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Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Musician: Kael Reid Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Cheslea Goodwin: Savannah Burton Sylvia Rivera: Rosalind Goodwin Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Writing contributions from Jenny Salisbury, Alec Butler Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Chrystos: Alec Butler Leanne Simpson: Nicole-Joy Fraser Drummers: Alec Butler, Don Kerr Musician: Kael Reid Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Audre Lorde: Sashoya Simpson Barbara Smith: Sierra Haynes Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Musician, singer: Kael Reid Barbara Gittings:  Moynan King Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Beverley Rotter: Beth Anne Cole Iris De La Cruz: Neta Rose Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Shirley Chisholm: Lashae Watson The Advance Men: Ryan Singh, Ty Walkland Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Barbara Gittings: Moynan King Kay Tobin Lahusen: Mary Ellen MacLean Dr. Anonymous: Ty Walkland Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Goldstein, Tara and Friesen, Doug (Producers). (2023, Mar 1) Tara talks to Christopher Campbell about the completion of The RISE project, a research-based curriculum framework that’s been developed for teacher education around issues of gender and sexuality at school.  To read more about The RISE project go to: https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/rise/

Goldstein, Tara and Friesen, Doug (Producers). (2023, June 1). Tara talks to artist researcher Jenny Salisbury about The Love Booth and Other Plays, a verbatim theatre project that marks the 50th anniversary of the delisting of homosexuality from the American Psychological Association’s Diagnostic Statistical Manual.  To read more about The Love Booth and Other Plays Project click here: gaileyroad.com/the-love-booth-other-plays

Goldstein, Tara and Friesen, Doug (Producers). (2023, June 21). Guest host Jenny Salisbury talks to Tara Goldstein about her novel Home of Her Heart. Spanning borders from Colombia to Canada, Germany to England, the novel tells the story of a grandmother and her granddaughter, both survivors of state violence as they search for family and a place to call home.

Our next project, The Love Booth and Other Plays is a set of seven short plays that share stories of queer lives and queer activism and care in the 1970s and early 1980s.  The title play The Love Booth tells the story of how a group of lesbian and gay activists pushed the American Psychology Association to take homosexuality off its Diagnostic Statistical Manual in 1973 so that homosexuality was no longer considered an illness that needed to be cured.   Gailey Road is planning to perform The Love Booth and Other Plays (either on stage or virtually) during 2023 Toronto Pride Festival to mark the 50th anniversary of this successful moment of queer activism.  A full list of the seven plays is included at the end of this letter.  The performances will feature the work of a diverse group of White, BIPOC, and queer and trans theatre artists, many of whom have worked with Gailey Road in the past.  They will also feature the music of Kate Reid and the visual art of benjamin lee hicks.