May 5, 1999

Tom McCormack

Dear Tom:

On behalf of the members of Prism, I wanted to thank you for bringing your superb program "Hate Speech and Love Songs" to NIU. It was a tremendous pleasure having you as one of our featured performers for our annual celebration of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Awareness Month.

I have coordinated literally hundreds of campus programs, and I know that only the most rare and remarkable performances move audiences in the way that you touched people here in DeKalb. "Hate Speech & Love Songs" is profound; you convey your search for meaning and truth with simple honesty and beautiful music. You are part storyteller, part philosopher, part everyman: your stories reveal the unique complexities of being gay in a mostly hostile world, while at the same time connecting your life as a gay man to the broader human experiences -- longing, love, pain, sadness, fear -- that we all share.

Thank you for sharing your self and your music with us. I hope we can entice you back to DeKalb again sometime. And thanks for the CD's - I'm definitely enjoying them!

Sincerely,

Margaret M. "Margie" Cook
Program Coordinator
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Programs

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