Thursday, March 26, 2009

Maureen Seaton, Juggling Gender, Susie Day

*Susie Day reads her latest piece "Holiday party: No Justice No Coat". Day is a humor columnist in Gay City News.

*Tami Gold & Jennifer Miller talk about Gold's updated documentary called "Juggling Gender" about Jennifer Miller with Out-FM associate producer Naomi Brussel. Miller is a bearded woman who performs in Circus Amok. In the documentary she discusses how people treat her, including interference she sometimes gets when she wants to use public toilets. There will be a free give-away during the show. Tune in at 11am for details about the DVD give-away.

*Poet Maureen Seaton talks about her memoir with Out-FM Associate Producer Tricia Spoto.Maureen Seaton is the author of Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press, 2008) and six poetry collections, including Venus Examines Her Breast, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for lesbian poetry; and Furious Cooking, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award, also for lesbian poetry. She is the co-editor, with Denise Duhamel and David Trinidad, of Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, New Republic, Bloom, and many other journals both on and off line. She is the recipient of an NEA fellowship and the Pushcart Prize.

Click HERE to listen to the whole show. The show begins with Suzy Day, then Maureen Seaton, then Tami Gold and Jennifer Miller.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Christine Jorgensen Reveals

Marle Becker Interviews Bradford Louryk about his performance of the famous transexual in "Christine Jorgensen Reveals". The remarkable play features Louryk live on stage lipsyncing the 1958 audio interview of Jorgenson by African American performer Nipsey Russell (played by Rob Grace) The award winning production is playing at the Lion Theater thru Sunday March 15, 2009.



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