I knew (and know) that the LGBTQ+ community has been discriminated against and treated immorally for the whole of this country’s existence but I was depressed and upset learning all this. I was heartened however, by the vigilance of the drag queens and assembled queer people outside of the Stonewall Inn that night. Having been pushed too far by the police, and after years of abuse and slander, they fought back against their tormentors. I was inspired by the audacity of the resistance mounted at Stonewall and felt like it was a story worth commemorating with the sort of “topical” folk song that would have been popular in Greenwich Village in 1969. However, I was concerned with co-opting the undeniably queer narrative with my inherently straight perspective. To account for this, the story is told by an omniscient narrator with a bird’s eye view of the action. What the narrator sees is a burgeoning police state operating without conscience or remorse, and a community tired of being oppressed and ready to fight back.”
8/23 – Washington, DC – The Black Cat *
8/24 – Raleigh, NC – King’s *
8/25 – Richmond, VA – Strange Matter *
8/26 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer *
8/31 – Boston, MA – The Sinclair * ~
9/1 – Montreal, QC – La Vitrola ~
9/2 – Toronto, ON – The Horseshoe ~
9/3 – Detroit, MI – UFO Factory ~
9/4 – Cleveland, OH – Now That’s Class ~
9/5 – Buffalo, NY – Mohawk Place ~
9/11 – Pittsburgh, PA – Cattivo #
9/12 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups #
9/13 – Louisville, KY – Kaiju #
9/14 – Bloomington, IN – The Bishop #
9/15 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall #
9/16 – Madison, WI – The Frequency #
9/17 – St Louis, MO – RKDE
9/18 – Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck
9/19 – Omaha,NE – Reverb Lounge
9/20 – Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock
9/21 – Fargo, ND – The Aquarium
9/25 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theater ^
9/26 – Seattle, WA – Chop Suey ^
9/27 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater ^
9/29 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel ^
9/30 – Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club ^
10/2 – San Diego,CA – Soda Bar ^
10/3 – Los Angeles, CA – Hi Hat ^
10/4 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo ^
10/5 – Phoenix, AZ – Rebel Lounge ^
10/6 – Albuquerque, NM – Sister ^
10/7 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge ^
10/9 – Oklahoma City, OK – 89th Street – OKC ^
10/10 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada ^
10/11 – Austin, TX – Barracuda ^
10/12 – San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger ^
10/13 – Houston, TX – Walter’s ^
10/14 – New Orleans, LA – Siberia ^
10/15 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn ^
10/16 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade ^
10/18 – Asheville, NC – The Mothlight ^
10/19 – Charlottesville, VA – The Southern ^! w/ Royal Headache
* w/ Haram
~ w/ Lost Balloons
# w/ Flesh World
^ w/ Tony Molina
Photo by Marie Lin
