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Melbourne Queer Film Festival #Melbourne

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**Thursday March 18 to Sunday March 28**
Astor Theatre, ACMI Cinemas, Greater Union Cinemas Russell St & Loop
Melbourne, Australia

[www.mqff.com.au](http://www.mqff.com.au/)
        
The 20th Melbourne Queer Film Festival features the best in queer cinema from Australia and around the world. Highlights include features, documentaries and shorts programs, along with panel discussions dealing with issues relevant to the queer community. As Melbourne’s second largest film festival this year’s program is overflowing with outstanding films from around the world.

The Laramie Project a tribute to Matthew Shepherd

RED STITCH TO REPRESENT VICTORIA IN
GLOBAL READING OF HISTORIC WORK,
THE LARAMIE PROJECT – 10 YEARS LATER

In a 24 hour period, over one hundred theatre companies worldwide will take part in a historic reading of the epilogue to the seminal work, The Laramie Project to

On October 6th of 1998 Matthew Shepard was beaten and left to die tied to a fence in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. He died 6 days later. His murder became a watershed historical moment in America that highlighted the violence and prejudice lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people face.

A month after the murder, the members of Tectonic Theater Project travelled to Laramie and conducted interviews with the people of the town. From these interviews they wrote the seminal play, The Laramie Project, which they later made into a film for HBO. The work has been seen by more than 50 million people in the US alone. Recognised as a modern classic, it is one of the most acclaimed and frequently staged plays of the past 10 years.

Tectonic’s eagerly awaited epilogue, The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later will be performed in over 100 theatres in all fifty states of the USA, in Canada, UK, Spain, Hong Kong and Australia on October 12/13, 2009. Red Stitch is honoured to have been invited to take part.

The Laramie Project – 10 Years Later focuses on the long-term effects of the murder of Matthew Shepard on the town of Laramie. It explores how the town has changed and how the murder continues to reverberate in the community. The play also includes new interviews with Matthew’s mother Judy Shepard and Mathew’s murderer Aaron McKinney, who’s serving two consecutive life sentences. The writers also conducted many follow-up interviews Laramie residents from the original piece.

“The Tectonic Theater Project set out to find out how Laramie had changed in the ten years since the murder of Matthew Shepard. When we arrived, we were forced to confront the question, ‘How do you measure change in a community?’ One of the things we found when we got there, which greatly surprised us, was how many people in Laramie were trying to say this was not a hate crime,” said Moisés Kaufman, Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project.

Performance Date: Tuesday 13 October, 7.30pm
Venue: BMW Edge Theatre, Federation Square, Melbourne, AUST
Tickets: $10
Bookings: www.redstitch.net, tel: 03 9553 8083
Media enquiries: TS Publicity on (03) 9419 8837

perverscite festival in montreal. demonstrating queer activism and gay pride

This year’s Pervers/Cité – Montreal’s 3rd Annual “Underside of Pride” – will be taking place from August 6 to 16, 2009 throughout the city of Montreal.

As Divers/cite becomes more and more corporate and less and less accountable to the history it represents, there is a growing need for a community response to the depoliticization of Pride.

Once again, a coalition of radical queer individuals and groups wants to organize a series of events, workshops, panel discussions, and actions to coincide with Divers/cite. The aim of this year`s series is to address issues normally pushed to the margins by the mainstream gay agenda.

http://www.perverscite.org/

Blushing Toms – Melbourne

Blushing Toms is an emerging online lifestyle store for women who love women. They are looking for artists who’s work shows an appreciation for the female form and feminine strength.

They are particularly interested in sourcing works that appeal to the ‘lesbian aesthetic’ which they see as being represented by any or all of the following:

· Women Identified
· Portraying strong females
· Unique, independently produced
· Feminist
· Living outside the patriarchy
· Iconic lesbian imagery

They are open to submissions from artisans from all different walks of life and in different forms of media. Currently they are focusing their search on finding:

- Tattoo designers / Illustrators: Existing designs or new collaborations.
- Photographers
- Painters
- Jewellery makers
- Sculpturists
- Accessory designers
- T-Shirt makers / designers

Whist these are the lines being launched if you have any work in other mediums that you believe would suit their aesthetic they would love to hear from you.

Initially looking to purchase most work on consignment.

