Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 Hello UBF members!
We are opening this week's TDS in a different way. I was contacted by forum member
foreverinawe, and he had an idea for this week's issue. He has a topic that he felt was worthy of discussion, so he asked if we could feature it in TDS, and then have discussion moved to the "Respond to the Daily Sheet" thread.
So, without further ado, here is
foreverinawe's PM to me.
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Thank you Walt DisneyDid you ever have an unexpected event in your life that showed you how wonderful
life could be, something that you have treasured ever since? Not the romantic love
of your life (although that might make a good topic later), but something related
to your external world --
• finding an irreplaceable long lost photograph
• rounding a corner coming face to face with your favorite celebrity...
• turning on your radio at the end of a day of worry and struggle,
and there is Barbara Bonney singing Schubert's Ave Maria (q.v.)....
We all have them. I will post my own on May 19, which is the anniversary of my happy experience.
Please share one of yours with us. Please post it in the Respond to the Daily Sheet thread:
http://www.ultimatebrokebackforum.com/index.php?topic=8377.0 ~~~fia-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Proulx Awarded Library of Congress Fiction Prize | Annie Proulx has been named winner of the 2018 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. The honor recognizes an experienced writer whose body of work has “told us something new about the American experience.”
Proulx, 82, is best known as the author of the 1993 novel “The Shipping News,” which won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and the short story “Brokeback Mountain,” which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning movie in 2005. Last year, she received the National Book Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
“Proulx has given us monumental sagas and keen-eyed, skillfully wrought stories,” Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said in a statement released Wednesday. “Throughout her writing, she succeeds in capturing the wild, woolly heart of America, from its screwball wit to its every last detail. She is an American original.” The selection, by Hayden, was based on nominations from previous winners, other authors and literary critics.
“I disbelieved this honor at first,” Proulx told The Washington Post via email, “but when the news finally sank in, I was both somewhat shaken and delighted to learn my work was held in esteem by our national library.”
Proulx Awarded Library of Congress Fiction Prize
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Pulse Survivor, Others Celebrate 'Freedom' from Being Gay | Pulse nightclub shooting survivor Luis Javier Ruiz joined a few dozen others at a so-called Freedom March in Washington, D.C., on Saturday where those in attendance celebrated no longer identifying as gay or transgender.
“I don’t want to tell everyone it’s a ‘gay-to-straight’ thing because God is not calling me to that," Ruiz told NBC News. "I feel that I want to live in a life of purity. I feel that through loving Christ, he will walk me out of any situation. I love the LGBTQ community, I love my family. There’s no hate here, there’s love.”
Ruiz, who said he no longer identifies as gay and denied going to conversion therapy, promoted his decision to attend the event on Facebook. That post, which has since been taken down, led to threats and the loss of many friends, Ruiz said.
A few dozen people in total showed up at the event on a cloudy Saturday celebrating "freedom from homosexual/transgender lifestyles by the grace and power of Jesus Christ," according to the march.
Pulse Survivor, Others Celebrate 'Freedom' from Being Gay
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40 Essential Lesbian Romance Films | This past weekend at the box office was particularly gay. Love, Simon was still playing at theaters across America, and it was joined by Disobedience — which tells the story of two women finding love and comfort with each other in an Orthodox Jewish community — and Duck Butter, an indie dramedy about a pair of millennial ladies who endeavor to pack an entire relationship’s worth of experience into a single 24-hour stretch. (Not to mention, the Marvel big bad Thanos took over over Earth in hopes of obtaining a collection of fine jewelry.)
In celebration of all this queerness, Vulture has assembled a list of 40 essential lesbian love stories from around the world: movies that will make you laugh, make you cry, and then make you cry so violently you want to throw up. We’re exaggerating, of course — only some of these movies end in horrible tragedy. But all of them will hit you right square in the heart.
40 Essential Lesbian Romance Films |
Mainstream Pop Music is Finally Embracing Bisexuality | Earlier this month, Kehlani and Demi Lovato concluded the US leg of their Tell Me You Love Me tour by kissing on a rotating stage bed. Mainstream pop is, of course, no stranger to demonstrations of Sapphic affection – growing up, MTV gave us Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” with all its “cherry chapstick” and “experimental games”, while Madonna and Britney shared an iconic kiss during their VMA performance – but as Lovato giggled over Kehlani, pushing her over and grinding into her, something felt different. In the past, those artists would ‘play gay’ for shock value. Here, both artists are actually queer – and they’re not alone. Today, bisexual musicians are more visible than ever in pop, with new artists writing wistful love songs using same-sex pronouns and chart-topping stars waving pride flags on-stage.
