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Join San Francisco Public Library’s 2018 PRIDE Programs this June! Adults life lived amidst widespread violence and represents SATURDAY JUNE 2, 2:00-4:00 PM Black gay men’s collective, political longings for futures *Film: The Danish Girl - Danish painter Einar Wegener beyond the forces of anti-blackness and anti-queerness. begins living as a woman named Lili Elbe and undergoes one of the world's first gender-reassignment surgeries in Dr. Bost is Assistant Professor of Sexuality Studies and the 1930s. Lili struggles with her new identity as it strains Assistant Director of the Center for Research and her marriage to artist Gerda Wegener. Education on Gender and Sexuality, San Francisco State Chinatown University, and author of Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence, TUESDAY JUNE 5, 4:00-8:00 PM 2019, University of Chicago Press. Sponsored by the Pride Kick-off: Drag Queen Movie Fest - In To Wong Foo, African American Center of San Francisco Public Library. Thanks for Everything, Noxeema, Vida, and Chi-Chi travel African American Center, Main across the US to make it big in Hollywood! Then thunder your way down under to see how queens in Australia THURSDAY JUNE 7, 12:00-2:00 PM take their show on the road in The Adventures of Priscilla, *Thursdays at Noon Films: One Wedding and a Queen of the Desert. Dress up, dress down, come as you Revolution - On Feb. 12, 2004, pioneering lesbian are with an open heart and mind. activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon are officially wed by Excelsior San Francisco City Hall officials on their 51st anniversary, after then-Mayor Gavin Newsom makes the historic TUESDAY JUNE 5, 6:00-7:30 PM decision to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Black/Queer Optimism in the Early Era of AIDS - Presentation by Dr. Darius Bost. From the late 70s to This Pride, we are celebrating the works of award- mid-90s, Black gay men produced a rich body of cultural winning local lesbian documentary filmmaker, educator, work – poetry, fiction, literary journals and anthologies, and activist Debra Chasnoff, who died last November at magazines newspapers, performance and visual art – to the age of 60. narrate their experiences with everyday struggles against Koret Auditorium, Main racism, capitalism, homophobia, and HIV/AIDS. Many THURSDAY JUNE 7, 3:30-6:00 PM prominent gay writers of this period succumbed to AIDS- *Movie Screening: Brokeback Mountain - A ranch hand related illnesses, lending to readings of Black gay social and a rodeo cowboy meet on a herding gig and life in the early era of AIDS as wholly determined by unwittingly fall in love. They have a long-running affair, (social) death. While acknowledging that the black gay while each maintains a heterosexual lifestyle. Directed body was a site of loss in the early era of AIDS, Dr. Bost by Ang Lee. Starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, explores how black gay literature and culture produced Rated R. 132 mins. Refreshments provided. during this period insists upon the fact of black gay social Ocean View
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THURSDAY JUNE 7, 6:00-8:00 PM surveillance, and incarceration because he was a gay *RADAR Superstar - Join RADAR for its annual birthday man and a political dissident. Popcorn will be served. and SuperStar Pride Program! Featuring: Arisa White, Anza Grace Towers, Brontez Purnell, and Jewelle Gomez. TUESDAY JUNE 12, 6:00-8:00 PM Hosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera and sponsored by the Eureka Valley Movie Night: Any Day Now - The story of James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of SFPL. a gay couple's battle to maintain custody of a teen with Koret Auditorium, Main Down Syndrome. Inspired by real events from the 1970s. THURSDAY JUNE 7, 6:30-8:30 PM Eureka Valley First Thursday Movies @ Excelsior: Milk - Examines the THURSDAY JUNE 14, 12:00-2:00 PM life and assassination of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay *Thursdays at Noon Films: Straightlaced: How Gender’s man elected to political office in California. Starring Sean Got us All Tied Up - Teens talk about pressures around Penn. 129 mins. gender and sexuality in this 2009 documentary. Excelsior This Pride Month, we are celebrating the works of award- FRIDAY JUNE 8, 2:00-4:00 PM winning local lesbian documentary filmmaker, educator, *Friday Matinee: Milk - Examines the life and and activist Debra Chasnoff, who died last November at assassination of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man the age of 60. elected to political office in California. Starring Sean Koret Auditorium, Main Penn. 129 mins. Noe Valley SATURDAY JUNE 16, 1:00-3:00 PM Black LGBT Awards - Honoring black LGBTQIA recipients. SATURDAY JUNE 9, 2:00-4:00 PM Short film highlighting famous and influential black LGBTQ Fiction Collection Launch Party - Join us to LGBTQIA persons. celebrate the newly-created LGBTQ Fiction Collection Koret Auditorium, Main with music, activities, book recommendations, and more. Stong Room - 1st Floor, Main SUNDAY JUNE 17, 12:30-2:30 PM *Sprightly in the Hormel Center: Multi-purpose crafts SUNDAY JUNE 10, 1:00-4:00 PM for LGBTQIA young adults ages 18-25 - Sprightly is a two- *LGBTQIA Wikipedia Editathon - Want to learn how to hour event for young adults ages 18-25 to craft and edit Wikipedia? Are you an experienced editor wanting connect in the center. Join us every Sunday 12:30-2:30 to make a local connection? Do you treasure the library’s pm (excluding holidays) to participate in