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Dale Guy Madison = damn good man

Actor, Artist, AIDS activist, Spoken Word Artist and former QVC Host

From his early high school days of writing poetry and performing, he won numerous awards in public speaking, dramatics and poetry. In 1981 he wrote his first published article on gays in the workplace for the Baltimore Gay Paper. His 1983 article for the Baltimore Afro-American Paper on discrimination of blacks at the workplace was a front page article.

Dale received his first on screen film credit on the original 1988 John Waters movie, Hairspray.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095270/

In 1989 Dale co-founded a non-profit educational theater company called Umoja SaSa! Storytellers. The traveling theater company’s mission was dedicated to the preservation of African storytelling. As an oral historian, Dale wrote and adapted classic and original tales into vivid performances that left children as well as adults spellbound. As co-founder of Actors Against Drugs, Dale not only performed, but acted as Publicity Director. He wrote press releases and created marketing brochures to promote the company.

Dale earned a position at the QVC network located in West Chester Pennsylvania as one of the original Fashion Channel hosts in 1991. Not content just being a host, he created and produced the successful African Marketplace shows, as well as Destination: Africa and interviewed an African Princess in 1993. In the program, he sold his own line of hand-made African inspired dolls. co-hosted with Clarence Reynolds, these live 2-hour events attracted more African American viewers to the shopping channel markets and lead to the development of similar shows on BET which Reynolds hosted through a partnership with the Home Shopping Network. Madison left QVC in 1994 and went to work for the Global Shopping Network in New York City during 1996. he stayed with them until they went bankrupt in 1998.

The Baltimore City Health department asked him to be project manager of the Men of Color Against Aids Project in 1995. As project manager, he sponsored events like bringing in writers, James Earl Hardy author of "B-Boy Blues" http://aalbc.com/authors/jameshardy.htm and Keith Boykin,http://www.keithboykin.com/ author of "One More River to Cross." One of his duties was to publish a monthly newsletter, Men of Color TALK where he was also editor. He wrote a monthly column that dealt with subjects such as creative ways to have safe sex and the importance of HIV testing. Madison wrote, directed and produced a public service announcement starring then mayor, Kurt Smoke with a cast of gay men.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjo6fC3Mm4w

Dale was recognized by the Maryland State Arts Council(MSAC) for his one man show, FREEda Slave: Mask of a Diva which addressed issues of cross dressing and intra-discrimination in the gay community. He won the MSAC play writing award (1999) and a solo-performance award (1996) grant.

A 2006 Zami/Audre Lorde Scholar,http://www.zami.org/scholars2006.htm Dale performed his brand of spoken word at Long Beach Pride, San Diego Pride, Los Angeles Pride (ATB), West Hollywood Book Fair  and Sabor Con Fusion while working on his teaching degree. He just finished his memoirs and produced a documentary on it entitled DREAMBOY: My Life as a QVC Host and other greatest hits. It was awarded “Best LGBT film at the 2008 San Diego Black Film Festival.

For more information on Dale Guy Madison please visit http://www.damngoodman.com