beau’s mouth. Jack’s playful very candid about his switch-hitting status much farther than that. wanted to commit to emotional monogamy licking of Oliver’s palm only made matters with all of his prospective bedmates. There We need to change that. Bi all means, with the attentive attorney. After Oliver worse, when Oliver imagined where else were no secrets and no expectations of one let’s bridge the sexual divide. completed his pitch, Jack let out a long sigh Jack’s tongue had been that day. side winning out over the other. Oliver would of relief. He wanted the same sort of Oliver enjoyed his open relationship have appreciated that kind of frankness from Dennis Scott-Bush’s work agreement but had been reticent to raise the with Jack until he learned what kind of Jack, before they got involved. appears in publications throughout issue. openings Jack was sometimes enjoying. He Will’s openness and honesty didn’t lead the country. E-mail may be directed For a few weeks, it was unspoiled bliss. wanted no parts of a man whose parts had to acceptance, though. He never felt entirely to him at [email protected]

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CYMK In Review Finally, a Gay Film that Focuses on Characters Big Eden is Not Your Stereotypical Gay Film By J. Canepa glancing at Dean, but feels a stir when Henry When the rest of the gay-themed flicks finally glances at him. Shocked, Henry glances at become too monotonous to tolerate, with their his friend, Anna (Corinne Bohrer). Grandpa, traditional and stereotypical exploitation of the ignoring his dinner, glances at Henry and knows lifestyle, one movie has been hailed by critics as exactly what’s up. standing on it’s own two feet, and is a ‘must see,’ When he later confronts his grandson, he Thomas Bezucha’s, Big Eden. asks him what he did wrong in raising him. He Finally, a romantic story that focuses on the thought he raised him to always tell the truth and true passion between characters, rather than drugs, wants to know who he really is. Grandpa opens drags or AIDS and is only rated PG- 13. This is a movie where the guy’s heart is in the right place. Henry Hart (Arye Gross of TV’s Ellen), a bored and lonely New York artist, is called back to his hometown, tucked away in the backwoods of Montana, to care for his sick grandfather, Sam (George Coe). Complete with backyard Bar- B-Q’s and slack-jawed yokels, Henry has to come to terms with Big Eden having the one-time love of his life Dean (Tim DeKay), now divorced with children, reject the affections that he had Henry’s eyes to how beautiful god made him, just waited half his life to express. before a tragedy sends Henry packing. When the Widow Thayer (Nan Martin of The energy Henry’s tall, Native American TV’s The Drew Carey Show) agrees to help Henry admirer has for him becomes so strong, that the take care of his grandfather as a cook, she quickly whole town tries to help Pike win over his crush. assumes the responsibility of introducing him to Where else would you see hillbilly rednecks give the rest of the town, and tries to find him a suitable dating advice to a gay guy? girl. Then she figures out which way he swings Big Eden has won such awards as, Best and he becomes the center of town gossip. Film at the Cleveland International Film Festival, Straight acting, and overly nervous high Best Actor for Eric Schweig, Los Angeles Jury school friend, Pike (Eric Schweig), develops Prize and Best Feature at the Miami, New York, feelings for Henry, but can’t even be in the same San Francisco, and Aspen Gay and Lesbian room with him. Soon, he’s learning how to cook Film Festivals. and substitutes the widow’s food with his finely Do you take a chance, or stay where crafted cuisine. All the while his attempts to woo things are familiar? Big Eden is a place that is Henry remain a secret. too good to be true. It’s a place where you’re Everything comes out at the dinner table, accepted. Where your family is happy. Where especially at Thanksgiving dinner. Henry throws your friends make you laugh. And if you’re glances at Dean, who coyly reciprocates. Pike going through hard times, the yokels wipe glances at Henry and becomes upset that Henry’s away your tears. A Lesson in Great Theater Drama at the GableStage Passes With Flying Colors By Mary Damiano Shaun McKinney is a revelation—it’s the A Lesson Before Dying, the latest young actor’s first appearance on a production in a winning season at the professional stage. To watch him as Jefferson GableStage Theatre in Coral Gables, is the story is to watch a future star. of an innocent boy who must learn to die like a As Jefferson’s godmother, Dorothy J. man. Morrison is delightfully pious and conniving. This is the South Florida premiere of the It’s poetry in motion as she wheels and deals play by Romulus Linney, based on the award- to get permission to allow Grant to teach winning book by Ernest J. Gaines. The play is Jefferson. set in the late 1940s in backwoods Louisiana, Summer Wronge does everything right as where racism runs rampant. A teenager named Vivian, Grant’s fiancee and voice of his Jefferson has been convicted by an all-white conscience. Clarence Thomas is a preacher more jury of a murder he didn’t commit. Because of concerned with Jefferson’s soul than his dignity. comments made at his trial, Jefferson intends Michael D. Vines creates a poignant and to be dragged kicking and screaming to the unforgettable character as the white deputy electric chair. guarding Jefferson. Vines infuses his character His godmother is determined to not let with a grace often missing in such character. that happen, and she gets a teacher, Grant Heath Kelts represents the stereotypical white Wiggins, to reluctantly agree to instill some bigot sheriff. Kelts is a good actor, but he’s dignity in Jefferson and help him die like a not given much to work with in his character. man. Director Joe Adler keeps things tight and Jefferson serves as the catalyst in Grant’s focused. He manages to build suspense even life. Grant hates teaching, hates his students though the ending is obvious. and hates the backwater town he grew up in. The set, by Lyle Baskin, consisting of jail He dreams of getting out, but can’t cut the ties storeroom flanked by a classroom and a cafe is that bind him to his hometown. As the story imaginative and realistic. The lighting design, progresses, everything in Grant’s life—his by Jeff Quinn, is atmospheric and underscores future, his fiancee, and his self-respect— each scene beautifully. depends on teaching Jefferson how to die with Don’t miss A Lesson Before Dying. It’s a dignity. powerful and yet entertaining drama, which There is not a false move by the talented approaches theater perfection. cast. John Archie turns in an amazing A Lesson Before Dying runs through performance as Grant. Archie does a wonderful May 12 at the GableStage Theatre in Coral job of portraying his character’s frustration and Gables. For more information, call apathy and then his devotion and dedication. 305.445.1119.

