Boston Moment In Her Story Film

Boston OLOC (Old Lesbians Organizing For Change) will be meeting on Sunday November 6th  from 2P to 4P to screen Catherine Russo’s brilliant documentary “A Moment In Her Story: Stories From The Boston Women's Movement”. The film will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker. The documentary chronicles the Second Wave of Feminism starting in 1968 that rippled across the U.S., demanding expanded possibilities for women of all races & classes. In the Boston area, students, professionals, community activists & working class mothers came together to demand change. This feature length documentary provides testimony of the movement's transforming energy, creativity & determination. Sarah Pearlman Co-Founder of OLOC-Boston stated, “A Moment in Her Story" by filmmaker, Catherine Russo is the inspiring story of how a new radical feminist movement began, one that challenged the cultural & political norms of our society. Throughout the late 60s & early 70s, this movement challenged the cultural & political norms of our society with Boston one of the centers of the Second Wave women's revolution that emerged nationally & internationally. Through interviews, archival film, photos, graphics, posters & music, Russo brings a rare lens to the conflicts experienced by women coming from different race & class backgrounds who worked together to push for greater justice & equality for women.” The event takes place at Brookline Senior Center, 93 Winchester Street in Brookline, MA. Following the event there will be an early dinner at Sichuan Garden, 295 Washington Street in Brookline Village, Brookline.
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USA Presidential Horror Story

Halloween has always been traditionally a celebration observed on October 31st with trick-or-treating, costume parties, lighting bonfires, telling of ghost stories, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions & making jack-o'-lanterns in a number of countries around the world but this year in America it falls on the most horrifying presidential campaign in history. My Aunt Ruby once told me nothing is so bad it can’t get worse & unfortunately her words have come to fruition once again with FBI Director James Comey's shady last minute efforts in questionable violation of federal law to irresponsibly open another investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server that has no bearing on the presidential election except in the delusional desperate mind of Donald Trump & his mob-squad supporters. Hillary Clinton stated, “It’s pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information right before an election. In fact, it’s not just strange; it’s unprecedented & it is deeply troubling.” Now just a week away from the election Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway is on every media outlet weaving her Halloween web of lies against Hillary without any facts, attempting to connect Clinton to the FBI obtained warrant to search emails from the laptop of Anthony Weiner. We hope that Conway is aware before she continues projecting her lies that candidate Donald Trump was involved in throwing drug & sex parties with underage girls in NYC during his earlier years, just to confirm once again why Trump is unqualified to be president. Read More: thedailybeast.com
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Chef Rossi Provincetown Event

Chef Rossi will read from her new memoir “The Raging Skillet” at a fabulous event Saturday November 5th from 5P to 8P at WOMR-FM’s Davis Space at 494 Commercial Street in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Chef Rossi’s story is a fabulous journey of cooking her way through some of life’s biggest challenges in New York City’s most unlikely kitchens. Talking her way into any cooking job she could get, Rossi is a self-taught & self-made entrepreneur who ended up owning one of the most sought-after catering companies in NYC. Zagat dubbed her as “the wildest thing this side of the Mason-Dixon Line”. The book features anecdotes from a life of food spanning decades in NYC plus easy to follow recipes ranging from pizza bagels to tuna tartare completing each chapter. When asked what she would like to see happen for LGBT equality in the next few years Rossi stated, “I would love it if it wasn’t a question anymore. Now of course we have marriage equality but I would like it just to be so normal. Like you don’t really say ‘Oh I’m gay’ just like people don’t really say ‘Oh I’m straight’. I would love it just to be part of the fabric of our lives. You’re gay, you’re straight, you’re black, you’re white, it’s all of one. We’re all equal, we’re all happy, we’re all loving, we all have the same rights.” This must-attend event will be a night of laughter, fun & tastings. In this exclusive audio byte we talked to Rossi about her new memoir “The Raging Skillet”. LISTEN:
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The Supreme Court & Trans Kids

