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Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson Hosts Intimate Chats w/ Global LGBTQ Leaders & Their Allies
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Mar 25, 2015
Mar 25, 2015
10 min
George Brescia, style expert and author talks about
his award winning Stage17 reality series “Dress Up! with George B
Style” that just won the Best Reality Series Award at the 2015 Vancouver
Web Fest in Vancouver, Canada with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. Created by Jacob Pinion and Executive
Produced by Ondine Landa Abramson, “Dress Up! with George B. Style” goes
behind the scenes with Broadway’s finest, including Kate Baldwin,
Victoria Clark and Marin Mazzie for opening nights and red carpet
events. When it comes to dressing Broadway’s most radiant stars for
high-profile events, nobody makes them shine brighter than celebrity
stylist George Brescia. We talked to George about the second season of
“Dress Up! with George B Style” which airs on Stage17, his latest book
“Change Your Clothes, Change Your Life” and his spin on LGBT equality.
Brescia has been in a relationship for almost eighteen years and
believes in leading by example. When asked what would he would like to
see happen for LGBT equality in the next few years George stated, “I
think everyone should be able to marry who they want, live with who they
want, love who they want, be who they are, feel proud and be able to
have all the choices that everyone else has. I think it should be equal
for everyone and I think we’re here to support and love each other and
make the world the best that we possibly can. You know it might sound a
little corny but I do think that everything comes from love and I think
if you can treat every person you come in contact with as your best
friend, no matter what their views are, you’re going to see people sort
of come together and support each other and I think that’s really what
it’s all about. So I think that everybody should be able to love who
they want and be with who they want and I think that is very important.”
Style expert George Brescia has spent the last twenty-five years
working with top fashion and beauty leaders including Ralph Lauren,
Donna Karan and Tommy Hilfiger as well as fashion directors at
Bloomingdales, Bergdorf Goodman and Lord & Taylor. As the man behind
George B Style he’s also a top-tier NYC-based stylist and image
consultant with clients ranging from A-list celebrities to everyday men
and women looking to improve their appearance and gain confidence.
George has appeared as a resident fashion expert on NBC’s The Today
Show, CBS, ABC, Fox and NY 1 as the official red carpet fashion critic
for The Tony Awards. As an author, his personal lifestyle and fashion
book “Change Your Clothes, Change Your Life: Because You Can’t Go Naked”
(Simon & Schuster) debuted last summer. “Change your Clothes,
Change your Life” is a groundbreaking, direct and honest how-to book
that shows you how to transform yourself from the inside out. In
addition to his book, George pens a regular column for Playbill,
Resident and Venue Magazine. You can watch Brescia’s fabulous reality
series “Dress Up! with George B Style,” on Stage17.
For More Info: georgebstyle.com
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Mar 18, 2015
Mar 18, 2015
9 min
K.B. Draper about her new book “The U-haul
Diary” which is an extremely entertaining and relatable lesbian dating
memoir with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. The title comes from the old U-Haul lesbian joke that lesbians
tend to move in together on the second date. “The U-haul Diary” is a
comedic view of the women that Draper dated who moved in and out of her
life and her house. A woman’s name entitles each of the chapters from
the relationships she had with one serial lover thrown in that returned
causing more heartbreak and havoc in her life. This book isn’t an
inspiring tale of the triumphant power of love or another coming out
story but instead it’s an intelligent, honest and hilarious read about
the lesbian dating scene. K.B. claims that she discovered a talent for
storytelling at a Christmas Party when talking about her dating
experiences and one of her friends told her that she was so freaking
funny she should write a book. The idea stuck and she found that writing
was cheaper than therapy and continued telling stories in her stylized
rambling humor that resulted in “The U-haul Diary”. We talked to K.B.
about what she hopes to achieve with her memoir and her spin on our LGBT
issues.
When asked what her personal commitment is to LGBT civil rights Draper
stated, “I think it’s really important for all of us to be educated on
what is going on in the world. So I think if I educate myself and be
part of the community and be a positive part of the community I hope
that we will find some relief in the world. But for my personal
commitment it’s really to try and stay true to myself, who I am and that
happens to be a very happy, successful, passionate, lesbian and I think
if I can communicate that and let people see that, I hope that will
bridge some of the gaps that we may have out there. You know even for
people coming out or straight people, whatever the case may be, if I can
be just who I am and people can enjoy me and realize that it’s okay and
you can be happy and successful and be a lesbian all at the same time, I
think hopefully that is what I can personally do for people.”
