Weekend, June 17-18, 2023 – THE GAY PRISONERS IN THE PENITENTIARY
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WEEKEND, JUNE 17-18, 2023
ISSUE# 1017
LIFEJACKET THEATRE
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THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS
Today, while was at the Pride flag raising outside Blackwell House I recalled a visit we had about 5 years ago in July of 2018 from Travis Russ. He was enquiring about gay prisoners at the Penitentiary on the island many years ago.
Travis and a group of researchers combed thru our files and took the little information we had.
This spring Travis Russ contacted me and told of a staged reading of Thr Gorgeous Nothings was being read at the Library at Lincoln Center.
It is a story of 5 gay prisoners and their stories of before and after incarceration. Each one is emotional and tells of their lives and struggles. Research was done at the courthouses and archives to portray these stories.
A clip below gives a small sample of the production. Hopefully, i will soon be produced
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Queensboro Plaza IRT-BMT elevated station as originally designed, with tracks that led to the Queensboro Bridge. Those tracks were removed in 1942. The station originally had eight tracks; the north half of the structure was abandoned in 1949 and then removed in the early 1960s. Today it has four tracks on two levels, serving the #7 and N/W routes.
FROM ANDY SPARBERG
Text by Judith Berdy
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