As I Am - Shows

  • A Move towards Gender Neutrality
    Thu, 09/02/2010

    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 create works that defy categorization.

    (c)2008 Steph Plourde-Simard

    (c)2008 Steph Plourde-Simard

    Johnny first made hir mark on Boston as the director and choreographer of The Madcap Rumpus Society’s “Mischief in the Machine”, a circus-theater performance set to the boisterous music of...


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    Johnny Blazes

  • HIV/AIDS: Where are We Now?
    Thu, 08/26/2010

    Brad Ogilvie founded the Mosaic Initiative, an HIV-prevention organization, to build collaborations in communities to stop the spread of HIV through education and testing. This work included facilitating trainings for professionals (educators, mental health, medical, and law enforcement), education at colleges and public schools, coordinating and promoting HIV-testing (including at City Halls), writing monthly newsletters, and facilitating public forum discussions on ethical dilemmas, morality and HIV. He has successfully made inroads in building relationships between groups as diverse as the glbt community and evangelical Christians in Chicago, Washington DC and rural Kenya and serves on a Community Advisory Panel for CDC and NIH on “HIV-testing/Linkage to Care” Program. Brad has a Master's Degree in Counseling and Guidance and also serves as the Program Director at William Penn House, in Washington DC.

    Acupuncture physician, Becky Albus, discusses how...


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    Brad Ogilvie
    Brad Ogilvie
    Becky Albus

    Gold Boar Center for Chinese Medicine
    Mosaic Initiative
    William Penn House

  • Coming Out: a Process or an Event?
    Thu, 08/19/2010

    Is coming out a one-time event or a lifetime process?  Megan Macdonald, LMHC discusses this with As I Am host Rev Robin Hankins.


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    Megen A Macdonald, LMHC
    Megen A Macdonald, LMHC



  • Queery into Aging
    Thu, 08/12/2010

    Dr. Brad Palermo, Licensed Psychologist, discusses aging issues for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer people.


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    Dr. Brad Palermo
    Dr. Brad Palermo



  • From Woodstock to Gaystock
    Thu, 08/05/2010

    Before there was a Woodstock Concert, there was Elliot Tiber working to make a go of his parents' upstate New York hotel, the El Monaco. It wasn't easy. The Jewish clientele who had returned to the Catskills year after year had discovered Florida, and the upstate hotel business was dying.
    Tosave his family's livelihood, Elliot put on plays, musicals, and local festivals. In the process, Elliot became the area's official issuer of event permits–not that anybody else wanted that position. Elliot even worked weekends as an interior design artist in New York City, all in the hopes of helping his family.
    Inthe summer of 1969, Elliot Tiber's life changed...


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    Elliot Tiber


    Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland & Interior Decorating
    Taking Woodstock
    Taking Woodstock, film by Ang Lee

  • Being 'Out' in Relationship
    Thu, 07/29/2010

    Guest Leah Benson, LMHC discusses how different levels of outness can impact your relationship.


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    Leah Benson, LMHC
    Leah Benson, LMHC



  • A State of Opportunity
    Thu, 07/22/2010

    Stratton Pollitzer, deputy director of Equality Florida, gives us a 'state of the state' update and primary election endorsements in Florida. Musician Laurier Tiernan presents his latest music video and talks about growing up Catholic and coming out as bisexual.


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    Laurier Tiernan
    Laurier Tiernan
    Stratton Pollitzer, deputy director, Equality Florida
    Stratton Pollitzer, deputy director, Equality Florida

    Equality Florida
    Laurier Tiernan

  • Coming Out at Work
    Thu, 07/15/2010

    Singer-songwriter Josh Zuckerman talks about his experience coming out as an elementary school teacher.  As I Am Board memeber, Rev Donald McGaw discusses barriers to coming out at work and his experience in the LGBT community.


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    Rev Donald McGaw, ThM, PhD

    Josh Zuckerman

  • From Addiction to Recovery
    Thu, 07/08/2010

    Dr Jeanette Reid discusses recovery from addiction and ways a counselor can help. ; Bill Carpenter tells stories from his adventures with the Soulforce Equality Ride.


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    Dr Jeanette Reid
    Dr Jeanette Reid
    Bill Carpenter
    Bill Carpenter

    Counseling Rocks
    Equality Ride

  • The Road to Equality
    Thu, 07/01/2010

    Equality Florida's Michael Farmer discusses his work as coordinator of Gay Straight Alliances in high schools and outreach at Pride festivals. ; Kimberly Smith, LMHC tells us about her work with youth and adults.

    Michael joined the Equality Florida team in March, 2009 as our Florida GSA Network Coordinator. Michael's responsibilities include strengthening existing Gay-Straight Alliances throughout the state,  increasing communication and cooperation between GSA's, and cultivating new GSA's wherever possible. Under Michael's guidance, the GSA Network  empowers youth to get involved in activism and create powerful change in their communities.

    Michael is a student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando and is perusing a degree in political science with a minor in women's studies. In 2004, Michael helped to co-found the first ever Gay-Straight Alliance at Apopka High School, in a conservative part of north Orange...


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    Michael Farmer, GSA coordinator, Equality Florida
    Michael Farmer
    Kimberly Smith

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    Equality Florida
    Smith Psychotherapy