K.B. Draper completed her degree in Criminal Justice Administration and
Business Management at Central Missouri State University where she also
played softball for four years. Directly out of college she went to work
for the local sheriff's department. During her tenure there she was
promoted to lead detective, working cases from theft, burglary, child
abuse, rape, suicide and homicide. Seeking a position to utilize not
only her criminal justice degree but her business education led K.B. to
Kansas City where she has been working in the private sector of law
enforcement/private security for over fifteen years. Currently she’s
completed her second book “Close-Up” that’s more of a modern day fantasy
series featuring two heroines Kanyon and Daylen, out to save the world
from supernatural bad guys.
For More Info: kbdraper.com
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Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015
15 min
Janson Wu, Executive Director of Gay &
Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) who are the architects of
marriage equality in this country and co-counsel on the upcoming United
States Supreme Court gay marriage case talks with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. Last November the 6th Circuit
Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against couples in cases coming from
Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee thereby creating a “circuit
split” warranting the U.S. Supreme Court to settle the issue. The
Supreme Court has agreed to hear all four of these cases. GLAD was
instrumental with the Michigan case DeBoer v. Snyder. April DeBoer and
Jayne Rowse are two amazing women. They are both nurses and the mothers
of four children they fostered and adopted. They are devoted to each
other, to their kids and they should be able to marry. Mary Bonauto
GLAD’s Civil Rights Project Director is re-joining the DeBoer legal team
after helping gather experts for their historic March 2014 trial. GLAD
and Bonauto won the ground-breaking Goodridge case in 2003 making
Massachusetts the first state in the U.S. where gay and lesbian couples
could legally marry. GLAD also pioneered the legal strategy that brought
down the Defense of Marriage Act. We talked to Wu about this historic
journey towards national marriage equality and his spin on our LGBT
issues.
When asked what his personal commitment is to LGBT civil rights Wu
stated, “Personally as an openly gay man these issues effect me greatly.
I actually just celebrated my five-year wedding anniversary last
October and we married in Massachusetts thanks to GLAD the organization
that I work for. I’m also committed as an ally because I understand that
the entire LGBT community stakes an interest of those that aligned with
mine and so I feel strongly about that responsibility of being an ally
to the entire community. Then finally not just ending with LGBT rights,
but think about the broader social justice movement and both GLAD’s
place and responsibility in promoting that and my own personal one as
well too.”
Janson Wu is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Wu
has served as GLAD’s Executive Director since December 2014 following
eight years as a staff attorney and a seven-month tenure as deputy
director. During his time at GLAD Janson has been deeply involved in the
extent of GLAD’s work, including the rights of LGBT elders, family law
and parentage, employment benefits, transgender rights, DOMA and
marriage equality. He served on the legal teams of many of GLAD’s
significant cases, including the DOMA challenges Gill v. OPM and
Pedersen v. OPM and the successful asylum case of Ugandan activist John
Abdallah Wambere. GLAD recently filed their U.S. Supreme Court brief
arguing that barring gay and lesbian couples from marriage denies them a
fundamental freedom and violates our nation’s most cherished and
essential guarantees. We share in their belief that no family in our
country should be excluded from the dignity, security, stability and
legal protections that marriage confers. This injustice against our LGBT
families and those we love has gone on far too long and it’s time to
end it once and for all. This case is scheduled to go before the Supreme
Court of the United States April 28, 2015.
For More Info & Support: glad.org
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Mar 4, 2015
Mar 4, 2015
8 min
Mariah Hanson, founder and producer of the
legendary Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend that’s celebrating its 25th
anniversary and takes place in Palm Springs April 1st to April 5th talks with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. A
quarter-century ago Mariah Hanson launched what would become her
enduring legacy to both the city of Palm Springs and the LGBT community.
