NEW FEST NYC - Screening

One Summer in New Paltz, A Cautionary Tale,

5:30, Sunday June 7th

SVA Theatre 2 (on 23rd st. between 8th and 9th Ave. in Chelsea)
New Fest, The New York LGBT Film Festival

One Summer in New Paltz, A Cautionary Tale
© 2008 Intervention Video Inc. (54 min., DVD)

Set against a backdrop of the Bush administration's policy of endless war and assault on civil liberties, One Summer in New Paltz is a cautionary tale of a young mayor of a small village who decided to do the unthinkable.

Premiere:

"The Queer Nineties" (90 min. 2009) directed by Nancy Nicol

Saturday, May 23, 12:30 2009.

Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

Royal Ontario Museum Cinema

There was something queer about the 1990s. At the beginning of the decade lesbians and gays had no recognition of their relationships in law. By the end of the decade, lesbians and gays had won relationship recognition and adoption rights in most jurisdictions in Canada. From the defeat of same-sex relationships recognition in Ontario (1994); to the Surrey School Board ban of three children’s books which depicted same-sex parents in B.C. (1997); from the role of ethno-diverse communities and labour within the LGBT movement; to the litigants and lawyers at the forefront of key Charter rights cases - “the Queer Nineties” takes a look at an amazing decade in the struggle for lesbian and gay equality in Canada.

 This is a special community screening to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexual acts in Canada. Director, Nancy Nicol will be joined by a panel following the screening including:

 -Tom Warner founding member of the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario, co-chair of the Campaign for Equal Families (1994), Ontario Human Rights Commissioner (1993-96), author of "Never Going Back A History of Queer Activism in Canada".

-Douglas Elliott, "lawyer for the Foundation for Equal Families in M. v H., lawyer for MCCT in same-sex marriage case and lawyer for same sex survivors in pensions case, Hislop v Canada."

-Dr. Alan Li, Founder of Hong Kong 10% Club, the first registered gay organization in Hong Kong, past chair of Gay Asians Toronto, Asian

-Community AIDS Services and the multi-cultural Coalition Against Homophobia, and current co-chair of Committee for Accessible ADS Treatment

-Gareth Henry, founder of Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG), International Grand Marshal, Toronto Pride 2008.

-Susan Ursel, human rights lawyer, Lobby Chair of the Campaign for Equal Families (1994) and a founding director of the Foundation for Equal Families

Tickets  will be available at the Box Office (2 Carleton St.) ON OR AFTER MAY 6. After the festival begins (May 14th), tickets can be picked up at the Guest Relations Desk on the 2nd Floor of the Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles St. W.). 

Info: 
http://www.insideout.on.ca/festival/