Gailey Road Audio

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Welcome to Gailey Road Audio. Gailey Road is a place where “research meets theatre and theatre meets research”. Gailey Road Audio produces the podcast Gender. Sexuality. School. and has begun producing audio-plays and an audio-book. Our first audio-play Out at School (2021) was created from excerpts from interviews undertaken with 37 LGBTQ families about their experiences in Ontario schools between 2014 and 2020. Our second audio-play, The Love Booth and Six Companion Plays (2023) is a set of seven short plays about queer and trans activism and care in the 1970s and early 1980s. Our audio-book Home of Her Heart will be available in the summer of 2024.

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The Love Booth and Six Companion Plays: Introduction-Love Booth and Six Companion Plays

Sep 21 2023 1 mins

Narrator: Playwright Tara GoldsteinDirector: Jenny SalisburyMusician: Kael ReidOur FundersSocial Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

The Love Booth and Six Companion Plays: - The Love Booth

Sep 21 2023 40 mins

Narrator: Playwright Tara GoldsteinDirector: Jenny SalisburyBarbara Gittings: Moynan KingKay Tobin Lahusen: Mary Ellen MacLeanDr. Anonymous: Ty WalklandMusician, singer: Kael ReidOur FundersSocial Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

The Love Booth and Six Companion Plays: Play 1 - Chisholm and the Advance Men

Sep 21 2023 7 mins

Narrator: Playwright Tara GoldsteinDirector: Jenny SalisburyShirley Chisholm: Lashae WatsonThe Advance Men: Ryan Singh, Ty WalklandMusician, singer: Kael ReidOur FundersSocial Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

The Love Booth and Six Companion Plays: Play 2 - The Great Sero-Positive Seder

Sep 21 2023 17 mins

Narrator: Playwright Tara GoldsteinDirector: Jenny SalisburyBeverley Rotter: Beth Anne ColeIris De La Cruz: Neta RoseMusician, singer: Kael ReidOur FundersSocial Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

The Love Booth and Six Companion Plays: Play 3 - Lies in the Library

Sep 21 2023 7 mins

Narrator: Playwright Tara GoldsteinDirector: Jenny SalisburyMusician, singer: Kael ReidBarbara Gittings: Moynan King Our FundersSocial Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

The Love Booth and Six Companion Plays: Play 4 - Press of Our Own

Sep 21 2023 7 mins

Narrator: Playwright Tara GoldsteinDirector: Jenny SalisburyAudre Lorde: Sashoya SimpsonBarbara Smith: Sierra HaynesMusician, singer: Kael ReidOur FundersSocial Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

The Love Booth and Six Companion Plays: Play 5 - I Walk in the History of My People

Sep 21 2023 7 mins

Writing contributions from Jenny Salisbury, Alec ButlerNarrator: Playwright Tara GoldsteinDirector: Jenny SalisburyChrystos: Alec ButlerLeanne Simpson: Nicole-Joy FraserDrummers: Alec Butler, Don KerrMusician: Kael ReidOur FundersSocial Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiati

The Love Booth and Six Companion Plays: Play 6 - Star House

Sep 21 2023 13 mins

Narrator: Playwright Tara GoldsteinDirector: Jenny SalisburyCheslea Goodwin: Savannah BurtonSylvia Rivera: Rosalind GoodwinMusician, singer: Kael ReidOur FundersSocial Science and Humanities Research Council Connections GrantJackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of TorontoNew College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Coming Soon: The Love Booth and Six Companion Plays

May 12 2022 8 mins

Our next project, The Love Booth and Other Plays is a set of seven short plays that share stories of queer lives and queer activism and care in the 1970s and early 1980s. The title play The Love Booth tells the story of how a group of lesbian and gay activists pushed the American Psychology Association to take homosexuality off its Diagnostic Statistical Manual in 1973 so that homo

Out At School (Part 1): Pushing the Envelope (Scenes 1-7)

May 11 2022 29 mins

Part 1 of Out at School begins with a scene called “We Still Have to Fight” which introduces one of the major themes of the play: LGBTQ parents and students have to fight and advocate to make sure their families are recognized and legitimized at school. Part 1 ends with Kate Reid’s song Pushing the Envelope which speaks to the ways LGBTQ parents and students have to explain t