“Coming Out In Hollywood: Being Openly Gay In The Workplace”
Jason Stuart’s lecture of the IN’s and OUT’s of being openly gay in the workplace is now available for touring on college campuses. In addition to being an uproarious comic and prolific character actor, the demand for Jason’s signature Q & A has led to a real interest for an extended close up view of being a gay man. He does this with depth and humor, like no one else.
He is able to perform an outrageous stand up show, a lecture for the faculty and students and a brown bag lunch chat with the gay/straight alliance at price you can afford.
Jason shares his the intimate details of growing up being bullied all through his school years and his being plagued with thoughts of suicide as a youth. He opens up his heart with his experience, and the strength and hope of overcoming the brutal treatment he experienced growing up a in public school.
He reveals his life growing up with his over-the-top Jewish family with a father who grew up in the Holocaust with post traumatic stress syndrome, a flamboyant mother with 4 husbands from Brooklyn, an obese, angry brother who has a daughter who is schizophrenic, and an orthodox Jewish sister who has banished him from her family with 4 children he’s never met though they live 5 minutes from each other. Jason has never been allowed to meet his nieces and nephews, yet lives five minutes from their home.
Jason uses his talents as an openly gay actor and comedian to support the community by performing at countless benefits for issues ranging from HIV-AIDS, LGBT rights, marriage equality, and the dignity of all regarding gender expression for the last 18 years. He is currently the national chairman of the first ever Screen Actors Guild LGBT Committee, and into addition to producing the annual comedy benefit for Lifeworks Mentoring Program for gay youth.
Jason shatters the shallowness of Tinsel Town and has the ability to speak from his heart with humor and compassion, and in a transformative fashion builds the resolve of LGBT and questioning youth, and wins the souls of prospective allies.
He says “I am no different from you. Just more people know me. Let me take you by the hand and support you into a more enlightened life!”