From a small one-night event at a Palm Springs museum with 1,500
participants 25 years ago to booking lavish locations at deluxe hotels
over 5 days of epic pool parties and world-class entertainment, The
Dinah has evolved into one of Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley’s
largest tourism boosters. Today Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend rallies
over 15,000 attendees not to mention major corporate sponsors and has
cemented its status as the undisputed biggest lesbian event of its kind
in the world. This year pop sensation and 2015 Grammy nominee Meghan
Trainor known for her infectious hit “All About that Bass” headlines The
Dinah Black Party and Billboard Top 40 superstar Christina Perri, the
extraordinary voice behind the hits “Jar of Hearts” and “A Million
Years” headlines the White Party. Joining them are pop music’s new “it”
girls Bebe Rexha and Ivy Levan. We talked to Hanson about all the
festivities planned in celebration of the silver anniversary of The
Dinah Palm Springs and give us her spin on our LGBT issues.
When asked what her personal commitment is to LGBT civil rights and what
she would like to see happen for LGBT equality in the next few years
Hanson stated, “My commitment is strong. I was on the board of Equality
California for I think six or seven years and I’m really proud of the
work that organization has done. I think that every LGBT American should
be working to further our cause whether it’s with money or time because
even though we’re seeing equality and more states embracing it, we
still have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of legislation statewide
that still needs to get up to speed with the LGBT community. I just
think every community needs to be really accessing where we’re on parity
with our straight counterparts and where we’re not and really address
these issues so that equality is 100% in every way in every state.”
Mariah Hanson has continuously utilized The Dinah as a platform to
mobilize the LGBT community around humanitarian projects and social
issues. The Dinah has certifiably come to represent an ever-growing
movement that has crossed over to mainstream bringing more and more
visibility to the lesbian community - one that had never existed before.
This year’s celebration will also include “The Dinah Comedy Night”
hosted by Suzanne Westenhoefer with Dana Goldberg, Gloria Bigelow and
Dinah Leffert as well as special performances by club diva Crystal
Waters (“100% Pure Love”, “Gypsy Woman”), disco legend Rose Royce (“Car
Wash”), Holy Child, Olivia Sommerlyn (Nick Jonas’ protégée), and
E11leven. There will also be non-stop action with pool parties, dance
parties with the best DJs and celebrity guests for the epic five-day
world-renown event. This will be the first year we’ll be covering The
Dinah for OUTTAKE VOICES™ as an official media sponsor.
For More Info & Tix: thedinah.com
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Feb 25, 2015
Feb 25, 2015
15 min
Director/writer Jane Clark (“Meth Head” &
“Elena Undone”) talks about her new comedy horror cult classic "Crazy
Bitches" with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. The movie is about eight gay and straight friends who go to a
remote ranch for a week of gossip and fun but after a number of drinks
on their first night a dark secret is revealed. The house they rented is
the site of an unsolved mass murder of teenage girls fifteen years
earlier and bloodstains are discovered under the replacement carpets. At
first they take it as an intriguing horror story for a rainy night by a
roaring fire but after one of them disappears and is discovered dead,
the story isn’t fun anymore. Then one by one they die, killed by their
own vanity and their fun-filled week turns into a race against death of
who will make it out alive. The cast includes Mary Jane Wells, Cathy De
Buono, Guinevere Turner and Candis Cayne just to name a few. We talked
to Clark about casting her movies to reflect our evolving diverse
society and her spin on LGBT equality.
When asked what her personal commitment is to LGBT equality Clark
stated, “I don’t necessarily think of myself as an activist in any way.
I’m a filmmaker and a storyteller first but I have quite a number of
dear friends that are LGBT and I mean all of them. So the way I see the
people around me, I see people just like me who love the same sex, love
the opposite sex, love both, have chosen to change their gender because
they feel more truthful about themselves and more whole as another
gender. But they may be gay as another gender or they may be straight as
another gender; I mean it’s all one piece to me. I see everybody as
we’re just living in this world and love all my friends equally and
don’t see a difference in them. So for me, telling stories that fit into
the LGBT community because the characters in the films are in the gay
community is just a matter of saying I don’t see a difference,
truthfully. I think that it is important to tell stories that are unique
to the LGBT community. I also think it’s important to tell stories
where being gay is just part of a whole rather than unique on its own
because in my world my friends are just a part of my whole. The only way
to reach a wider straight audience and to say we are part of this whole
community of human beings is to tell stories that bridge that divide as
opposed to just fall separately into one category or another.”
Jane Clark began her career as an actress including a recurring role on
“Chicago Hope”. She has spoken on panels covering film production,
fundraising, marketing, distribution and most recently addressing the
topic of filmmakers and social change. She is currently writing a book
on making short films from idea through distribution and has devoted
time as a board member and programmer to the Woods Hole Film Festival in
Cape Cod, Massachusetts. "Crazy Bitches" is currently available online
on VOD platforms and will
be released on DVD and Blu Ray on April 1st 2015.