our queer craft. LGBTQIA collection? Do you want to make a real impact This month we are focusing on crafting for Pride. Join us on the way information is created? Join our LGBTQIA to make posters and accessories. Snacks provided. Edit-a-thon to encourage diverse editorship and improve LGBTQIA Center, Main coverage of local LGBTQIA topics on Wikipedia. We can work toward creating one new entry and expanding at THURSDAY JUNE 21, 12:00-2:00 PM least five existing entries to share with the world! *Thursdays at Noon Films: That’s a Family: A Film for Kids about Family Diversity - Children describe their own We will provide training, and librarians will be available families and explain concepts like "birth mom," "mixed to assist with research. Feel free to bring your laptop. We race," "gay and lesbian," and "stepdad” in this will also have computers available for use in the library. documentary for elementary-school students. 5th Floor Computer Training Center, Main This Pride Month, we are celebrating the works of award- SUNDAY JUNE 10, 2:00-4:00 PM winning local lesbian documentary filmmaker, educator, Before Night Falls, June Sunday Matinee - Based on and activist Debra Chasnoff, who died last November at Cuban novelist and poet Reinaldo Arenas' memoir by the the age of 60. same title, the film portrays Arenas' life, first in Castro's Koret Auditorium, Main Cuba and then in exile in the US. Arenas endured pursuit,
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SATURDAY JUNE 23, 2:00-3:00 PM *Author Kevin Killian - Poet, novelist, playwright, art All Ages critic, and scholar Kevin Killian explores themes of risk, iconography, invisibility, and vulnerability, weaving SATURDAY JUNE 16, 12:00-3:00 PM fragments of misremembered conversation, sex, and Eureka Valley Open House - Join us as we celebrate cultural ephemera into his collage-based poems. Pride. Come enjoy a fun afternoon of music, stories, and North Beach entertainment. A special storytime by The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will begin at 2:00. All are welcome! THURSDAY JUNE 28, 12:00-2:00 PM Eureka Valley *Thursdays at Noon Films: Let’s Get Real: Students on Bias & Bullying - Middle school students share their TUESDAY JUNE 19, 6:00-8:00 PM experiences of bullying and being bullied, in the context Crown & Tiara Workshop: Pride Bling! - Everyone needs of racial differences, perceived sexual orientation, a tiara! Right!?! Join us and get your fabulous self ready religious differences, sexual harassment, and more. for Pride Weekend. Supplies provided. Bernal Heights This Pride Month, we are celebrating the works of award- winning local lesbian documentary filmmaker, educator, and activist Debra Chasnoff, who died last November at Children the age of 60. Koret Auditorium, Main THURSDAY JUNE 7, 10:30-11:30 AM Rainbow Storytime - Join us for a special family storytime celebrating LGBTQI Pride. All families welcome. Teens West Portal
MONDAY JUNE 11, 3:00-4:30 PM (PORTOLA) SATURDAY JUNE 9, 4:00-5:00 PM TUESDAY JUNE 12, 1:00-2:30 PM (ORTEGA) *Rainbow Beaded Bracelets! - Get ready for the Pride Queer Qulture Qamp, with 14 Black Poppies - Create Parade with a fun, fabulous rainbow bracelet! All protest signs, buttons, and other adornments while supplies provided, young children may need help from an learning about LGBTQI icons and iconography at Queer adult. Call to sign up: 415-355-2822 Qulture Qamp with Midori and Jason. It's an engaging Potrero way to learn queer history and express your civic voice. SUNDAY JUNE 17, 2:00-3:30 PM SATURDAY JUNE 16, 7:00-9:00 PM Get Ready for the Pride Parade - We provide supplies to Youth Speaks Queeriosity - Since 1999, Queeriosity has make signs, necklaces, paper hats, and whatever your been LGBTQIA+ centered performance hosted by Youth else you can dream up for the big celebration. There Speaks. The event explores the personal and historical might be paint involved, so dress accordingly to make narratives that (re)frame perceptions of language, those fabulous posters to celebrate our LGBTQI family sexuality & gender. We aim create a place where diverse and friends. Make posters, make pals, make Pride! populations of queer youth and their allies can come Excelsior together and declare themselves present and unafraid. Koret Auditorium, Main
SUNDAY JUNE 24, 2:00-4:00 PM Teen Matinee: Kinky Boots - A 4th generation shoe company is saved by a drag queen's fresh take on fashionable apparel. Based on a true story, this film also inspired the award winning musical. Come watch with us, and if the mood strikes you, feel free to sing along! Anza
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TUESDAY JUNE 19, 2:30-3:30 PM SUNDAY JUNE 24, 1:15-1:45 PM *Drag Queen Story Hour, with Panda Dulce - RADAR LGBTQI Rainbow Storytime - Join as we read books, sing Productions and SFPL present Drag Queen Story Hour. songs, and rhyme rhymes in a family storytime that Join us for a unique and unforgettable story hour, celebrates LGBTQI Pride Month! featuring face painting and cookies! Merced
Panda Dulce is a San Francisco native drag princess who SUNDAY JUNE 24, 2:00-3:00 PM loves donuts, thick books, SZA, and the color sea foam *STEMpede Sunday: Rainbow Magnets green. Her work, combining drag performance, Merced multimedia journalism and community engagement, has been spotlighted at SFMOMA, on National Public Radio, VICE, Huffington Post, FUSION, MTV and NBC, amongst other fabulous outlets. If you want to make Panda happy, make friends with someone who is different from yourself. Eureka Valley
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