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LAHR with Ana Wolken, Michael Jon Carlson, Angelica Dee, Erica Spitzfaden, Lydia Weiss, Zoe Steinfield, Jen Anderson, Emily Dievendorf and Olivia Brenner at REO Town. Not pictured: Ben Schroff and Kiana Elkins.
The Lansing Association for Human Rights, known as LAHR, is one of the oldest LGBTQIA advocacy organizations in Michigan, and it is making things easier to connect by announcing an updated website. The organization's vision is simple: a Michigan that values all people. Simple, but not easy.
LAHR works towards this vision through inspired campaign, education and connection. LAHR encourages the community to join the organization in its efforts.
Now more than ever, LAHR needs group support in working towards the Michigan the corporation envisions. LAHR has updated its website with a cleaner layout that will make it easier to find the information needed to support the lives of LGBTQIA people in the community.
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IT WAS A PROFILE that John Lahr published in The Fresh Yorker that led him to this biography of Tennessee Williams—a profile of the Lady St. Just, an over-zealous friend of the playwright who, as his literary executor, was so prudish that she threw his Memoirs into the wastebasket. She felt they were too louche and, after Williams’ death, forbade a production of one of his plays because it was “too homosexual.” She even went into the library at the University of Texas and used a razor to cut out passages from Williams’ letters that she found offensive. Her attempt to sanitize the writer’s reputation came to an end only when St. Just died and scholars were once more allowed access to Williams’ papers. Now, twelve years after taking up the torch given him by Lyle Leverich—the man Williams asked to write his biography, who died with only half the employment done and asked Lahr to finish—we get Lahr’s account.
Lahr’s biography is not, like Leverich’s, a detailed chronological account. Lahr was The New Yorker’s theater critic for decades (an
(We have not discussed this in the group but I rereasd this engage in preparation for our November conference when we shall be discussing Orton&#;s diaries and this review is in a personal capacity.)
In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved Kenneth Halliwell, and while the two begin a relationship, it&#;s fairly obvious that it&#;s not all about sex. Orton loves the dangers of bath-houses and liaisons in public restrooms; Halliwell, not as charming or attractive as Orton, doesn&#;t fare so adequately in those environs. While both drawn-out to become writers, it is Orton who achieves fame &#; his plays &#;Entertaining Mr. Sloane&#; and &#;Loot&#; turn into huge hits in London of the sixties, and he&#;s even commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles.
As Orton&#;s fame skyrocketed, Halliwell never achieves much of anything and this causes friction in the relationship. The years of Orton&#;s sexual promiscuity in bathhouses, his fame, and Halliwells shortcomings reach to a brain one night for him when Orton says he wants to leave him. This pushes Halliwell over the edge an
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- 'The History Boys'
EntertainmentAir Date 05/09/
Playwright Alan Bennett and director Nicholas Hytner present their play "The History Boys." - Alan Dershowitz; Tony Nominations '98; Alan Cumming; Ron Chernow
Entertainment, Books, LawAir Date 06/02/
Dershowitz on William Ginsburg’s removal from the Lewinsky defense team. Critics on the ‘98 Tony nominations. Alan Cumming; Ron Chernow. - Tony Nominations '98
EntertainmentAir Date 06/02/
A look back at the Tony Award nominations with theater critics John Lahr and John Simon. - Frank Sinatra Tribute
EntertainmentAir Date 05/15/
Sinatra biographer John Lahr; Male lover Talese, Jonathan Schwartz, Bill Zehme, and Steve Wynn reflect on the life of the famous performer. - John Lahr
EntertainmentAir Date 05/15/
John Lahr, author of the Frank Sinatra biography, "Sinatra: The Artist and the Man," comments on Frank's passing. - John Lahr
EntertainmentAir Date 05/31/
John Lahr, theatre critic for The New Yorker,