For More Info: thecrazybitchesmovie.com
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Feb 19, 2015
Feb 19, 2015
12 min
Walter Naegle who was pioneer civil rights
activist Bayard Rustin's partner for the last decade of Rustin's life, talks with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. strategies of
nonviolence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and reached international
notoriety in 1963 as the openly gay organizer of the March on
Washington. With the racial unrest in this country and in recognition of
Black History Month Cleis Press has just published a new ebook edition
of “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin” with
the timely message of nonviolent and peaceful protest. In 2013 President
Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor posthumously to Bayard
Rustin. Naegle accepted the award on Rustin's behalf stating "Being
black, being homosexual, being a political radical, that’s a combination
that’s pretty volatile and it comes along like Halley’s Comet. Bayard’s
life was complex, but at the same time I think it makes it a lot more
interesting." We talked to Naegle about what Bayard was really like, how
they met, the importance of Rustin’s work and his spin on our LGBT
issues.
When asked what his personal commitment is to LGBT civil rights Naegle
stated, “My personal commitment is to be who I am as an LGBT person and
more broadly a human being to support LGBT equality and issues whenever I
can, which nowadays is very often speaking at colleges and community
centers and libraries and lifting up the fact that Bayard was a very
important leader in the civil and human rights movement who happened to
be LGBT and lived during a time when these kinds of things weren’t
discussed. And yet he was able to live fairly openly as a gay man. He
paid the price for it but actions that were taken to try and quiet him
never really succeeded. He rose above all that stuff and was able to
make a significant contribution to the democratization of our society as
a whole, so that is really the reason why a lot of younger LGBT folks
kind of lift him up now as an inspiration and as a hero. I guess my
commitment would be to sort of continue promoting his legacy and his
values and to live as an integrated person myself.”
Beyond being Bayard Rustin's partner for the last decade of Rustin's
life, Naegle has served as Rustin's executor and archivist and is the
Executive Director of the Bayard Rustin Fund, which promotes Rustin's
legacy and values. “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of
Bayard Rustin” showcases the extraordinary career of this black gay
civil rights pioneer. Spanning five decades the book combines classic
texts from Bayard Rustin ranging in topic from Gandhi’s impact on
African Americans, white supremacists in Congress, the antiwar movement
and the assassination of Malcolm X, with never-before published
selections on the call for gay rights, Louis Farrakhan, affirmative
action, AIDS and women’s rights. Also included in the book are
twenty-five photos from the Rustin estate with a Foreword by Barack
Obama and Afterword by
Barney Frank.
For More Info: cleispress.com
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Feb 12, 2015
Feb 12, 2015
8 min
Shahid Manning, Founder and Executive Director
of Millennia Scope Entertainment Foundation talks about their upcoming gala
for the LGBT entertainment community with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. The first annual Millennia Scope
Gala is a post Oscar ceremony celebration event honoring the best,
brightest and emerging LGBT talent shaping entertainment in Hollywood
and takes place on Sunday February 22nd at Los Globos in Los Angeles,
California. During this unprecedented fabulous event Millennia Scope
will acknowledge the contributions of significant players whose creative
work raises awareness and rewrites a modern image of our LGBT community
in the world of entertainment and well beyond. Honorees include Martin
Gero, Creator “LA Complex” (CW), Ben Cory Jones, Creator and Writer
“Bro’s” (HBO), Producer Toni Newman “Heart of A Woman” and Actor Jeffrey
Tambor, “Transparent” (Amazon Prime). We talked to Shahid about making
the Millennia Scope Gala an annual event and his spin on our LGBT
issues.
When asked what his personal commitment is to LGBT civil rights Manning
stated, “I’m a gay black man. I am 100% committed to it. My mother
taught me in the seventies that ‘it doesn’t matter what other people
think, it matters what you think of yourself. I love you for who you
are.’ So that’s just who I am and of course as a member of the LGBT
community I firmly believe we should have the same rights as any other
citizen in this country. I am actually proud that we have more states
than not who have equal marriage rights and that’s the way it should be.
Equality, equality, equality, that’s what this country is suppose to be
about anyway.”
