Call for Submissions: Coming Out Monologues
Last year, students and staff from the University of California, Riverside put together "The Coming Out Monologues". Loosely based on Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues", TCOM celebrates diversity of the coming out experience in the LGBTQIA community.
We took stories and narratives from a variety of LBGTQIA people and turned them into a performance piece as a breaking the silence event on The Day of Silence, which commemorates the silence faced by LGBTQIA people. The performance was such a success that we wish to make it an annual event and encourage other colleges and universities to create their own version. Several institutions have already used last year's script or created their own.
The monologues will be performed April 25th, 2008 at UC Riverside as a celebration of identity at the close of the Day of Silence. Please
see http://out.ucr.edu/events/tcom.htm for more info.
In order to encompass the true diversity and breadth of the coming out process, we are currently looking nationwide for monologues to include in this year's performance.
We have attached a call for submissions flyer. We would be most grateful if you could post this on a bulletin board or circulate it on your mailing lists. The deadline for this year's submissions is February 1st, 2008. However, we accept submissions all year long in hope of continually updating and adding to our current script.
Please contact us at coming.out.ucr@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you for your help!
Sincerely,
Cathy Cathers & Janelle Crane
Support Committee Chairs
The Coming Out Monologues 2008
University of California, Riverside
LGBT Resource Center, 951-827-2267
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you need a monologue to come out
Generaly I just blurt out "I'm gay" and that's that. I can't even bring myself to say lesbian cuz it's too long, let alone a monologue. lol
"gay: cheerful and lighthearted; merry." - The American Heritage Dictionary.
Monologues from a factual
Monologues from a factual perspective or a dramatic one? I mean, do they have to be of an actual coming out, or just something you wrote having to do with coming out?
Megan: "Cheers are supposed to be simple, make people feel good."
Graham: "Cheers make girls do stupid cartwheels. Orgasms make people feel good."
-But I'm a Cheerleader
yahoo!!
i don't have a submission to post, sorry, but i just wanted to say YAY for UC Riverside! i live in Riverside and when i read this i was so proud that they were doing this! YAY!! =)
would you like to come? it's
would you like to come? it's after day of silence
YA!!
after i read this is looked it up on your site. i'm planning on going! =)
hahaha thanks! ^-^ Hope to
hahaha thanks! ^-^
Hope to see you there and recognize you!
assuming that pic isn't fake o.0
I would guess...
that, given it is based on the Vagina Monologues, which was based on actual interviews with women around the world, they want you to tell your own coming out story in your own words, and then someone will possibly perform that as part of their event.
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Submissions can be your own
Submissions can be your own account of what happened, it can be about your coming out or related to your gay experiences.
For example, last year someone wrote stories about why they were into bondage and a straight friend's reaction to their gay friend coming out and someone coming out to their parents.
And of course....try to keep it PG since some people get offended by really vulgar images or at least I do....
if you don't want to use your real name than that's fine too, I'll have to mention/ask the scripting committee.