Reminder: Boys Together Clinging, A Performance by Ryan Hayes at SF... @ Tue May 17 6:30pm - 7:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » Boys Together Clinging, A Performance by Ryan Hayes at SF Main Library The James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library presents Boys Together Clinging A Performance by Ryan Hayes Tuesday, May 17 at 6:30pm SF Main Library, Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center 100 Larkin Street, 3rd Floor. Boys Together Clinging is a solo performance adapted from Walt Whitman's "Calamus" poems. This performance is a bold and innovative look at Whitman's most homoerotic and deeply personal cluster of poetry from Leaves of Grass. Boys Together Clinging, focuses on Whitman and his poems published just before the Civil War and on a Walt that might be unfamiliar: lusty, sensual, empathetic, arrogant, sensitive and at times larger than life. The personal and fiery style of Boys Together Clinging was developed to show that the dust has not settled on this great queer visionarie's work and that one can still come into contact with Whitman's raw, vulnerable, and boundless heart. Ryan Hayes has acted in both theater and film in San Francisco for over 10 years. He studied Theater and English at Evangel University and Missouri State University. Boys Together Clinging, Ryan's first solo performance, was created for the SF Fringe Festival. Ryan is a founding member of No Nude Men Productions, one of S.F.'s longest running indy theater troupes, and has appeared with them in many shows. Other theater companies Ryan has worked with include Wily West Productions and Dark Porch Theater. Ryan has written and directed for S.F. Theater Pub and the San Francisco Theater Festival. Arrive early to see before it closes: In Paths Untrodden: Walt Whitman's Calamus Poems and the Radical Faeries March 1 – May 19, 2011 San Francisco Main Library James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center, Main Library, Third Floor 2010 was the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Walt Whitman's homo-affectional-poem cluster Calamus. This exhibition, curated by Joey Cain, explores the influence Whitman and the Calamus poems had on the earliest GLBT freedom pioneers. It also traces out the social, spiritual and political roles that Whitman saw the "dear love of Comrades" playing in the ongoing creation of "America." Whitman and his poem's continuing influence on visionary Queer/Gay consciousness is explored through images and documents from the contemporary Gay men's political/spiritual movement The Radical Fairies. When Tue May 17 6:30pm – 7:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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