THE ULTIMATE BROKEBACK FORUM is the largest discussion site on the web devoted to the historic film, Brokeback Mountain. It has drawn over 6,000 registered users, and 2,000,000 posts since its inception on Christmas Eve 2005. Originally devoted exclusively to Brokeback, the Forum now features separate areas for Brokeback Mountain topics, Arts & Entertainment (Film, Books, TV & Music in general), Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender Issues, Life & Leisure, and many other topics.
http://www.davecullen.com/forum/
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Chicago premiere of “Beyond Brokeback” Nov. 13
Chicago premiere of Beyond Brokeback at Auditorium Theatre celebrates role of LGBT community in attaining equality for all
Contributions made by the LGBT community in attaining the American dream of inclusiveness and equality for all will be celebrated Nov. 13 at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University (50 E. Congress Parkway) with a screening of the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain and the Chicago premiere of Beyond Brokeback.
Joining the Chicago History Museum’s ongoing year-long exhibit, Out in Chicago, Roosevelt’s day-long program will feature a 2 p.m. screening of the Academy Award-winning film Brokeback Mountain, followed by a 4:35 p.m. panel discussion with makers of the film and a 5:35 p.m. staged reading with music of messages, essays and poetry that have been inspired by the landmark movie. Attendees are invited to come and go as they like during the event.
“It has been a little more than five years since Brokeback Mountain captured our nation’s conscience and imagination. With this production of Beyond Brokeback, we are not only remembering the movie, but we are also embracing its impact and a desire to be inclusive, which is in keeping with Roosevelt University’s historic mission of social justice,” said Brett Batterson, executive director of the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University.
One of Hollywood’s highest-grossing romance films of all time, Brokeback Mountain tells the story of a complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West between 1963 and 1983, and is based on a short story written by Annie Proulx.
Its award-winning director, Ang Lee, screenwriters Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry and producer James Schamus have been invited to participate in the panel discussion on the impact the movie has had since its release in 2005.
Adapted for the stage by Gregory Hinton, and based on a book by the same name, Beyond Brokeback is a staged reading with music. It features excerpts of poignant and humorous messages, essays and poetry that were written by contributors to the Ultimate Brokeback Forum discussion website.
Original music is by composer Shawn Kirchner and director of the production is David Zak, an instructor in The Theatre Conservatory at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts. Students and faculty from Roosevelt’s theatre conservatory, working alongside several celebrity actors, also will have parts in the Chicago premiere, which is being presented for the first time in the Midwest and only the third time ever in the United States.
Tickets are $15, $20 and $25, and are on sale at Ticketmaster.com or at the box office of the Auditorium Theatre at Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, Chicago. For information, call 312-922-2110.
Contributions made by the LGBT community in attaining the American dream of inclusiveness and equality for all will be celebrated Nov. 13 at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University (50 E. Congress Parkway) with a screening of the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain and the Chicago premiere of Beyond Brokeback.
Joining the Chicago History Museum’s ongoing year-long exhibit, Out in Chicago, Roosevelt’s day-long program will feature a 2 p.m. screening of the Academy Award-winning film Brokeback Mountain, followed by a 4:35 p.m. panel discussion with makers of the film and a 5:35 p.m. staged reading with music of messages, essays and poetry that have been inspired by the landmark movie. Attendees are invited to come and go as they like during the event.
“It has been a little more than five years since Brokeback Mountain captured our nation’s conscience and imagination. With this production of Beyond Brokeback, we are not only remembering the movie, but we are also embracing its impact and a desire to be inclusive, which is in keeping with Roosevelt University’s historic mission of social justice,” said Brett Batterson, executive director of the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University.
One of Hollywood’s highest-grossing romance films of all time, Brokeback Mountain tells the story of a complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West between 1963 and 1983, and is based on a short story written by Annie Proulx.
