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"In “Hannah Free ,” a clanking, sudsy tear-jerker about longtime lesbian lovers languishing in the same Michigan nursing home in the 1990s, Sharon Gless plays Hannah, a cantankerous resident prevented by the staff from visiting her partner, Rachel, who lies in a coma after a stroke.
But Ms. Gless, 66, is much too young and vital to be playing a character who is probably 20 years older (Hannah and Rachel were childhood friends in the 1920s, before Rachel married and had children.) Her broad, hammy portrayal of a free-spirited butch lesbian bridling against authority conveys the same punchy heartiness she brought to Debbie Novotny, the mother of a gay son in “Queer as Folk.”
The movie, directed by Wendy Jo Carlton, began life as a play by Claudia Allen, who adapted it for the screen. Scenes in which Hannah converses at length with the younger incarnation of Rachel (Ann Hagemann) make no attempt to disguise their origins on the stage.
In flashbacks, Rachel, already a widow, continually berates the younger Hannah (Kelli Strickland) for repeatedly leaving to see the world. Rachel is happy to stay in the same small Michigan town where the two women grew up amid raised eyebrows and whispers.
“Hannah Free” is what used to be called a problem play. The issues it addresses include the condescending treatment of the elderly and Christian proselytizing to the bedridden, the generational divide in attitudes toward homosexuality, the attempts of strait-laced family members to freeze out a same-sex partner at the end of life, and the final decisions for patients on life support.
An angelic rescuer appears in the person of Rachel’s great-granddaughter Greta (Jacqui Jackson), who helps Hannah defy the rules laid down by Rachel’s puritanical daughter Marge (Taylor Miller). Greta represents an enlightened younger generation for whom sexual orientation is no big deal.
HANNAH FREE
Opens on Friday in Manhattan.
Directed by Wendy Jo Carlton; written by Claudia Allen, based on her play; director of photography, Gretchen Warthen; edited by Sharon Zurek; music by Martie Marro; production designer, Rick Paul; produced by Sharon Gless, Ms. Marro, Ms. Carlton and Paul Roesch; released by Ripe Fruit Films. At the Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village. Running time: 1 hour 26 minutes. This film is not rated.
WITH: Sharon Gless (1970s-’90s Hannah), Taylor Miller (Marge), Ann Hagemann (1930s-’40s Rachel), Maureen Gallagher (1970s-’90s Rachel), Kelli Strickland (1930s-’40s Hannah) and Jacqui Jackson (Greta). "
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"A lesbian is suing Netflix amid concerns that the company did not do enough to ensure user data would remain anonymous once released and made available to the public.
movie rental company alleging Netflix made it possible for her to be "outed" by disclosing insufficiently anonymous information about nearly half-a-million customers. The information was disclosed as part of the company's bid to find a more reliable recommendation system for customers.
When Netflix released the 100 million movie ratings, along with the date of the rating the company assigned a unique ID number to the subscriber, and the movie information. However, according to Wired, two Texas University students quickly identified a number of Netflix subscribers by comparing their “anonymous” reviews in the data to ones posted on IMDb.
According to the suit, the woman believes that were her sexual orientation made public, it would negatively affect her ability to pursue her livelihood and support her family as well as hinder her and her children’s ability to live peaceful lives.
Filed in a federal court in California on Thursday, the suit alleges that Netflix violated fair-trade laws and a federal privacy law protecting video rental records. The anonymous woman is demanding $2,500 in damages for each of more than 2 million Netflix customers. "
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Canon Mary D. Glasspool
" election of a lesbian bishop in L.A
Those Angeleno Anglicans are at it again.
For decades, the Episcopal Church in Los Angeles has been home to some of the most liberal pulpits and congregations in town -- and in the worldwide Anglican Communion. A few years back, Pasadena's venerable All Saints Church was investigated by President George W. Bush's Internal Revenue Service after its former rector delivered a vehement antiwar sermon shortly before the 2004 election. Local Episcopal priests have marched for striking janitors and helped organize the poor.
So it should have come as no great surprise when the L.A. diocesan convention recently elected as its new assistant bishop the Rev. Canon Mary D. Glasspool -- the senior assistant to the bishops of the Maryland diocese, the daughter of an Episcopal priest, and an open lesbian. Her ordination must now be confirmed by the U.S. bishops, who have already been told in no uncertain terms by the Archbishop of Canterbury himself to back off.
"The election of Mary Glasspool by the Diocese of Los Angeles as suffragan bishop elect," wrote Archbishop Rowan Williams, "raises very serious questions not just for the Episcopal Church and its place in the Anglican Communion, but for the Communion as a whole."
The archbishop can hardly be blamed if he sometimes shudders at the thought of pesky American progressives. In 2003, the U.S. bishops ordained a gay bishop for their New Hampshire diocese. In 2006, they elevated the Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori to the post of presiding U.S. bishop, the first woman to head a national branch of Anglicanism -- and not just a woman but a woman who allowed the blessing of same-sex couples within her diocese.
