We've got two tickets tickets available to the Queer Documentary Film Festival's screening of "Hand on the Pulse" Sunday May 31st at 5pm at the Clinton Street Theatre. We want you to go with us!
HERE'S THE DEAL: Bidding starts at $5 a ticket (the regular price of admission) and stops at ONE MILLION DOLLARS! Leave a comment to bid on the ticket(s) and then attend the film with the lovely In Other Words ladies, Katie & Amber. Just leave your bid in the comment section of this post!
A note about the film:
The “welcome note” at Joan Nestle’s website reads: “You are on the verge of entering the home of a 68-year-old fem lesbian woman. If you find explicit words about love, lust, play, creativity, illness, and social concerns obscene, you will not be comfortable in my home.”
Co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, writer, activist and sex-radical Joan Nestle has made significant contributions to our understanding of women’s sexuality, gender issues, and the preservation of lesbian history and culture.
HAND ON THE PULSE traces Nestle’s amazing life: from Greenwich Village in the 1950s, to the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, and helping to forge a new lesbian and gay consciousness through grassroots organizing. She has celebrated the body and women’s sexuality in her writings, and in public readings in her trademark black slip. Along with her then-partner Deborah Edel, she started the first lesbian archive in their apartment, and maintained it there for more than 15 years. The archive now includes more than 20,000 books, 12,000 photographs, and 1,600 periodical titles. Now in her late 60s, Nestle continues to celebrate the body as an aging woman and as a woman with cancer.
Screening with 575 CASTRO ST. Queer filmmaker and historian Jenni Olson elegantly combines footage she shot on the set of Gus Van Sant’s MILK with an audio recording of Harvey Milk contemplating the possibility that he could be assassinated.
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