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04 Sep Posted by Margie Adam in Margie Adam | Comments Off

The ‘Lesbian Feminist Writer’ label

Part 5 of a conversation between Margie Adam and Jewelle Gomez: MA: At some point in your career, there had to have been a moment where someone said: “Look, if you could just tone it down a little, if you could just roll the edge off your “angry lesbian feminist tirade,”Â you could have a […]

28 Jul Posted by Margie Adam in Margie Adam | Comments Off

“Shut Your Faggot Mouth!”

Part 4 of a conversation between Margie Adam and Jewelle Gomez: Margie Adam: I think of the part of the play (Waiting for Giovanni by Jewelle Gomez) where Richard Wright walks offstage hurling a vicious comment: “Shut your faggot mouth!”Â In both performances I attended there was an audible gasp in the audience. I think […]

10 May Posted by Margie Adam in Margie Adam | 3 comments

Margie Adam & Jewelle Gomez: Part 2

Editorâ€™s note: I am thrilled to have feminist icons Margie Adam and Jewelle Gomez on Epochalips. These two have influenced our generation by paving the way as feminists and out lesbians in the early days to continuing to share their gifts with the world today. The following is the second of several excerpts from their […]

24 Oct Posted by Jewelle Gomez in Jewelle Gomez | Comments Off

Before Stonewall

Phyllis Lyon and The Temperamentals New Conservatory Theatre, which was the saintly producer of my play, Waiting for Giovanni, has an intriguing new play coming up on November 4th.Â The Temperamentals is an award-winning new play about Harry Hay his love affair with avant garde fashion designer, Rudi Gernreich and their founding of the first […]

19 Aug Posted by Jewelle Gomez in Jewelle Gomez | 1 comment

Dinah, Dinah, Dinah!

Thank you to Pirl Harbour for the comment on my blog about Amy Jade WinehouseÂ Â (I like to use her full name to separate the artist and person from the object that we and the media made of her).Â In the piece I said I was comparing her to Sarah Vaughn.Â My MISTAKE. I really […]

12 Jul Posted by Jewelle Gomez in Jewelle Gomez | 2 comments

An Off Broadway Stage Manager-ess

In the early 1980s I worked as a stage manager for plays done in Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway theatres.Â I loved the collaborative nature of production: people, mostly strangers, come together to work intensely, intimately for several months, flying through the highs and lows of vulnerability necessary to creating real art.Â Then closing […]

01 Apr Posted by Jewelle Gomez in Jewelle Gomez | 1 comment

Acting is Happy Agony

Agony seemed to have been one of Jean-Paul Sartreâ€™s personal specialties but he may have been on target about acting.Â The New Conservatory Theatre is doing the final casting for my play, â€œWaiting for Giovanni,â€ which explores a moment of indecision in the life of queer writer/activist James Baldwin and Iâ€™ve had the privilege of […]

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Waiting for Giovanni // Posts tagged as "Waiting for Giovanni"

The ‘Lesbian Feminist Writer’ label

“Shut Your Faggot Mouth!”

Margie Adam & Jewelle Gomez: Part 2

Before Stonewall

Dinah, Dinah, Dinah!

An Off Broadway Stage Manager-ess

Acting is Happy Agony

What's InsideA lesbian smorgasbord

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