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QUEER CULTURE

Program 07-01-07-A

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SEGMENT 1:

Performance artist Tim Miller focuses on dimensions of his life as a gay man in his work. His latest piece is called "Us" and is about the difficulty he faces making a permanent life in the Unites States with his Australian - born life partner. Miller talks with Steve Paulson and performs excerpts from his show.

SEGMENT 2:

Nicola Griffith was born in England, is a lesbian and has MS. She's also a writer, whose character Aud, the deep-minded has starred in several mysteries. Griffith tells Jim Fleming where Aud came from and how she has used her own experience with martial arts and her sexuality in creating Aud's world. And we hear readings from "Stay," one of the Aud stories. Also, historian and author Graham Robb tells Steve Paulson that there was a great deal of tolerance for homosexuals in the 19h century, as long as they were discreet. It was not accepted to be publicly gay. Robb's book is "Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century."

SEGMENT 3:

Kevin Jennings grew up gay in the South as the son of a fundamentalist preacher. He later founded GLSEN, advocacy group for gay and lesbian students. Jennings talks with Anne Strainchamps about his memoir, "Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son."

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Books:

Nicola Griffith, Stay (Vintage)
Tim Miller, Edited by Glen Johnson, 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Wisconsin)
Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century (Norton)
Kevin Jennings, Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir of Becoming a Man (Beacon)

Websites:

• Nicola Griffith
  http://www.nicolagriffith.com/
• Kevin Jennings
  http://www.kevinjennings.com/blog/welcome/
• Tim Miller
  http://hometown.aol.com/millertale/timmiller.html

Music:

• -Waltz #1/ Elliot Smith/ Home to Oblivion: An Elliot Smith Tribute by Christopher O’ Riley/ World Village
• -The Bright Lady/ DeClan Masterson/ Lament/ Carol
• -Everywhere You Turn/ The Bad Plus/ These are the Vistas/ Columbia records
• -Slight Rhapsody/ BJ Cole/ Transparent Music/ Hannnibal
• -Dirty Blonde/ The Bad Plus/ Give/ Sony
  
  

Distribution dates: week of 09/23/2007 - hour 1 week of 01/07/2007 - hour 1

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