Special Event: When I Knew

THEATRE NEW WEST
Presents a staged reading of
WHEN I KNEW

Thursday,
September 16, 2010  /  7 - 8:15 PM
@ Station Museum of Contemporary Art 
Free Admission                           
Contact:  Joe Watts at 713-522-2204  /  Reservations (due to limited seating)
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Under the auspices of Theatre New West, Artistic Director Joe Watts announces a staged reading from the book WHEN I KNEW edited by Robert Trachtenberg. The reading will be presented at Station Museum on September 16th, in support of their current exhibition “BECAUSE WE ARE...”

When I Knew is a collection of smart, hilarious, and often poignant stories about that revelation for all gay men and women: when they first knew.  Also mixed in are tales about when parents knew and when everyone else knew, as well as laugh-out-loud coming-out stories.

“I knew in my twenties, when I kept waking up with women.”
Jenny Allard / Head softball coach, Harvard University

“I was lying on the floor of the living room, watching an episode of the Tarzan series. I kept sliding closer to the TV, sort of looking under it, trying to see under Tarzan’s loincloth.  Seven years old, go figure”.
Jeff Judd / Makeup artist

“When I first ran for public office in 1971, I was petrified someone would know I was gay.  After all, it was 1971, and at that time not a single openly gay person had ever been elected to public office anywhere in the United States.  Then one day I looked up at one of my billboards on the busiest thoroughfare in my district and I saw the word FAG spray-painted all over it.  And I thought: “Oh well...so much for the closet!”
Joel Wachs / President, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Cast:  
Steve Bullitt
Lisa Marie Daugherty
Taavi Mark
Henry Membreno