Reminder: The Last Dance Raid film in progress at Faetopia @ Mon Jun 18 9pm - 10pm (Queer Things)

more details » The Last Dance Raid film in progress at Faetopia http://faetopia.com/?page_id=354 At Faetopia, 2286 Market St, San Francisco, next to Cafe Flore A special showing of clips from the upcoming documentary The Last Dance Raid Special introduction by producer Kit Sinton. All proceeds donated to The Last Dance Raid production. In 1965 Being Gay in San Francisco Was a Crime and The Police Had Their Own Idea of Justice It is the first day of 1965, and a glittering Mardi Gras Costume Ball is about to begin in San Francisco, at a rented venue on Polk Street called California Hall. The high-profile fundraising gala is a coming out party for the city's underground gay culture, which hopes, for the first time in history, to publicly reveal itself in a thoroughly respectable yet visibly queer and overtly political fashion. The party is a traditional gay drag ball—but with a twist. Progressive Christian ministers involved in the civil rights movement are part of the organizing committee, along with activists from several fledgling "homophile" organizations (as these pioneering gay rights groups then called themselves). Men in clerical collars are mingling with men in low-cut evening gowns to show the world that a new day is dawning in the struggle for social justice and human equality. The Last Dance Raid documentary film recovers a landmark event in LGBTQQ history for today's audiences, using intergenerational storytelling by eye-witnesses who impart a sense of power that comes from knowing the history of one's own people, and to promote non-violent strategies for resisting oppression. It does this by creating a documentary film of police harassment and public abuse on New Year's Day 1965 of a gay and lesbian Mardi Gras Costume Ball attendees and how it changed the Gay civil rights landscape in San Francisco. When Mon Jun 18 9pm – 10pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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