Author Donna Minkowitz (Yale '85)

Please join us for an All-GALA Dinner, Readings and Film Clip at People -- We have the Whole Restaurant for the event!

People serves Pan-Asian food.  We will have an hour of passed appetizers, two readings, a film clip from an upcoming documentary plus a buffet dinner.

Date: Wednesday, April 9, 6:30 - 9:00 pm.  
Passed appetizers 6:30 - 7:30 pm.
Program upstairs at 7:30 pm
Buffet dinner served downstairs about 8:30 pm, followed by coffee & light dessert

 
Program: We will have 2 readings and a film clip.  The artists will be available afterwards for questions and dinner with the group.

1. Yale GALA's own Donna Minkowitz (Yale '85) will read from her new book Growing up Golem: How I Survived My Mother, Brooklyn and Some Really Bad Dates.

2. Harvard / NYU’s Joel Derfner will read from his new book Lawfully Wedded Husband: How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family.

3. And Elegance Bratton (Columbia) will show clips from the upcoming documentary Pier Kids: the Life (early 2015 release, http://pierkidsthelife.com/ ), about 3 gay and transgendered kids who were kicked out of their homes for their sexuality and have become, like Elegance once was, homeless on Christopher Street.  Elegance was previously a photograher and filmmaker for the US Marine Corps, documenting humanitarian aid work in Southeast Asia.  


Cost: $30 in advance through PayPal, $40 cash at the door.

Includes appetizers, dinner and coffee with a light dessert.  Cash bar. 
(Princeton students with ID pay $20 at the door. FFR/Princeton BTGALA donates $10/student)

RSVP Appreciated: http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~ffr-gala/Events2014/140409NYC.html 
To prepay at the $30 discounted rate, visit

People is at 163 Allen Street, NYC.

Thanks to Shawn Cowls of FFR/Princeton BTGALA for organizing this event!
Co-hosted by Yale GALA and HGLC (Harvard's LGBT Caucus). 

More info: http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~ffr-gala/Events2014/140409NYC.html

We are very excited to have author Donna Minkowitz (Yale GALA)!  She will be reading from her memoir "Growing up Golem: How I Survived My Mother, Brooklyn and Some Really Bad Dates," which Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Terry Bisson called "rich and wild, dark and funny, fearless as her legendary journalism and as scary as a fairy tale." Minkowitz won a Lambda Literary Award for her first memoir, Ferocious Romance, about her experience covering the Christian right. A columnist on LGBT politics and culture for the Village Voice for eight years, Minkowitz has also written for the New York Times Book Review, Salon, The Advocate, and New York magazine. She once disguised herself as a sixteen-year-old right-wing evangelical boy to write about the Promise Keepers for Ms. According to director Kimberly Peirce, an article she wrote in the Village Voice was the inspiration for the movie Boys Don't Cry."