This spring, join Trans Lawrence Coalition, Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity, and ECM for our monthly TRANS MOVIE NIGHT featuring screenings and discussions of new and classic documentaries exploring trans lives and issues, past and present.

Thursdays, 8 PM

ECM, 1204 Oread Ave.

February 22

Beyond the Straight and Narrow: Queer and Trans Television in the Age of Streaming (2023) / Trailer

"[This documentary] is the newest installment in filmmaker and media scholar Katherine Sender’s groundbreaking series exploring LGBTQ representations on American television. ...Sender shows how LGBTQ visibility and political progress have combined with new digital media technologies and television platforms to produce an increasingly complex range of queer and transgender representations. The film also considers the emergence of these more nuanced representations of LGBTQ characters and plotlines within the context of an accelerating backlash against LGBTQ visibility in our politics, schools, athletics, and public spaces." — Media Education Foundation

March 21

Pay It No Mind: Marsha P. Johnson (2012)

"This feature-length documentary focuses on revolutionary trans-activist, Marsha ‘Pay it No Mind’ Johnson who was a Stonewall instigator, Andy Warhol model, drag queen, sex worker, starving actress, and Saint. With her final interview from 1992, director Michael Kasino captures the legendary gay/human rights activist as she recounts her life at the forefront of The Stonewall Riots in the 1960s, the creation of S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) with Sylvia Rivera in the '70s, and a New York City activist throughout the '80s and early '90s. Through her own words, as well as in-depth interviews…Marsha's tale lives on." — Frameline

April 18

Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (2005) / Trailer 

"When San Francisco police raided a popular late-night hangout for transgender people in the city's impoverished Tenderloin district in 1966, the patrons unexpectedly fought back. It was the first known instance of collective, queer resistance to police intimidation in United States history. Screaming Queens tells the story of this little known uprising that helped launch a broader fight for human rights in America.” — ITVS

ACCOMMODATIONS

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