We hope you will join us as CUNY TV’s Digital Series celebrates Pride 2019. We will explore American Theater After Stonewall with Patrick Pacheco and Donna Hanover; learn about LGBTQ+ history Before Stonewall with Jezebel Productions co-founders Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss; through Intergenerational Storytelling, look to a future of shared realities with Wesley Enos, Executive Director of The Generations Project; and lastly, share A Salute to the Parade Pride!

​​EPISODE 1 - JUNE 07, 2019
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 American Theater After Stonewall
​​Join us at Chez Josephine where Patrick Pacheco and Donna Hanover explore American Theater After Stonewall, from 1969 to the present. Donna asks Patrick about the four seminal plays he thinks helped shape American Theater – Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band, Harvey Firestein’s Torch Song, Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.
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Patrick Pacheco is a veteran journalist, commentator, and bestselling author of The American Theatre Wing, An Oral History, who writes frequently about LGBTQ+ issues.  His new show, Theater: All the Moving Parts (taped at Chez Josephine Restaurant in New York City’s famed Theater District), features in-depth interviews with artists, including directors, choreographers, writers, designers, and composers.

Donna Hanover is a correspondent for CUNY TV on shows including Arts in the City, Urban U, and Simply Science. She previously reported and anchored for WPIX-TV, Good Day New York at WNYW-TV, Food Network, and Famous Homes & Hideaways, as well as other TV stations in cities across the country. As an actress, Donna received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Ruth Carter Stapleton in The People vs. Larry Flynt.  She’s appeared in other films including Someone Like You, Keeping the Faith, and Superstar as well as in many TV shows including Odd Mom Out, Sex and the City, and Law & Order.  Donna made her Broadway debut in Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. Known for her service work as First Lady of the City of New York from 1994-2001, she continues involvement in Project A.L.S. and the fight against breast cancer. Donna’s B.A. is from Stanford University and her Master’s degree is from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.


EPISODE 2 - JUNE 14, 2019
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Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community
To celebrate Pride 2019, we invited Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss, from Jezebel Productions to the Quad Cinema Bar to discuss the re-release of their beautifully re-mastered 1984, award-winning documentary “Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community.” The film, which opens at the Quad Cinema on June 21st, for the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall, documents LGBTQ history before 1969, with photos and video of the conditions and forces that helped create a movement that is still going strong today.

Greta Schiller is an award-winning independent producer/director of documentary films. Over the first three decades of her career, her work focused on unearthing lost histories of marginalized groups and writing their experiences into the cultural narrative. For her films Before Stonewall, International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Tiny & Ruby: Hell Divin’ Women, Paris Was a Woman and The Man Who Drove with Mandela, among others, she has received two Emmy Awards, the first US/UK Fulbright Arts Fellowship in Film, Audience Awards for Best Film at numerous festivals from Berlin to Paris to Seattle, and artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. With these classic documentary films now screening in retrospectives around the world, Greta has turned her attention to films about science, society and the environment. Her current film in production, Vulture Boulevard, supported in part by a Global Fulbright Award, is intended for theatrical release and tells a tale of epic proportions set in an ecological reserve on the Spanish/Portuguese border.
 
 
Andrea Weiss is a documentary filmmaker and founder, with Greta Schiller, of Jezebel Productions.  Her newest film, Bones of Contention, premiered in the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival and went on to win several jury and audience awards on the international film festival circuit.  Her many additional film credits include the award-winning documentaries Escape to Life, Seed of Sarah, Paris Was a Woman, Before Stonewall (for which she won an Emmy Award), A Bit of Scarlet and International Sweethearts of Rhythm, among others.  A nonfiction author as well, her books include Paris Was a Woman, which won a Lambda Literary Award, Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film, and The Shadow of The Magic Mountain: The Erika And Klaus Mann Story, which won the Publishing Triangle Award for Best Nonfiction.  Her books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Korean, Swedish, Japanese, and Slovenian.  Weiss has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the U.S./Spain Fulbright Commission and the D.A.A.D. Artist Program in Berlin.  She holds a Ph.D. in American History and is Professor of Film at the City College of New York, where she co-directs the MFA Program in Film.


EPISODE 3 - JUNE 21, 2019
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Intergenerational Storytelling
Wesley Enos, Founder and Executive Director of The Generations Project, invited us to join him to discuss Intergenerational Storytelling. Wes explains that cross-generational relationships have helped him during different points in his life and that people see each other differently when they can hear a personal story. The Generations Project is working to help young and old alike to understand each other by helping each other build and share their lives in stories.

Wes Enos is the Founder and Executive Director of The Generations Project, a nonprofit based in NYC that preserves the history of the LGBTQ+ Movement through cross-generational storytelling. Coming from a small conservative town on the Oregon Coast, Wes moved to San Francisco immediately after high school and began studying Ethnic Studies and History at San Francisco State University. When arriving to NYC in 2012, Wes discovered the need to connect generations of LGBTQ+ people in order to understand our collective history that could otherwise be lost. The Generations Project formed to facilitate cross-generational storytelling workshops and film live storytelling shows to document and share LGBTQ+ history to people of all ages.


EPISODE 4 - JUNE 28, 2019
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A Salute to the Pride Parade
What began as a Riot against the police at Stonewall 50 years ago, has turned into a rebellion against homophobia, and has become a march for liberation and the International Pride Parade we know today. Join CUNY TV New Media Producer Merlin Fahey as he pays a personal tribute to the Gay Liberation March that started it all. Come celebrate 50 years of progress since 1969.

Merlin B. Fahey II, New Media Producer for Stonewall @ 50 is a retired actor who received a B.A in Theater/Art at Centenary College of Louisiana. After school and before coming to New York he toured the East Coast with the ensemble group The Everyman Players. Growing up in a military family, Merlin has traveled from Anchorage to Berlin and has experienced firsthand many of the Western World's treasures. He's the creator and producer of Merlin's People Like Me, a CUNY TV Digital Series. Since joining CUNY TV, he has won two New York Emmys working with some of the great talent creating shows for the station.