WORDS TO OUR NOW: Contemporary
LGBT Voices
Saturday, June 3, 2-4PM
The New York
Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library
476 Fifth Avenue
at 42nd Street, Celeste Bartos Education Center Auditorium, South
Court
Celebrate the power of language and the imagination
during LGBT Pride Month with two readings curated by the Lambda Literary
Foundation, the nation's leading advocate of LGBT literature. The Library
welcomes the emerging voices of Abha Dawesar, author of Babyji
(finalist the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction), Thomas Glave,
author of Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (finalist for
the Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction), and Richard Siken, author of
Crush (finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry) as
they read from their newly published works.
 Andrew Holleran:
Grief: A Novel
Wednesday, June
7
6PM Reception
7PM Reading and Conversation with Charles
Flowers, Executive Director, Lambda Literary Foundation
Signing to
follow
The Center, 208 West 13th St
Bookseller: Rainbows
& Triangles (212.627.2166)
Admission: $10 (includes first drink)
Book Advance Sale: $20
 An understated, eloquent novel by Holleran
(Dancer from the Dance) captures the pain of a generation of
gay men who have survived the AIDS epidemic and reached middle age yearning
for fidelity, tenderness and intimacy. The unnamed, silver-haired narrator
has just relocated from Florida, where he cared for his recently deceased
mother for the last 12 years, to Washington, D.C., to "start life over"
and teach a college seminar on literature and AIDS. He rents a room in a
townhouse near Dupont Circle, his solitude deepened by his awareness that
he and his gay, celibate landlord, a "homosexual emeritus," form only
a semblance of a household. The narrator spends his days exploring the
streets of the capital and his nights engrossed in the letters of Mary
Todd Lincoln, who held onto her grief and guilt at her husband's death
much like the narrator hordes his guilt for never having come out of
the
closet to his mother - and for having survived the 1980s and '90s.
Holleran makes his coiled reticence speak volumes on attachment, aging,
sex and love in small scenes as compelling as they are heartbreaking.
--
review from Publisher's Weekly
This event is co-sponsored
by
Hyperion Books
and
Rainbows & Triangles Bookstore
192 Eighth Ave., between 20th and 21st
Sts
New York City, New York
212.691.6067
 
Tuesday, June 13, 6-8PM
The
New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
The first of two programs
co-sponsored by the Schomburg Center's Black Gay and Lesbian Archive will
focus on political activity within the black same gender loving community
over the past 30 years. Currently, politically active LGBT/SGL activists
of African descent are a mix of seasoned and new thinkers, engaging a
range of issues including marriage equality, homophobia in the black
church, and hate crimes, among other issues. Panelists include Samiya
Bashir (The Right to Marry Campaign), Larry D. Lyons, II (Rashawn Brazell
Memorial Fund), Kevin McGruder (Gay Men of African Descent), and others.
Kings and Queens of New York City: A Drag Summit with Stormé DeLarverié,
DIYAA (fka DRED), Flawless Sabrina, Murray Hill, Taylor Mac, Sade Pendavis.
Moderated by drag historian Joe E. Jeffreys.
Saturday, June 17,
4PM
The New York Public Library for the Performing
Arts Dorothy and
Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, Bruno Walter
Auditorium
Kings and Queens of New York City brings together
some of drag's best known names and legends. This trans-generational
congress reflects on the history of drag in the City as it considers its
changing faces, fashions, and future. The program will consist of a
multimedia discussion, performance event, and exhibition exploring male
and female impersonation.
Unities: Music of Pride and Celebration
Performance by Anthony de Mare, piano
Thursday, June 22, 6:30
P.M.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dorothy and
Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, Bruno Walter
Auditorium
Performance featuring the world premiere of "Aphorisms" (2006)
by Joseph Hallman (texts by Arthur Rimbaud and Federico García Lorca),
and works by Frederic Rzewski, Lou Harrison, Rodney Sharman (text by
Peter Eliot Weiss), Fred Hersch, Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome
Kitzke (text by Allen Ginsberg and Jerome Kitzke). The concert will be
followed by a panel featuring Mr. de Mare, Mr. Hallman, Mr. Kitzke, Mr.
Sharman, and Mr. Rzewski. Moderated by Joseph Dalton.
WORDS TO OUR NOW: Contemporary LGBT
Voices
SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 2-4 PM
Humanities and Social Sciences
Library
476 Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, Celeste Bartos Education
Center Auditorium, South Court
The second in a series of
readings celebrating the power of language and the imagination during
LGBT Pride Month, curated by the Lambda Literary Foundation, the nation's
leading advocate of LGBT literature. The Library welcomes the celebrated
voices of transgender author/activist Kate Bornstein (Hello Cruel
World: 101 Alternatives to Teen Suicide), poet Cheryl Clarke (The
Days of Good Looks), and Bernard Cooper (The Bill from my
Father) as they read from their newly published works.
Black LGBT/SGL Publishers Speak
Out
Tuesday, June 27, 6-8PM
The New York Public Library Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X
Boulevard
The second of two programs co-sponsored by the
Schomburg Center's Black Gay and Lesbian Archive will focus on cultural
publications produced by non-heterosexual people of African descent
in the
United States. It is a little known fact that the majority of black
LGBT/SGL books and periodicals have been produced by small presses
or
self-published. This panel will discuss the complicated history of
the black LGBT/SGL press, and the challenges independent and self-publishing
pose historically and currently. Panelists include Lisa C. Moore (Redbone
Press), Charlene Cothran (Venus Magazine), Colin Robinson (Other
Countries), and others. Steven G. Fullwood, project director for the
Black Gay and Lesbian Archive, will moderate the panel.
| Tying the Knot: The Union that Divided America
(82 min.), Directed by Jim DeSeve Monday, June 5, 6PM Jefferson
Market Library, 425 Avenue of the Americas An eye-opening
examination of gay marriage featuring archival footage of the 1971
storming of the Manhattan Marriage Bureau to secure a same-sex license,
through today's political war between the lesbian and gay community and
those who are determined to stop them.
