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HalloQueens
 That time of the year again. Dust the feathers, the tails, the horns (not that many need to do it), but in preparation for the night of the ghosts and monsters, everything is possible. This month there are many activities with many excuses to keep the warmth of summer still among us. Rejoice and take part in many of the great events that the season has to offer. As for the "Dia de los muertos" many will wonder what will happen in our city and gov. Let's hope we can scare all the bad spirits and be seduced by all the fearies that are roaming out there. I hope to see many of you in our screenings at QMA, and during the other programs that we plan to carry on this Fall. HC
If you'd like, you can drop us a line: pink@cinemarosa.org to let us know what is happening in your Queer radar.
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OUTFLICKS
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It Ain't Tiffany's
Officially sanctioned by the NHL and the Toronto Maple Leafs, Breakfast with Scot represents the first time a professional sports league has allowed their logo and uniforms to be used in a gay-themed movie. Thrity something, Eric (Tom Cavanagh) lives for all things hockey. He's managed to turn his stint as an ex- Toronto Maple Leaf into a full-time gig as commentator for sports TV. He's living the dream! He and his partner Sam (Ben Shenkman), a lawyer, live discreetly on a tree-lined street in Toronto.
All their tranquility is disrupted when they receive news that Sam's brother Billy's ex-girlfriend has died, leaving custody of her son Scot (Noah Bernett) to Billy. But adventure-seeking Billy is somewhere in South America, and that leaves Scot without a guardian. Much to Eric's disapproval, Sam agrees to take Scot in. Dressed in vibrant colors, his mother's charm bracelet and with a penchant for musicals and Christmas carols, he's not quite the 'boy' they expected.
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TUNE BLASTS
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Midwestern Transplant
No, it's not that I went lez or straight, but Trans singer Joshua Klipp has me all ga-ga for his music and g-bending looks. He is visiting NYC to perform three shows promoting his hit album Won't Stop Now, and I must say, can't wait to see him again. The FTM superstar born in Tennesse blends many R&B flavors in his music that can be described as "urban pop", blending the hottest elements of R&B, hip hop, dance and rock music. As a singer and dancer he first burst his way onto the music scene with the he release of his 2006 EP, "Patience", containing the ground breaking track, "Little Girl", featured on The Tyra Banks Show, and Showtime's "The L Word", Season 4. The release of his EP, "Patience" and album, "Won't Stop Now" contained the ground breaking track, "Little Girl", which marked the first time in music history that a transman recorded a song alongside his former voice. This remarkable song has been featured on national television as well as radio programs around the country.
This Midwest transplant, lives in Northern California, where he writes and records music with his co-writer, Kristopher Cloud (Javier (Columbia), Aundrea of Danity Kane). Joshua's tracks feature Bay Area talents such as famed hip hopper Katastrophe ("Pick Up the Mic") and upcoming hip hop rocker, Hollywood. Josh Klipp performs at Sugarland October 16, The Slipper Room October 17 and Stone Wall Inn October18.
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HARD INK
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Sportin' Gays
What if the star of the high school football team was gay? Openly gay sports journalist and award winning writer Bill Konigsberg gives us his latest novel Out of the Pocket. The story centers around 17 year old star quarterback Bobby Framingham. He is one of the most talented high school football players in California, and despite his efforts to be just like everyone in the team, he knows he's different from his teammates. They are like brothers, but they don't know one essential thing: Bobby is gay. Can he still be one of the guys and be honest about who he is? When he's outed against his will by a student reporter, Bobby must find a way to earn back his teammates' trust and accept that his path to success might be more public, and more difficult, than he'd hoped. An affecting novel about identity that also delivers great sports writing.
About other players like Bobby, the author declares in his blog that yes, "there are absolutely guys like Bobby everywhere. He's just a normal kid who grew up in a normal family, who has something about him that is "different." He's gay." Konigsberg's story is based not much on his own personal experience as a baseball player when he was a kid, but on his observations and reflections of the testosterone driven culture of sports, "If we're talking about men, sports is one of the last bastions of "masculinity" and some guys (and I mean players, owners and fans) are fiercely protective of their games," he declares, and continues "our culture has made good strides at accepting the fact that gays exist, but I think we have a ways to go." And yes we do, and it is books like this one that pave the road for young people to feel they belong no matter what their orientation might be. (Dutton Books, 2008, 264 pages).
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CITY SCAPES
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Village People
Holloween in NYC is the most exciting event in the Fall. This year's Parade is dedicated to Rudie
Berkhout --Merrymaker, Genius, Creator, Humanist, Lover, Composer,
Artist, Holographer, Mentor,Explorer, Visionary, Mystic, Instigator, Teacher. All Those in Costume
are Welcome to Join Hundreds of Puppets,
53 Bands of Different Types of Music,
Dancers and Artists, and Thousands of
other New Yorkers in Costumes of their
Own Creation in the Nation's Most Wildly
Creative Public Participatory Event
in the Greatest City in the World!
For all those in costume is on 6th Avenue South of Spring
Street and North of Canal between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Alert ! ONLY enter
the line-up on 6th Ave. from the East and South between Canal and
Spring ! Live: On 6th Avenue from Spring Street to 21st Street from 7 - 10 p.m.
