Green Insect Bunny Hybrid, Boston (auction)

Green Insect-Bunny Hybrid, ©2000 Marsian De Lellis
Green Insect-Bunny Hybrid, ©2000 Marsian De Lellis

On September 26th, 2004, I donated Green Insect-Bunny Hybrid a framed photograph of one of my early puppets to the Sunny Side Up Brunch and Silent Auction at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston. Proceeds went to support the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth

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Gay + Lesbian Youth – Making History

In 1994, The Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth produced a documentary on the passage of the Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Law of Massachusetts, which I appeared in. 

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Untitled, Boston (mixed media)

IMG_4643 1994 Breaking the Silence
untitled, details, 45.5” x 59” x 2”, cutouts, oil paint, and glue on canvas, 1994

In June 1994*, I had a large scale untitled, mixed media piece on view at the Arlington Street Space in Boston as part of Breaking the Silence.  Breaking the Silence featured paintings, photographs, installations and performances by young queer artists (many of whom I worked with on the passage of the Gay and Lesbian Student Rights Law).

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1994 Leslie College, Cambridge (speaking)

On May 19th, 1994, I spoke at Leslie College in Cambridge about bullying in schools and my work advocating for the Gay and Lesbian Student Rights Law, which banned discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in Massachusetts public schools.

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In Newsweekly 1/2/94, Boston

On January 2nd, 1994, In Newsweekly covered the passage of a law I worked on which added sexual orientation to the list of protected classes of students in Massachusetts public schools.

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Bay Windows 12/23/93

Marsian De Lellis, Adelaide Goetz, Chris Hannon,
Lauren Davindson, Sarah Lonber-Lew, David La Fontaine

On December 23, 1993, Bay Windows covered the passage of legislation I worked on to protect LGBGTQ students in Massachusetts.

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Bay Windows 12/16/1993

On December 16, Bay Windows covered the passage of the Gay and Lesbian Student Rights Law which I worked on.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

On December 11, 1993, The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a story on the Gay and Lesbian Student Rights Law which I had worked on.

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