Fairy Tale: The Next Gen (15 min.),
Directed by John Goodwin
Dixie Queen (47 min.), Directed by
Miles Christian Daniels
Monday, June 12, 6PM
Jefferson Market
Library, 425 Avenue of the Americas
Fairy Tale is a
hilarious animated short of what happened after "the end" of the Brothers
Grimm tale of Rumpelstiltskin. Dixie Queen is a revealing
exploration of small-town life in North Carolina. Real life homophobia,
meets the "New South" to reveal what real gay life and culture is like.
Please note that there will be a special appearance by Fairy
Tale's director John Goodwin and the two young actresses from the
film.
Naked Fame (86 min.), Directed by
Christopher Long
Monday, June 19, 6PM
Jefferson Market Library, 425
Avenue of the Americas
Gay porn stars Colton Ford and his
lover Blake Harper decide to leave the world of adult entertainment behind
them as they reach the age of 40. This documentary traces the progress of
this long-term couple, with Blake now resuming nursing and Colton tackling
a new career as a singer songwriter.
My Sister, My Bride (26 min.), Directed
by Bonnie Burt
Bachelor or Farmer (58 min.), Directed by
Michael Culpepper
Monday, June 26, 6PM
Jefferson Market Library, 425
Avenue of the Americas
My Sister, My Bride is an
extraordinary journey of two lesbian partners who first have a Jewish
commitment ceremony in Nevada and then travel to San Francisco to get
married in a civil-ceremony during the single month in 2004 when it was
legal. Bachelor Farmeris an intimate look at the lives of the very few gay
men who live within the small town of Kendrick, Idaho, population 369. It
is a rich story about community in the most unlikely of places.
Lesbian Cinema Arts Presents: Best Lesbian
Shorts
Friday, June 23, Cocktail Reception 6-7PM, Screening 7PM
The
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th
Street
Kick
off pride weekend with summer cocktails and fresh new lesbian short
films.
Admission: $10
The Lady in Question is Charles Busch (94
min.), Directed by John Catania & Charles Ignacio
Thursday, June 15
at 6PM
Donnell Library Center, 20 West 53rd
Street
Charles
Busch, star and grande dame of stage and screen, has managed to channel
his childhood obsession with classic Hollywood movies of the 1930s – 1960s
into a remarkable and still evolving career. The Lady in Question is
Charles Busch also serves as a testament to the vibrant and quirky
East Village performing scene of the 1980s where Mr. Busch got his break
before developing his Off-Broadway and later Broadway reputation as a
popular drag star and writer. The film is fully punctuated with rare
interviews and archival clips documenting his rise to stardom.
There will be a special appearance by Charles Busch and the film's
directors John Catania and Charles Ignacio.
Ballets Russes (118 min.), Directed by D.
Geller & D. Goldfine
Thursday, June 1, 2:30PM
Donnell Library
Center, 20 West 53rd Street
The passing of ballet impresario
Serge Diaghilev in 1929 left a void not only in his famed company but
also, in the world of dance. Ballets Russes is the extraordinary
story of what became of this evolutionary company and of show business in
the mid 20th century, which encompassed both the most exalted expression
of pure art and the grubby commerce that sustained it.
W.T.C. View (102 min.), Directed by Brian
Sloan
Thursday, June 8, 2:30PM
Donnell Library Center, 20 West 53rd
Street
After placing an advertisement on 9/10 for a new
roommate, a young man struggles to keep his emotional and financial
balance in the weeks following 9/11. W.T.C. View is an
emotionally haunting film that captures life in downtown Manhattan after
the attack on the World Trade Towers and how New York and its residents
were irreversibly changed by that event. There will be a special
appearance by the film's director Brian Sloan.
When I'm 64 (87 min.), Directed by Tony
Grounds
Thursday, June 15, 2:30PM
Donnell Library Center, 20 West
53rd Street
A recently retired boarding-school teacher and a
widowed cab driver meet and a strange friendship evolves between them. But
in order to move forward, they must come to terms with the lives they have
been living. From their different backgrounds they form a deep loving
bond, while dealing with the questions of aging, sexuality, and the
difficulties caused by interfering family members.
Coventry (91 min.), Directed by Jonathan
Foster
Thursday, June 22, 2:30PM
Donnell Library Center, 20 West
53rd Street
Before Brokeback Mountain there was
Coventry, according to Variety: "Charming, old Hollywood… having
gay-themed fare set in a historical, rural context makes for a
refreshingly welcome change." A Catholic farmer and his Protestant wife
raised their children to be tolerant and "follow their hearts." But when
the mother dies unexpectedly, the farm goes on the auction block and
their
grown children must join forces to save it, battling society's prejudices
and overcoming their own. There will be a special appearance by the film's
director, J.T. Foster.
Take the Flame! Gay Games: Grace, Grit and
Glory (85 min.), Directed byDavid Secter
Thursday, June 29, 2:30PM
Donnell Library Center, 20 West 53rd Street
For 24 years,
the Gay Games has been host to over 14,000 athletes participating every
four years, far more than the Olympic Games, because any adult can compete
regardless of sexual orientation, gender, race, nationality, health
status, or physical, athletic, or artistic ability. Take The
Flame! contains rare archival footage of the games, and is also a
documentary of Gay Games founder Tom Waddell, a participant in the 1968
Olympic Games in Mexico City. This film is presented as a tribute to Tom
Waddell and the upcoming Gay Games, which are to be held in Chicago, July
15- 22.
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