emchy

LGBTQIQ Pride month challenge!

Hi my name is Cindy Emch and I am a performer and queer activist here in San Francisco.

Every June in San Francisco, we have an amazing opportunity to witness brilliant art, film, literature, and performance by LGBTQIQ folks from the Bay Area and beyond. The National Queer Arts Festival, Frameline Film Festival, Fresh Meat Festival, and Queer Women of Color Film Festival are four gems that we are lucky enough to have once a year in San Francisco. These events represent a vast diversity of queer folks' lives, experiences, and talents.

I have an idea about how we in various queer communities can support and draw on these venues as opportunities to get to know the different aspects of our queer communities.

The challenge I’m proposing is that all who are able, pledge to buy a ticket and attend at least one queer film, art show, reading, or performance event in June that represents an aspect of queer community you know nothing or little about. Let's work to strengthen ties between the different aspects of our communities. Take a friend or a group along with you!

The goal here is simply to take a step in educating ourselves about each other, and our similar and differing struggles and joys.

Below are links for the above mentioned events. Schedules will be available on the websites.

http://www.qwocmap.org/festival.html

http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/

http://www.freshmeatproductions.org/calendar.html

http://www.frameline.org/festival/archive.aspx

If this sounds like something you want to get behind, please pass this onto your lists and your friends and ask them to do the same. It would be amazing to see as many new people as possible out during the Month of June learning more about each other and supporting these amazing venues in the process.

**This campaign is not sponsored by any of the above mentioned organizations or festivals. This is a sincere grassroots effort to work to build and keep bridges between queer communities.