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Tag: Rainbow Support Group

Host: Katherine Linton.  Featured guests: Betty DeGeneres, Paris Barclay, Ulrike Ottinger, Madonna, Rupert Everett.

Summary: The first segment is about the Rainbow Support Group for mentally disabled gays and lesbians. A commercial for the Human Rights Campaign Foundation featuring Betty DeGeneres follows. This episode's A Day in the Life is a rebroadcast of the Paris Barclay profile from episode 802, and the next segment features avant-garde filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger. This episode includes footage of same-sex marriage hearings in Vermont, a children's services conference in New York and a discussion of permanent partners immigration laws in New York. Films showcased in this episode include Boys Don't Cry, Monika Treut's Gendernauts, Yvonne Welbon's Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis at 100 documentary, and The Next Best Thing, featuring interviews with Rupert Everett and Madonna, who also provides the episode's celebrity ID. This episode also includes an anti-hate campaign public service announcement by the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN).

Host: Katherine Linton.  Featured guests: Alex Sichel, Peter Frechette, Juanita Owens, Irene Farerra, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman.

Summary: The episode begins with a segment about funding challenges for the AIDS charities, Food & Friends and the Whitman-Walker Clinic. The Out Artists Speak Out segment features Alex Sichel and Peter Frechette, followed by a profile of activist Juanita Owens. The In the Arts segment covers HomoCorps at CBGB, Irene Farrera with Sounds of Venezuela, and Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Third Reich documentary Paragraph 175. The Romaine Brooks segment focuses on the artist's retrospective in Washington, D.C. The indie films, Punks and Chutney Popcorn, are spotlighted, and the In the News segment covers the Stop Dr. Laura! protest and the GLBT Christian Conference in DeKalb, Illinois. The episode also features a rebroadcast of the Rainbow Support Group segment from episode 904.

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