Demian needed to stop working on the Purple Circuit in order to realize his other projects, such as publishing the book “Operating Manual for Same-Sex Couples: Navigating the rules, rites & rights,” now available on Amazon, and to publishing his “Photo Stories by Demian” books based on his more than 6 decades as a photographer and writer.

QueerWise and Michael Kearns have committed to offering a continuation of the Purple Circuit. The new Web address is purplecircuit.org. Bill Kaiser continues as editor and can be reached at purplecir@aol.com

Bill and Demian express their appreciation for the hundreds of writers, directors, actors, and publicists who sent their articles and play data. They have toiled mightily to bring our gay, lesbian, trans, and feminist culture into public view, and appreciation.

Francine L. Trevens photo: Yuri Arcurs

Francine L. Trevens died at home with her two daughters by her side on October 20th, 2013. She had been involved in theater, in one way or another, since she appeared in a kindergarten play. She wrote scripts while still in High School, and she had one presented on radio before graduation.

Her directing career blossomed simultaneously at school and community theaters. In Boston, she appeared in a play with Leonard Nimoy, which later led her to selling national magazine celebrity interviews of him and other personalities.

She studied at the University of Massachusetts and Boston University. She worked in publishing at MacFadden Publications in New York and Jerome Press in Boston.

For ten years she was a dance and drama critic for the Springfield Daily News in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Her playwriting and directing continued. Stage West gave two of her full-length plays dark night readings.

When she returned to her native New York, she became a theatrical press agent handling such plays as “Torch Song Trilogy” and other Glines Productions, “Steel Magnolias,” “Tallulah” and her Broadway credits included: “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Fifth of July,” “Evita,” “Whoopee!,” “Eubie!,” “Gemini,” and others.

In New York, she directed a variety of plays, during a 30-year period which included Jane Chambers’ “A Late Snow,” Arch Brown’s “Brut Farce,” the NY premiere of William Gibson’s “The Butterfingers Angel,” and “Mary and Joseph,” among many others.

She was a published author for 60 years. In 1994, she became a publisher, creating TnT Classic Books, for which she published her own and many other writer’s plays.

In 2004, she began writing for the Art Times Journal. Her last piece was published in August 2013.

Francine co-founded the Greater New York Independent Publishers Association. Also a member of Dramatists Guild, Independent Book Publishers Association, and theater’s ATPAM.

The things she loved, she loved, and the things she didn’t she let you know.

Francine is survived by her daughters, Janine Nina Trevens and Melissa DiGenova; son-in-law, Andy Bryant; daughter-in-law, Lynn DiGenova and five grandchildren: Ceanna, Michael, Sky, Anthony, and Jared.

Francine did not want a funeral. There will be a memorial service in January. In lieu of flowers, she requested donations may be made to TADA! Youth Theater.