Hungry for community? Celebrate difference in the LGBTQ community and challenge assumptions about age by attending Bridging the Gap’s free performance of our original play, Food for Thought. The 45-minute play was created by an intergenerational ensemble of LGBTQ folk ages 18 through 88 over the course of 12 weekly sessions. What could be more fun than exploring the place where food, family (biological and chosen) and sexuality meet?

On Saturday, December 1, 2012, Bridging the Gap presented Quest for Love, an original show exploring the theme of love within the New York City LGBTQ community. Quest was created by the nineteen members of the intergenerational theater group, whose ages ranged from seventeen to eighty-six.

The play consisted of an opening song, five scenes, a closing song and an epilogue written in verse. The show started with the bouncy, golden oldie love song from 1978, “Love Is in the Air,” performed by the entire ensemble. It then introduced the audience to four gay pilgrims on a mission from Cupid who time travel to today’s New York City in search of the meaning of love. The pilgrims first visit a West Village gay bar on Christopher Street on Valentine’s Day. They then go to family court, where they witness a recently-married gay male couple who discover that their newly adopted baby is not protected equally in different states. The pilgrims then magically summon a mosaic of moments from the various interactions they have witnessed on their quest, leaving it up to the audience to weigh in on which version of love most resonates with their personal experience. A rhymed epilogue sends the audience home with the admonition, “We’ve shown to you all love is right/Now home you go! Find love tonight.”

On April 9th, 2011, Bridging the Gap culminated in a performance of Step Right Up! at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City. Step Right Up! was an original play created and performed by the project participants.

Within a circus frame, the play investigated LGBT community issues in three main scenes:

• Ring #1: The dominance of idealized male bodies within the community
• Ring #2: Visibility and invisibility of LGBT people
• Ring #3: An argument between generations about which faced greater hardships.

Between scenes, specially "queer circus" acts poked fun at LGBT stereotypes.