Last year, Halsey’s “Strangers” – featuring fellow bisexual artist Lauren Jauregui – became the first female same-sex love song to make the Top 40. Janelle Monáe’s new album Dirty Computer featured music videos comically strutting between male and female love interests, while Harry Styles recently previewed a song with lyrics about “messing about” with both boys and girls. Even Eminem, who spent much of his career portraying gay men as lecherous sex pests (“Pants or dress, hate f**s? The answer’s yes / Homophobic? Nah, you’re just heterophobic,” he rapped on “Criminal”), recently claimed to be using Grindr, although it was hard to ascertain whether this was a weak attempt at humour or not.
Mainstream Pop Music is Finally Embracing Bisexuality |
GOP Governor and a Ban on Transgender Discrimination | New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) is expected to sign a bill in the coming weeks that would ban discrimination in the state based on gender identity.
The New Hampshire Union Leader reported that the Republican-controlled state Senate passed the legislation last week. The bill would make it illegal to discriminate against transgender people in matters of housing, employment and public accommodations.
"These laws are necessary because of the pervasive discrimination that transgender people face at work, at home and in public. I’m not transgender, but 10, 20 years ago, I experienced these discriminations," said state Sen. Dan Innis (R), who is gay.
The law will go into effect 30 days after Sununu signs it. The public accommodations provision drew some pushback from Republican lawmakers. That part of the law provides protections for transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.
GOP Governor and a Ban on Transgender Discrimination
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There’s Nothing ‘Fair’ About The New Rules For Women Track Athletes | Sport has historically been a space for white cisgendered men to compete against each other. But over the last century, this has slowly changed. Black and brown athletes have broken down racial barriers one by one, though it’s still possible in 2018 to have the cops called on you if you are black and playing golf too slowly. It took a federal law in the United States ― Title IX, passed in 1972 ― to begin to repair the vast disparity in athletic opportunities and resources between men’s/boy’s and women’s/girl’s sports, and we still have a long way to go.
Over the last few years we have seen the visibility of transgender, intersex and non-binary athletes ― all those who push against the rigid boundaries of “male” and “female” ― rise, though the resistance to their participation remains immense.
At the intersection sits one of the best female middle-distance runners ever, South Africa’s Caster Semenya who’s been under the scrutiny of the International Association of Athletics Federations since 2009 for having what some consider an “unfair advantage” over the competition.
There’s Nothing ‘Fair’ About The New Rules For Women Track Athletes
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Abilene Allies Hosts LGBT Dance, Ally Training | The Abilene Allies group hosted two events last weekend to show support for LGBT students. Led by Abilene pastor Damon Parker, the group invited LGBT students to a dance last Friday night at the Swenson House.
“The purpose of the dance was mostly to have the community of Abilene show support for our LGBTQ students,” Parker said, “and to show we’re glad you’re here in Abilene at school and as a part of our town.” Gabby Thompson, co-president of Voice, a student LGBT peer-support group, said about 30 students attended the dance. Some students brought dates, while others came with friend groups, Thompson said.
“If you aren’t out yet, formal dances aren’t as fun cause you can’t bring your significant other,” Thompson said.
Abilene Allies Hosts LGBT Dance, Ally Training
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Brokeback Opera Comes to New York | Years ago, Brokies congregated in Spain to see the opera version of Brokeback Mountain. The image to the left features the stars of that production, Tom Randle and Daniel Okulitch. It was wondered if the opera would go on the road, and appear in the United States. It was later confirmed that NYC would see the opera, but the date was not determined.
The libretto for Brokeback Mountain was written by Annie Proulx herself, following a period of persuasion to take on a medium she had never attempted. The wisdom of such a collaboration was borne out by the results: in language distilled to that which can be sung onstage, the story’s details and themes remain intact, but the method of its telling required significant changes.
SCHEDULE - May 31 7:30PM, June 2 2:00PM, June 3 4:00PM, June 4 7:30PM, LOCATION - Jazz At Lincoln Center's Rose Theater - 10 Columbus Circle, NY, NY 10019
Tickets can be purchased here:
NYC Opera
Visit the forum thread about this event here. Attendee list has been updated/added to the thread.
Brokeback Mountain Opera-New York City, May 31 and June 2–4, 2018
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Brokeback Mountain Play Coming Soon | The London stage production of Brokeback Mountain is officially underway. The show, which was first announced in 2015, is based on the short story of the same name, which was later adapted into a film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger.
We all know the story by now. In 1963, two young men, Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, are hired for the summer to look after sheep at a remote grazing range on Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming. Unexpectedly, alone in the wilderness, they form an intense emotional and physical bond that will change their lives forever. And over the next twenty years, as their separate lives play out through marriages, children and dead-end jobs, they long to be together, back on Brokeback Mountain, in a place where there are no secrets, only each other.
The show's official Twitter account posted an image of the script, revealing that production is underway.
Brokeback Mountain Play Coming Soon
Visit the forum thread about this event here.
Brokeback Play - London Gathering?
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