TREVOR NEW YORK SUMMER GALA

Special Performance by Multi-platinum, Grammy®-nominated Singer and Songwriter, Jewel -

 
WHAT:               Ninth Annual Trevor New York Summer Gala
WHEN:               Monday, June 29, 2009                                                WHERE:            Capitale 130 Bowery St.

Guest Arrivals, Hosted Bar & Silent Auction: 6:00p.m.  New York, NY 10013

VIP Dinner & Show: 7:30p.m.                                                                            
Titanium Celebrity After Party: 10:00 – 11:30p.m. 

WHO: Celebrity guests Dustin Lance Black, Soledad O’Brien, Lance Bass, Cheyenne Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Mark Consuelos, Carson Kressley, Judy Gold, Meghan McCain and more. Special performance by Jewel.

Please join us for an evening of comedy, musical performances and special honorees. Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and leading news network CNN are set to be honored at the ninth annual Trevor New York gala on June 29 at Capitale in New York City. Event proceeds benefit The Trevor Project, the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.

“Dustin Lance Black and CNN serve as inspirations to LGBTQ youth, and have set important precedents for their colleagues by showcasing diversity and promoting inclusivity,” said Charles Robbins, executive director and CEO, The Trevor Project. “Both recipients are more than deserving of these distinctions and we couldn’t be happier to present them with these honors.” 

ABOUT TREVOR: The Trevor Project is the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention   efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth. Every day, The Trevor Project saves young lives through its free and confidential helpline, in-school workshops, educational materials, online resources and advocacy. The organization was founded in 1998 by three filmmakers whose film, “Trevor,” a comedy/drama about a gay teenager who attempts suicide, received the 1994 Academy Award® for Best Short Film (Live Action). For more information, visit TheTrevorProject.org.

Trevor New York annually brings together top entertainers and supporters of The Trevor Project for an evening of comedy, musical performances and special honorees. The event helps raise the financial resources necessary to fund The Trevor Project’s programs including its free and confidential helpline, in-school workshops, community outreach and educational resources.

www.thetrevorproject.org

Dig My Mood

After going on my traditional California holiday trek with my better half to the beaches of Monterey and down our favorite drive through Big Sur on the Pacific Coast Highway and down to Hearst Castle and Pismo Beach, I’ve embraced the new year.

Carlene Carter, John Wesley Harding, Nick Lowe, and Robyn Hitchcock made our drive down Route One all the better. Nouvelle Vague is still my favorite band, and I’ve rediscovered Joe Strummer for the millionth time, this time via the cool soundtrack to Julien Temple’s "The Future is Unwritten."

I’ve also been digging Jaco Pastorius, and still can’t get enough of Miles Davis, Grant Green, Tal Farlow, Joe Pass, Larry Coryell, Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Bruno and Barney Kessel.

I’ve heard secondhand that Sean Penn will head the Jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival--cool.

I’m in the market for a couple of back-up videographers with Panasonic P2 cameras for my video blog and am preparing to add my Film Editor title to a couple of international and national publications.

All in all, I’m just as angry, happy and inspired as I’ve ever been. The promise of an OFCS book, for which I’m writing essays on "1900" and "Come and See," has me scratching notes on napkins just like my longtime writer friend Charles McQuigan used to do down at the Dobbs House on Grace street in Richmond, Virginia.

John Edwards has all my support for the Democratic nomination and to be the first President in my lifetime, other than JFK, that I believe in. When the neocons steal the election in ‘08, Edwards strikes me as a man who will not back down the way Gore and Kerry did. Democracy and freedom might be gone, but we can reclaim them.

Ted Rall's Pledge for American Renewal

Visit Ted Rall’s site at:

http://www.rall.com/rants.html

to read his terrific column about how you can help restore democracy to the country that needs it most: America.

Write (an actual letter, not email) to your favorite presidential candidate and declare that you are a single-issue voter. Swear that, if he or she agrees to sign the following Pledge, your vote is assured. If not, promise to stay home or vote for someone else.

Pledge for American Renewal

"I, ______________, hereby solemnly pledge that my first act upon assuming the office of President shall be to sign an American Renewal Act of 2009, which shall declare all laws, regulations, executive orders, treaties and actions undertaken by the federal government during the illegitimate and unlawful administration of George W. Bush to be null, void and without effect."

Damn good stuff.