Saturday, May 18, 2013

Performance Schedule:

4:00-4:15 p.m. Opening Ceremony feat. Sarasota Mayor Suzanne Atwell

4:15-4:45 p.m. Brazos The Rat

5:00-5:30 p.m. Zulu Wave

5:30-5:45 p.m. Guest Speaker Tesla Gunderson (ALSO Youth)

5:45-6:15 p.m. Bard and Mustache

6:15-6:30 p.m. Guest Speaker Steve McAllister (Artist)

6:30-7:00 p.m. Waking Giants

7:15-7:45 p.m. Good Graeff

7:45-8:00 p.m. Guest Speaker Michael Farmer (Equality Florida)

8:00-8:30 p.m. Jen Rock and The Cry Babies

8:30-8:45 p.m. Candlelight Vigil and short film The Milk Effect

8:45-9:20 p.m. MeteorEYES

9:35-10:20 p.m. Clementine and The Galaxy

10:45-11:45 p.m. French Horn Rebellion

11:45-12:00 a.m. Closing Ceremony

VIP EVENT TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE: VIP TICKETS

12:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. *OFFICIAL HMF AFTER-PARTY*
at Throb Nightclub, 2201 Industrial Blvd, Sarasota, FL. Show your HMF wristband and Throb will donate your $5 cover charge to Harvey Milk Festival.

HARVEY MILK FESTIVAL, FIVE POINTS PARK, DOWNTOWN SARASOTA

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Michael Farmer

Statewide Field Director,
Equality Florida

 Michael Farmer joined the Equality Florida team in part time in 2009 as our GSA Network Coordinator and for the last two years he has been with the team full time as our Statewide Field Coordinator. Michael will now be moving into the role of Statewide Field Director replacing Joe Saunders who was elected to the Florida House of Representatives. In this role he will be leading EQFL’s field staff working on our programs related to voter education, identification, and mobilization and building EQFL’s member engagement. Michael will also lead our development programs and staff in Orlando, Sarasota, Jacksonville and Tallahassee. Michael is based in our Orlando office.

Michael began his advocacy as a 17 year old when he and a group of his friends started a Gay-Straight Alliance at Apopka High School in a conservative part of North West Orange County. While he was a student at the Valencia College, Michael served at the Valencia College Campus Organizer for the Fairness For All Families Campaign, a campaign to defeat a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality and civil unions in Florida. Michael went on to serve as the Orlando Area Field Organizer for the Fairness for All Families Campaign where he worked closely with the Campaign’s Field Director, Joe Saunders.

As Equality Florida’s GSA Network Coordinator, Michael trained hundreds of students and teachers across the state on best practices for making schools safe for LGBT youth and worked with students from Tallahassee to Key West to start Gay-Straight Alliance clubs in their schools.

During his time as Statewide Field Coordinator, Michael helped to increase Equality Florida’s pro-equality voter file by more than 20,000 voters, he raised Equality Florida’s profile at community events and he mobilized Equality Florida members and pro-equality voters to deliver victories for pro-equality and openly LGBT candidates all over Florida.

Michael is a graduate of the University of Central Florida and holds a bachelors degree in Political Science with a concentration on American Politics and Public Policy.

 Tesla Gunderson

ALSO Youth

 Tesla Gunderson, age 15, attends Booker High School as a sophomore. She was born in raised in Sarasota, Florida. She aspires to be an educator and has an avocation for creative writing. She is an active member and occasional facilitator of ALSO youth. She is working with the executive director, Sue Westcott, to create a middle school support program. She looks forward to a future of active involvement in the lgbtq community.

Steve McAllister

Author, Artist, Musician

 In addition to being the Equality Gallery Director and a featured installation artist at this year’s Harvey Milk Festival, Steve McAllister fulfills his ambition as a Renaissance Man through a variety of roles, both in activism and in arts. During a year of living without the use of money, he worked alongside Transition Sarasota to start the Common Wealth Time Bank, Sarasota’s first alternative currency, where he currently serves as Director of Operational Development (DOOD). To provide a vehicle through which the time bank can operate, and through which Sarasotans can realize greater community wealth, he is developing the Flow Factory with Vincent Dessberg as a support structure for healthy living, community development, and creative expression, and as a catalyst for a more fruitful economy.

During the writing of his year-and-a-half travelogue The Rucksack Letters, Steve visited a variety of alternative communities throughout America in a search for life beyond the Globalist/Capitalist/Consumerist matrix which he saw holding his country hostage. The insights gained through the journey fuel his current ventures and laid the groundwork for his latest book, How to Survive an Estralarian Mind Meld, a philosophical, sci-fi comedy about aliens who want to turn Sarasota into a marketing mecca. In his epic quest to “write the world,” he posts semi-regularly at Sarasota Music Scene, Elephant Journal, and Sarasota Day.

As the Architect of The Labyrinth of the Unbroken Path, Steve weaved together a myriad of philosophical, religious and cultural paradigms to develop a framework through which people could create together. “Essentially,” says the resident expatriate and Goodwill Ambassador of Stevetopia, “although all of our journeys are unique and appear vastly different from one another, we are all on the same Path, and as soon as we can start helping one another achieve our goals instead of hindering one another merely for the game of competition and independence, we, as a people, will realize an all new world of collaboration and interdependence. All we have to do is embrace it.”

Joey Panek

Joey Panek thought he ended a 13-year professional stage career in 2009 when he launched a web marketing endeavor with the HuB Incubator, but thankfully he’s found out that “show biz” just won’t die. You can now find Joey online exploring pop culture and who knows what else at www.HowBoutJoey.com, and as one of the stars of Saratopia, an original webseries satirizing our lovely city, or through his “almost daily” youtube webblog. Joey is also a member of Lazy Fairy Improv Troupe, and he is co-director of Dance Trance Sarasota, a dance fitness class. He hopes to save the world through entertainment and martinis.

Christine Alexander

 Christine Alexander is an award winning improv artist and producer. She is a founding member of both the Florida Studio Theatre FST Improv and Lazy Fairy Improv troupes performing weekly for over a decade. She owns Back Patio Productions which produces live comedy shows and film. As a comedian she’s known best for her mime language improv. Christine recently accepted a position at the HuB - Sarasota’s Think Tank Incubator. She was recently known as “The Bald Chick” selling advertising space on her head. You can see her in award winning films like, “Toyland,” “Crime’s A Cookin’” and “Mini-Chefs.” Christine is the co-creator of the popular e-newsletter, AnythingArts.com. She is well known not only for making other people laugh, but also for her own enthusiastic laughing… or sea-lion imitation, depending on your opinion. 2008 & 2009 Best Local Actress, 40 under 40 Winner, Named one of 28 Most Powerful People in the Arts.