As a lesbian, she was deemed unfit to care for them. In the ensuing years, Sanlo endured everything anti-gay activists could throw at her. Friday and 2 p. Saturday via the Zoom platform. Sanlo considers Bryant a key figure in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people — in the past and today.
Carol Swarbrick Dries Along with her many accomplishments, there is another, said Swarbrick Dries, that is as important as any other point in the play. Sanlo forgave Anita Bryant. She marvels too at the way Sanlo overcame adversity — and emerged with her heart open. This, she said, is a delight to witness. Marriage equality is the law of the land. Sanlo and her wife fear for their own safety at times. But none of this is in the show, which begins and ends with the pie-ing.
Appealing New York actor Sam Heldt Tommy has been with the musical for several years, since its inception. He has a disarmingly young, ingenuous mien, and makes the character a little nerdy and intense, but wholly likable.
Playing a raft of other characters are four chameleon-like performers. The most varied and flexible are Lauren King Thompson and the endlessly malleable Shaun Tuazon, who just gets better with every performance.
The clever, candy-colored set Robin Sanford Roberts is nicely complemented by the lighting Christina J. Whoever is responsible for those comical cardboard cutouts established a riotous way to change character on a dime. Director Matt Morrow and musical director Patrick Marion have done a masterful job with this challenging new work. The score needs some re-thinking, but the show has a powerful story to tell.
An archive of her previews and reviews can be found at patlauner. This website, like most media sites, uses small files called cookies to anonymously customize the advertising that you see. Learn more about how we use cookies in our cookie policy. Show comments. Times of San Diego Uses Cookies. The report focused on same sex couples, both married and unmarried, and not gay and lesbians who are single. About 1. In the District of Columbia, which was categorized along with states in the report, 7.
In Florida, acceptance of LGBTQ communities has been driven at the local level, with passage of human rights ordinances, fast-growing populations from all over the world and gay-friendly companies from the hospitality and entertainment industries, said Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, an LGBTQ advocacy group.
While Orlando already had a visible gay community with out elected officials and workforces like Disney World with large numbers of gays and lesbians, the collective grief from the massacre at the gay Pulse nightclub in helped push that acceptance into more conservative corners of civic life such as local churches.
That history stretches back to the s. Florida also was the last state in the U. Austin, Orlando and Phoenix have been among the metropolitan areas with the largest population growth in recent years.
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