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February 22, 2024. Our Black Queer History Spotlight with The Oakland LGBTQ Community Center and Cinemama continues on at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland for a shorts program full of phenomenal films from our past Festivals. This screening is FREE.
There will be a panel discussion moderated by filmmaker Debra Wilson… plus, a post-event mixer nearby for all of us to chat about the movies and make new friends!

Marlon Riggs’ experimental music video politicizes the homoeroticism of African American men. With images — sensual, sexual, and defiant — and words intended to provoke, Anthem reasserts the “self-evident right” to life and liberty in an era of pervasive anti-gay, anti-Black backlash and hysterical cultural repression.

Set to a dreamy song and shot with fresh vérité vision, Baby follows a young man through the Bronx on a Saturday and quietly builds into a beautiful ode to first love.

“If a bad actor can be president, why not a good drag queen?” In 1992, Joan Jett Blakk made a historic bid for the White House as one of the first openly queer write-in candidates. Today, Terence Smith, the man behind the persona, reflects back on his place in gay rights history at the height of the AIDS crisis.

This experimental/performative short film celebrates the diversity of the Black diaspora in the Bay Area.

Code Switch follows a Black trans person as they navigate the barbershop, illuminating the complexity and dynamism of gender expression.

A Black gay man struggling to navigate life challenges in dating and career, while leaning on the help of his best friend to make a big decision to severe ties with a toxic parent.

Femme Rage is a rally cry to all QTBIPOC Femmes, across the gender spectrum, to unleash their rage about living, surviving, and thriving within a cishetero-capitalist-white supremacist-patriarchy.

How Not to Date While Trans is a break-the-fourth-wall, dark comedy that follows the dating life of a black trans woman and the problematic men she meets along the way. Andie searches for romance and self-love but ends with heartbreak.
This screening is FREE. Admittance is on a first come basis.