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Judy Garland featured on show's Pride month segment

New York City-America's gay and lesbian TV newsmagazine series, In the Life, returns to public television with an allnew episode. Every June for Gay Pride, in an episode subtitled “American as Apple Pie," In the Life offers up a program that expresses how far the gay and lesbian community has come in its quest for greater visibility and equal rights.

This episode will be no exception. But this year, for the 30th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, In the Life also takes a look back at where the GLBT civil rights movement began, and how we have progressed. The Judy connection

Thirty years after the death of Judy Garland the legendary singer remains one of the defining American entertainers of the 20th century. This story examines the widelyheld view that Garland's death and funeral on the eve of the 1969 Stonewall riots helped spark the event that became a world-wide

movement.

In the Life reporters talked to gay singers and artists who continue to be inspired and influenced by Judy Garland and will explore why to this day she remains a major gay icon.

Guests include Lorna Luft, daughter of Judy Garland and author of Me and My Shadows; John Fricke, author of Judy Garland, World's Greatest Entertainer and the upcoming book 100 Years of Oz, Thomas O'Neil, author of Judy at the Stonewall Inn; Joel Dorn and Scott Schechter, producers of Judy, a new CD collection; Stonewall veterans Jeremiah Newton and Williamson Henderson; entertainers Tommy Femia, John Epperson (Lypsinka), and Jimmy James; and Broadway sensation Lea DeLaria, who has long been inspired by Garland's work. This story includes footage from the 1963-64 Judy Garland Show, which has rarely been seen 'since the 1960s.

Miami says "yes"

Studies show that 33% of teenagers who commit suicide are gay; 28% of gay kids drop out from high school; 25% to 40% of homeless teens are believed to be gay; nearly half of gay and lesbian youth are rejected by their parents. With well-documented figures like these, it is no wonder that groups are reaching out to help deal with these numbers and this crisis.

Rev. Irene Monroe

Miami's Project Yes is an education organization whose goal is to ensure the healthy development of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth. Project Yes works with numerous civic organizations, communities of faith, schools, youth service agencies and peer groups to strengthen networks and pro-

mote communication and dialogue with youth, parents, and families.

In the Life talks to Project Yes director Martha Fugate, interviews parents and young people who have gone through Project Yes programs, and attends a Project Yes workshop for the Dade County PTA.

news media, almost always without mention of Dale and Jim's long-term relationship.

Set against the backdrop of rural West Virginia, viewers will hear this activist couple's thoughts on gay rights and animal rights in the context of their seven-year-old organization.

Center stage with Paula Vogel

Paula Vogel's plays have held center stage at theaters around the world throughout the 1990s. For her work, Vogel has received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as an Obie,

Paula Vogel

New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards.

Her latest work, Mineola Twins, starring Swoozie Kurtz, is cur-

The very outspoken rently running in New reverend

This story profiles the Reverend Irene Monroe, who has written extensively on African American gay and lesbian history and African American sexuality. Monroe is very outspoken in her criticism of black churches and the Nation of Islam for their treatment of women and homosexuals, and she sees church attitudes toward gays not just as a civil rights issue, but a serious public health issue--she decries these churches for being reluctant to talk about AIDS, which has ravaged the black community. Also interviewed for this story is Reverend Peter Gomes of the Harvard Divinity School.

A couple's animal sanctuary

Jim Brewer and Dale Riffle founded and run Pigs, a Sanctuary, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing safe haven for exotic pigs, and serving as an education center about the abuses of the miniature and exotic animal industry.

Over the past decade they have welcomed hundreds of abused or unwanted animals, rescued from slaughter and research, and have educated thousands of visitors about their strong belief in animal rights. Riffle and Brewer have been profiled in mainstream

York City, and her highly acclaimed play How I Learned to Drive is set for over fifty productions worldwide this season. A teacher and playwright, Vogel is currently in-residence at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage. In the Life caught up with Vogel to talk about her work and life as an out lesbian.

Stonewall 25 remembered

Five years ago in New York City, hundreds of thousands of gay men, lesbians, their families, and friends gathered for one of the largest gay events in history. In this segment, In the Life looks back at the historic 1994 Stonewall 25 march and rally.

Special guest correspondent Marga Gomez, who performed on the rally stage, recalls high-

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lights with never-before-seen footage. This special anniversary segment includes appearances by Liza Minnelli, Amanda Bearse, Karen Williams, Suzanne Westenhoefer, David Drake, Ian McKellen, Kate Clinton, Georgia Ragsdale, Kathy Najimy, Carol Channing, Sandra Bernhard, and Harvey Fierstein.

In the Life's Pride episode can be seen at midnight Tuesday, June 15 on WEAO/ WNEO Channels 45 and 49 in Akron and Youngstown, which is carried on many Cleveland-area cable systems. WQLN Channel 54 in Erie, Pa. will air the show, but has not announced a time. (WPTD Channel 16 in Dayton also aired it, on June 5.)

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