Wicked Queer 32

Singer, choir director and musician, Melanie DeMore, shows children and adults how to be Free In Song as she sows the seeds of cultural activism and history. The passion between two queer Black women ripples across the vastness of decades in Your Kiss. What could Possibly be the connection between wooded trails, sunny BART stops and floral sheets? A journey through queer and cultural identity creates the broth that flavors Life Y Pozole. From the roots of struggle, My Beautiful Resistance grows vibrantly for an undocumented, queer, person of color. The support of Girls You Know inspires a young girl to mold her environment. Judgement within queer identity leads to The Un/Belonging. With her alluring Heft, a queer Black woman in the East Bay draws a bevy of suitors and scoundrels. Free in Song by Tiye Square-LeVias – 20min Your Kiss by Enajite Pela – 5:43min Possibly by Tracy Nguyen – 9:32min Life y Pozole by Candy Guinea – 5:15min My Beautiful Resistance by Penny Baldado – 8:02min Girls You Know by Carie-Elena Edwards – 3min The Un/belonging by Raquel Wells – 8:56min Heft by Alexandria Wright – 10:02min

A genderqueer ugly duckling emerges from the shell of oppression and heartbreak into a sparkling fairytale ​SWANICORN full of hope. It’s back to basics in ​SEXUALITY 101: ​IDENTITY as two young women insolently define their own labels. The magnetic moments of ​BEING SEEN BEING HOME fully affirm a fat femme as the heavenly body that she is. A young woman courageously embraces her perceived flaws ​IN HER EYES. The poetic affirmation of ​#BLACKWOMENSLIVESMATTER shows us how to transform systemic devaluation. An offering under the ​SUNGAZE sparks renewal and growth. A queer Black man on a spiritual journey discovers his path to being ​PROUD & FAITHFUL. ​AU-KNAPPTURAL embraces the beauty that is bald heads and Black hair. A new ​HER/CUT leads to an awkward encounter between old friends. A young queer Asian-American writes ​A LETTER TO MY FATHER within the space of their family restaurant. ​MAMITIS makes a long journey home after years as an immigrant. A bisexual transgender Asian woman celebrates ​JASMINE’S JUBILEE and life’s triumphs. Based on the Samoan word for love ​HIS VISION: PROJECT ALOFA embraces all without judgement. For a trio of queer friends, the expansive magnitude of ​FINDING EACH OTHER draws them into activist community. An Afro-Latina queer couple explores ​DE COLORES, OUR LIVES at the intersection of cultural, sexual and racial identity.

Join us for a selection of some of the best LGBT series on the web, with filmmakers in attendance! K&A: Gay Camp – SEASON 2 PREMIERE Best friends Karly and Alex are day-drunk, disorderly, and sabotaging their own best efforts to find independence in the city of Boston. BROTHERS: Max The series follows their daily lives, the ups and down, in and outs, of what it means to live as a transgender individual in today’s urban society. What does it mean to struggle and succeed as a trans person in the complicated fabric of today’s society? UNSURE/POSITIVE: Some Weird Rock Hudson Type of Shit UNSURE/POSITIVE follows the life of Kieran McCullay; young, smart–and troubled. He’s just been diagnosed with HIV, and he doesn’t know who to turn to for support. He has great friends, a decent job, a budding love interest… and his great big secret. HER STORY: Episode 5 Her Story is a new-media series that looks inside the dating lives of trans & queer women as they navigate the intersections of desire & identity. TOUGH LOVE A full grown woman-child and her grumpy gay best friend learn to live with each other’s quirks. MODERN DAY BLACK GAY MDBG is an introspective web-series that explores what it means to be Black and Gay in modern society. EASY ABBY Lesbian Romantic Comedy series “Easy Abby”, is about a young woman who has never fallen in love and doesn’t want to! A chronic seducer and truth teller, Abby is great in bed but mostly wants to be left alone.