Arts & Entertainment

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OUTwatch – Wine Country’s LGBTQI+ Film Festival presents 2 Films in August

Thursday August 12, 7 PMNo Ordinary ManNo Ordinary Man is an in-depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton. Complicated, beautiful and historically unrivaled, this groundbreaking film shows what is possible when a community collaborates to honor the legacy of an unlikely hero. For decades, the life of American Jazz musician Billy Tipton was framed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. In NO ORDINARY MAN, Tipton’s story is re-imagined and performed by trans artists as they collectively paint a portrait of an unlikely hero. […]

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Q&A with I Carry You With Me” star which will have Sunday July 18 screening to benefit LGBTQ Asylum Seekers

“I Carry You With Me” is Based on true love, this decades spanning romance begins in Mexico between an aspiring chef (Armando Espitia) and a teacher (Christian Vázquez). Their lives restart in incredible ways as societal pressure propels them to embark on a treacherous journey to NYC with dreams, hopes, and memories in tow. Armando Espitia stars as Iván in his first romantic film.  He starred “Heli” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. He his appeared in many films TV shows and theater productions.  He is presently in Mexico City premiering the film. A special screening of […]

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Outwatch Wine Country’s LGBTQI+ & Rialto Cinemas presents ‘Films for Everyone!’

6 LGBTQI Films in the next few months We have found SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE – Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Elder, Undocumented Immigrants, Documentary, Narrative – even one on LGBTQI Comix.Instead of having OUTwatch’s Film Festival in October in the middle of fire season, we decided to work with the Rialto Cinemas and present 6 GREAT LGBTQI films this summer and early fall.All films are at Rialto Cinemas, Sebastopol Thursday July 15, 7 PMNO STRAIGHT LINES – THE RISE OF QUEER COMICSDid you follow Dykes to Watch Out For? Or Cathartic Comics with African American LGBT characters? Or Wendel by Howard Cruise? […]

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“No Straight Lines” LGBTQ+ Comic Strip Film Shows July 15 at Rialto – Q&A with Director Vivian Kleiman

“No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer comics,” tells the story of five scrappy and pioneering cartoonists who depicted everything from the AIDS crisis, coming out, and same-sex marriage, to themes of race, gender, and disability. They tackled the humor in queer lives in a changing world, and the everyday pursuits of love, sex, and community. Their work is funny, smart, and profound, and provides a unique, uncensored window into LGBTQ lives from the 1970s onward, beginning at a time in which there was no other genuine queer storytelling in popular culture. Equally engaging are their personal journeys, as they, against […]

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Film Review: No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics

The documentary that brings to light the fascinating, seemingly untold story of the queer community within the comic book world. Introducing the vast achievements, as well as obstacles faced by, the queer comic-book artists featured in Justin Hall’s eponymous anthology – including Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Howard Cruse, Rupert Kinnard and Mary Wings – director Vivian Kleiman, in her first feature-length documentary, reveals the inspirations, creations and adversities unique to LGBQT+ writers. The story not only covers modern-day artists and illustrators, but the earlier “golden age” of comic books, and what issues and images were pushed to the shadows at that time. No Straight […]

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From Physique Pictoral to Pornhub, Jeffrey Escoffier’s New Book Charts The Way

This book about pornography—with 28 pages of endnotes, a colon in the title, and a $173 price tag on the hardcover edition—unapologetically identifies itself as an academic tome. Flipping through its charts and statistics, we might hear our own inner voice grumbling, Even queer fuckfilms have succumbed to the graphs of social scientists. But, as with pornography itself, first impressions can be misleading. Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography, at $28 for the eBook, is enlightening and even affordable. Its author, Jeffrey Escoffier, a founder of OutLook and director of Out/Write, a professor who has taught at Berkeley, Rutgers, and The New School and is […]

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Solid Air and Heartwood Trio Live at OCA July 11

Sunday July 11 @ 4 pm. Second Sunday Summer Series #2 at Occidental Center for the Arts, featuring Solid Air and Heartwood Trio. Enjoy Sonoma County’s finest musicians live in our outdoor amphitheater! Seating will follow current public safety guidelines, please bring cushions or stadium chairs to sit on. Wheelchair/special needs seating will be facilitated .There will be fine refreshments available for sale, and our new plaza will be open. Advanced tickets are required. Admission is $20 for OCA members, $25 for non-members. Our first Sunday concert sold out, so be sure to get your tickets early at www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org. Become an OCA Member and get free […]

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“Let’s Get Back to the Party” Explores the Joys & Tensions of Queer Friendships

Queer friendships, in art as in life, are often complex. Zak Salih’s debut novel Let’s Get Back to the Party powerfully and broadly explores these friendships—the joys and tensions that exist within them, and the lines between platonic and romantic that can blur to the point of disappearance—celebrating the ways in which they help define us. Shortly after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality, Sebastian Mote, a high school art history teacher, runs into his childhood friend Oscar Burnham at a wedding. In the decades since they last saw each other, Sebastian has faded from Oscar’s memory, while Oscar still occupies […]

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Queen Latifah is officially out after she sends love to her partner during BET awards

Queen Latifah, receiving the BET Lifetime Achievement Award, was honored for her one-of-a-kind 35-year career as a rapper, performer, actress, and more. MC Lyte, Rapsody, Lil’ Kim and Monie Love performed together and thanked her for being their peer or paving the way for them. But her closing remarks are drawing the most attention, after the star mentioned her longtime partner, Eboni Nichols, and their son, Rebel. She ended her speech by wishing viewers a “Happy Pride!” Related: LGBT History Month profile: ‘Hip-Hop’s First Lady,’ Queen Latifah Queen Latifah’s sexual orientation has been a nonstop source of gossip for years as […]

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Meet the woman who cared for hundreds of gay men dying of AIDS when no one else would

Ruth Coker Burks never intended to be an advocate, activist or even an angel. She just wanted to do the right thing. “Oh, I’m no angel,” Coker Burks, 62, told TODAY. “I’m just a person.” But that’s how her legacy has been defined when one fateful day in 1986, at just 26 years old, she was visiting a friend, Bonnie, at a local hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, who had been suffering from oral cancer. Bonnie had her tongue removed, and Coker Burks was her interpreter. This was their fifth extended hospital stay, but this time there was something different. […]

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