Pride Guide 2000

TV magazine show takes a trip down memory lane

by Michelle Tomko

Folks in Dayton will be out and about celebrating Pride 2000 on June 17. But some may want to stay in tomorrow June 10 as the Pride episode of Emmy-nominated In the Life will air on WPTD at midnight.

As we are now in the first Pride of the new millennium, the show takes us back to some historic moments in our history.

Actors Steve Buscemi (Fargo) and Kathy Kinney (The Drew Carey Show) both reminisce about being in the cast of the 1985 classic Parting Glances. What, Mimi with no make-up? Don't miss it.

The show also travels back to 1995 in Helena, Montana as a small overlooked group of queers take their first steps to becoming visible via their first Pride parade.

Speaking of firsts, Judge Deborah A. Batts in 1994 was the first lesbian judge to be appointed to federal court. In the Life takes a look at her career.

With all the hype surrounding AIDS, our community has forgotten about hepatitis, a disease that can be just as deadly. Get the facts on both the A and B strains of the disease.

We also get a glimpse of a new play by Moises Kaufman called The Laramie Project. The Tectonic Theater Company traveled to the Wyoming scene of Matthew Shepard's murder and interviewed over two hundred citizens in preparation for it.

Finally, In the Life takes a look at queer "slam poets."

If you have never caught an episode of In the Life, it plays out like the newsmagazines Dateline or Sixty Minutes, but with LGBT content in the stories.

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