Our guest this week on the 4 o'clock hour is Tommi Avicolli Mecca.

Mr. Avicolli Mecca is a longtime southern Italian radical queer activist who helped organize the first gay pride march in Philadelphia in 1972. He was co-founder of Radicalqueens and helped produce its magazine, and a member of Gay Liberation Front/Temple until its demise in 1974. He served as president of Gay Activists Alliance (1975), Associate Editor of New Gay Life magazine (1976-9), and reporter/editor for the Philadelphia Gay News (1981-91). He founded the Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Archives (now part of the library at the William Way Center in Philly), and the first multi-racial LGBT theatre troupe, Avalanche (1986-1991). He was also a founder of GALA, the Gay and Lesbian Arts Festival. He was on the board of the first LGBT community center and helped organize its weekly Gay Coffeehouse.
  His website is: www.avicollimecca.com

Also this afternoon, in the 3 o'clock hour we are joined by Manuel Jose Pickett, founding member of Teatro Espejo, and presently directing it's production of Ruben Amavizca-Murua's, Women of Juarez. The production, at the Wilkerson Theater, 1725 25th St. in Midtown Sacramento, in collaboration with Califonia Stage, runs through March 21st.  For more information dial (916) 451-5822