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Jeffrey Johnson, seen here as drag character Special Agent Galactica, is organizing Ganymede Art’s first gay and transgender fall arts festival. (Photo courtesy of ganymede arts)
 
 
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Ganymede GLBT Fall Arts Festival
Today through Oct. 28
Church Street Theatre
1742 Church St., NW

www.ganymedearts.org

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Celebrating the gay arts
First GLBT Fall Arts Festival features 10 days of performances

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Oct 19, 2007  |  By: KATHERINE VOLIN  | COMMENTS      Printer Friendly Version



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play to Ford’s Theatre, but they responded by saying that Ganymede might be a better venue for it.

“It perplexes me a little to be included in a gay festival, but that’s cool. If it’s a Martian festival, I’d like to be included in it,” Hopes says. Ganymede has declared its night, Tuesday, a “night of controversy.”

“It’s a little shocking to see it advertised as a night of controversy,” Hopes says.

From Johnson’s perspective, however, the nature of the play naturally engenders some eyebrow-raising.

“If Ford’s can’t do it, than it has to be controversial,” Johnson says. “There’s just some great things [in the play] … we’re just bubbling over.”

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