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Best Best: 5.24.13 – 6.6.13
Friday, May 24 Charis Books screens the documentary “Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 – 1992” tonight at 7 p.m., www.charisbooksandmore.com Bwb appears with Chrisette Michele, who played Black Gay Pride in 2011, at 7:30 p.m. at Chastain Park Amphitheatre, www.livenation.com Gay singer-pianist Michael Feinstein performs at 8 p.m. at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, www.aso.org Singer-songwriter Jen Foster performs at 8 p.m. at Eddie’s Attic, www.eddiesattic.com Edie Cheezburger presents The Other Show on Fridays. Doors open at 8:30 p.m., show at 9:30 p.m. at Jungle, www.jungleclubatlanta.com DJ Stan Jackson spins at… >>
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Out on Film announces 2013 festival dates, ‘Divine’ first flick
Organizers of the Out on Film festival today announced the 2013 event would take place Oct. 3-10. Also announced was the festival’s first secured film, the documentary biopic “I Am Divine.” From the film’s official description: I AM DIVINE is the story of Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, from his humble beginnings as an overweight, teased Baltimore youth to internationally recognized drag superstar through his collaboration with filmmaker John Waters. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image, gender identity, sexuality, and preconceived notions of beauty, Divine was the ultimate outsider turned underground royalty. With a completely… >>
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Drag queen embroidery project and Atlanta gay artists awarded funding grants
A man working on an extensive embroidery project detailing the faces of some of Atlanta’s drag queens is just one of several gay and gay-popular artists receiving funding from a grassroots group that celebrates “creative risk takers.” Idea Capital , an Atlanta independent arts funding group, selected Aubrey Longley-Cook as one of its recipients this year for his work in combining embroidery and animation to document Atlanta drag queens. >>
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Out on Film: 2012 festival ‘largest ever’
Organizers behind Atlanta’s annual LGBT film festival announced today this year’s festival, held Oct. 4-11, was the largest in the event’s 25 year history. Festival Director Jim Farmer praised the Atlanta community and sponsors for a successful festival. “‘More’ was the word for 2012 – more screenings, more visiting filmmakers, more days, more patrons,” Farmer said. “From the sold-out opening night screening of ‘Gayby’ to the packed house for ‘BearCity 2’ closing night, attendance was tremendous. Our attendance on Super Saturday – Oct. 6 – was a record, with crowds beginning at 11 a.m. in the morning through our late night screening… >>
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‘Raid of the Rainbow Lounge’ explores Texas gay bar controversy
When police raided a Fort Worth, Texas, gay bar on June 28, 2009, it was just the beginning of angry City Council meetings, protests and rallies — and, eventually, healing and change. “Raid of the Rainbow Lounge,” a documentary that chronicles what happened in Forth Worth following the police raid, premieres in Atlanta on Oct. 7 as part of Out on Film. Director Robert Camina said he looks forward to bringing his film to Atlanta because of the similarities he sees in Texas raid and the one at the Atlanta Eagle, just 10 weeks later. Camina and Atlanta Eagle attorney Dan Grossman will… >>
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Fall in love with movies at Out on Film
Love is in the air at the 25th Out on Film, Atlanta’s LGBT film festival, Oct. 4-11 at Landmark’s Midtown Art Cinema. I don’t know when I’ve seen so much romance in a queer festival. There’s young love, old love, lesbian love, gay love, baby love, kinky love, married love, platonic love, coercive love, transformative love… Oh, there’s politics too, but that’s mostly confined to the documentary section, or woven in with the love stories. All films (with exceptions noted) screen at Midtown Art Cinema (931 Monroe Drive, Atlanta GA 30308). >>
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CNN adds HBO documentaries to weekend mix
George H.W. Bush speaks candidly about his life in the HBO documentary “41,” which will air on CNN Saturday night. CREDIT: HBO CNN will begin airing more HBO documentaries as a way to bolster its weekend programming. On Saturday, Sept.1, it will start with “41,” which features an interview with Pres. George H.W. Bush at Kennebunkport, Maine and aired on HBO in June. The next day, CNN will air “Teddy: In His Own Words,” a 2009 documentary about the late Ted Kennedy . HBO and CNN are both part of the Time Warner family so this… >>
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“Bully” opens in Atlanta this Friday
“Bully” opens Friday in Atlanta at the AMC Phipps Plaza, Landmark Midtown, Lefont Sandy Springs, Regal Town Center and AMC Mansell Crossing theaters. It is rated PG-13. Director Lee Hirsch has a simple goal for the documentary “Bully.” “Change the world,” he said during an interview. “Nothing minor. The message here is everybody can be part of the movement. Everybody can be part of change. As creative as kids are at bullying, they can be as creative in intervening. I feel like the whole movie was an act of intervention.” The film, which last week had its… >>
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‘Noah’s Arc’ director brings latest film to Atlanta
Gay filmmaker Patrik-Ian Polk of “Noah’s Arc” and “Punks” fame will release his latest feature “The Skinny” for a special one-week showcase in Atlanta. “The Skinny” centers on a group of four young black gay men and their best lesbian friend who arrange a reunion in New York City a year after graduating from Brown University. Though the film is a comedy, Polk says that serious issues affecting the LGBT community are addressed in the film, including HIV/AIDS, infidelity and date-rape. >>
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