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Review: A cat bent on vengeance makes for a darkly funny ride in Second Thought’s ‘Wink’

After being skinned and murdered, Sofie’s pet cat Wink comes back to claim one of its lives. Wink has vengeance in mind with Gregor, Sofie’s husband, as its target for skinning him. This is the premise of queer playwright Jen Silverman’s play Wink which Second Thought Theatre opened last Friday. But the dark, comic fable wasn’t about the cat as much as it was about transformation. Wink was a play that was many things: a drama, a comedy, far-fetched, intimate,...

Hate is hate

If the LGBTQ community ever hopes to win over hate, we have to be willing to speak up against hate wherever we see it Way back on May 19, police in Euless here in North Texas arrested a 42-year-old white woman named Elizabeth Wolf after she allegedly tried to grab a 6-year-old boy and then tried — again, of course, allegedly — to drown the boy’s 3-year-old sister while the children’s mother stopped to attend to the scratch Wolf inflicted on her little boy’s hand. This all happened after Wolf...

 

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ICYMI: Gay porn actor Austin Wolf was arrested on charges child pornography distribution

In a press release Friday morning, Justin Heath Smith, AKA Austin Wolf, was arrested and announced by the U.S Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The adult film actor was charged with two counts related to child pornography. Smith was charged with one count of distribution and receipt and one count of possession. Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the...

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Review: A cat bent on vengeance makes for a darkly funny ride in Second Thought’s ‘Wink’

After being skinned and murdered, Sofie’s pet cat Wink comes back to claim one of its lives. Wink has vengeance in mind with Gregor, Sofie’s husband, as its target for skinning him. This is the premise of queer playwright Jen Silverman’s play Wink which Second Thought Theatre opened last Friday. But the dark, comic fable wasn’t about the cat as much as it was about transformation. Wink was a play that was many things: a drama, a comedy, far-fetched, intimate,...

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