Monday, March 05, 2007
LGBT film and discussion: 'Dangerous Living'
Just to inform all our members and readers about a forthcoming event:
Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World is the first documentary to deeply explore the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people in non-western cultures.
The film will be shown on Sunday, 11 March, at 1 p.m. at the Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, just north of Leicester Square, Tickets are available for £15/£10 concession through the Prince Charles Box Office by phoning 0870 811 2559.
In the last decade of the 20th Century, a new heightened visibility of lesbians and gays began spreading throughout the developing world and the battles between families, fundamentalist religions, and governments around sexual and gender identity had begun. But in the West, few people knew about this historic social upheaval, until 52 men on Cairo's Queen Boat discothèque were arrested for crimes of debauchery. That explosive story focused attention to the lives and trials of gay people coming out in the developing world and the film chronicles those events.
Dangerous Living is a Human Rights Watch selection, winner of the Audience Award at the Barcelona Film Festival, and an official selection of the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
This is a rare U.K. screening, and will be followed by a discussion with Brian Whitaker, the author of Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East, and Linda Bellos, Director of Diversity Solutions. The event is funded by a grant from the Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund supported by the Cohesion and Faith Unit of the Home Office and is an interfaith community outreach/fundraising event for Beit Klal Yisrael , The Safra Project and The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement.
Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World is the first documentary to deeply explore the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people in non-western cultures.
The film will be shown on Sunday, 11 March, at 1 p.m. at the Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, just north of Leicester Square, Tickets are available for £15/£10 concession through the Prince Charles Box Office by phoning 0870 811 2559.
In the last decade of the 20th Century, a new heightened visibility of lesbians and gays began spreading throughout the developing world and the battles between families, fundamentalist religions, and governments around sexual and gender identity had begun. But in the West, few people knew about this historic social upheaval, until 52 men on Cairo's Queen Boat discothèque were arrested for crimes of debauchery. That explosive story focused attention to the lives and trials of gay people coming out in the developing world and the film chronicles those events.
Dangerous Living is a Human Rights Watch selection, winner of the Audience Award at the Barcelona Film Festival, and an official selection of the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
This is a rare U.K. screening, and will be followed by a discussion with Brian Whitaker, the author of Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East, and Linda Bellos, Director of Diversity Solutions. The event is funded by a grant from the Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund supported by the Cohesion and Faith Unit of the Home Office and is an interfaith community outreach/fundraising event for Beit Klal Yisrael , The Safra Project and The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement.
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