August 13th 2021 Queer Voices

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LGBTQ Life in El Paso TX -- “Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters". co-creator

We speak with the executive director of the Borderland Rainbow Center about the LGBTQ life in far West Texas. In October of 2015, Dr. Brenda Risch began co-facilitating a support group for the families of transgender youth. When she realized the hosting agency was going to close its doors, she was motivated to develop more resources for LGBTQ people and their families. She launched an LGBTQ Community Needs Assessment to find out what form these resources should take. The findings showed that almost no needs of the LGBTQ+ community were being met. Therefore, she formed a coalition of interested people and launched a campaign to found the Borderland Rainbow Center (BRC). We will speak about the work she does to help the community in El Paso.

GUEST: Dr. Brenda Risch
https://www.borderlandrainbow.org/

We speak with Rosalynde LeBlanc about the work, “Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters". In 1989, after a series of devastating personal and professional losses, legendary dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones turned his grief into what would become one of his greatest artistic achievements: the ballet “D-Man in the Waters.” The process by which Jones and his company crafted the ballet, including the pain that fueled it, take center stage in Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz’s remarkable documentary, “Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters,". Rosalynde is interviewed about how this work was created.

GUEST: Rosalynde LeBlanc
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/06/can-you-bring-it-trailer-bill-t-jones-ballet-1234646698/?fbclid=IwAR0xGQPUQAwl3HmehJC83XeatDVFn34o_lrZaE77H1uZ-95MSK3Un0gnpW4

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