Earl Dax:
CLASS OF 1989
Manzano High SchoolClass of 1989
Albuquerque, NM
Earl's Story
Earl is from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Earl's schools include Manzano High School. Earl works(ed) at Self Employed, Dixon Place.
Music Earl likes includes Meow Meow, Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds, Mary Ocher. Books Earl likes include Champion: My Photo Journey with Breast Cancer, Arias with a Twist, Down & Delirious in Mexico City. Movies Earl likes include Vito, WE WERE HERE: Voices From The AIDS Years in San Francisco, They Are All My Brothers/Todos Son Mis Hermanos. TV shows Earl likes include Girlygirl Comedy, The Rachel Maddow Show, Jeffery & Cole Casserole.
One of Earl's favorite quotes is:""A life of DIY can leave you feeling DOA."
- Ann Magnuson
"Anything you do / Let it come from you / Then it will be new / Give us more to see"
- Stephen Sondheim, "Sunday in the Park with George"
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism â ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."
â Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Patriotism is not supporting the government. Patriotism is standing for the principles the government should stand for. When the government is doing bad things, the most patriotic thing you can do is criticize the government."
- Howard Zinn
"It takes a long time to plain shut up and listen."
- Utah Phillips
""We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around. When yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right."
- From Reverend Joseph Lowery's Inaugural Benediction, January 2009
"If strict monogamy is the height of all virtue, then the palm must go to the tapeworm, whichâ¦spends its whole life copulating in all its sections with itself. Confining ourselves to mammals, however, we find all forms of sexual lifeâpromiscuity, indications of group marriage, polygymy, monogamy. Polyandry alone is lackingâit took human beings to achieve that."
âFriedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
Monogamy is hardly normative in the male, particularly in youth. The marriage issue, however, is a great boon for homophobes because it lets them sidestep all the things that should be set right, from sodomy laws in various states, to discrimination in the workplace. Also marriage makes people think of God, who is so very important to our poor, bamboozled folks. The founders (and I) wanted God thrown out the window at Philadelphia, but the crazies breed like chiggers and he keeps slithering back in. He now dominates so much of radio and TV. Until a stake has been driven through the heart of monotheism, the U.S. will never co...Expand for more
me within a continuum of civilization. That suits them chiggers real fine.
âGore Vidal, Southern Voice (Atlanta), January 13, 2000
...".
More about Earl:""Curiosity did not kill this cat. And itâs curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far.â - Studs Terkel
After graduating from high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico I moved to Los Angeles. I had an interest in the entertainment industry, and I figured I should either move to LA or New York. LA was closer. Living in the shadow of the Hollywood sign was - as Dina Martina says of a summer spent in Provincetown - "psychologically damaging." It took several years and pit stops in Las Vegas, San Miguel de Allende (Mexico), and Perry Point, Maryland (a one year stint in AmeriCorps) before I managed to clear my head of the emotional and psychological smog that had permeated my psyche in LA - or more specifically West Hollywood.
In Maryland, I was connected with my passion for service and social engagement. A year later when I moved to Philadelphia I was connected with my sense of outrage and social justice through involvement with a queer direct action group called Grassroot Queers and consorting with ACT UP activists and West Philadelphia anarchists.
After a stint at UPenn as an Urban Studies major and working in the nonprofit sector (a variety of positions at The Village of Arts And Humanities), I began making more frequent trips to New York City. I was captivated by the performers and artists populating the "downtown scene" and the alternative, queer identities that proliferated here.
Eventually I began producing a performance series in Philadelphia called "Direct from NYC" which presented nearly 50 shows in less than two years featuring a who's-who of the downtown performance scene (Karen Finley, Kiki & Herb, Taylor Mac, Julie Atlas Muz, etc.).
I came to New York for New Year's 2005, and on an unseasonably warm New Year's Day I encountered Helen Stratford dressed as an angel in Tompkin's Square Park. She played the squeezebox for the chess players, mothers with their daughters, couples with their dogs, and her tranny choreographer, Pearl, who danced as Helen strolled through the park. Later that day I found a closet-sized room in Williamsburg for $500, and I made the move to NYC.
In the 3 1/2 years I have lived in New York, I have curated, produced or otherwise been involved in the presentation of 200 shows, club nights, and events including Weimar New York (which I conceived and produce); Tingel Tangel Club (Weimar New York's wicked little sister - now monthly in SF and NYC); ART JAM at Galapagos (which ran for a year and culminated with a presentation at BAM Cafe); HOT! Festival at Dixon Place (curator, Summer 2007); and Schoolhouse Roxx at P.S. 122 (co-curator with Travis Chamberlain, 2006-2007).".
Register for Free to view all details!
Yearbooks
Register for Free to view all yearbooks!
Reunions
Photos