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Sonoma Film InstituteAnnounces Virtual Screenings for Fall

Sonoma Film Institute Announces Virtual Screenings for Fall Sonoma Film InstituteAnnounces Virtual Screenings for Fall 2020The link for watching the films will be posted on the SFI website by Friday at noon and will be good for 72 hourshttps://sfi.sonoma.edu A White, White Day Friday, Oct. 23, 2020 through Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020 A WHITE, WHITE DAY Trailer | TIFF 2019In a remote Icelandic town, an off-duty police chief (a chilling Ingvar Sigurdsson, who received Cannes’ Critics’ Week award for Best Actor for his performance) begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradually […]

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Join Broadway Favorites for ‘I Put a Spell on You’ A Virtual Halloween Event Benefitting HIV Groups

It’ll be all treats, no tricks when a lineup of Broadway and drag favorites bring the Halloween chills and thrills to the cinematically striking stream of I Put a Spell on You at 8 pm Eastern on Thursday, October 29. Save the date now for this virtual Halloween blowout, a musical spoof of and tribute to the cult classic Hocus Pocus. I Put a Spell on You finds the Sanderson Sisters breaking the internet and diving into a world of pop culture’s favorite villains.  Watch for performances from Todrick Hall, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Eva Noblezada, Will Swenson, Bob The Drag Queen, Alexis Michelle and many more. After […]

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HBO’s ‘Equal’ Explores LGBTQ Life Before Stonewall

We’re still in October, and that means as we cast our eye on our screens this month, it’s inevitable for us to also be casting our eyes on the past.  The most relevant offering this week is surely the debut of a new HBO Max docuseries, “Equal,” designed to fill in a few gaps in our education about what queer life was like in the days before Stonewall – just in time for LGBTQ History Month. Premiering on Oct. 22, it’s four episodes of slick, smart, and star-powered television that profiles various “leaders and unsung heroes” of the community who […]

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Queer Broadway Show ‘Slave Play’ Makes Tony Awards History with 12 Nominations

The groundbreaking queer Broadway show Slave Play has achieved a Tony Awards first, racking up the most nominations for any non-musical play in its 73-year history. With 12 nominations, Slave Play has overtaken Angels in America, which previously held the record for the most Tony Awards nominations for a non-musical.× The three-act play was written by Jeremy O Harris, and follows three interracial couples, including a same-sex couple, on a disturbing retreat undergoing “Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy”, as the Black characters are not getting sexual satisfaction from their white partners. The set of the play featured a giant mirrored wall and the house lights […]

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Queer Israeli Film ‘Sublet’ Featured at SoCo Virtual Film Festival

SONOMA COUNTY VIRTUAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL October 13 – November 16, 2020 October 13 – November 16, 2020 The Jewish Community Center Sonoma County is proud to present the 25th Anniversary of the Jewish Film Festival, VIRTUALLY. Ten of the newest and best international films will be available online on a dedicated, user- friendly, film platform. Highlights include the newest release, SUBLET, a moving Israeli LGBTQ drama, and THEY AIN’T READY FOR ME, a documentary about an African American rabbinical student and mother singlehandedly fighting against violence on Chicago’s South Side. The films will be available on-demand throughout the weeks. Embracing the new medium, four live filmmaker talks will allow the […]

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San Francisco’s GLBT Museum Hosts Virtual Gala with Peaches Christ & Marga Gomez October 16

We’re thrilled to introduce the gracious hosts of our virtual Gala, Peaches Christ and Marga Gomez. Join them on October 16 for Reunion: Making History, an evening of powerful performances, inspiring presentations and a heartfelt celebration of LGBTQ History Makers. Make sure to get your tickets now for Reunion: Making History, for access to the live broadcast on October 16, as well as sneak peeks of early content along the way! Register for the virtual Gala Peaches Christ is a filmmaker and cult leader living in San Francisco. Her infamous movie events are self-produced at the Castro Theatre and regularly draw over 1,000 attendees to each new production […]

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SDFF Online Docs Make House Calls – Identity & Performance Program Streams 9/25-10/4

Identity & Performance Program: Gay Chorus Deep South and Siudy Entre Mundos: 50 performances of the American Dream stream from 9/25-10/4/20 via Docs Make House Calls, SDFF’s Online Fest Buy Tickets Now!  Beginning September 25, SDFF’s Docs Make House Calls streaming festival will be streaming two films in which the relationship between performance and identity is focalized. For the performers captured on-screen in Gay Chorus Deep South (David Charles Rodrigues) and Siudy Entre Mundos: 50 Performances of the American Dream (Pablo Croce, 2019), stage performances are a means of expression overtly linked to perceptions and experiences of identity. These films […]

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Exclusive Q&A with “Killing Patient Zero” Director Laurie Lynd

Gaétan Dugas, the Canadian flight attendant was dubbed “Patient Zero” in Randy Shilts groundbreaking book on the AIDS Epidemic, And the Band Played On In her engaging documentary, director Laurie Lynd (Schitt’s Creek; Breakfast with Scot, Frameline34) explodes the myth of the man who brought AIDS to America. Ironically, Gaétan  went out of his way to help CDC researchers solve the riddle of the disease that wasn’t wasn’t yet called AIDS. Lynd expertly delves into the most terrifying time in Queer History and emerges with a terrific documentary that is part loving portrait of this vilified man, part health crisis procedural, and […]

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Trans Musician Celebrated in New Biography

It ain’t none of your beeswax. None of your business, so just keep your nose out of things. You’re on a need-to-know basis, and you don’t need to know. It’s being taken care of, never you mind, it isn’t your concern. In “Wendy Carlos: A Biography” by Amanda Sewell, some things just aren’t discussed. No one who knew Wendy Carlos as a child should’ve been surprised that she became the musician she did: Carlos’ mother’s family loved to sing and dance, and Carlos’ parents wanted to make sure she continued the tradition. They gave her piano lessons but they couldn’t afford a piano, so Carlos’ father drew piano keys […]

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OUTwatch – Wine Country’s LGBTQI Film Festival Celebrates 50 Years of U.S. Pride & Goes Virtual October 16 – 25

OUTwatch – Wine Country’s LGBTQI Film Festival is an online virtual film Festival from Friday, October 16 through Sunday October 25 this year. We’ve named the Festival: Looking Back; Moving Forward.  We honor those individuals and groups who fought for LGBTQI rights bringing us to this point in time, where we both enjoy many advancements but still struggle to keep those civil rights and expand them to our entire community.  The Festival will showcase four enlightening, empowering and entertaining documentaries.  This year, our featured films are: Tongues Untied This 1989 experimental documentary film is  directed by Marlon Riggs, one of the top gay filmmakers of the time. It […]

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