USA Africa Dialogue Series - Premier screening of a People’s History of the LGBTQ community in Grand Rapids this Thursday

Premier screening of a People's History of the LGBTQ community in
Grand Rapids this Thursday
November 14, 2011
by Jeff Smith (GRIID)

The film is finally done and we are excited to announce that the
premier showing of a People's History of the LGBTQ community in Grand
Rapids is this week, Thursday, November 17.

The film is based on 69 interviews, archival documents, photos, videos
and a research project of how the Grand Rapids Press covered LGBTQ
issues in the 1980s and 90s.

Following the model of people's history developed by radical historian
Howard Zinn, the film looks at watershed moments in Grand Rapids where
the LGBTQ community responded to institutional homophobia and
organized campaigns for greater equality. Issues featured in the film
include the effort to organize the first Pride Celebration, the
campaign to past an anti-discrimination ordinance in Grand Rapids,
responding to the AIDS crisis, dealing with the Religious Right, the
persecution of Jerry Crane, LGBTQ organizing at GVSU and the
significance of Sons & Daughters.

We will also be unveiling a new online archive for the People's
History of the LGBTQ community in Grand Rapids, which we hope people
will add to for years to come. Copies of the DVD will be available at
this event.

People's History of the LGBTQ Community in Grand Rapids Film

Thursday, November 17

6:30PM

GVSU downtown campus – Loosemore Auditorium

This event is free and open to everyone. A discussion will follow the
film and LGBTQ organizations will be tabling at this event.

GRIID is grateful to the LGBT Resource Center at Grand Valley State
University and the Kutsche Office of Local History for their support
in making this project come to fruition.

After the film we are encouraging people to attend a fundraising event
for the group Until Love is Equal, which has been working on passing
an anti-discrimination ordinance in Holland.

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