Its award-winning director, Ang Lee, screenwriters Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry and producer James Schamus have been invited to participate in the panel discussion on the impact the movie has had since its release in 2005.
Adapted for the stage by Gregory Hinton, and based on a book by the same name, Beyond Brokeback is a staged reading with music. It features excerpts of poignant and humorous messages, essays and poetry that were written by contributors to the Ultimate Brokeback Forum discussion website.
Original music is by composer Shawn Kirchner and director of the production is David Zak, an instructor in The Theatre Conservatory at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts. Students and faculty from Roosevelt’s theatre conservatory, working alongside several celebrity actors, also will have parts in the Chicago premiere, which is being presented for the first time in the Midwest and only the third time ever in the United States.
Tickets are $15, $20 and $25, and are on sale at Ticketmaster.com or at the box office of the Auditorium Theatre at Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, Chicago. For information, call 312-922-2110.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Patricia Nell Warren - My West at the Autry National Center
Inspired by the mission of Out West, Patricia Nell Warren assembled forty years of articles, essays, editorials and blogs to create My West, her terrific anthology of which I wrote in the foreword, "A masterwork by one of our most gifted storytellers, Warren's deeply evocative stories will transport even the most dug-in urban reader to the heartland that is the American West!" - Gregory Hinton
" I'm doing another anthology called My West -- a collection of short pieces about the American West that I've written over the course of 50 years. It covers quite a number of subjects, from rural to urban to religion to politics to ethnicity, and of course sexual orientation. In fact, I was inspired to leap into this project by The Autry National Center of the American West when they accepted the two Brokeback Mountain cowboy shirts into their collection of clothes worn in great Western films. Our stubborn survival in a "red state" region is a subject whose time has come. "-- Patricia Nell Warren
Beyond Brokeback: A staged reading with music
Beyond Brokeback workshop in Fiesta Hall on June 25th, 2011
Beyond Brokeback has expanded to include additional songs written and performed by Los Angeles Master Chorale composer Shawn Kirchner and friends as we prepare for its Chicago debut in November at Roosevelt University's historic 3,700 seat Auditorium Theatre, directed by David Zak.
Beyond Brokeback was recently performed for the Matthew Shepard Symposium on Social Justice in Laramie by the University of Wyoming Theatre and Dance Department, directed by John J. O'Hagan.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
Patricia Nell Warren’s New Book, My West
Autry National Center
4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027
323.667.2000, www.theAutry.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Out West at the Autry Presents
Patricia Nell Warren’s New Book, My West
Author talk and book signing with noted historian and author of The Front Runner (1974),
the first gay-themed novel to be named a New York Times bestseller
Sunday, June 26, 2:00 p.m.
Museum Admission Rates Apply
Los Angeles, CA (May 16, 2011) — After a successful inaugural year of Out West at the Autry programs, the Autry National Center continues its commitment to telling the stories of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in the American West by presenting Montana native, noted historian, and author Patricia Nell Warren on Sunday, June 26, 2011.
“The continuation of Out West at the Autry is a testament to the great interest that exists for the LGBT stories of the American West to be heard and the need for them to be added to our mainstream historical narrative,” said Daniel Finley, Autry President and CEO. “We thank Ms. Warren for her dedication to this groundbreaking series and are pleased to have her participate once again.”
In her new anthology, My West, Warren unveils a collection of intensely personal writings about the American West—a sagebrush bouquet on everything from agriculture to zest, by way of cooking, ethnicity, history, politics, and sexuality. A book signing will follow her talk.
“Seeing the Autry make its historic decision to explore the LGBT aspect of Western history, and participating in one of its first Out West programs, was a turning point for me,” said Warren. “The Autry inspired me to gather up dozens of short pieces that I’d published here and there over the years—and to herd some of these favorites together under one cover as an anthology of personal perspectives on my native region.”
