Love and Stonewall Perfect Harmony Men’s Chorus Spring Concert featuring the Wisconsin premiere of “Quiet No More: A Choral Celebration of Stonewall” Friday, May 31, 2019, 7:30pm Sunday, June 2, 2019, 3:00pm Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E. Gorham St., Madison, Wisconsin. Fifty years ago this June, bar patrons and community members said “no more!” to […]
Madison Celebrates Pride Month Through a Local Storytelling Event
It was June 28th, 1969, in the early morning hours when police began a surprise raid on the Stonewall Inn in New York. But the arrests didn’t go as planned when people started to fight back, which sparked the movement for LGBT rights in America known as the Stonewall Riots. Now in June, almost 50 […]
Johannes Wallmann on celebration and struggle
Johannes Wallmann’s latest album, Love Wins, draws on a couple of pivotal moments in the jazz pianist’s personal, political, and creative life. Wallmann and his husband Keith Borden were among the people who sued the state of Wisconsin to overturn the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. That lawsuit of course succeeded, with a federal court ruling […]
Janesville “Bathroom Bill” Gives New Protections To Transgender Pe...
Janesville city council approved a new ordinance Monday establishing the right of transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity. Darien Lamen reports.
States of Desire Revisted
In the 1970’s, Edmund White traveled the country meeting members of the then-nascent Gay Liberation movement. He joins us to talk about his new literary retrospective of that era, States of Desire Revisited.
LGBT Rights
Can LGBT people be religious? Find out on this edition of A Public Affair!