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"Baum is provocatively comedic."
- San Francisco Chronicle
lesbo Solo,
A BRIEF & PERSONAL History OF THE
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Written & Performed by
Terry Baum,
Slightly World-Renowned Lesbian Playwright
"BEST OF FRINGE!"
2024 San Francisco Fringe Festival
Terry Baum’s newest play, LESBO SOLO, A BRIEF & PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT, premiered at the 2024 San Francisco Fringe Festival where it delighted audiences and won “Best of Fringe.”
The play begins in 1963 when Terry Baum’s favorite high school teacher is threatened with being fired over rumors that she's a lesbian. It ends 45 years later when Terry runs into that very same teacher -- by that time an honored elder at the gay synagogue in Los Angeles. In between those two events, Terry both witnesses and creates gay history – including her noble march in the 1990 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade as the sole member of the Lesbians for Penetration contingent! (Gee, why couldn’t she find anyone to march with her!?!)
In LESBO SOLO, Terry Baum clearly shows the painful past of the gay community, how incredibly far it has come — and how much fun people have had along the way. Terry’s play is also a powerful reminder, in today's political environment, of what we stand to lose by going backwards.
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”).
DON'T MISS TERRY BAUM'S LATEST BLOG!
ONE DYKE'S THEATER
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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
