KQED LGBT Pride Month 2015

CELEBRATES

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Month JUNE 2015

Limited Partnership New Independent Lens film celebrates the 40-year love story of one of the first gay couples to marry and their decades-long fight for legal status.

Monday, June 15, at 10pm on KQED 9

Independent Lens: Limited Partnership

KQED Public Television Highlights

Monday, June 15 10pm on KQED 9 Decades before the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8, one gay couple, a Filipino American (Richard Adams, right) and an Australian (Tony Sullivan, left), fell in love and over the course of 40 years took on the U.S. government to fight for marriage and immigration equality.

View or download the schedule of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Month programs airing on KQED 9, KQED Plus, KQED Life and KQED World.

Independent Lens: We Were Here

Monday, June 8, 10pm on KQED 9

Facing Fear

Saturday, June 13, 6pm on KQED 9

Prosecutor’s Stand Saturday, June 13, 6:30pm on KQED 9

This program was delayed in production and will be rescheduled.

This documentary revisits the arrival of what was called the Gay Plague in early 1980s San Francisco. It illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the AIDS epidemic as well as the broad political and social upheavals it unleashed.

Worlds collide when a former neo-Nazi skinhead and the gay victim of his hate crime attack meet by chance 25 years after the incident that dramatically shaped both of their lives. Together, they embark on a journey of forgiveness that challenges both to grapple with their beliefs and fears, eventually leading to an improbable collaboration and friendship.

This film follows San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Victor Hwang (pictured) as he brings hate crime charges against perpetrators who brutally attacked a Mayan dishwasher, an African American homeless man and a transgender woman.

Photos: (cover) Tony Sullivan (l.) and Richard Adams (r.) prepare for protest march, 1975, courtesy Pat Rocco; (this page top to bottom) Tony Sullivan and Richard Adams, 2010, courtesy Amy Adler; Bobbi Campbell, Marie Ueda (courtesy GLBT Historical Society); courtesy Facing Fear; courtesy Ryan Anson.

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Monday, June 22 10pm on KQED 9

Alfredo’s Fire

Decoding Alan Turing

Sunday, June 28, 7:40pm on KQED 9

KQED Public Radio KQED Public Radio is available on frequencies 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento (KQEI), 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez. It is also available on XFINITY digital cable 960 and live online at kqed.org.

Gay in the Eyes of God

Wednesday, June 3, 8pm

Intelligence Squared U.S.: Should States Be Required to License Same-Sex Marriages?

Saturday, June 20, 2pm

On January 13, 1998, Alfredo Ormando, a closeted gay writer from Sicily, shocked the world by lighting himself on fire in St. Peter’s Square, the only time such a protest had taken place on Vatican soil.

Despite the attempt by some in the gay community to frame the event as the spark of the “Italian Stonewall,” Alfredo’s gesture quickly faded into obscurity.

Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician, logician and cryptographer. A Cambridge graduate who was fundamental to cracking the Nazi’s Enigma Code during World War II, Turing created what is hailed by some as the first modern computer and was a legendary innovator in his field.

He was also gay. And he fell victim to the intolerance and legal prosecution of his time in Great Britain.

This special explores the ways in which the major American religious traditions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam) grapple with acceptance of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment provides: “No State shall … deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to answer the question of whether this clause requires states to jettison the traditional definition of marriage.

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Photos: (top to bottom) courtesy Out in the Night; courtesy Alferdo’s Fire; no credit; courtesy Interfaith Radio; Gay rights activists gather outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, DC, MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images.

Sunday, June 28, 7pm on KQED 9

This award-winning film examines the sensational case of a group of African American lesbians who were violently threatened by a man on the street, fought back and were later charged with gang assault and attempted murder. The film reveals the role that race, gender identity and sexuality play in our criminal justice system.

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride 2015

POV: Out in the Night

KQED in the Community

KQED LGBT Pride Month Event Will You Marry Me? A celebration of our bonds, strides and ceremonies Join KQED and ITVS to celebrate LGBT Pride with a special event in downtown San Francisco inspired by the new documentary Limited Partnership (premiering Monday, June 15, on KQED 9) and celebrating everything we love and hate about the ancient ceremony that is a wedding. Hosted by Baruch Porras-Hernandez, the evening will include spoken word, comedy, music and drag performances

by Michelle Tea, LOL McFiercen, Sevan Kelee, Adonysaurus, Tamale Ringwald, Irene Tu, Jade Way and Natasha Muse.

Photos: (top l. to r.)

Baruch Porras-Hernandez; Feinstein’s at the Nikko; Michelle Tea, courtesy Lydia Daniler; (bottom) courtesy Frameline.

Feinstein’s at the Nikko 222 Mason St. San Francisco Tuesday, June 9 7-9pm / Free Please RSVP pridemarryme.eventbrite.com

The 39th San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival presents 11 days of innovative and socially relevant film. Frameline39 runs June 18–28, 2015, with San Francisco screenings at the Castro Theatre, the Roxie Theater and the Victoria Theatre; in Berkeley at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood; and, new this year, at Oakland at Landmark’s Piedmont Theatre.

Frameline39 opens with I Am Michael, starring James Franco and Zachary Quinto, the extraordinary true story of Michael Glatze (Franco), a former San Francisco–based gay rights activist who renounces his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor. ticketing.frameline.org

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