“In a year when LGBT publications are failing and LGBT bookstores are closing at an alarming rate, as the author of the most famous gay novel ever written Patricia Nell Warren was and remains the ‘frontrunner’ of gay fiction,” said Gregory Hinton, creator and producer of Out West at the Autry. “Her 2011 Western anthology, My West, is a testament to her craft, her veracity, and her true Montana grit. Readers of LGBT fiction—past, present, and future—are forever in her debt.”
Tickets for this event include museum admission: $10 for adults, $6 for students and seniors 60+, $4 for children ages 3–12, and free for Autry members, veterans, and children age 2 and under.
Patricia Nell Warren
Warren was born in 1936 and grew up on the historic Grant-Kohrs ranch at Deer Lodge, Montana. The ranch was established around 1860 by mixed-blood trader John Grant and sold to her great-grandfather, Conrad Kohrs, in 1866. Her father, Conrad Warren, took over the ranch in 1933. Later, the National Park Service bought most of the ranch and opened it to the public in 1977 as the Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site.
Warren’s passion for writing came naturally, at age 10. Her family had a strong oral tradition that included lots of storytelling at the dinner table, which left her deeply affected by the West’s multifaceted history. She first published in 1954, at age eighteen, by winning the Atlantic Monthly College Fiction contest. After college graduation in 1957, she worked as a Reader’s Digest editor for twenty years. In 1971, Dial Press published her first novel—The Last Centennial—which was set in a small Montana town.
In 1974, when she came out, William Morrow published her gay-themed novel The Front Runner, which became a New York Times bestseller. By 1991, she was publishing One Is the Sun, another Western-themed novel. Meanwhile, she freelanced on the side, focusing on Western subjects with articles in Persimmon Hill, American West, Montana Magazine, and many other publications. Her Reader’s Digest article, “Saga of an American Ranch,” won a 1982 award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. In 1994, with a business partner, Warren launched an independent publishing imprint, Wildcat Press, which has most of her books in print. Today she lives in the San Fernando Valley.
Additional Dates for Out West Programs
Saturday, June 18, 2011, 2:00 p.m.
The Bozeman Library Foundation and Out West Montana will present Out West at the Bozeman Library during annual Montana Pride festivities, along with the Montana launch of Patricia Nell Warren’s 2011 Western anthology My West.
Saturday, June 25, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
Beyond Brokeback: A Staged Reading With Poetry & Songs
Presented by the City of West Hollywood through its Arts & Cultural Affairs Commission, the Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board, and Out West at the Autry
Fiesta Hall in Plummer Park, 1200 North Vista Drive, West Hollywood, CA 90046
Free with reception to follow. RSVP: pbonds@weho.org.
Sunday, October 16, 2011, 2:00 p.m.
Marsden Hartley and the American West
Out West at the Autry
Heather Hole, assistant curator from Boston’s Museum of Fine Art, will discuss her book Marsden Hartley and the American West with Amy Scott, the Autry’s Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross Curator of Visual Arts in the Romance Gallery. After the death of his beloved German officer, our great American landscape modernist painter Hartley found solace in the Western landscape of the New Mexico desert.
November 13, 2011
Out West at Roosevelt University in Chicago presents Beyond Brokeback
Director David Zak directs Beyond Brokeback in Chicago’s historic, 3,400-seat Auditorium Theatre. Beyond Brokeback was written by Members of the Ultimate Brokeback Forum, adapted for the stage by Gregory Hinton, and first presented by the Autry National Center on December 11, 2010, in commemoration of the Fifth Anniversary of Brokeback Mountain.
Saturday, December 10
Saving the LGBT Story: Preserving Personal History Collections
Out West at the Autry
Personal history collections provide unique insights into historical, cultural, social, and economic aspects of the LGBT community. A panel discussion with archivists and experts will provide personal collectors with information about caring for their photographs, documents, and ephemera and raise awareness about institutions that might be appropriate future repositories for their collections.
