Showing posts with label drag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drag. Show all posts

Monday, July 1, 2013

Vanguard Revisited Online Exhibit: Organizing


First Oral History of the Original Vanguard Members:

Oral Histories of the Original Vanguard by Joey Plaster, 2010. Photos courtesy of the GLBT Historical Society. Video edited by Megan Rohrer.
  • Vanguard Pastors - 1961-1971 - Oral Histories

Oral Histories and audio from: Susan Stryker, Paul Gabriel, Megan Rohrer and the Pacifica Audio Archive. Photos courtesy of the GLBT Historical Society. Video edited and written by Megan Rohrer, 2011.

Vanguard Revisited: 2010-12:
Taylor was one of the youth published in Vanguard Revisited.  In this video, Taylor reflects on the weekly Monday gatherings, how it helped the youth stay in touch and how it felt to work with pastors.

 
Oral history by Megan Rohrer.

Additional News and Multimedia:
  • Shepherding a Homeless Flock: Trans Minister Headlines Unity Banquet, Out Smart Magazine, April 2012.
  • Queer Voices, 90.1 KPFT-Houston, April 23,2012. 
  • Joey Plaster, Imagined Conversations and Activist Lineages: Public Histories of Queer Homeless youth Organization and the Policing of Public Space in San Francisco's Tenderloin, 1960's and Present, Radical History Review, Spring 2012. 


Saturday, July 21, 2012

How to Pray Like a Drag Queen: Rev. Lyle Beckman on Why Drag Queens are Faith Role Models

The Rev. Lyle Beckman Explains Why Drag Queens are Faith Role Models:

"How to Pray Like A Drag Queen" is inspired by the San Francisco Night Minister, Lyle Beckman, and Deacon Diana Wheeler who talked for years about the greatest book title neither had the time to write.

At the heart of this project is the idea that the drag culture in San Francisco has much to teach the church and faithful people about generosity, claiming your truest self, hope and responding to violence and tragedy. Below are a few interviews with San Francisco drag queens and those who minister to them.
See more videos in this series.