Bleachers Perform at Fund Raiser for LGBTQ Youth

Jack Antonoff

Jack Antonoff, from Bergenfield, was always one to put his talent and celebrity to good use. Besides being Taylor Swift’s longtime producer, his band, Bleachers, has been a mainstay of pop smarts. They performed recently at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan on December 19 at the ninth annual talent show to benefit The Ally Coalition, an organization he co-founded in 2013 to help LGBTQ kids. The event—which also featured St. Vincent, Jason Isbell and many other artists and comedians—raised a whopping $430,000 to combat the 500+ anti-LGBTQ bills being passed by legislatures across the country. The American Civil Liberties Union estimates that there are over four million homeless kids in America with almost 40% of them identifying as LGBTQ+, kids who are far more likely to be victims of depression, violence, bullying and suicide.

https://theallycoalition.org/


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Mike Greenblatt

MIKE GREENBLATT has been writing for Goldmine magazine and New Jersey's Aquarian Weekly for more than 35 years. His writing subjects fill the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He's interviewed Joe Cocker, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, and members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. He was 18 when he attended Woodstock in 1969.

In addition to writing about music, Greenblatt has worked on publicity campaigns for The Animals, Pat Benatar, Johnny Winter, Tommy James and Richard Branson, among others. He is currently the editor of The Jersey Sound.

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