Archive for the ‘GLBT’ Category

November 1-16 — The Spirit & Place Festival provides dozens of opportunities for “Exploring Imagination”

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Where does imagination reside? Who or what is cultivating the practice of imagination? When are social, religious, and cultural boundaries appropriate? What is needed to unleash public imagination in ways that benefit our communities’ economic, social, and cultural health? These are just a few of the thought-provoking questions that will be explored across the city through performances, dance, panel discussions, exhibits, workshops, and more during the 2008 Spirit & Place Festival. (more…)

November 20 — Transgender Scott Turner Schofield explains “How to become a man in 127 easy steps.”

Friday, August 1st, 2008

When: Thursday November 20
Where: Atherton Union Reilly Room, Butler University

November 10 — Hear award-winning writer/poet and bishoip’s daughter Honor Moore

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Honor Moore gave distinction as a poet and memoirist … but it is her biography of her father — a crusading bishop who hid his sexuality from the world — that has made her a celebrity. (more…)

June 14 — Indy Pride Parade and Festival

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Be in the Mass Ave area when for one night it transforms into a rainbow rave. Scrunch up your eyes at when you attend the IndyPride’s parade — the party on wheels culminating Pride Week — and you might fool yourself into thinking you are in San Francisco. Open your eyes wide and beyond the drag queens throwing beads you’ll see that Indianapolis has a thriving GLBT community. It also has a lot of straight people committed to tolerance, diversity and serious dancing.


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July 24 — Phoenix Theatre premieres “Love Person,” a play about misinterpretation (and performed in American Sign Language, Sanskrit, spoken English, and projected e-mail)

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Postponed. Currently playing: “Murderers.”


Love Person intertwines language and love in a poetic and feverish game of deception as it explores the boundaries of language and how we interpret (literally and figuratively) the people around us. Two couples, four people, three cultures, and four relationships blossom, break, sustain, repair, and flourish in this polyglot play. A modern-day, multimedia Cyrano DeBergerac. (more…)

June 12 — Terrence McNally’s “Some Men” premieres (just in time for IndyPride)

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Just as the public debate over same-sex marriage heats up again, the Phoenix Theatre shows “Some Men,” a humorous examination of how gay men have viewed marriage and commitment over the past 80 years. (more…)

April 9 — Family Values Are Our Values: The Gay and Lesbian Community Talks

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Indianapolis has benefited from the infusion of diverse populations throughout its history. Six previous “Sam H. Jones Creating Greater Awareness Forums” have sought to enlighten participants about challenges and opportunities offered by unique communities, including Asian, African, Native American, and West Indian. The April forum will try to do the same for the gay and lesbian community. (more…)

April 21 — Spotlight 2008: One Night, One Stage, One Reason

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Thirteen different Indianapolis performing arts organizations will return to Clowes Memorial Hall for one night of entertainment, complete with music, dance, theatre and spoken word, like no other in the city. Don’t worry if that sounds like too much fun … it’s for an important cause. (more…)

April 23 to May 3 — Indianapolis International Film Festival

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Discover the world while in the dark. (more…)

October 26 — 5th Annual ACLU-Indiana Student and Membership Conference

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Boil your blood or soothe your spirit, depending on your view of the ACLU and the Constitution it’s pledged to defend … but attend their annual conference. (more…)