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The Love Booth and Other PlaysOur current project, The Love Booth and Other Plays is a set of seven short plays written by Tara Goldstein that share stories of a variety of queer lives and queer activism 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 homosexuality was no longer considered an illness that needed to be cured. Gailey Road is planning to perform The Love Booth and Other Plays (either on stage or online) during 2023 Toronto Pride Festival to mark the 50th anniversary of this successful moment of queer activism.
The performances will feature the work of a diverse group of BIPOC, queer, trans, QTBIPOC, white,straight, cisgender artist researchers and theatre artists, many of whom have worked with Gailey Road in the past, the music of Kate Reid and the visual art of benjamin lee hicks. Gailey Road's verbatim audio-play Out at School
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About Us
Founded in January 2007 by its Artistic Director Tara Goldstein Gailey Road is a place where “research meets theatre and theatre meets research”. In the last 15 years, Gailey Road has worked with over 65 writers and 80 theatre artists and artist researchers. Working with an intersectional lens, we are committed to fostering dialogue around issues of systematic linguistic discrimination, racism and anti-Black racism (Hong Kong, Canada [1999]; Zero Tolerance [2008]); anti-semitism (Lost Daughter [2008]); cisheteronormativity (Snakes and Ladders [2004/2009], Harriet’s House [2010], Castor and Sylvie [2018], Out at School [2019] and most recently settler colonialism (Out at School [2019]), particularly in schooling. We are also committed to promoting diverse women’s voices and LGBTQ+ voices both on and offstage (Women Writing Letters [2011-2015]; Harriet’s House [2010]; Castor and Sylvie [2018]; Out at School [2019]. Our plays have been read, performed and discussed with a wide variety of audiences in high school, university, teacher education classes and education conferences. Our plays have also been staged at The Toronto Fringe Festival, The Queer West Festival, the Toronto Pride Festival, La Festival Rosa in Bogotá, Colombia, the Toronto SummerWorks Festival, and The L Fest in Llandudno, Wales.
Our current project, The Love Booth and Other Plays is a set of seven short plays that share stories of a variety of queer lives and queer activism 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 homosexuality was no longer considered an illness that needed to be cured. Gailey Road is planning to perform The Love Booth and Other Plays (either on stage or online) during 2023 Toronto Pride Festival to mark the 50th anniversary of this successful moment of queer activism.
Our current project, The Love Booth and Other Plays is a set of seven short plays that share stories of a variety of queer lives and queer activism 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 homosexuality was no longer considered an illness that needed to be cured. Gailey Road is planning to perform The Love Booth and Other Plays (either on stage or online) during 2023 Toronto Pride Festival to mark the 50th anniversary of this successful moment of queer activism.