TV: NY 1 Television from 8 - 9:30 p.m.
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PULSING RADAR
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Ordinary Christ
Originally opening ten years ago at the Manhattan Theatre Club to intense protest and bomb threats, Terrence McNally's dramatic work Corpus Christi will perform for a two-week limited engagement run at the Rattlestick Theatre. Returning to New York City for the first time since its original opening, the play, this time directed by Nic Arnzen, follows the familiar birth-to-crucifixion (but not redemption) story of Jesus and his Twelve Apostles. McNally revised it, and Jesus and his apostles are presented as ordinary people in professions ranging from hairdresser and hustler to the usual doctor and lawyer. The original tale is still there -- Nativity, the Sermon on the Mount, the Last Supper -- but with substitutions to make it more contemporary and in tune with the vibes and rants of today's Gay culture. Arnzen's smart production gives the script more punch and relevance especially in the final scene where the brutal murder of Mat Sheppard in Wyoming is referenced.
While sex scenes are never graphic, Corpus Christi's originality came under universal attack by religious organizations who threatened to stop its presentation and to even lynch McNally who in his long career has deftly dramatized homophobia in works like "Lips Together, Teeth Apart." This version of Corpus Christi is by the Los Angeles-based 108 Productions, which began performing the piece over two years ago and brought the show across the country and abroad to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival.
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GROOVING
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Coming of Age, Coming Out in Asian Culture
Queens' First and Only Queer Film Series, continues its monthly screenings with the presentation of films focusing on youth, and coming out in Asian culture.
CINEMAROSA -queens only queer film series-
Sunday, October 19, 3:00 PM
Queens Museum of Art
www.cinemarosa.org
AxioMetrics
Your humble host, HC, reveals more than his head in a new video installation where identity and masculinity is explored.
MIX21, New York Queer Experimental Film Festival
Through October 19 @ The Seaport
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Locally Queer
CLAGS and CINEMAROSA has joined forces to an evening of film screenings and a panel discussion about the present state of QCinema.
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies
Friday, October 24, 7 - 9 PM
Graduate Center, Segal Theater (365 5th Avenue & 34 Street)
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The Line of Fashion
A knowing line, a whoosh of color can define a look, sometimes even an
era. The artists in this long overdue exhibition of fashion drawings --
Antonio, Kenneth Paul Block, Joe Eula, Eric among them -- all possess
the magic that drives the genre as it waits to be embraced by the
world's great museums.
Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
September 23 through November 1
Gallery Info
Street Art, Street Life
Exhibition that examines the street as subject matter, venue, and source of inspiration for artists and photographers from the late 1950's to the present.
The Bronx Museum of The Arts
September 14 through January 25, 2009
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The Company of Men
A solo exhibition by photographer Blake Little. This is his first new work for the gallery since his 1997 series of nudes entitled "Dichotomy," which also became a book with the same title.
Wessel + O'connor Fine Art
September 18 through November 1
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Last Spit
Final party at Uncel Ming where the circus theme extravaganza will feature filthy clowns, and raunchy acts.
Uncle Ming's
225 Ave. B between 13 and 14 Streets.
Brave Boys
Feel-good celebration of a young boy's dream in a tale of triumph over
adversity. Based on the popular film, this heart-warming story features
a boy who discovers he has a special talent for dance, while the boys
all around him are more interested in boxing.
Dance Theater Workshop
Opens October 1, 2008
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Focus on the 70's
A 20 year retrospective of Ken Duncan's work
The New York Public Library
On view now at NYPL for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
Arias with a Twist
Drag diva legend Joe Arias and Basil Twist's innovative puppetry transport audiences to fantasy worlds.
HERE Arts Center
Through December 31 (extended)
212-352-3101
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Elizabeth A. Sackler, Center of Femenist Art
Among the most ambitious, influential, and enduring artistic movements
to emerge in the late twentieth century, feminist art has played a
leading role in the art world over the last forty years.
Brooklyn Museum of Art
www.brooklynmuseum.org
In The Heights
A new musical about three days in the life
of Washington Heights, a vibrant and tight-knit community at the top of
the island of Manhattan. It's a place where the coffee from the corner
bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze
carries the rhythm of three generations of music.
Richard Torres Theater
On view now
226 West 46th Street
Atlantis 2010
Gay mega-hub Club Atlantis attracts as many adventure-seekers from the other boroughs and beyond as it does local Latinos.
Saturdays 9 pm - 4 am
Jackson Heights, Queens
The Sex Lives of Animals
A celebration of the diversity of animal sexual behavior. This emergent
research has resulted in new interpretations, delving into the possible
evolutionary benefits of non-reproductive sex, for both individuals and
social groups.
The Museum of Sex
www.museumofsex.com
The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith
This exhibition honors the gift of twenty-one pieces of silver and gold
jewelry created by the Brooklyn-reared modernist jeweler Arthur Smith
(1917-1982), primarily from Charles Russell, Smith's companion and
heir.
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
brooklynmuseum.org
PROGRAMS @ THE CENTER
208 West 13 Street
www.gaycenter.org
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