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CYMK Business Profile Cornering the Market TLA Video Brings Gay Film to the World from the City of Independence By Ian Drew Philadelphia has already created a wealth of institutions. Cream cheese, steak sandwiches and even a marketed approach to American history have come out of the City of Brotherly Love, but during the last two decades, it has also been a cornerstone of the alternative film market because of TLA Video. What started as a small art house cinema, TLA Video has become a film distribution powerhouse with six video stores, two websites, a comprehensive video guide, a widely distributed catalogue and its own releasing TLA Founder Raymond Murray company. TLA stands for Theatre of the Living Arts, best-selling TLA Film and DVD Guide: A and the company has remained true to keeping Discerning Film Lover’s Guide for the last three art alive in a city that has seen the name at the years. center of its cultural community for decades. Published by St. Martin’s Press, the book In the early 1960s, the Theatre of the covers over 9,000 films that either are or have Living Arts on Philly’s South Street was home been available on video. to an experimental theatre group that featured The upsurge in TLA’s business has led such future stars as Danny DeVito, Judd Hirsch them to lure Richard Ross, formerly of Spartan and Sally Kirkland. Entertainment, to head up its new releasing By the end of the decade, the theatre was division. The division buys movies already converted to a movie house showing an completed for video/DVD release, and also has eclectic mix of classic and foreign films under a theatrical division that puts films into theaters the name TLA Cinema. nationwide before releasing them on video. When the cinema closed its doors in late- “We have so many things planned,” says 1980, a group of ex-employees purchased it, Ross. “We will be releasing 10 to 12 films this expanding on the new popularity of video by year alone, and Fluffer is currently running in opening a video store in an adjacent space. over 60 cities. It will be one of highest grossing Even after the theater closed in 1987, the gay-themed films of the year and will do close video store continued to grow with demand, to $1 million, which is a lot for a gay film.” and TLA became a haven for cinephiles The company has acquired films to put interested in alternative films that were off the out on video and DVD since 2000. beaten path from the typical They have already released such popular Hollywood blockbuster. titles as Spin the Bottle, The Five other locations in Trio, Forgive and Forget Philadelphia soon sprouted up and Twenty-Four Nights, to fill the needs of movielovers and they will soon be across the city, and a store in releasing the film version of Manhattan opened shortly the play The Night Larry thereafter. Kramer Kissed Me a TV Richard Wolff, the series called Metrosexuality Marketing Director for TLA, that will be shown at the Miami was one of the original Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. investors, and he says he TLA is also now running the company has grown their own film festivals in their along with the massive home city. popularity of gay films. TLA founder Raymond “The market is Murray is the artistic director of expanding now, and the TLA-sponsored Philadelphia gay films have really Festival of World Cinema, which proven that there does runs from April 4 through April 18 not have to be skin in which attracted 40,000 attendees and the title to be successful,” he says. international film buffs, as well as the “A lot of great gay movies are breaking new Philadelphia International Gay and ground, like Hedwig and the Angry Inch, All Lesbian Film Festival in July. Over the Guy, Urbania and The Broken Hearts Wolff says the company would next like Club.” to continue its expansion with a West Coast TLA started to expand its services beyond division. its storefront after the company’s founder and He says the demand for the gay and president, Raymond Murray, published his alternative video keeps going up, book Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of particularly as the gay community grows in Gays and Lesbians in Film and Video. South Florida. The comprehensive collection of films by, Wolff jokes that the company might one for and about gays and lesbians was an day have to relocate. enormous success when it was published in “I get a lot of phone calls, and I am 1994, spurning a wide interest in the gay video amazed at the numbers coming from South market. Florida right now,” says Wolff. “It has such Videophiles from all over wrote in wanting a strong, supportive and vibrant gay to know where to get the videos, causing the community. It is great that there is so much company to put together their popular mail activity going on down there right now.” order catalog and website, TLAVideo.com. For more information on TLA’s video The site offers one of the largest gay and empire, visit www.tlavideo.com, or lesbian databases on the web, and it has a www.tlareleasing.com, or call portal with 20,000 non-gay video entries from 800.333.8521. all genres. TLA Videos are also available at The site features comprehensive Tropixxx Video, located at 1514 Northeast synopses of each film written by TLA’s staff Fourth Avenue, in Fort Lauderdale. They of in-house writers, who have compiled the can be reached at 954.522.5988.