While the country was being diverted by the recent vague FBI claims against presidential candidate Hillary Clinton emails the highest court in the USA has decided to listen to arguments in about the rights of our transgender students using the bathroom of their nonconforming gender. The United States Supreme Court has decided to consider the case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender boy from Virginia, who wanted to use the restroom at his school that aligned with his gender identity. A lower court ruled in his favor but the ruling was stayed by the Supreme Court for further consideration. Victoria M. Rodríguez-Roldán, Trans/Gender Non-Conforming Justice Project Director at The National LGBTQ Task Force stated, “We are pleased that Gavin’s case will now be considered by the Supreme Court. In taking the case, the Court is making history as it’s the first time it has considered transgender freedom, justice & equality. Our hope is that it will make history again by affirming that stopping Gavin & other transgender children from using the restroom that matches their gender identities is sex discrimination & therefore illegal under Title IX.” This all falls under the Obama administration asking public school systems to let transgender students use bathrooms that align with their gender identity. School districts across the country are split on how to accommodate transgender students with conflicting guidance from courts, the federal government & in some cases unfortunately state legislatures that have passed laws requiring people to use public restrooms that match the sex on their birth certificates.
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Queer Ghost Hunters Web Series

Queer Ghost Hunters is a fabulous & fascinating new documentary web series about a real team of ghost hunters contacting LGBT ghosts & unearthing hidden history about lost queer lives. They launched a Kickstarter campaign that ends November 1st raising $24,722 just under $10,300 of their $35,000 goal. This is an important series & they need our help to continue uncovering LGBTQ history especially in haunted places where LGBTQ people were often imprisoned just because of their sexual orientation decades ago. Queer Ghost Hunters looks at very real history, no matter what you believe while parodying other ghost hunting shows. Stu Maddux, Director at Stu Maddux Films who has created several LGBT history & aging documentaries including “Gen Silent” & “Reel in The Closet” along with his spouse & co-producer Joe Applebaum stated, “Even though they really believe in what they are doing, they are totally aware of how bizarre it all looks. So, their ability to have fun at their own expense has been just as fun to document.” Applebaum added, “It is the perfect combination of real findings & funny moments wrapped into a campy version of ghost hunting shows.” Shane McClelland, a co-founder of the team concluded, “The ghosts of some of these people seem to still be there & ready to talk. But they’ve been waiting for an understanding voice. Plus they seem to be a little randy after all those years. That helps.” Watch Trailer
   
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Merciful Father At UP Theater

Up Theater Company is presenting Atar Hadari's new play “Merciful Father” that opens on Tuesday November 1st & runs through 12th in NYC. The play is based on the famous Yiddish play “God of Vengeance” which featured Broadway’s first lesbian kiss that opened at the Apollo Theatre in 1923 after which the actors & producers were arrested for immorality. “Merciful Father” is about a brothel owner who commissions the creation of a Torah scroll to win a respectable husband for his daughter but his daughter has other ideas when she falls in love with one of the prostitutes. The current adaptation is set in the 1980's. When UP’s Artistic Director, James Bosley was asked what made him want to direct this play he stated, “Scenes veer from farce to sitcom to melodrama to operatic tragedy. Thinking about it later, I realized that what I saw as flaws were actually an ingenious way of expressing a reality that unfolds for us in a complex, almost comical series of diverse experiences. Suddenly I saw the whole concept before my eyes & became very jazzed to direct it. But first I had to make sure Atar was on board with my concept, which thankfully he was.” “Merciful Father” features Mary Albert, Matt Antar, Elizabeth A. Bell, Lauren Capkanis, Bill Christ, Jonathan Ellers, Richard Grunn, Sarah Kiefer, Heather Michelle & Nikole Williams. UP Theater Company is located at The Garret at Fort Washington Collegiate, 729 W 181st Street in NYC.
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Elyse Cherry LGBT Kudos

Elyse Cherry, CEO of Boston Community Capital the fabulous community development finance institution, which works in low-income communities has been named to the 2016 OUTstanding Leading LGBT+ & Ally Executives & LGBT+ Future Leaders Lists presented by the Financial Times. This is the second year that Cherry has been named to the list for her commitment to LGBT equality in her organization, her profession & beyond. Cherry stated, “I am honored to have been named once again to the Financial Times’ OUTstanding Leading LGBT+ & Ally Executives & LGBT+ Future Leaders Lists. Throughout my career, I have made it my mission to advocate for the LGBT community: by helping to build bridges among the many communities in which we all participate, by assuring that benefits for Boston Community Capital’s LGBTQ employees & their partners were identical to those available to our married employees, years before those benefits were guaranteed by law, by chairing MassEquality during the height of the state campaign for marriage equality & by signing Boston Community Capital on to two Supreme Court amicus briefs in support of marriage equality. I look forward to continuing my LGBT advocacy work in the years to come.” Cherry continues her 25-year practice of advocating for LGBT issues at the front lines of Massachusetts’ political & business communities. In this exclusive audio byte we talked to Elyse a few years ago about Boston Community Capital & her commitment to LGBT equality. LISTEN:
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