KQED celebrates Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Month Program and Resource Guide • June 2008 Saturday 7 1:30pm KQED 9 & HD | Anyone and Everyone | P | RR 6/4 7:30pm | R 6/8 9pm (KQED World) 4:00pm KQED World | Freedom Files | H | Free- dom to Marry: Same-Sex Couples features three couples who are part of a Maryland KQED public television proudly lawsuit seeking to overturn state law that celebrates the diversity of our bars lesbians and gay men from marriage. community with a special lineup 4:30pm KQED World | Freedom Files | H | Freedom in June on KQED Channel 9 and to Parent: Lesbian and Gay Families follows our digital channels, which are a bill in Arkansas aimed at preventing gay available to viewers with a digital people and straight unmarried couples from receiver or via Comcast digital fostering or adopting children. cable. 5:00pm KQED World | Visionaries Wired Soldier: Anyone and Everyone. Pictured, the Locas family from North Programs The digital channels in this Medical Innovation at the VA/Gay Policing: Carolina. Photo: courtesy APT. listing are KQED Life-Encore Born of Silence. Learn how the Department (9.2, Comcast 189), KQED World Wednesday 4 of Veteran’s Affairs developed an innovative (9.3, Comcast 190) and the electronic medical record system, and hear high-definition channel KQED EVENING the story of how the Washington, D.C, police department learned to protect and defend HD (9.1, Comcast 709). Some of 7:30pm KQED 9 & HD | Anyone and Everyone communities that feared cops more than these programs repeat additional | H | P | offers poignant and often heart- their attackers. times on our digital channels. Visit breaking stories of families across the country who have a gay child. | R 6/5 1pm kqed.org/dtv for the complete 5:30pm KQED World | ACLU Freedom Files Gay (KQED 9); 6/6 3am, 6/7 1:30pm (KQED 9 & and Lesbian Rights. Members of lesbian and digital program schedule. HD); 6/8 9pm (KQED World) gay families talk about the destructive impact 9:00pm KQED 9 & HD | Queen Rock Montreal of discrimination on their daily lives, and their efforts to win full civil rights and equality. PROGRAMMING SYMBOLS | H | P | This special was recorded at the Montreal Forum in November 1981—the first EVENING q This program is a KQED show was exactly 10 years to the day before production or presentation. 10:00pm KQED World | Frontline The Age of AIDS, Freddy Mercury’s death. The band performs Part 1 of 2. Through interviews with AIDS H This program is airing on KQED “We Will Rock You,” “Pressure” and other researchers, world leaders, activists and for the first time. hits. | R 6/7 11:30pm (KQED 9 & HD) patients, Frontline investigates the science, P This broadcast will be interrupted 10:30pm KQED 9 & HD | The Castro | q | P | chron- the politics and the human cost of this fateful by pledge intermissions. icles the saga of how a quiet, working-class disease, and asks: What are the lessons of R This program will be repeated on San Francisco neighborhood of European the past, and what must be done to stop the date noted. immigrants gave way to a new community AIDS? (Part two airs June 8, at 10pm.) RR This program is a repeat. See that has become an international symbol of 11:30pm KQED 9 & HD | Queen Rock Montreal noted date and time of original gay liberation. | P | RR 6/4 9pm broadcast for program description. Thursday 5 Sunday 8 Programs are subject to change. 1:00pm KQED 9 | Anyone and Everyone | P | RR For the latest information, call EVENING 6/4 7:30pm | R 6/6 3am, 6/7 1:30pm (KQED 10:00pm KQED World | Frontline The Age of AIDS, 415.553.2215 or view our listings 9 & HD); 6/8 9pm (KQED World) at kqed.org. For a list of changes Part 2 of 2. 2:30pm KQED 9 | F.A.Q. | q | LGBT Pride. The only, visit kqed.org/tvchanges. If process of growing older can be complicated you are recording a program, Queen Rock Montreal. Photo: APT. and challenging for everyone, but LGBT se- please allow five minutes for early niors face unique difficulties.