GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE APRIL 5, 1996

FEISTY FEMALE

BOOTS BIG FAT FOOL! The Italian Girl in Algiers by Rossini

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APRIL 18.19.20 THEATRE

This comic romp brings all the slapstick hilarity of The Barber of Seville to a new and exotic location with the help of an Italian beauty full of fire! Isabella proves that true love conquers all!

Sung in Italian

with English translations

above the stage! Accompanied by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra

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Weird and Wacky? Families Trying to

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do, is it because you are out to them, or just because after all these years, they must know? What would they say if they did?

These are just some of the questions addressed in a new educational film from PFLAG Toledo with Pam Allen-Thompson, Ph.D., and Di Allen-Thompson, LPCC. Intersecting interviews with eighteen people crossing gender, generational, and regional barriers, Weird and Wacky? Families Trying to Understand Homosexuality covers previously untrod ground.

The purpose is to present, for non-gay audiences, an affirming celebration of sexual minorities, and a reminder that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people can be anyone. Addressing issues of fear, prejudice, and discrimination, the film seeks to shatter the myths surrounding homosexuality as sin and sickness.

For gays and lesbians, it serves another purpose as well. If we were a fly on the wall when our families really let their guard down, what would we hear?

Weird and Wacky doesn't touch only those rare and wonderful people who are supportive and sensitive. They talk to those who won't be marching alongside us at Pride. In short, a very real group of people.

While some technical problems with the sound and images did prove a bit distracting, Weird and Wacky is about doing some important work, bringing sexual minorities and those who fill our lives a greater awareness of one another and our realities. Bringing the truth of our lives into the open is an important step toward bringing all of us together.

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