Presented as the first of four events in the Figge Art Museum's Free Film at the Figge series, the award-winning 2022 documentary Jimmy in Saigon enjoys a June 6 screening in the Davenport venue's John Deere Auditorium, the work lauded by Film Carnage as "a loving, engaging, and sympathetic story," and by the Chicago Tribune as a documentary that "has the feel of a detective
Respect Your Elders: Strengthening Intergenerational Queer Communities. “One of the most pernicious outcomes of homophobic narratives has been to rob us of our queer elders,” wrote grantee Rae Garringer for their Pulitzer Center-supported project, The Queens of Queen City. “This grief only deepens each time new legislation aimed at keeping queer and trans youth away from queer and trans adults is introduced in one state or another bills aimed at unraveling the intergenerational connections we’ve worked so hard to claim.” Join the Pulitzer Center on August 14, 2023, to discuss queer mentorships, families, and legacies. The lives of LGBTQ+ people are not always measured by getting married, having children, or becoming grandparents. “Our life spans are so different,” one woman told Vijayta Lalwani, writing for Indian outlet Queerbeat. In the United States, a 2001 Administration on Aging study found that LGBT older adults are "20% less likely than their heterosexual p
Two Namibian short films addressing gender-based violence (GBV) have been selected to premiere at South Africa's Garden Route International Film Festival (GRIFF), the international award-winning director Philippe Talavera said Friday. The two seven-minute-long short films "Be a Lady" and "Be a Man" were a result of brainstorming sessions…