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Black gay film fest debuts
Oakland Tribune ^ | 08/07/03 | Staff Writer

Posted on 08/07/2003 11:21:44 AM PDT by bedolido

THE inaugural International Black Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Film Festival kicks off Tuesday at Oakland's Parkway Theater. The film festival is part of "Bay Area Black In the Life," a weeklong celebration of African and African-American gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender life and culture.

The two-day event -- held Aug. 12 and 17 -- features films and shorts taking a look at the lives of famous and not-so-famous black gays and lesbians from around the globe.

Featured opening day films are "The Edge of Each Other's Battles," an award-winning documentary that examines the work of Audre Lorde, screening at 6:30 p.m.; and "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin," winner of the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Best Documentary Award, showing at 9:15 p.m.

Accompanying shorts screening opening day include "Butch Mystique," a look at butch African-American life, and "A Different Kind of Black Man," discussions with successful, black gay men.

The Aug. 17 screenings highlight a mixture of features and shorts, starting at 3 p.m. and concluding with the feature "Dakan," perhaps the first film on homosexuality from sub-Sahara Africa, airing at 6 p.m.

The film festival kicks off at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Parkway Theatre, 1834 Park Blvd., Oakland.

For more information, call 814-2400 or visit www.clubrimshot.com


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: black; debuts; fest; film; gay; hollyweird
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Black and Gay... all we need is Obese and we'd have a Tri-Fecta Fiesta.
1 posted on 08/07/2003 11:21:45 AM PDT by bedolido
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To: rdb3; Khepera; elwoodp; MAKnight; condolinda; mafree; Trueblackman; FRlurker; Teacher317; ...
Black conservative ping

If you want on (or off) of my black conservative ping list, please let me know via FREEPmail. (And no, you don't have to be black to be on the list!)

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2 posted on 08/07/2003 11:22:54 AM PDT by mhking
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To: bedolido
I'll be at home, celebrating quietly. Between barfs.
3 posted on 08/07/2003 11:22:56 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Dick Gephardt. Before he dicks you.)
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To: bedolido
Maybe they could fool conservatives into attending by highlighting the film PARIS IS BURNING.
4 posted on 08/07/2003 11:23:03 AM PDT by pogo101
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To: bedolido
More like Tri-Fecal.
5 posted on 08/07/2003 11:23:04 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: bedolido
Minority groups within minority groups, within minority groups, within minority groups...everyone wants to be special.
6 posted on 08/07/2003 11:28:56 AM PDT by Roughneck (Starve the Beast!)
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To: bedolido
I certainly hope that ALL the democrat candidates for president will use this opportunity to build some bridges with this very important dem constituency.
7 posted on 08/07/2003 11:29:08 AM PDT by Tacis
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To: Hank Rearden
I remember the first time I saw that tagline, I laughed out loud. Same thing happens when I read your "between barfs" comment. thanks.
8 posted on 08/07/2003 11:29:18 AM PDT by Mr. Bird
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To: bedolido
No, the trifecta is the black lesbian: Black, woman and homosexual. Now that's a trifecta!!!
9 posted on 08/07/2003 11:32:14 AM PDT by El Conservador ("No blood for oil!"... Then don't drive, you moron!!!)
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To: Paul Atreides
Of course, in Coliform-ia. Ick.
10 posted on 08/07/2003 11:32:14 AM PDT by beelzepug (incessantly yapping for change)
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Black gay film fest debuts

As if American negroes didn't have enough problems.

11 posted on 08/07/2003 11:33:35 AM PDT by JesseHousman
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To: bedolido
Clubrimshot?
12 posted on 08/07/2003 11:33:46 AM PDT by Old Professer
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To: bedolido
Now that's what I call equal rights - blacks have just as much right to be sickening queers as every other race.
13 posted on 08/07/2003 11:36:48 AM PDT by Contra
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To: bedolido

The First Black Gay Co-President

14 posted on 08/07/2003 11:39:08 AM PDT by putupon (I'm so fine when I opine in my Tag Line.)
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To: bedolido
Oh, no!

...This is just another attempt by the hard Left to keep Blacks on the DemocRAT plantation (of course I say this with plenty of sarcasm).

-Regards, T.
15 posted on 08/07/2003 11:42:08 AM PDT by T Lady (.Freed From the Dimocratic Shackles since 1992)
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To: bedolido
Ok, but when the is the Eskimo-Hermaphrodite-Homosexual-Zorostrian-Raelian film festival??? This is a sure sign of discrimination against Eskimo-Homosexual-Transvestite-Zorostrian-Raelians ;)
16 posted on 08/07/2003 11:42:26 AM PDT by swilhelm73
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To: Roughneck
They certainly are getting all the affirmative action bases covered.
17 posted on 08/07/2003 11:46:23 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: swilhelm73
Maya Angelou must have missed mentioning them, on Inauguration Day '93.
18 posted on 08/07/2003 11:48:30 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Paul Atreides
If while in a San Francisco bar someone offers to "push in your stool," don't walk -- RUN -- away.
19 posted on 08/07/2003 12:10:43 PM PDT by martin_fierro (A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
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To: bedolido
Time for a pic of the guys who reviewed films on "In Living Color".
20 posted on 08/07/2003 12:11:52 PM PDT by clintonh8r (You can have no better friend and no worse enemy than a United States Marine.)
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