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CYMK By Charlene Lichtenstein For the week of 4/15/02 It’s time to change gears friends as both the Sun and Mercury move from feisty Aries to steady Taurus. Where are you headed? Scrutinize your atlas and go where your heart leads you.

ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 20) Fiscal opportunities multiply and you feel in the pink financially. Is it a pink elephant, though? Do your homework, ask (and follow) the right advice and you will have more than peanuts to feed you in your golden years. TAURUS (APRIL 21 - MAY 21) How do you like the limelight, gay Bull? Prepare for your debut by sprucing up your appearance. Mercury has you requesting a personal stylist to get things looking bullish. Perhaps it’s time to retire that paisley qiana shirt collection. Or perhaps not... GEMINI (MAY 22 - JUNE 21) Gay Twins divine the dark recesses of their universe and find that there is illumination. Your insights help you overcome hidden enemies and thwart their nasty plans. What will you do with them once you’ve caught them??

CANCER (JUNE 22 - JULY 23) You social calendar opens up when Sun and Mercury dance into Taurus now. You have some great ideas and Mercury helps you find the right audience. Choose your events wisely and don’t fall into that pink Crab habit of holing up in your shell.... alone. LEO (JULY 24 - AUGUST 23) If you have been feeling ignored at work, worry no longer, proud Lion. You can make or break your career path now. Have you been putting in the effort? If not get your tail in motion. The planets deliver cosmic just desserts. Is that a cherry on top?? VIRGO (AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 23) Great tidal movements come from small waves. Seize this opportunity to voice your opinion. Whether that means sending missives electronically from home or setting sail for distant lands is up to you. The most important thing is to expand your Outreach. LIBRA (SEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 23) Your sexuality is in overdrive. Make good use of time, gay Libra. But Taurus energy can also be lethargic. You are tempted to stretch out in the sun and smell the flowers. Put out a bit of energy now to insure that you won’t be stretching it out alone. SCORPIO (OCTOBER 24 - NOVEMBER 22) Relationships heat up which can mean a recharging or revamping of current partnerships or a completely new face to wake up to each morning. The secret is to know who you are looking for, proud Scorp. If it’s Bin Laden, take a breather and try again. SAGITTARIUS (NOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 22) When Sun and Mercury dip into Taurus, the temptation is to defer all unpleasant tasks until some time in the distant future. Bad idea, proud Archer; these miserable things have a tendency to pile up quickly and can bury you. Get Out from under... or not! CAPRICORN (DECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20) Rainbow Caps become party animals when both the Sun and Mercury enter Taurus. Join the conga line and kick up your heels. Also use this wonderful time to wake up and stir your creative gay juices. Nap time over! Time to squeeze! AQUARIUS (JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19) Aqueerians can create a special personal space for themselves and for loved ones. Redecorate, refurbish or remove. The planets provide energy, inspiration and even the gumption to deal with family issues. Let’s do a little spring cleaning, shall we? PISCES (FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20) The planets give you a rare opportunity to reach the multitudes... or at least the immediate neighborhood with your bon mots. Guppies find that they can express themselves and get what they want by just asking. So why not just ask??

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