Special Invitation: From Selma to Stonewall to Where? Watch Party
Monday, May 13, 2019
D.C. SCREENING & CONVERSATION
Busboys & Poets, Anacostia location, Washington D.C.
6:30-8:30 PM Eastern Time
YOUR WATCH PARTY
Your City
Interactive Live Stream: facebook.com/TruthinProgress
Tune in at 7:30 PM Eastern
Featuring:
Bishop Gene Robinson
Sheila Alexander-Reid, Director, Washington DC Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs
Ashley Smith, Board President, Capital Pride Alliance
Rebecca York, Community Engagement and Youth Leadership Coordinator, SMYAL
Moderator: Cathy Renna, Principal, Target Cue
In partnership with Busboys & Poets Focus In! Film Series, co-executive producers Marilyn Bennett and the Rev. Gil Caldwell will host a screening of their 35-minute documentary From Selma to Stonewall: Are We There Yet? to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Following the film, there will be an action-focused conversation between experienced leaders/activists about intersectional strategies for today. This humorous, thoughtful and inspiring time of storytelling and justice-carving will affirm the work of longtime activists and inspire new activists to get involved with the present day inter weave of justice issues.
We enthusiastically invite you to participate in the interactive live stream as the event unfolds by hosting a Stonewall to Where? Watch Party. Simply invite friends over to view it together! Or organize an informal gathering at your center, organization office or business. Many of you have insights for this crucial conversation. Send your comments and questions, share fun photographs from your locale (we want to know where you are!), AND send links that we can list on our website to help newcomers throughout the country to get involved. Use the hashtag #FromSelmatoStonewall on social media!
You can view the 35-minute film From Selma to Stonewall: Are We There Yet? any time, at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/35fromselmatostonewall. Then, on May 13, join the D.C. event when the live stream starts at 7:30 pm Eastern. The documentary features Rev. Caldwell, a black, straight preacher and Marilyn Bennett, a white, lesbian activist who form an unusual bond as they seek to find the intersection between the Civil Rights and the LGBTQ Equality movements, yesterday and today.
A big thanks to our event partners: Busboys & Poets, Film Fest DC+, Building Bridges, The Myrna Loy and the E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation!
www.fromselmatostonewall.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
CATHY RENNA, CATHY@TARGETCUE.COM, 917-757-7123
RACHEL SALANG, FROMSELMATOSTONEWALL@GMAIL.COM, 619-917-5476
WASHINGTON, DC SCREENING OF “FROM SELMA TO STONEWALL” 5/13—FREE ADMISSION
FILM ADDRESSES LGBTQ CIVIL RIGHT AND INTERSECTIONALITY OF MOVEMENTS, PANEL TO FOLLOW
WITH SHEILA ALEXANDER-REID, BISHOP GENE ROBINSON, FILMMAKERS, SMYAL’S REBECCA YOUNG
In partnership with Busboys and Poets and Film Fest DC+, co-executive producers Marilyn Bennett and the Rev. Gil Caldwell will be screening their documentary, From Selma to Stonewall: Are We There Yet? to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and to inspire new activists to get involved in the present day interweave of justice issues. A lively panel discussion will follow, featuring Bishop Gene Robinson; Ashley Smith, Board President, Capital Pride Alliance; Sheila Alexander-Reid, Director, Washington DC Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs; and Rebecca York, Community Engagement and Youth Leadership Coordinator, SMYAL. Cathy Renna, Principal, Target Cue, will moderate. Join us for a night of storytelling: stories of personal experiences of discrimination, finding one’s footing as an activist, and insights into how one can get involved in fighting civil rights abuses today. Tune in for the livestream of the panel discussion on our Facebook page: Facebook.com/truthinprogress
Marilyn Bennett, Director and Co-Executive Producer, From Selma to Stonewall: Are We There Yet? said: “When we imagine ourselves in the cloistered bar that was the Stonewall Inn on the night of June 28, 1969, we must remember that in those days there wasn’t a national LGBTQ movement, a voting block politicians had to consider, support from corporate sponsors or even images of ourselves in the media that were genuine or accurate. There were secret shames and hidden identities, daily degradation and physical abuse, marginalization and abandonment; but on that night the patrons had had enough of police and societal abuse. Today, we honor their anger and resistance, their “NO MORE!” No one in the bar, nor the thousands who joined them in the streets, could have imagined that that moment would become a milestone event that would help jumpstart the early LGBT movement, now the worldwide LGBTQ equality movement we see today. Where we still have work to do is helping our community and the public understand this: there isn’t any human or civil rights issue that doesn’t impact the LGBTQ community; we are in all walks of life, every race, culture and generation. The “From Selma to Stonewall” screening and discussion on May 13 will focus crucial attention on these intersections and how today we must continue and create revolutionary moments of our own.”
WHAT
Truth in Progress Presents screening of From Selma to Stonewall: Are We There Yet? followed by interactive panel discussion
WHEN
Monday, May 13, 6:30-8:30 pm
WHERE
Busboys and Poets Anacostia – The Barry Room
2004 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20020
www.busboysandpoets.com
ABOUT FROM SELMA TO STONEWALL: ARE WE THERE YET?
The documentary features Rev. Caldwell, a black, straight preacher and Marilyn Bennett, a white, lesbian activist who form an unusual bond as they seek to find the intersection between the Civil Rights and the LGBTQ Equality movements. The film features cast members who live at the intersection of identities.
UPCOMING FROM SELMA TO STONEWALL EVENTS
Humboldt State University — Arcata, CA — April 22
Reel Out Charlotte — Charlotte, NC — May 4
North Jersey Pride — Maplewood, NJ — June
Athens Pride — Athens, GA — June
Southern New Mexico Pride — Las Cruces, NM — June
Northwest Arkansas Pride — Fayetteville, AR — June 5 and 15
Magic Valley Pride — Twin Falls, ID — June 6
New Haven Pride — New Haven, CT — June 19
Duluth Superior Pride — Duluth, MN — August 30
To learn more, visit www.fromselmatostonewall.com
