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Festivals and Events
Art Exhibitions
Cultural Calendar
FILM FESTIVALS
Seattle Translations: Transgender Film Festival May 7–10.
Portland, OR Queer Documentary Film Festival May 14–17.
San Diego FilmOut LGBT Film Festival May 29–31.
Toronto Inside Out LGBT Film and Video Festival May 21–31.
Hartford, CT Out Film Festival May 29–June 6.
EVENTS
Queers & Comics Conf. will be held at CLAGS in NYC, May 7-
8. Celebrate and explore queer cartoonists and their work. For info,
visit:
Lambda Literary Awards 25th annual ceremony will be held in
New York City, at Cooper Union, on the evening of June 1.
Netroots Nation Conf. Practical training for activists in a range
of issues, including gay rights. In Phoenix, AZ, July 16–19. Visit:
OutWrite Book Fair in Washington, DC happens July 30–Aug. 1.
(See ad at right.)
NLGJA Media Summit National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Assn.
will convene in San Francisco, Sept. 3–6. Visit:
LGBT Leaders 2015 Int’l leadership conf. of the G&L Victory In-
stitute will be held in Las Vegas, Nov. 19–22. Focus is on electing
GLBT people to public office. Visit:
Readers are invited to submit items at no charge. Must have rele-
vance to a national (US) readership. E-mail to:
Be sure to allow at least a month’s lead time for any listing.
Tab Hunter Confidential (Jeffrey Schwarz). Documentary about
the 1950s matinee idol, whose status as a teen idol and straight stud
belied his secret life as a gay man.
Tiger Orange (Wade Gasque). Drama traces the California reunion
of two estranged brothers, both gay, one a closeted introvert, the
other an out and outgoing hunk.
Welcome To This House (Barbara Hammer). Documentary about
poet Elizabeth Bishop visits the homes in which she resided, wrote
poetry, and conducted love affairs with various women.
Out Weekend at Jacob’s Pillow The Berkshires dance festival
welcomes GLBT people all summer long, esp. during Out Week-
end, July 3–5 this year. Visit
Come Back Again So I Can Say Goodbye Labyrinth Dance The-
ater’s dramatic show at the Alvin Ailey Theater in NYC on June 8.
Benefit will spotlight artists many artists lost to AIDS.
Naked Boys Singing The musical revue is back Off Broadway,
featuring eight naked dudes singing 15 original songs in “New
York’s most outrageous musical comedy.” At the Kirk Theatre.
See Dance Differently Weekend-long festival in the Fire Island
Pines features top choreographers from Broadway to ballet. Pro-
duced by Dancers Responding to AIDS. Visit:
Sex Tips for a Straight Woman from a Gay Man Off-Broadway
play about a play about the title topic. At the 777 Theatre.
Thoroughly Muslim Millie, a musical parody by Ryan Landry and
the Gold Dust Orphans, will play all summer in Provincetown.
Theater / Dance
Feature Films
52 Tuesdays (directed by Sophie Hyde). Australian film traces a
year of Tuesday afternoons in the life of 16-year-old Billie, whose
mother has begun gender transition.
The Cult of JT Leroy (Marjorie Sturm). Documentary explores the
scandal following the discovery of JT Leroy’s “memoirs” were ac-
tually the creation of female writer Laura Albert.
Drown (Dean Francis). Australian drama (based on a hit play) fo-
cuses on two lifeguards whose confused feelings toward each
other—and about being gay—set off a complicated chain of events.
Larry Kramer in Love and Anger (Jean Carlomusto). HBO doc-
umentary is a “warts and all” treatment of the life and times of the
activist, novelist, and playwright.
Nasty Baby (Sebastián Silva). Drama about a gay couple that’s try-
ing to have a baby with the help of their best friend (Kristen Wiig).
The Remake (Lynne Alana Delaney, Timothy Delaney). Comedy
about two actors who worked together years ago—and had an off-
screen romance—now reunited for a remake of their first film.
Seed Money (Michael Stabile). Documentary tells the story of
Chuck Holmes, a San Francisco pornographer turned philanthro-
pist and booster of gay groups that later turned against him.
I Am: A Trans Fourteen transgender artists from around the US
present their work in a range of visual media. At the Waterloo Arts
Gallery, Cleveland, thru May 25. Go to:
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic Portraits of African-American
individuals raise questions about race & gender. At the Brooklyn
Museum now thru May 24. Visit:
Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals Retrospective
features 200+ of the artist’s works at the Peabody Essex Museum in
Salem, MA, thru June 21. (See p. 50.) Visit:
Can She Hear You! Installations by Martín Gutierrez explore mod-
ern relationships and gender roles. Thru May 9 at the Ryan Lee
Gallery, New York. Visit:
Changing Views: Queering U.S. Landscapes At Univ. of Arizona
Museum of Art, Tucson, thru August. Visit:
C ALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Upcoming Issues of The GLR
The Gay & Lesbian Review accepts unsolicited manuscripts and
proposals on all GLBT-related topics. Especially sought are pro-
posals on the following themes for issues in development:
• New York, NY: America’s First City in GLBT history & culture
• The Dance: The GLBT influence from classical to contemporary
• Beyond Marriage Equality: What’s next for the movement?
Please e-mail your proposal to the Editor a