Kickstarter project: Bridging the Gap 2013

The relationship between older and younger LGBT community members is an important dynamic that gets lost in much of the advocacy discussion of our community.  Please take the time to watch this video and consider contributing any amount to help what I believe is a very worthy project.


Bridging the Gap is a twelve-week intergenerational LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) theater project.

During the course of twelve free workshops held at SAGE in Chelsea, LGBTQ group members will collaborate to create an original 45-minute play through improvisation reflecting the issues that matter to them. They will build theater skills, celebrate difference, challenge their assumptions about age and have fun! What could be more exciting than exploring the places where food, family (biological and chosen) and sexuality meet!

In New York City, LGBTQ people from different generations have had few opportunities to connect. This has robbed them of opportunities to weave a common history and share the strategies they have used to survive and thrive. Bridging the Gap brings these LGBTQ generations into the same room and uses theater to spark a dialogue between them.

Professional theater artists and community-based practitioners Timothy Connell, Maggie Keenan-Bolger and Sherry Teitelbaum are co-directing a devised, original theater piece exploring the LGBTQ community’s relationship with food. The piece will be created by the LGBTQ people who belong to Bridging the Gap, a free weekly intergenerational theater workshop that uses theater to spark a dialogue between different generations in New York City’s LGBTQ community. Ages in the group range from 19-88. SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) is the group’s community partner.

WHERE? The Jefferson Market Library, 425 Avenue of the Americas (at 10th Street), Greenwich Village, in the Willa Cather Great Room.

WHEN? Saturday, December 14th, 2013 at 2:00 PM.

Click here to learn more and contribute.