No. 537 • September 24, 2015 • outwordmagazine.com Annual Special Issue! Mavis Staples and Joan Osborne Team Up at Mondavi page 21 SIGLFF Pays Tribute Steve Hansen Kicks SIGLFF Returns with Three to Jerry Sloan Off Bid for Re-election Days of Queer Films page 6 page 6 page 20 COLOR COLOR COLOR LGBT Student Guide Available Outword Dear Outword Readers, SoCal’s Frontiers As you likely know, LGBTQ youth are at a much higher risk for being bullied. In fact, 86 percent of LGBTQ students have experienced at Magazine Staff least one form of harassment at school. 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Pacific International Exposition of 1915 Showcasing historic treasures from 23 (California State Archives); photographs of Northern California institutions, special Folsom Powerhouse (California State artifacts will be on public display for Library); a photographic exhibit on the one-day-only at four host locations, including history of electrical power generation in the California State Archives, the California Sacramento (Center for Sacramento History); State Library, and the Center for photographs, Sacramento newsletters, History, and yearbooks, the and artifacts Sacramento from the Public Library. former Mather The Archives and McClellan Crawl will Air Force feature a Bases “History (Sacramento Scavenger Public Hunt,” where Library). K-12 students The answer following is a questions list of the host about the locations and documents the and artifacts repositories on display at that will be the four crawl tabling at locations. each. Those correctly Participants answering ten may start at of the clues are One of the historical images from the collections of the any of the four then eligible to Archives that have been printed as coasters and will be locations: enter a drawing given as prizes for the “History Scavenger Hunt.” California for a chance to State Archives win two iPad minis, one for a K-5 student (1020 O Street); California State Library (900 and another for a 6-12 student. N Street); Center for Sacramento History As part of the Archives Crawl, participants (551 Sequoia Pacific Blvd); and the can visit four host locations, all located Sacramento Public Library, Sacramento within downtown Sacramento. At the four Room (828 I Street) locations, the public can view archival For more information about the 5th collections on display and take behind-the- annual Sacramento Archives Crawl, please scenes tours. visit www.sacarchivescrawl.blogspot.com. outwordmagazine.com September 24, 2015 - October 8, 2015 • No. 537 Outword Magazine 5 COLOR SIGLFF Pays Tribute to Jerry Sloan commentary by Scott Brozek here are so many ways of saying thank you to a friend who could produce the tape proving that he did. Sloan produced the tape, and with the is very close and dear in your life for what they have done help of attorney Rosemary Metrailer, a Tand what they continue to do. Dinner. Coffee. A huge hug. Sacramento court awarded him $5,000, But here at the Sacramento International plus $3,982.90 for legal expenses. Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (SIGLFF) we With that seed money Jerry started the wanted to recognize the contributions to the Lambda Center, the first LGBT center Sacramento LGBT community by Jerry here in Sacramento where many of us Sloan in a special way. So we thought what have crossed the threshold in our youth better way than to honor him at this year’s or as adults to seeks help, friendship, festival and to present him with a lifetime camaraderie or just to go to a group so membership and VIP Pass to all SIGLFF we could let our hair down and feel events. comfortable enough to be who we are For those of you who do not know Jerry, and say stuff that we wouldn’t say out in here is a little Sacramento LGBT history 411. public. One of Jerry’s great moments was proving So thank you Jerry from the bottom of that his old friend and seminary classmate, my heart and for all the tens of thousands Jerry Falwell, yes the one and only TV of people that have crossed through the evangelist and co-founder of the Moral threshold of the Center in its many Majority, was a liar. It started on Friday, July incarnations. 13, 1984, when Falwell appeared live on a When you see Jerry at the film festival Sacramento TV talk show. this year, Oct. 8, 9 and 10 at the Crest Sloan was in the studio audience, and Jerry Sloan Theatre, I want you to go up to him and when Falwell took questions from the say thank you.