| R 6/6 4:30am starts and late finishes. (KQED 9 & HD); 6/8 6:30pm (KQED World); 6/16 1:30pm (KQED Life-Encore); 6/22 2:30pm (KQED 9); 6/30 2:30am & 7:30pm (KQED 9 & HD) Cover: The Castro, airs Wednesday, June 4, Friday 6 at 10:30pm. EARLY Photo: Dong Lin 3:00am KQED 9 & HD | Anyone and Everyone | P | RR 6/4 7:30pm | R 6/7 1:30pm (KQED 9 & HD); 6/8 9pm (KQED World) 4:30am KQED 9 & HD | F.A.Q. | q | LGBT Pride. | RR 6/5 2:30pm | R 6/8 6:30pm (KQED World); 6/16 1:30pm (KQED Life-Encore); 6/22 2:30pm (KQED 9); 6/30 2:30am & 7:30pm (KQED 9 & HD) Wednesday 11 6:00pm KQED 9 | Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories | q | Screaming Queens: The Riot EVENING at Compton’s Cafeteria. This documen- 11:00pm KQED Life-Encore | In the Life Voices of tary introduces the diverse cast of former Pride reflects on stories that have propelled prostitutes, drag entertainers, police officers, the LGBT community forward. ministers and neighborhood activists that played a part in the events leading up to the 1966 riot at Compton’s Cafeteria in San Thursday 12 Francisco. | R 6/21 3am (KQED 9) EVENING 9:00pm KQED Life-Encore | P.O.V. Wrestling with 8:00pm KQED 9 | Rock Hudson: Tall, Dark and Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner. Oscar- Handsome Discover how this dreamer with winning director Freida Lee Mock followed Just As We Are: Tal Como Somos no experience became the hottest box-office Kushner for three tumultuous years, from Photo: courtesy Juneteenth Productions. September 11, 2001, to the 2004 presidential property in the world. | R 11pm (KQED Life- EVENING Encore); 6/14 3am (KQED 9) election, to delve into the passions that keep him reaching for the great American play. 8:59pm KQED 9 & HD | Just As We Are: Tal Como 10:03pm KQED 9 | Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Somos | H | This bilingual documentary Judy! Judy! Judy! | H | Singer Rufus Wain- candidly portrays seven gay, bisexual and wright sets out to replicate Judy Garland’s Monday 16 transgender Latinos, the cultural ties that 1961 album Judy at Carnegie Hall. | R 6/13 bind them and the consequences they face EVENING 9pm (KQED Life-Encore); 6/14 11:35pm for their sexual orientations. Challenging (KQED 9) 7:30pm KQED 9 & HD | The Josh Kornbluth Show stereotypes, these individuals dare to risk | q | Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco everything for their truth. 11:00pm KQED 9 | In the Life | H | Leading the Way. Symphony Music Director. | R 6/20 2:30am, This episode of the pioneering documentary 11:34pm KQED 9 | Spark | q | Django Reinhardt, 6/22 6am (KQED 9 & HD); 6/22 9:30pm series celebrates people, places and events Sean Dorsey and Kerry Laitala. | RR 6/18 (KQED Life-Encore) that display the remarkable courage and 7:30pm | R 6/21 2pm (KQED Life-Encore); diversity found in the LGBT community, 6/22 6:30am, 6/23 3am, 6/24 2:30am (KQED including openly lesbian director Francesca Wednesday 18 9 & HD) Zambello (pictured below). | R 6/13 10pm EVENING (KQED Life-Encore) Saturday 21 7:30pm KQED 9 & HD | Spark | q | H | Django Reinhardt, Sean Dorsey and Kerry Laitala EARLY Friday 13 includes a visit with choreographer Sean 3:00am KQED 9 | Truly CA: Our State, Our Dorsey, who is carving out new space for EVENING Stories | q | Screaming Queens: The Riot transgender and queer artists in modern 9:00pm KQED 9 & HD | Why We Sing! looks at the at Compton’s Cafeteria. | RR 6/15 6pm dance. | R 6/20 11:34pm (KQED 9); 6/21 transformative power of gay, lesbian and 2pm (KQED Life-Encore); 6/22 6:30am, 6/23 4:00am KQED 9 | Independent Lens The Great transgender choral music and examines 3am, 6/24 2:30am (KQED 9 & HD) Pink Scare explores the fierce clash between what motivates these singers while tracing an individual’s right to privacy and concerns the struggles of gay and transgender people. for national security. | R 6/15 2am (KQED 9 & HD) Friday 20 EVENING 10:00pm KQED HD | Power of Harmony This film EARLY 11:04pm KQED Life-Encore | video i Lesbian and focuses on the personal experiences of men 2:30am KQED 9 & HD | The Josh Kornbluth Show Transgender Cinema features an eclectic who find inspiration and courage in a gay | q | Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco group of short films and documentaries that men’s chorale that’s thriving in the heart of Symphony Music Director. | R 6/22 6am highlight important LGBT voices from the the Bible Belt. (KQED 9 & HD), 9:30pm (KQED Life-Encore) independent film scene. Saturday 14 Sunday 22 EARLY EARLY In the Life Photo: Daniel Chavkin. 3:00am KQED 9 | Rock Hudson: Tall, Dark and 6:00am KQED 9 & HD | The Josh Kornbluth Show Handsome | RR 6/12 8pm | q | Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco EVENING Symphony Music Director. | R 9:30pm (KQED Life-Encore) 11:35pm KQED 9 | Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy! | RR 6/12 10:03pm 6:30am KQED 9 & HD | Spark | q | Django Rein- hardt, Sean Dorsey and Kerry Laitala. | RR 6/18 7:30pm | R 6/23 3am, 6/24 2:30am Sunday 15 (KQED 9 & HD) EARLY 1:00pm KQED 9 | Billie Jean King: Rogue Cham- 2:00am KQED 9 & HD | Why We Sing! | RR 6/13 9pm pion A biographical tribute to a true Ameri- can sports heroine who broke down barriers 2:00pm KQED HD | Independent Lens Billy and changed attitudes toward women in Strayhorn: Lush Life.