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Hand on the Pulse
sunday april 28 11:00 am Screening only $11 - COLONY THEATRE Complete afternoon package of Hand on the Pulse, Lifetime Guarantee, plus The Ladies Who Lunch special event $30 |
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The world is short on heroines, but our community has one living in our midst. Joan Nestle - activist, writer, teacher and sexual outlaw - has been a leader and outspoken lesbian and feminist voice for over thirty years. She grew up in the 1950s, raised by a single working class Jewish mom who made ends meet by selling her body (Joan paid homage to her in an essay famously entitled My Mother Liked to Fuck). As a baby dyke she came out into the butch-femme world of lesbian New York (which she would later work to reclaim and valorize as a legitimate and sexually vibrant way of life). In the 1970s she went on to co-found the now internationally recognized Lesbian Herstory Archives - originally in the spare bedroom of her apartment - and her home turned into a kind of modern-day women's salon. This rich and moving film shows Joan - whether giving a book reading dressed in a black negligee or marching as the grand marshall of New York's Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade - and brings her story to life, and through it the recent history of lesbian community and politics in America. Director Joyce Warshow and Joan Nestle herself will attend the screening and discuss the film with the audience.
Preceded by Just Call Me Kade, Dir. Sam Zolten, United States, SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIERE
Katie's a teenage girl uncomfortable in her own skin, longing to become Kade, the skateboarding boy she's always felt she was inside. Thankfully, her supportive friends and family are worlds apart from the tragedy portrayed in Boys Don't Cry. But this gem of a film's real star is Katie/Kade, unwavering in an understanding of self that would be extraordinary at any age.
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