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Bella Abzug: A much needed primer on the premises of personal privacy underlying lesbian/gay civil rights and reproductive freedom, God's Country is a must for Americans.
John Money, PhD: Read Sandy Rapp's book and awake to the peril. New York Times 1/28/92 cites God's Country |
Risin' Song (44 tracks)
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Sandy Rapp Bio:
Sandy Rapp is a songwriter, activist, and author of God's Country: A Case Against Theocracy: The Haworth Press; 1991. Her best known song is Remember Rose: Song for Choice, which features a guest vocal by the late Congresswoman Bella Abzug (D-NY), and recounts the first back-street abortion fatality of the 1977 Medicaid-Abortion cutoff. Rapp is also known for Everyone Was At Stonewall (final update) a gay history song written for police sensitivity training, which won Stonewall Society's Pride Song of 2004. And there's a musical Trump send-up: Some Facts are Alternative. Rapp was instrumental in the passage of a number of gay civil rights laws on Long Island, NY. In the 70s and 80s Rapp had the house band at the Hamptons resort Baron's Cove. She has performed at many Hamptons venues and has played over sixty ARF (Animal Rescue Fund) events.
Rapp's appearances include the million-plus 2004 March For Women's Lives, the National Women's Music Festival, National NOW Rallies in Seneca Falls, Manhattan, and Washington, DC, National Women's Political Caucus Conferences, Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival, Chicago's Autumnfest, New York State NOW Conferences, Montana Pride Rally, Palm Springs' Gay Veterans, Manhattan's Peoples Voice Cafe, the 2001 NOW March on DC, the Gay Millennium March, the '03, '05, '06, 2010, and 2013 National NOW Conferences, the 2005 Save The Court Rally in New York's Union Square, the Molly Yard Memorial in DC's Hart Senate Office Building, and the 2009-2019 STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Assn. reunions in NYC's LGBT Center. This year's performances included a Stop the Bans Rally for Choice in Sag Harbor, NY, a Stonewall 50 show in NYC, and a Poets & Writers event in Greenport, NY. In 2006 Rapp served as a Grand Marshal of the Long Island Pride Parade. Rapp's premier of "Rise Up Ye Women" at the NYU Law School was toasted in The New Yorker - 11/13/06; and in 2010 Rapp won Stonewall Society's Pride in the Arts Lifetime Achievement in Music Award. In 2008 Rapp sang several Clinton rallies and wrote "She Will Rise" and "Walkin' Shoes" for a Hillary website. Rapp also played the 2012 NYC Kate Millett Festival, the 2013 Front Lines of Feminism event at the Wilton Manors, FL Pride Center, and the 2015 East Hampton, NY Women's Equality Day event. See the 2008 Seneca Falls, NY 160th Anniversary performance at YouTube.com/SandyRapp.
Rapp's appearances include the million-plus 2004 March For Women's Lives, the National Women's Music Festival, National NOW Rallies in Seneca Falls, Manhattan, and Washington, DC, National Women's Political Caucus Conferences, Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival, Chicago's Autumnfest, New York State NOW Conferences, Montana Pride Rally, Palm Springs' Gay Veterans, Manhattan's Peoples Voice Cafe, the 2001 NOW March on DC, the Gay Millennium March, the '03, '05, '06, 2010, and 2013 National NOW Conferences, the 2005 Save The Court Rally in New York's Union Square, the Molly Yard Memorial in DC's Hart Senate Office Building, and the 2009-2019 STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Assn. reunions in NYC's LGBT Center. This year's performances included a Stop the Bans Rally for Choice in Sag Harbor, NY, a Stonewall 50 show in NYC, and a Poets & Writers event in Greenport, NY. In 2006 Rapp served as a Grand Marshal of the Long Island Pride Parade. Rapp's premier of "Rise Up Ye Women" at the NYU Law School was toasted in The New Yorker - 11/13/06; and in 2010 Rapp won Stonewall Society's Pride in the Arts Lifetime Achievement in Music Award. In 2008 Rapp sang several Clinton rallies and wrote "She Will Rise" and "Walkin' Shoes" for a Hillary website. Rapp also played the 2012 NYC Kate Millett Festival, the 2013 Front Lines of Feminism event at the Wilton Manors, FL Pride Center, and the 2015 East Hampton, NY Women's Equality Day event. See the 2008 Seneca Falls, NY 160th Anniversary performance at YouTube.com/SandyRapp.
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Right: Sandy Rapp's "Walkin' Shoes" was shot by Mary Scott of MakeBelieveTV at the 2008 Seneca Falls, NY 160th Anniversary of the first-ever women's conference. |
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