Within months of Schori's elevation, a number of more traditionalist Episcopal dioceses around the nation announced that they were leaving the U.S. church and affiliating with more conservative dioceses -- in some cases, with African dioceses where the thought of a woman priest, let alone a gay or lesbian bishop, had yet to cross many minds.
The conservative Anglicans, chiefly in Latin America and Africa, vastly outnumber the American Episcopalians -- there are more than 80 million members of the worldwide Anglican Church, while the American Episcopal Church is home to about 2 million members, including the secessionists. And because the conservative wing has made it clear that there's no place for gay bishops and the like in its vision of Anglicanism, a formal schism is at least a possibility.
Even as the archbishop gazes in dismay at the Episco-libs to his left, a meddlesome pope has now popped up on his right. Without any advance notice to his Anglican brother, Pope Benedict XVI recently announced that the Roman Catholic Church would take to its bosom any Anglican clergy or congregations that want to affiliate with a reliably orthodox church in which the pope's word is law. The congregations could keep their liturgy; the priests (the male priests, that is), their wives.
What the archbishop is really up against is the relativism, the historic particularism, of religion itself. It is sheer folly to expect traditionalist African Anglicans and progressive Pasadena Episcopalians to adhere to the same norms of gender equality, absent either a stunning cross-cultural agreement or a top-down Roman Catholic-style structure. Conservative Episcopalians, who decry the increasing egalitarianism of the American church, want traditionalist transnational norms in every Anglican diocese.
But a common complaint of American and European conservatives against Muslims is that Islam itself is a monolithic faith unsuitable for the pluralistic West. We don't have to accept this characterization of Islam to recognize that it is close to what Anglican traditionalists are advocating for their own church.
Besides, if ever a church were rooted less in timeless truths than in historic particularities, it is Anglicanism, and the Episcopal wing of Anglicanism most of all. Anglicanism began, after all, because the pope would not sanctify Henry VIII's divorce, and Henry used the opportunity to seize the church and all its properties. Episcopalianism began when the leaders of the American Revolution (two-thirds of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were active or, like George Washington, nominal Anglicans) realized they could hardly stay religiously affiliated with a church headed by the very king against whom they were rebelling secularly.
Given the schismatic and distinctly secular nature of Anglicanism's and Episcopalianism's origins, the pending ordination of L.A.'s lesbian bishop seems well within the church tradition. A faith rooted in the denial of papal authority and kingly authority, a faith that in the United States has increasingly championed egalitarian principles, should hardly be cowed by contingent bigotries masquerading as universal truths. "
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"Just days after Houston elected the first openly lesbian mayor, Annise Parker, the Houston City Controller spoke in depth in an interview with the Advocate.
With nearly all of Houston's 738 precincts reporting, Parker had 53% of the vote and Locke 47%, Parker told supporters on Election Day, "The voters of Houston have opened the door to history." The population of the Texas city is approximately 2.2 million.
Parker, 53, took the oath of office in the nation's fourth-largest city with her partner, Kathy Hubbard, at her side and in the post-election interview with the Advocate, Mayor-elect Parker discusses gay activism and her responsibility to the LGBT community:
You've asserted that while you are now seen as a national LGBT role model, you've also been a local gay rights role model for 30 years.
Yes, I was a founding member of [an LGBT] student support group in 1979 at Rice University. I've been a state co chair of the LGBT Democrats, and I've worked with the Houston GLBT Political Caucus. In the 80s I was arguably one of the most visible gay activists in Houston.
Were you surprised by the antigay campaign against you?
No, it wasn't a surprise. Dr. Hotze was involved against the referendum [to grant benefits for same-sex partners of Houston city employees]. We had wondered when it would come. There were three pieces of mail that went out, one by Dr. Hotze. But we were surprised that highly placed individuals in my opponent's campaign were funding it. And I think Houstonians were embarrassed by it.
National groups like the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund supported your campaign, and your success is certainly one of the year's high points in gay politics. Will you take a national role in the LGBT community?
I pledged to the voters that I would not take on any national issues that did not affect the city of Houston. I appreciate the support of the Victory Fund and other organizations, and I will do anything I can to boost the fortunes of Victory candidates and to help raise the number of LGBT-elected officials. But I will do that as a private citizen.
What will you do to reverse the city referendum that denies benefits to same-sex partners of city workers?
That was part of a very hard conversation I had with LGBT supporters at the beginning of this campaign. Because domestic-partner benefits are blocked by a referendum, and because it's in our city charter, this requires another referendum to undo it. It's not something I can change; it requires a public vote. My personal opinion is, of course I'd like to see that change."
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Obscurity In Your Face - By Nancy D. Gosse
Told through the eyes of an innocent child and later through the yearning heart of a weary soul, this story captures the message of hope that nearly everyone is seeking.