About Out West at the Autry
Out West at the Autry is a series of public programs that explores the contributions of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community to Western American history by bringing together scholars, authors, artists, politicians, musicians, and others for gallery discussions, performances, and screenings. Conceived by independent curator Gregory Hinton in 2009, Out West at the Autry was inspired by the Autry’s installation of the iconic shirts worn by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in the film Brokeback Mountain, on loan from collector Tom Gregory, as well as the permanent inclusion of the International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) archives into the Autry library (both facilitated by Hinton). Beginning in 2011, the Autry will present four public Out West at Autry events, and the series will travel to other Western institutions.
Out West at the Autry is made possible through the generous support of Tom Gregory, HBO, the David Bohnett Foundation, the Gill Foundation, the Small Change Foundation, and the Gay and Lesbian Rodeo Heritage Foundation in association with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and the Courage Campaign.
About the Autry National Center
The Autry National Center, formed in 2003 by the merger of the Autry Museum of Western Heritage with the Southwest Museum of the American Indian and the Women of the West Museum, is an intercultural history center dedicated to exploring and sharing the stories, experiences, and perceptions of the diverse peoples of the American West. Located in Griffith Park, the Autry’s collection of over 500,000 pieces of art and artifacts, which includes the collection of the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, is one of the largest and most significant in the United States. The Autry Institute includes two research libraries: the Braun Research Library and the Autry Library. Exhibitions, public programs, K–12 educational services, and publications are designed to examine the contemporary human condition through the lens of the historical Western experience and explore critical issues in society.
Weekday hours of operation for the Autry National Center’s museum at its Griffith Park location are Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Autry Store’s weekday hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and the Autry Cafe is open Tuesday through Sunday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday hours for the museum and the store are 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The museum, the store, and the cafe are closed on Mondays. The libraries are open to researchers by appointment.
Museum admission is $10 for adults, $6 for students and seniors 60+, $4 for children ages 3–12, and free for Autry members, veterans, and children age 2 and under. Admission is free on the second Tuesday of every month.
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For press inquiries only, contact:
Yadhira De Leon
Sr. Manager, Public Relations
Autry National Center
323.667.2000, ext. 327
ydeleon@theAutry.org
www.theAutry.org
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Beyond Brokeback - LIVE STREAMING
LIVE STREAMING
Friday, April 8
11:00 - 12:15 Mountain Time - Beyond Brokeback: The Impact of a Film, A Staged Reading Commemorating the 5th Anniversary of Brokeback Mountain
http://outreach.uwyo.edu/conferences/justice/streaming.htm
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Friday, April 8
11:00 - 12:15 Mountain Time - Beyond Brokeback: The Impact of a Film, A Staged Reading Commemorating the 5th Anniversary of Brokeback Mountain
http://outreach.uwyo.edu/conferences/justice/streaming.htm
...
Friday, March 11, 2011
Artifacts of Love and Violence: by Gregory Hinton
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When Jacqueline Kennedy escorted the body of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, slain by the assassin’s bullet of Lee Harvey Oswald, back to Washington, D.C., she refused to change out of the pink suit she was wearing as she rode next to him in the open motorcade through downtown Dallas. It was drenched with his blood. On Air Force One she told Lady Bird Johnson, “I want them to see what they did to Jack.”
I don’t know who the “them” was that she was referring to—the killers? his political enemies? the American people? She certainly must have known that children, watching the evening news with their families, would see her. Her own children, too, would eventually see this image. I think that even in her own profound grief, she was astute enough to seize the moment because she had a lesson to teach: This is what violence looks like.
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The Brokeback shirts and Harvey Milk’s suit provide two excellent examples of the associated conundrum the responsible curator faces when posed with the dilemma of telling a painful historical truth, physical or emotional, while tastefully putting on display the controversial artifacts of love and violence. I asked photographer Dan Nicoletta his opinion about putting Harvey Milk’s suit on public display. He was very careful with his words. “Like the West, I guess Harvey belongs to everybody now.”