If you have any work that may fit this description they’d love to hear from you!
So please contact them with some samples and a bit of information about yourself.

More info … artists@blushingtoms.com

Blushing Toms Website

One Way Street Party – Sydney Pride

Sydney Pride and SameSame.com.au are teaming up for a brand new party concept for Sydney. It involves 6 venues along the same street, and 1 massive party!

On Friday June 26th The One Way Street Party takes place at Slide, Gilligans, Stonewall, Columbian, Nevermind and the Oxford. For one night of the year, all of these venues will be coming together for a massive party to celebrate Sydney Pride and the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

For an entry fee of $10 at any of the venues on Friday June 26, you will receive a red wristband that will give you free entry at all of the One Way Street Party venues, as well as drinks specials on the night just by flashing your band. Each venue will be putting on something special to make the Street Party fun, with entertainment and shows to entertain you as you work your way up and down the strip.

The One Way Street Party is a Sydney Pride event that will be raising money for local charities that traditionally find it hard to fundraise, including Kids With Aids, Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, Luncheon Club and the Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service. The $10 wristband will go directly to these charities.

More from SameSame.com.au

Lesbitronica

Lesbitronica is a dance party for girls, boys and all of their friends, who love electronica. The party will indulge the senses in lezbitonic beats, lesbitronic action and performance.

Our first theme is ‘WONDER WOMEN’ addressing lesbian, queer and gay culture, feel free to invite all of your friends. Boys who feel like girls, girls who are boys, women who are strong and men who love men and love their friends’…

‘…always should be someone you really love….’

Ultimately it is about powers… the strong, soft and colourful powers of lesbitronic music.

Line up:
Annabelle Gaspar (Bad Dog)
Avra Cybele (Hard On, Stinkpit, Trash And Treasure)
Ben Drayton (Bad Dog, Dirty, Hard On, Stinkpit)

Live Performance: Press Eject http://www.presseject.info

Performers:
FEVA
Rooty Rita and Molly

Expect some special ‘girl on girl’ action and girl electro music performances!
Lesbitronic action’s being served – plus special effects regarding lightning etc.

Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 8:00pm
Hermann’s Bar, City Rd (Sydney Uni), Sydney, Australia

etoy.QUEER-LABS

We know there’s a little gay guy in everyone. But the etoy.BUREAUCRATS forgot to celebrate this fact!

etoy.CORPORATION SA wishes to apologize officially for not consulting the etoy.QUEER-LABS before setting this year’s GENERAL MEETING date.

Shame on the chairman and all his board members: the 6th of June 2009 is the day of the EUROPRIDE PARADE & FESTIVAL in Zurich! EuroPride is this year’s biggest gay event in the world: a celebration and political demonstration for acceptance and tolerance, against discrimination and against the creation of taboos and violence on grounds of sexual orientation. Political speakers include the politician and publicist Daniel Cohn Bendit, the mayor of Zurich, Corinne Mauch, and the Moldovan human rights activist Mihaela Copot.

http://www.europride09.eu/

The chairman proposes triple voting rights for all etoy.SHAREHOLDERS who can show probable cause that they practice/tested same-sex romance and/or participate in the general meeting as cross-dresser/gender-bender.

In addition, etoy installed the position of agent.PINK who can be contacted to delegate voting rights in case the celebration schedule cannot be synchronized with the etoy.MEETING-PLAN. —> use: gay@ir.etoy.com

kisses from etoy …leaving reality behind.

Japanese Gay Art new blog and Melbourne exhibit

Masahiko Takagi has started a Japanese gay art blog, www.japanesegayart.com. It’s fairly new but they have already uploaded an interview with Jiraiya, well known erotic artist.

Also exhibiting some works in Melbourne at Hares & Hyenas queer bookshop in Fitzroy, from Saturday May 16th. The bookshop has just added a new café, and is having an opening party for the café Sunday the 17th, from 3pm. The address is 63 Johnston Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia.

Other plans for exhibits in 2010, include events for Midsumma in Melbourne and Mardis Gras in Sydney.

the happy spacemen!

“It is impossible to crush this heroes’ force, our fire is powerful, we have dug the grave for the whelks”

As they say uranus is a really freaky place! …http://www.rathergood.com/spacemen

Content rating: very gay.