Pridelets for May 1

Pridelets for May 1
On this day in 2001, a federal judge dismisses the case of Dr. J.
Barrett Hyman vs. Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky ... over a
city ordinance "that would have requiring him to hire openly homosexual
individuals in violation of his religious beliefs." Says Jeff Vessels,
the Kentucky state executive director of the ACLU, the decision makes it
clear that personal religious beliefs do not exempt someone from civil
rights laws. Dr. Hyman, says that the dismissal (of his frivolous
lawsuit) is "a sad day for Christians and most people who believe in the
Bible."

BIRTHGAYS (and the occasional straights)
* 1834 - Mathematician James Mills Pierce
* 1852 - Cowgirl Martha Cannary, better known to most as Ms. Calamity
Jane
* 1855 - Novelist Marie Corelli
* 1874 - Painter Romaine Brooks (formerly Beatrice Romaine Goddard)
* 1943 - Gay rights activist Ian Campbell Dunn
* 1951 - Playwright Craig Lucas
* 1980 - Polish poet, writer, translator and painter Jacek Dehnel

Q.UOTE
"I'm interested in grownups struggling to make their lives better.
I'm certainly not interested in seeing situations that I've already seen
on TV shows." -- Craig Lucas

THE BEDSIDE TABLE
"The Dying Gaul and Other Screenplays" by Craig Lucas by Craig Lucas
and Steven Drukman
http://tinyurl.com/4zol94
Craig Lucas is a premier American dramatist and now a major film
director. These are his scripts for "The Dying Gaul," "The Secret Lives
of Dentists," and "Longtime Companion"-which The New York Times called
"the truest fictional screen chronicle of the advent of AIDS."
Commentary by Lucas and luminaries such as Mary-Louise Parker and
Alan Rudolph provide further insight into Lucas's work.