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Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Cheslea Goodwin: Savannah Burton Sylvia Rivera: Rosalind Goodwin Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders

Writing contributions from Jenny Salisbury, Alec Butler Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Chrystos: Alec Butler Leanne Simpson: Nicole-Joy Fraser Drummers: Alec Butler, Don Kerr Musician: Kael Reid Our Funders

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Audre Lorde: Sashoya Simpson Barbara Smith: Sierra Haynes Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Musician, singer: Kael Reid Barbara Gittings: Moynan King Our Funders

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Beverley Rotter: Beth Anne Cole Iris De La Cruz: Neta Rose Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Shirley Chisholm: Lashae Watson The Advance Men: Ryan Singh, Ty Walkland Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Barbara Gittings: Moynan King Kay Tobin Lahusen: Mary Ellen MacLean Dr. Anonymous: Ty Walkland Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Musician: Kael Reid Our Funders

Goldstein, Tara and Friesen, Doug (Producers). (2023, Mar 1) Tara talks to Christopher Campbell about the completion of The RISE project, a research-based curriculum framework that’s been developed for teacher education around issues of gender and sexuality at school. To read more about The RISE project go to: https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/rise/

Goldstein, Tara and Friesen, Doug (Producers). (2023, June 1). Tara talks to artist researcher Jenny Salisbury about The Love Booth and Other Plays, a verbatim theatre project that marks the 50th anniversary of the delisting of homosexuality from the American Psychological Association’s Diagnostic Statistical Manual. To read more about The Love Booth and Other Plays Project click here: gaileyroad.com/the-love-booth-other-plays

Goldstein, Tara and Friesen, Doug (Producers). (2023, June 21). Guest host Jenny Salisbury talks to Tara Goldstein about her novel Home of Her Heart. Spanning borders from Colombia to Canada, Germany to England, the novel tells the story of a grandmother and her granddaughter, both survivors of state violence as they search for family and a place to call home.

Our next project, The Love Booth and Other Plays is a set of seven short plays that share stories of queer lives and queer activism and care in the 1970s and early 1980s. The title play The Love Booth tells the story of how a group of lesbian and gay activists pushed the American Psychology Association to take homosexuality off its Diagnostic Statistical Manual in 1973 so that homosexuality was no longer considered an illness that needed to be cured. Gailey Road is planning to perform The Love Booth and Other Plays (either on stage or virtually) during 2023 Toronto Pride Festival to mark the 50th anniversary of this successful moment of queer activism. A full list of the seven plays is included at the end of this letter. The performances will feature the work of a diverse group of White, BIPOC, and queer and trans theatre artists, many of whom have worked with Gailey Road in the past. They will also feature the music of Kate Reid and the visual art of benjamin lee hicks.

Part 1 of Out at School begins with a scene called “We Still Have to Fight” which introduces one of the major themes of the play: LGBTQ parents and students have to fight and advocate to make sure their families are recognized and legitimized at school. Part 1 ends with Kate Reid’s song Pushing the Envelope which speaks to the ways LGBTQ parents and students have to explain their families and relationships to school principals, teachers and staff. To learn more about the LGBTQ Families Speak Out Project, visit our website here. About Gailey Road Productions: Gailey Road is an independent theatre company that stages research-based theatre about contemporary human, social, and political issues that affect us all. Established in January 2007 by Artistic Director, performed ethnographer and playwright Tara Goldstein, Gailey Road has worked with over 60 writers and 80 theatre artists in the last 14 years. Gailey Road is committed to fostering dialogue around issues of systematic anti-semitism, cisheteronormativity, racism, and settler colonialism, particularly in schooling. We are also committed to promoting LGBTQ+ voices both on and offstage.

Part 2 of Out at School features two scenes that discuss the ways Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are celebrated in schools. It ends with Kate Reid’s song Let Love Be The Way which continues Kate’s reflection on the ways LGBTQ parents and students need to explain themselves at school. In the song, Kate talks about how LGBTQ families often need to justify their identities, bodies, and pronouns at school. The entire song is composed of a set of questions directed to school principals, teachers and staff who identify as heterosexual and cisgender and asks them to think about their answers to these questions. To learn more about the LGBTQ Families Speak Out Project, visit our website here. About Gailey Road Productions: Gailey Road is an independent theatre company that stages research-based theatre about contemporary human, social, and political issues that affect us all. Established in January 2007 by Artistic Director, performed ethnographer and playwright Tara Goldstein, Gailey Road has worked with over 60 writers and 80 theatre artists in the last 14 years. Gailey Road is committed to fostering dialogue around issues of systematic anti-semitism, cisheteronormativity, racism, and settler colonialism, particularly in schooling. We are also committed to promoting LGBTQ+ voices both on and offstage.

Part 3 of Out at School ends with a scene called “Risk Hope” summarizing another key theme of the play. Although they currently have to fight and advocate to make sure their families are recognized at school, LGBTQ parents and students still maintain hope that schools are capable of change and that one day they won’t need to be pushing the envelope. Part 3 ends with Kate Reid’s song Risk Hope which puts out the idea that storytelling, for example the stories and testimonies the families share in Out at School is vital to creating social change both inside and outside of school. To learn more about the LGBTQ Families Speak Out Project, visit our website here. About Gailey Road Productions: Gailey Road is an independent theatre company that stages research-based theatre about contemporary human, social, and political issues that affect us all. Established in January 2007 by Artistic Director, performed ethnographer and playwright Tara Goldstein, Gailey Road has worked with over 60 writers and 80 theatre artists in the last 14 years. Gailey Road is committed to fostering dialogue around issues of systematic anti-semitism, cisheteronormativity, racism, and settler colonialism, particularly in schooling. We are also committed to promoting LGBTQ+ voices both on and offstage.

Goldstein, Tara and Audarson Gudmundson, Helgi. (Producers). (2018, October 17). Welcome to Gender. Sexuality. School.

Goldstein, Tara and Audarson Gudmundson, Helgi. (Producers). (2018, October 17). ​Tara interviews Lee Airton from Queen’s University about their new book Gender Your Guide: What to Say, What to Know and What to Do in the New Gender Culture.

Goldstein, Tara and Audarson Gudmundson, Helgi. (Producers). (2018, November 1). Tara interviews musician and research team member Kate Reid about her research on queering high school curriculum through music.

Goldstein, Tara and Audarson Gudmundson, Helgi. (Producers). (2018, December 1). Tara interviews the team behind the documentary film Gender is Like an Ocean about their work on teaching middle school students about gender with the novel Beautiful Music for Ugly Children written by Kirstin Cronn-Mills in 2012.

Goldstein, Tara and Audarson Gudmundson, Helgi. (Producers). (2019, January 1). Tara shares one of the letters from her new book Teaching Gender and Sexuality at School: Letters to Teachers.