lesbo Solo,
A GAY History PLAY
Written & Performed by Terry Baum,
Slightly World-Renowned Lesbian Playwright
"BEST OF FRINGE"
2024 San Francisco Fringe Festival
"Baum is provocatively comedic." - SF Chronicle
Terry Baum, slightly world-renowned lesbian playwright, has both witnessed and made gay history. In 1970, she was there when the Lavender Menace disrupted a big feminist conference in New York City. These righteous young dykes, led by Rita Mae Brown, demanded that lesbians be allowed to take their rightful open place in the women’s movement. Baum made history herself in 1981 when she opened Dos Lesbos, A Play By, For & About Perverts, at Ollie’s Bar in Oakland. Dos Lesbos went on to inspire the first anthology of lesbian plays in the history of the universe. It also offended the Pope during World Pride 2000 in Rome. Then there’s the time she marched in the Pride Parade in a contingent so politically incorrect that no one would march with her. Baum tells these stories and more in MY GAY HISTORY PLAY.
In BaumBlog, Terry blogs about whatever grabs her, in her personal life, or in the world. It could be an obituary of Tina Turner (“Tina T & Me & the First Gay Olympics”), Affirmative Action’s positive impact on Clarence Thomas (“The Greatest Beneficiary of Affirmative Action Is....!”), a personal reflection on the Fourth of July (“And How Was Your Fourth?), or a meditation on racism (“Taking The Train While Black"). And sometimes it’s simply a photo essay on San Francisco's vibrant street art (“Mission Ramble”).
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ONE DYKE'S THEATER
by Terry Baum
Slightly world-renowned lesbian playwright
Ten plays from Terry Baum's pioneering writing on lesbian themes, encompassing 40 years of making theater. Published by EXIT Press.
"One Dyke’s Theater" a Monument to Decades of Lesbian Life and Creativity." - LA Progressive
WATCH scenes FROM TERRY BAUM'S
DIVIDE THE LIVING CHILD
In Terry Baum's award-winning play DIVIDE THE LIVING CHILD, which takes place in Amsterdam during the Nazi Occupation, Torrie van Toom, a kindly Christian spinster, has agreed to take a Jewish child into her home. But Hannah Bergman, a spirited adolescent, arrives accompanied by her mother, Miriam, who has nowhere else to go. Torrie's hopes for Hannah's conversion to Christianity clash with Miriam's deep devotion to Judaism. Hannah is torn between the two women, as she tries to find her way in her new life.
ONE DYKE'S THEATER
by Terry Baum
Slightly World-Renowned Lesbian Playwright
HOMO PROMOS PrESENTS "IMMEDIATE FAMILY"
HOMO PROMOS, London's gay theater company, proudly presents Terry Baum's groundbreaking play
lMMEDIATE FAMILY, a solo play about Virginia, a middle-aged postal worker who visits her comatose lover, Rose, in the hospital -- and confronts the legal barriers which deny her status as a member of Rose's "immediate family."
Ten plays from Terry Baum's pioneering writing on lesbian themes, encompassing 40 years of making theater. Published by Exit Press
"Best of Fringe"
"Best Box Office"
- 2019 San Francisco
Fringe Festival
HICK: A LOVE STORY
"One Dyke’s Theater’ a Monument to Decades
of Lesbian Life and Creativity." - LA Progressive