Shahid Manning is a graduate of Howard University’s theatre and business
schools. A former corporate executive, Manning moved from New York to
Southern California to become an active participant in the theatre and
film community in Los Angeles. He has worked in a number of capacities
within the entertainment industry uniquely promoting LGBT media and
film. In 2009 Manning launched Millennia Scope Entertainment Foundation a
501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports independent filmmakers
of LGBT visual media. Millennia Scope is dedicated to fostering the
careers of a community of artists traditionally underserved and
underrepresented in mainstream media, who embody diversity, innovation,
uniqueness of vision and the next generation of talented filmmakers.
Their important fundraising event DIVERSIFYING HOLLYWOOD:
1st Annual Millennia Scope Oscar Gala takes place February 22nd in LA.
For More Info & Gala Tix: msefoundation.org
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Feb 4, 2015
Feb 4, 2015
11 min
Bryan Bishop, Founder and Executive Director
of OUTVETS, the
first LGBTQ nonpartisan, nonpolitical veterans organization in the
nation. OUTVETS mission is to recognize and honor the contributions and
sacrifices of LGBTQ veterans through social interaction and community
service talks with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. Last December OUTVETS made LGBT history when the South Boston
Allied War Veterans Council (AWVC) voted 5-4 in favor of allowing this
LGBT veterans organization to march in South Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day
Parade next month. Since 1995 when the U.S. Supreme Court voted
unanimously to not allow LGBT groups to march via freedom of speech for
the AWVC the parade has been boycotted by Massachusetts politicians.
Whether other LGBT organization will be permitted to march is doubtful.
AWVC’s decision to allow OUTVETS to participate was because of OUTVETS
nonpolitical agenda and after OUTVETS’ historic appearance as the first
LGBT group to march in Boston’s Veterans Day Parade last November. We
talked to Bryan about the controversy surrounding the upcoming St.
Patrick’s Day Parade and his spin on our LGBT issues.
When asked what his personal commitment is to LGBT civil rights Bishop
stated, “Every person in this country deserves to be treated fairly and
equally. Now to say that yeah yeah yeah, but does it ever happen? I do
everything in my power to ensure that I treat everyone with dignity and
respect and equally as the best I can. I mean I come from North
Carolina. I come from a place where there is no equality, racially,
socioeconomically, you know whether you’re gay or straight it doesn’t
matter. I mean the bigots run wild down there. But living here (Boston)
for the last 25 years I’ve moved beyond that and I think that my
commitment to LGBT civil rights is the fact that we just keep going.
We’ve won some major, major battles but we haven’t won the war. I think
that struggle is something that we continue to do everyday but as I said
before I don’t have a political pull in that. My commitment to LGBT
civil rights is that LGBT veterans are honored for the service they gave
to this country and nothing more, nothing less. I don’t get into the
activism side of it other than that one agenda and that is to honor the
service and sacrifice of LGBT veterans and all veterans, but that’s
where I draw the line.”
Bryan Bishop retired from the US Air Force after twenty years of
service. He now serves as Chief of Staff of the Boston Department of
Veteran Service. OUTVETS is currently working on establishing OUTVETS
chapters in all 50 states by the end of 2016 and
making September 20th the day “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” was repealed as
LGBT Veteran Freedom Day.
For More Info: outvetsamerica.org
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Jan 27, 2015
Jan 27, 2015
11 min
Actor Michael Urie (Ugly Betty, Buyer &
Cellar, Partners) talks about directing his new comedy web series “What’s Your
Emergency” on Stage17 with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. Stage17 is the digital platform
that’s bridging the gap between traditional theatre and new media.
“What’s Your Emergency” created by and starring Ryan Spahn and Halley
Feiffer features a cast of Broadway veterans including Sierra Boggess,
Debra and Reed Birney for six episodes. Taking place in Hell, Michigan,
the show chronicles the misadventures of the inept rescue workers of the
town’s 911call center. The show also features a slew of guest stars
including Urie’s Ugly Betty costar America Ferrera, Alan Cumming, Lynn
Cohen, Richard Kind, David Krumholtz, and Mike Sorrentino. We talked to
Michael about what he hopes to accomplish with this new comedy series
and his spin on our LGBT issues.
