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Instead, the teenager stayed at home and found work in a local textile factory. With Stephen gone, and the threat of expulsion over, Gavins started coming out.
“My dad said, ‘You’re not gay; you’ve lost a word that I like. That’s the last we’ll talk about this subject.’” It didn’t deter him.
“I came out with a vengeance. I unified the Gay Lib,” he says referring to the first activist movement. “I had sex with every fucking person you could contain and I didn’t care.”
One night at the local Catholic club – his regular drinking haunt where everyone knew him – Gavins showed up in a T-shirt “festooned with ‘Glad to Be Gay’ stickers”.
“I got comments appreciate ‘queer bastard’, but a few people came up to me quietly saying, ‘I thought I was the only one.’”
He had just one fling, in , but it only lasted a couple of months. “I called him Stephen in bed,” says Gavins. “I think that fucked it up.” By the following year, he had gone off sex and relationships altogether. “I just thought about Stephen all the time.” It was this that led him into his current work.
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sfgmc presents COME TOGETHER: A BEATLES CABARET
Act 1: Please Please Me – Revolver (–67)
Beatlemania Medley: “I Wish To Hold Your Hand” / “Can't Buy Me Love”
Performed by Full Cast
Written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Arranged by Kirby Shaw & Roger Emerson
“Do You Want to Comprehend a Secret”
Performed by Jim Kinney
with Don Howerton & Ayden Shupe
Written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
“Money (That's What I Want)”
Performed by Ron Carranza
with Rik Jeffery, Nick Slater & Butch Merideth
Written by Janie Bradford & Berry Gordy
“This Boy”
Performed by Justin Kim
with Rick Betita & Gilberto Esqueda
Written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
“If I Needed Someone”
Performed by Rick Betita
with Justin Kim & Gilberto Esqueda
Written by George Harrison
“I’ve Just Seen a Face”
Performed by Ayden Shupe
with Victor Jiao
Written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
“I’ll Follow the Sun”
Performed by Victor Jiao
with Ayden Shupe
Written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
“Yesterday” Spanning three weeks, three theaters, and with three special events, four mainstage plays, and five “one-night stand” variety performances, GayFest! is set to be the main attraction of the summer season in Philadelphia, and the city’s only LGBT theater festival. The womxn loving womxn highlight of the mainstage is sure to be the Philadelphia premiere of Some Are People by lesbian playwright and storyteller Kathleen Warnock. Set during a Provincetown summer, Tommy (aka the queenly queen Miss Fitt) and his lesbian landlady have their lives transformed by a young female who drifts into town prefer so many “summer people.” It actually started as a minute piece, written for a hour festival at Wings Theater in NYC. This is the gentle of fun and masochistic event theaterfolk put themselves through where you d Earlier this year, Steve Waye did an internet search for “gay events” and his zip code in Wells River. “I used to live in a big city, so there were a hundred returns for that search,” he said. “But not anymore.” Waye left Oakland, California a few years ago to escape the wildfires and smoke. In Vermont he was looking "to make contact with actual people instead of app people," he said. That’s how he ended up playing UNO and listening to Radiohead on a Friday night at Vittles Dwelling of Brews this winter. Nikki Stevens, Bradford The room was full of people. Sitting nearby were a couple professors from Dartmouth College, a local state representative, young farmers, and someone tabling for Planned Parenthood. It’s the sort of scene Travis Gendron would have never encountered growing up in the area. “I’m sort of blown away ri
Performed by Rik Je
The fourth annual GayFest!, a festival of LGBT theater, lights up Philadelphia, August
Curve caught up with the playwright Kathleen Warnock and the lead Amber Orion.
Kathleen, Some Are People sounds fascinating and atmospheric. What was the inspiration for the play?
A Bradford, Vt. coffee shop celebrating queer representation still 'feels kind of radical'
"The first time we came, I met three new-to-me trans people, which feels like a miracle out here. I’m usually the only trans person in a room."