Last Sunday April 30th 2000, at least 200,000 people convergd for the fist gay rights march on the National Mall since 1993. "we are only asking for the same rights as anyone else" "Depriving one person...puts everyone at risk" Dennis Shepard, father of Matthew Shepard, the 21 year old University of Wyoming student who died in October of 1998 after being beaten into a coma and tied to a fence, said "If my son were alive, he would be here today. Gay rights is the civil rights issue of this century"
One man working to this end is Mark Weigle. He does an
excellent job of setting scenes that bring up gut emotions before any pronouns
define the situation as gay, thus bridging the "straight"/ "gay" gap well.
Mark has tunes about coping with loss, with hatred, teenage confusion about
sexuality, and coming to terms with your inner self. He is
an excellent writer with an
emotional delivery. Weigle's music places all love and loss in focus,
helping us to accept love in all forms into the world rather
than analyze or judge it.
Mark was in the area last week and sat in my kitchen for an interview which I aired today.
This morning, NPR Commentator Daniel Shore said "I didn't think that anybody could give love a bad name" He was talking about the new "I Love You" virus that brought down machines all over the world this week, but it applies to today's show.
1. Susan Werner - Uncle John
Midwestern Saturday Night
www.susanwerner.com
2. Ellis Paul - She Loves A Girl
Translucent Soul - www.ellispaul.com
3. Mark Weigle - All That Matters
Live on MiniDisc
4. Mark Weigle - Shoulder From the Wheel
Live on MiniDisc
5. Mark Weigle -Green
All That Matters
- songs.com/markweigle
6. Mark Weigle -I Confess
The Truth Is
- songs.com/markweigle
"Being friends with
you is the worst, `cuz its the best"
7. Deborah Davis - Love is never Wrong
Uninvited Guests - Debmuse@aol.comwww.debradavis.com
"Passion comes in many colors"
8. Mark Weigle - When I See you Say
The Truth Is
- songs.com/markweigle
We talked about the fact that
he is fluent in sign language.
"...that you love me. When
your two hands tell me"
9. Mark Weigle - Do You Go
The Truth Is
- songs.com/markweigle
From a woman's perspective
, finding out that her husband is gay.
Freedom for one is a transfer
of the pain.
10. Mark Weigle - From Your Kid
The Truth Is
- songs.com/markweigle
A song complementing the
job his parents did
11. Mark Weigle - Partial song in progress
Live on MiniDisc
12. John Smith - That's My Dad
To The Four Directions
- songs.com/johnsmith
JohnSmith can take any life
event and bring out the possitive side and arm us all ways to musically
cope
13. Catie Curtis - The Truth Is
Catie Curtis - www.mammothartists.com/curtis/
"She doesn't want to know
what the truth is"
14. Buddy Mondlock - No Choice
Poetic Justice - www.songs.com/buddy/
"But he never really had no choice,
it was a love so big that it filled his heart"
15. SONiA - Fallin
Almost Chocolate - www.best.com/~joeo/soniasite/
"Every little thing that she does"
16. Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer - Crocodile Man
Tanglewood Tree -
www.signature-sounds.com
"hitchin up river in the
dark alone"
17. Melissa Etheridge - Shriner's Park
Your Little Secret
- www.melissaetheridge.com/
"Trying to make some sence"
18. Cheryl Wheeler - Estate Sale
Circles and Arrows
- www.cherylwheeler.com
Reminding everyone
about the WJFF auction coming up 5/28/00
19. Holy Near - More Important to Me
Hang In There - holly@hollynear.comwww.hollynear.com
"...that we not fight because
of a man"
20. Ani DeFranco - Gravel
Little Plastic Castle -
www.columbia.edu/~marg/ani/
she intended to fight but handed
him a beer instead
21. Janis Ian - House Without A Heart
Hunger - Windham
Hill