Terry Galloway, Mean Little Deaf Queer at Cactus Cafe & BookWoman This Week

The first is this Thursday at 4 pm at The Cactus Café. The second is Sunday at BookWoman, where a party will follow the reading. One needn’t be mean, little, deaf, or queer to appreciate Galloway’s precise insight into the feelings of being an outsider, feelings that she experienced and struggled with from early childhood when, suffering the fallout of pharmaceuticals prescribed to her mother when she was pregnant with Terry, she lost her hearing entirely and also had to cope with greatly impaired vision. Running into resistance at every turn—from the UT professor who told Galloway her dreams of acting were delusional to any number of homophobes along the way—the actor-writer fought back, inspired most, it sometimes seems, by the word NO. She went on to be a founding member of Esther’s Follies, has put in time as one of the best Shakespearean actors to grace the stage of Winedale, and has trotted the globe sharing her gifts with grateful recipients everywhere.