Named “one of Boston’s rising stars” by Stuff Magazine, Johnny Blazes is known for hir genre-bending, gender-blending, tongue-in-cheek performances. Ze draws from hir training in theater, dance and opera to create a graceful clowning style that incorporates drag, burlesque and circus arts to...
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Thu, 04/08/2010
Jennifer Storm has traveled the country giving keynotes, lectures, workshops, and panel discussions regarding victims’ rights, LGBT rights, addiction and recovery, and civil rights. Her first memoir, "Blackout Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America
", was published in 2008 by Hazelden Foundation. Her second memoir is "Leave the Light On: A Memoir of Recovery and Self-Discovery...
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Thu, 04/01/2010
Host Robin Hankins discusses how As I Am began and how she hopes to help people live more authentically and to reconcile with their families of origin and faith communities.
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Thu, 03/18/2010
Equality Florida Lobby Days and Equality Ride update.
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Thu, 03/11/2010
Catalyzing a revolution of a human spirit for the evolution of all humanity Christian de la Huerta, a spiritual leader and master breathwork practitioner, has been a writer, speaker, retreat and group facilitator for the past 19 years. Author of the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Coming Out Spiritually: The Next Step
he is currently working on a new book, 'The Soul of Power'.
He is an acclaimed speaker at East and West Coast spiritual, religious, queer and non-queer communities, and at universities nationwide, where audiences find Christian's message...
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Thu, 03/04/2010
Thom Bierdz is compelled to create. Born and raised in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Thom did well in school and had big dreams. At 20, he left for Hollywood, and four years later landed a leading role as Phillip Chancellor III on The Young And The Restless. At the end of his three-year contract, he left the show to pursue film roles, but just one month later, an unspeakable tragedy altered Thom's path when his paranoid schizophrenic brother, Troy, killed their mother.
In the years following the murder, Thom found little personal satisfaction in his acting and began transforming his thoughts, emotions, and subconscious into color and texture on canvas. Painting allowed Thom, in his words, "to make sense of the senseless; to make something beautiful out of something tragic." This need increased when his remaining brother Gregg committed suicide during a paranoid depression.
Thom questioned his own mental stability due to this history of...
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