Cleve Jones News

The New York Theater Community's Mobilization Rally for Equality, being organized by The Public Theater, the cast of HAIR, Broadway Impact and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA), has added more noteworthy participants to its line-up.

The rally will be held at Central Park's Delacorte Theater (enter at 81st Street and Central Park West or 79th Street and Fifth Avenue) on Friday, August 28 from 2:30-3:30 PM and will be open to the public. Noteworthy members of both the civil rights and theater communities will be on hand to speak, including Oskar Eustis, legendary gay rights activist Cleve Jones, HAIR star Gavin Creel and producer David Stone.

World renowned human rights activist Cleve Jones is calling for a National March on Washington D.C. on OCTOBER 11, 2009, to demand full equality for all people in all matters governed by civil law. As tax paying citizens working within the largest tourist industry in New York City, it is now time for the members of our great theatre community and all of our fans to realize the power our collective voice holds and use it to call out to the world.

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The rally will be held at Central Park's Delacorte Theater (enter at 81st Street and Central Park West or 79th Street and Fifth Avenue) on Friday, August 28 from 2:30-3:30 PM and will be open to the public. Noteworthy members of both the civil rights and theater communities will be on hand to speak, including Oskar Eustis, legendary gay rights activist Cleve Jones, HAIR star Gavin Creel and producer David Stone.

World renowned human rights activist Cleve Jones is calling for a National March on Washington D.C. on OCTOBER 11, 2009, to demand full equality for all people in all matters governed by civil law. As tax paying citizens working within the largest tourist industry in New York City, it is now time for the members of our great theatre community and all of our fans to realize the power our collective voice holds and use it to call out to the world.

Equality is a key message running throughout Hair, the 1967 musical that originally forced people to look at so-called hippies, not with disdain or fear but with understanding. While the days of the original Haight-Ashbury culture is gone, Hair remains culturally relevant. And now it's another alternative lifestyle that has found meaning in the period piece...

In an unprecedented move, the producers of HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical have announced they are canceling the show's Sunday, October 11th performance so that the entire cast can join the National Equality March in Washington, D.C. The announcement was made this evening by the cast of HAIR at a spirited rally in Los Angeles (the entire company of HAIR has traveled from New York to California to appear on tonight's broadcast of 'The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien').

amfAR's tenth annual Honoring with Pride celebration was held during Lesbian and Gay Pride Month in New York on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at the Edison Ballroom, 240 West 47th Street, New York City. This event pays tribute to those individuals who have played a significant role in the gay and lesbian community's historic response to the AIDS crisis. Alan Cumming will host the evening of honoree tributes, fabulous food, a luxury live auction, and a special performance by the legendary Debbie Harry.

amfAR's tenth annual Honoring with Pride celebration will be held during Lesbian and Gay Pride Month in New York on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at the Edison Ballroom, 240 West 47th Street, New York City

Dear Harvey: Stories of Harvey Milk comes to Celebration Theatre, 7051B Santa Monica Blvd in Hollywood for one night only.

amfAR's tenth annual Honoring with Pride celebration will be held during Lesbian and Gay Pride Month in New York on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at the Edison Ballroom, 240 West 47th Street, New York City

It was 1973 and Harvey Milk was giving a speech to the International Longshoreman & Warehousemen's Union of San Francisco, 'We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheeling and dealing. For it takes no compromising to give people their rights? it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom.' After three failed campaigns, Harvey finally won a seat on the Board of Supervisors in January 1978. Eleven months later he was assassinated in City Hall.

It was 1973 and Harvey Milk was giving a speech to the International Longshoreman & Warehousemen's Union of San Francisco, 'We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheeling and dealing. For it takes no compromising to give people their rights? it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom.' After three failed campaigns, Harvey finally won a seat on the Board of Supervisors in January 1978. Eleven months later he was assassinated in City Hall.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2008 were presented on Sunday, February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center and televised live by the ABC Television Network. Sean Penn won Best Actor for his performance in the film MILK, here is his acceptance speech.

Academy Award Winner for Best Original Screenplay Dustin Lance Black was interviewed backstage at the Oscars, here is his full Q&A to share with you here on BWW.

Dustin Lance Black's emotional Oscar Acceptance Speech for Original Screenplay for MILK.

Academy Award-nominated director Gus Van Sant's Milk, starring Academy Award winner Sean Penn as gay rights icon Harvey Milk, had its world premiere at San Francisco's historic Castro Theatre (at 429 Castro Street) tonight. The evening benefited multiple charities supporting LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) youth. Dinner and dancing followed at City Hall.