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mind-SPEAK! is a new chat series for Black Gay Men in collaboration with Shanti Life. Join us for open and honest discussions about you, your community, your life. Here, you can feel free…
4th Tuesday of Every Month!
SF LGBT Center 1800 Market St (@ Octavia).
7:00pm - 9:00pm
THIS MONTH'S TOPIC: TBD
Join us and share your thought. SPEAK YOUR MIND!
See You There!
Click on the link above to get more info on Our Love!
Music
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A FREE brunch party with POC flavor
Saturday, June 7, 12-4PM
SF LGBT Community Center, 4th Floor (Ceremonial Room and massive outdoor balcony)
DJ Olga T (Butta, Club Q, Pride, the Dyke March; <>www.djolgat.com) spinning gospel house, hip hop, latin house, and more Soul food!
Sponsors (to date)
And Castro for All (The New Venture Seed Fund)
The Bayard Rustin Coalition (BRC)
Michael Bell
John Newsome
Kyriell Noon
The SF LGBT Community Center & the SNAP Program
Soul of Pride
The OUR LOVE Program of the STOP AIDS Project
Black Coalition on AIDS
Host committee (to date):
Bill Doggett
Vincent Fuqua
Derrick Mapp
John Newsome
Kyriell Noon
Andrea Shorter
SF Emperor John Weber
DJ Olga T.
Chadwick Campbell
Jonathan Batiste
Francis Broome
"Church" is a part of the SF LGBT Community Center's Pride Kick-Off party:
..http://www.sfcenter.org/event/kickoff/Kickoff.html
Movies
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Check out these films CO-Presented by STOP AIDS At the 32nd Annual International LGBT Film Festival!
THE YOUNG AND EVIL
Friday June 20 4:15 pm Castro Theatre Click Here for More info!
Each film in this collection of eight outstanding gay shorts is a story about youth, some confronting, some manifesting evil. Something is up with Taylor, and his little sister knows it in Lloyd Neck. When a garage sale turns violent, a mother is forced to come to terms with her teenage son’s sexuality in Dolls. The Cousin is the story of Mark, a sheltered, sensitive teenager who reunites with Luis, his tough, older cousin. Luis decides to take his cousin for a night out on the town, but before the night is over, Mark’s sheltered world is cracked wide open. A widowed professor finds new hope in an unlikely connection with a young school janitor in Alonso’s Deadline. In Baggage, Martin finds himself pursued by a mysterious suitcase, and Mars reveals the passion, disappointment and discrimination of young love. Souljah is the story of a beautiful 17-year-old African schoolboy with a penchant for glittery eye make-up. The drug-dealing teens on his South London council estate don’t approve, but what they don’t know is that he is a former child soldier who knows more about combat than they ever will. A highly intelligent but troubled Black gay teen sets out to seduce an HIV-positive man into giving him the virus in The Young and Evil.
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 94 min
SEX POSITIVE
Sunday June 22 6:30 pm Roxie Film Center Click Here for More info!
At the forefront of the sexual revolution, New York in the late ’70s seemed a mecca for gay men as they reveled in their newfound freedoms. Richard Berkowitz eagerly dove into the frenzy, quickly discovering (and cashing in on) his talents as an S&M top. But the era of guiltless pleasure crashed quickly as the AIDS epidemic began. Wild accusations flew in the media and on the streets, speculation about the disease’s cause became contentious, and the government’s refusal to work towards a cure sparked protests and rallies. After contracting the illness himself, Berkowitz and a tiny group of others came to the inexorable conclusion that gay men’s lifestyles were at least partially responsible for their plight. He wrote a book charging that the culture’s rampant drug use, partying and sexual promiscuity contributed heavily to the disease’s spread. The backlash was swift: Berkowitz and his supporters were labeled self-hating and sex negative. Despite his continued efforts to educate on the necessity of safe sex, he was mercilessly chastised, unfairly labeled an anti-pleasure crusader and, eventually, all but forgotten. Sex Positive unflinchingly tracks Berkowitz’s progression from cocky S&M hustler to angry activist to broken but proud harbinger of a message too volatile, scary and true to be heard. Juxtaposing a Native American myth with AIDS activist footage, Where the Buffalo Roam explores the idea of cultural erasure. — ILYA TOVBIS
When: Wednesday night (June 4, 2008)
Where: AMC 1000 Van Ness (@ Ofarrell)
Time: Meet @ 6:30-6:45 PM IN LOBBY by ticket counter to get your ticket.
THIS MONTH'S MOVIE: SEX AND THE CITY
Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Chris Noth, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Hudson
Director: Michael Patrick King
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
SYNOPSIS:
Carrie Bradshaw, successful author and everyone's favorite fashion icon-next-door, continues to narrate her own story about sex, love and the fashion-obsessed single woman in New York City. Carrie and her friends, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda, juggle jobs and relationships while navigating motherhood, marriage and Manhattan real estate.
BROTHERLY LOVE is a monthly movie night. CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO GET MORE INFO:
About me: OUR LOVE is the program at the Stop AIDS Project dedicated to black gay and bi men in San Francisco. The goal of this program is to contribute to the expanding and building of community among black gay and bi men in San Francisco while continuing to work toward the goal of decreasing the number of us that are affected by and infected with HIV/AIDS.
GO TO WWW.STOPAIDS.ORG AND CLICK THE OUR LOVE LINK TO FIND OUT ABOUT EVENTS AND RESOURCES!
Who I'd like to meet: If you are a Black Gay man who live in or hangs out in the castro, we want to know about you!
If you take part in our survey you will get 2 free movie tickets to any AMC Theatre!
Just be sure to write down the date and time that you finish the survey and email that info to tdyer@stopaids.org
So help the OURLOVE Program and tell us about you. We will use the info to develop new events and activities that appeal to the interests of Black Gay men in SF!
Just a reminder to all of you party people...please join us tonight at the Lookout for the OUR LOVE PROGRAM'S first bar/club event! We salute the 2009 SF Pride Grand Marshals to include - Joe Hawkins of Club RImshot! We drink, dance, and celebrate from 6-9pm (yet the party doesn't have to stop there).