In an earlier exhibition called St. Harvey, Harvey’s suit was mounted on a mannequin, prompting charges of ghoulishness. The GLBT Historical Society, in its current display, attempted to mollify critics by placing the suit in recline, under a glass case. But with the bullet holes and bloodstains still plainly evident, it is still hypnotically graphic, and hard to imagine that detractors might be appeased. I even apologized to visitors while photographing it. The suit horrifies. Horrifies.
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The full article as published in the Winter 2011 edition of 'Convergence', a publication of the Autry National Center is available here:
http://bbmfoundation.org/images/Artifacts%20of%20Love%20and%20Violence%20-%20Hinton.pdf
Courtesy Autry National Center
Friday, February 18, 2011
15th annual Shepard Symposium on Social Justice
The 15th annual Shepard Symposium on Social Justice will be held April 6 - 9, 2011. The theme of the symposium will be CREATE: Activism Toward Social Justice.
The staged reading of Beyond Brokeback has been accepted by the 15th Annual Matthew Shepard Symposium on Social Justice at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, April 6-9. This is a wonderful honor.
Because these programs are workshops, the scale won't be on the level of the... Autry, but still very potent
Those who wish to come to Laramie can register on the symposium website. We are booked for the afternoon of April 8th.
http://www.shepardsymposiu
In "Beyond Brokeback: The Impact of a Film," journalist Dave Cullen and the members of an online forum have fashioned together a valuable and illuminating collection that proves testament to the very impact "Brokeback" had on so many lives. This anthology of intensely personal stories, selected from contributions to the forum, offer illuminating commentary on the impact of Annie Proulx's unforgettable story and Ang Lee's landmark film. The deeply personal approach speaks to fans of the film and story alike. And in doing so, further exposes the poison of "the closet," as well as its destructive, far-reaching effects on society as a whole.
These stories of regret, loneliness, sexual conformity and hidden truths harbored are intensely personal, and do perhaps more to sting your heart. They feature their own distinct experiences, views, and voices and are impossible to shake. While some prove deeply uplifting, in others there lies a sense of hopelessness that leaves scars. We come to see what many have withstood and what they have given up and it is inescapably heartbreaking. These voices tangibly remind us, through stories of real life hardships and life altering reactions, that both literature and film can reverberate our own emotional struggles through art. "Beyond Brokeback" is sheer testament to it.
http://www.amazon.com/Beyo
The staged reading of Beyond Brokeback has been accepted by the 15th Annual Matthew Shepard Symposium on Social Justice at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, April 6-9. This is a wonderful honor.
Because these programs are workshops, the scale won't be on the level of the... Autry, but still very potent
Those who wish to come to Laramie can register on the symposium website. We are booked for the afternoon of April 8th.
http://www.shepardsymposiu
In "Beyond Brokeback: The Impact of a Film," journalist Dave Cullen and the members of an online forum have fashioned together a valuable and illuminating collection that proves testament to the very impact "Brokeback" had on so many lives. This anthology of intensely personal stories, selected from contributions to the forum, offer illuminating commentary on the impact of Annie Proulx's unforgettable story and Ang Lee's landmark film. The deeply personal approach speaks to fans of the film and story alike. And in doing so, further exposes the poison of "the closet," as well as its destructive, far-reaching effects on society as a whole.
These stories of regret, loneliness, sexual conformity and hidden truths harbored are intensely personal, and do perhaps more to sting your heart. They feature their own distinct experiences, views, and voices and are impossible to shake. While some prove deeply uplifting, in others there lies a sense of hopelessness that leaves scars. We come to see what many have withstood and what they have given up and it is inescapably heartbreaking. These voices tangibly remind us, through stories of real life hardships and life altering reactions, that both literature and film can reverberate our own emotional struggles through art. "Beyond Brokeback" is sheer testament to it.
http://www.amazon.com/Beyo
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