Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
The San Francisco Public Library is
pleased to offer the following programs and exhibitions in celebration of
LGBT Pride:
Radar All-Stars Event
Join local author and poet Michelle Tea when she hosts Cristy C. Road, author of Indestructible, Andrea Askowitz, author of My Lonely, Miserable Lesbian Pregnancy,
Emanuel Xavier, author of Christ Like and Armisted Maupin, author of Tales of the City
Tuesday June 3
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
That's Revolting!: Radical queer activism -- past, present, and future
Join Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore to celebrate the arrival of the expanded second edition of That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, with a dangerous and illuminating discussion featuring Carol Queen, Bo Brown, Ralowe T. Ampu, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Eric Stanley and Gina de Vries.
Has the nightmare of gay marriage sandblasted the dreams of ‘70s gay liberation revolutionaries? Has the feverish potential of queer sexual splendor been annihilated by the consumerist frenzy of assimilationist gay culture? Is there hope for radical queer troublemaking in the hyper-gentrified
monoculture of current-day San Francisco? Bring your questions, ideas, plots and dreams. This new edition features five new essays covering everything from blowing up buildings in the 1970s to stripping naked to fight global AIDS.
Thursday June 5
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Main Library, Lower Level, Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
National Queer Arts Festival: The Outsiders - The three part series features writers
and artists who have experience living and creating on the margins of
our culture, dealing with issues of race, sexuality, gender, class,
ethnicity, and calling into question notions of what it means to be in
or outside of the culture which you address. Performers will explore
the idea of being both insider and outsider, how a person's placement to
the dominant culture can change over time, how one can become an
insider of outsider culture. Participation in multiple cultures, the
joys and struggles which come with being members of fringe cultures,
and many other perspectives will be explored.
Event One:
This is the first of three Queer Arts Festival events at San Francisco Public Library. Tonight will feature trans performance artist
Ben McCoy (Are You There God? It's me....Ben McCoy); poet Justin Chin (Gutted; Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms); Kim Addonizio (My Dreams Out on the Street);
and one more special guest. Sponsored by the Queer Arts Festival and the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center.
Tuesday, June 10, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
Event Two:
This is the second of three Queer Arts Festival events. Come see three African-American artists: Kirya Traber - spoken word artist, activist and author of Tiny Little Maps to Each Other;
Tim'm West, author of Red Dirt Dreams; and Rhodessa Jones, Director of San Francisco Performance Company Cultural Odyssey and founder and director of The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women.
Joining them is white trans environmental illustrator, tattoo artist, and author of Go Fuck Yourself: a Mini-Zine devoted to DIY Sex Toys and Gender Bending Devices. Cosponsored by the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center.
Tuesday, June 17, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
Event Three:
This is the third in the 3-part Queer Arts Festival: The Outsiders series. Tonights artists include writer Noel Alumit (Stonewall Award winning novel Letters to Montgomery Clift);
zinestor and illustrator Nicole J. Georges (Invincible Summer); performance artist and Sister Spit member Sara Seinberg; and writer, activist, performer and educator Guillermo Gomez-Pena
(author of American Book Award winning New World Border). Cosponsored by the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center.
Tuesday, June 24, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
RADAR Salon: Literary Conversations, Revelations and Gossip - Author Michelle Tea presents her monthly Radar Salon.
This time she brings Thea Hillman and Rhiannon Argo. Hillman is the author of For Lack of a Better Word, which chronicles one person's search for self in a world obsessed with normal.
In first-person prose as intimate as a diary, Thea Hillman redefines memoir in a series of compelling stories that take a no-holds-barred look at sex, gender, family, and community.
Rhiannon Argo is a San Francisco based writer whose stories have been published in several anthologies, and in her own hand-made chapbooks. She is currently at work on her first
novel, Switch. Cosponsored by the Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Library,
The Three Dollar Bill Cafe, and the LGBT Community Center.
Wednesday June 11
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
NOTE: This event will take place at an alternate site:
Vince and Pete's 3 Dollar Bill Cafe,
1800 Market Street in San Francisco
(The Harvey Milk Library is currently closed for renovation).
Greetings from the Gayborhood - Author and “gay pop culture archaeologist” Don Reuter presents a slide show of photos from his colorful new book on the changes in gay neighborhoods
in twelve US cities. But more than just a (gay) rainbow-colored repository, stuffed with hundreds of nostalgic artifacts and imagery, Greetings from the Gayborhood is inescapably a Pandora’s Box: of one controversial
minority’s culturally evocative and sexually provocative times and thoughts. It’s also an encapsulation of a time (in the Queer community) not so long gone by, but nonetheless an existence seemingly vanished
forever in a flash and replaced by present-day lifestyle as unsatisfying to some as it is comforting to others. Reuter has authored several books on Gay male culture including
Gaydar: The Ultimate Insider Guide to the Sixth Sense and Gay-2-Zee: A Dictionary of Sex, Subtext and the Sublime. Cosponsored by the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center and the San Francisco GLBT Historical Society.
Wednesday June 25
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Main Library, Lower Level, Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
Exhibition:
Spirituality Photo Project by Black Brothers Esteem - With dramatic photography and compelling text, 16 members of Black Brothers Esteem document for the entire SF community their search for and in some cases creation
of spirituality in a world that too-often abandons, even condemns them. This project showcases their soul-searching, their solidarity, their courage and ultimately just how important their spirituality is to their mental and physical health.
Black Brothers Esteem is a prevention and support program designed to empower men who live predominantly in the Tenderloin/Polk Gulch and Sixth Street Corridor sections of San Francisco. These men struggle not only with issues related to HIV,
but also with racism, addiction, poverty, homophobia, violence and marginal housing conditions.
June 10 – August 7
Exhibit in two locations:
African American Center and
James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center
Main Library, 3rd Floor
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
The Library’s James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center sponsors a wide variety of exhibitions and public programs related to LGBTQ culture and history on an on-going basis,
so be sure to check the exhibitions and public programs throughout the year.
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