Black gay film fest debuts

Oakland Tribune ^ | 08/07/03 | Staff Writer

[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

[bedolido]

Black and Gay... all we need is Obese and we'd have a Tri-Fecta Fiesta.

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[Hank Rearden]

I'll be at home, celebrating quietly. Between barfs.

[pogo101]

Maybe they could fool conservatives into attending by highlighting the film PARIS IS BURNING.

[Paul Atreides]

More like Tri-Fecal.

[Roughneck]

Minority groups within minority groups, within minority groups, within minority groups...everyone wants to be special.

[Tacis]

I certainly hope that ALL the democrat candidates for president will use this opportunity to build some bridges with this very important dem constituency.

[Mr. Bird]

I remember the first time I saw that tagline, I laughed out loud. Same thing happens when I read your "between barfs" comment. thanks.

[El Conservador]

No, the trifecta is the black lesbian: Black, woman and homosexual. Now that's a trifecta!!!

[beelzepug]

Of course, in Coliform-ia. Ick.

[JesseHousman]

Black gay film fest debuts

As if American negroes didn't have enough problems.

[Old Professer]

Clubrimshot?

[Contra]

Now that's what I call equal rights - blacks have just as much right to be sickening queers as every other race.

[putupon]

The First Black Gay Co-President

[T Lady]

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.

[swilhelm73]

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 ;)

[Paul Atreides]

They certainly are getting all the affirmative action bases covered.

[Paul Atreides]

Maya Angelou must have missed mentioning them, on Inauguration Day '93.

[martin_fierro]

If while in a San Francisco bar someone offers to "push in your stool," don't walk -- RUN -- away.

[clintonh8r]

Time for a pic of the guys who reviewed films on "In Living Color".