CNN New Day, CNBC, Good Morning America, Despierta América, TODAY kick off Spirit Day 2018 and bring support for LGBTQ youth to TVs everywhere

CNN New Day, CNBC, Good Morning America, Despierta América, TODAY kick off Spirit Day 2018 and bring support for LGBTQ youth to TVs everywhere

Spirit Day 2018 has started and the biggest morning news hosts and anchors are wearing purple on-air to support LGBTQ youth!

CNBC kicked off Spirit Day with anchors in Asia proudly sporting purple.

We stand against bullying #spiritday #wearpurple @cnbcinternational @MartinSoong #standagainstbullying #choosekindness #lovemycnbcbuddies pic.twitter.com/LGqk5rwrqG

— Oriel Morrison (@Oriel_Morrison) October 18, 2018

.@GMA goes purple for #SpiritDay to support LGBTQ youth! pic.twitter.com/SMPenYcmTQ

— GLAAD (@glaad) October 18, 2018

Hosts of Good Morning America, CNN New Day, CNBC Squawk Box, Despierta América, Good Day New York, Live with Kelly and Ryan, and more were all in purple today and confirmed participation with GLAAD:

Let’s go Purple! Proud to be wearing #Purple for #SpiritDay – together we can take a stand against bullying and show solidarity with LGBT community @adamsreed @CNBCJulianna @CNBCi @cnbcipr pic.twitter.com/sDuhBwWWaa

— Joumanna Bercetche (@CNBCJou) October 18, 2018

Follow #SpiritDay and @GLAAD all day to see which media, celebrities, athletes, and landmarks join in Spirit Day, the most visible anti-LGBTQ bullying campaign.

October 18, 2018

www.glaad.org/blog/cnn-new-day-cnbc-good-morning-america-despierta-am%C3%A9rica-today-kick-spirit-day-2018-and-bring

HRC Endorses Ilhan Omar for United States Congress (MN-05)

HRC Endorses Ilhan Omar for United States Congress (MN-05)

HRC announced its endorsement of Minnesota State Rep. Ilhan Omar for U.S. House in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District.

“State Rep. Ilhan Omar is a proven leader who will stand up for Minnesota’s working families in Congress,” said HRC Senior Vice President for Policy and Political Affairs JoDee Winterhof. “In the Minnesota State Legislature, she has worked to advance fairness and equality, and she is the clear choice for Minnesotans. HRC is proud to endorse her bid to represent the people of Minnesota’s 5th District in Congress, and we look forward to mobilizing our thousands of members and supporters across the district to turn out for equality on November 6th.”

“I am honored to be endorsed by the Human Right Campaign,” said Rep. Omar. “I will fight for LGBTQIA+ rights in Washington D.C., and together, we will raise our voices against those who seek to divide us with hate and bigotry.”

As Assistant Minority Leader in the Minnesota House, Omar has worked hard to champion the equal rights and dignity of all Minnesotans. She is a strong supporter of marriage equality and the Equality Act, landmark federal legislation that would provide the same basic nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people as other protected groups under federal law. She is also committed to addressing the epidemic of homelessness facing LGBTQ youth, and fighting against efforts to undermine LGBTQ equality under the guise of religious liberty.

In Minnesota, HRC has identified more than 750,000 voters as likely “Equality Voters,” meaning they are strong supporters of progressive LGBTQ policies including marriage equality, equitable family law, and laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Last year, HRC announced a coast-to-coast campaign to mobilize voters for the midterm elections called HRC Rising, which represents the largest grassroots expansion in the organization’s 38-year history.

Paid for by Human Rights Campaign PAC (www.hrc.org) and authorized by Ilhan for Congress.

www.hrc.org/blog/hrc-endorses-ilhan-omar-for-united-states-congress-mn-05?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed

Stockard Channing and Glenn Close Make Magic of Maternal Strife Off-Broadway: REVIEW

Stockard Channing and Glenn Close Make Magic of Maternal Strife Off-Broadway: REVIEW

‘Apologia’ at Roundabout Theatre Company

A shift in perspective makes a world of difference. Where and how we choose to look can radically alter how we make sense of ourselves and everything else. That’s the sweeping scope of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s intimate drama Apologia, titled after the memoir of its central character, an art historian played with cunning grace by Stockard Channing. Downtown, Jane Anderson performs a different pivot in her new play Mother of the Maid, turning our historical attention to Joan of Arc’s family life, and particularly her mom, played with ramrod forbearance by Glenn Close.

That each of these plays provide such venerable stars with plum roles into which to sink their teeth is a delightful bonus, no doubt (and likely why the plays have arrived in New York in the first place). But it’s in aligning our point of view with that of sharp, extraordinary women, wise in more than just years, that the plays succeed in disrupting how we look at history and our own place in the world.

‘Apologia’

Early on in Apologia, a Roundabout Theatre Company production that opened off-Broadway October 16, Channing’s character reins in her patience to explain how Giotto revolutionized Western religion. He helped spread faith to the masses by allowing viewers to see themselves reflected in his grittier paintings of Christian idols. The scholar’s son (Hugh Dancy) has brought an American girlfriend (Talene Monahon) home to the English countryside to meet mom, a proud and somewhat cynical U.S. expat herself.

‘Apologia’

Her defense of the Gothic artist, in response to an inane question by a new girlfriend, distills the insightful thrust of Campbell’s elegant and deceptively simple play. Everyone has their own concept of value — be it based on money and fame, or on faith, intellect, or artistic achievement. It’s different for every character on stage as it is for each member of the audience. Our individual conceptions of value reflexively dictate how we measure our own — drama is born in the discrepancies.

‘Mother of the Maid’ at The Public Theater

Anderson’s view of 15th-century France focuses on the Arc family’s more earthly values, rather than the divine crusade of its ‘Maid’, Joan. Primarily known for her screen work (most recently The Wife, also starring Close), Anderson renders an epic figure on an intimate canvas in this off-Broadway production that opened tonight at the Public Theater. Before her visions of Saint Catherine led her into battle against the English, we find this Joan (Grace Van Patten) picking burrs out of wool with her Ma (Close), in a dialect that more closely resembles the rural American West than the North of France.

‘Mother of the Maid’

Joan has been no stranger to New York stages recently; a revival of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan went up this spring, and a disastrous musical from David Byrne also bowed at the Public last year. By assuming the perspective of Joan’s mother and grounding the story in more mundane realities, Anderson makes Joan’s journey seem all the more remarkable, though the most sensational moments take place off stage. It is perhaps easier to sympathize with a mother’s pride and agony witnessing her child’s rise and fall than it is put ourselves in Joan’s shoes. Not surprisingly, Close has no trouble galvanizing the story around her character’s perspective with a striking performance. Five hundred years on, there’s little new to discover about Joan’s story but to see it as a human one.

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