When asked what his personal commitment is to LGBT civil rights Urie
stated, “ I feel as an actor we have a responsibility to entertain first
and foremost but I also feel like being in the public eye and putting
work out there for public consumption, we also have a responsibility for
artists as activists or activists as artists. I feel strongly that it’s
important to show good role models in the LGBTQ community and not to
avoid characters. When people first started to know who I was doing Ugly
Betty, I was told by industry insiders not to take another gay
character because the character I played was openly gay and also
specifically that character was very campy, very fashionable, also very
bitchy. I think people were afraid I’d be pigeonholed by playing gay
characters but I haven’t shied away from playing gay characters and I
also have gotten to play a wide variety of gay characters since then.
I’m so proud that Matt Bomer just won a Golden Globe for The Normal
Heart, a gay man playing a gay man. That’s very rare. I mean straight
actors get awards for playing gay characters all the time but you don’t
often see gay actors playing gay characters, at least you don’t see them
in the mainstream and up on stage accepting awards. So that was a
pretty proud moment for me when I saw Matt up there accepting that
award. I think it was a huge step. I want to keep working towards things
like that. I want to see the community continue to strive. We keep
adding letters to LGBTQ, hopefully someday it won’t matter what letter
we are. We’ll all just be people.”
Michael Urie recently finished a successful Off-Broadway run and
national tour of Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar for which he
received the Drama Desk Award, Clarence Derwent Award and Lucille Lortel
Award for Outstanding Solo Show, as well as nominations for Drama
League and Outer Critics Circle Awards. He’s taking his one-man show
Buyer & Cellar to London in March to perform as part of the 10th
anniversary season of the Menier Chocolate Factory from March 12th to
May 2nd. “What’s Your Emergency” is on Stage17.
For More Info: stage17.tv
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Jan 20, 2015
Jan 20, 2015
12 min
Cheryl Osimo Executive Director of the
Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition talks about their premier fundraising
event that takes place in Boston on January 24th with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. The Massachusetts
Breast Cancer Coalition (MBCC) is the only breast cancer non-profit
working closely with a research organization (Silent Spring Institute)
to investigate preventable, environmental causes of the disease. This
work is funded through annual fundraising events like the upcoming
Lesbians & Friends Dance: A Party for Prevention. On Saturday
January 24th for the 17th year, hundreds of women will come together for
an evening of celebration and hope for a future free of breast cancer.
We talked to Cheryl about working to lower the national statistic that
ONE in EIGHT women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime and her
spin on our LGBT issues.
When asked about her involvement with our LGBT community Osimo stated,
“My personal involvement has been one where many and most of my friends
and my extended family are lesbian women. The Massachusetts Breast
Cancer Coalition was founded by lesbian women and I have worked hand in
hand with them on different issues throughout the years and have been
very proud to learn from them and to help in ways they’ve guided me to
help. I support full and equal rights for everyone. I believe in the
legislative piece of gay marriage ruled by the Supreme Court. I believe
all rights accorded to heterosexual married people will be accorded to
married gay couples. We need to work together hand in hand to make sure
we do all we can to change the world for future generations. The
Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition is doing all we can to prevent
this disease and we need to make sure that all of us who are working on a
single issue branch out to help one another to work together on any and
all issues that need attention... So I’m hoping in the new year that
people are going to volunteer time to support those organizations that
need help.”
Cheryl Osimo has been a devoted breast cancer activist and advocate
since 1991 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 41.
She has been a catalyst in raising public awareness of the possible
environmental links to breast cancer. Her commitment to breast cancer
prevention and awareness will benefit women worldwide.The 17th annual
Lesbians & Friends Dance: A Party for Prevention takes place on
Saturday January 24th from 8:30P to12:30A at the Brookline-Boston
Holiday Inn located at 1200 Beacon Street in Brookline, MA. Their goal
is to raise at least $7000. Music will be provided by DJ Jodi. The event
is sponsored by Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation, Fenway Health, Lisa
J. Drapkin & Debbie Lewis, Wade Horowitz LaPointe LLP, Sue Wilson,
Esq & Founder, Hy-Line Cruises, Kauffman Crozier LLP, Geri Davis,
The Davis Group, Neiman & Associates Financial Services, LLC, Debra
Neiman, CFP, Diane Neumann & Associates, Liz Nania OUT to Dance, Meg
Steere, Wilson, Marino & Bonnevie, PC. Advance tickets are $40 and
$45 at door and volunteers are needed for this important fundraising
event.
For More Info: mbcc.org
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