Pride TV guide.With proper planning you can program a gay TV festival at home Ellen may be off the air, but that doesn't mean TV networks have forgotten gay viewers altogether. In fact, for Gay Pride Month, many networks have inserted special programming into their schedules. On June 12 PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, airs the award-winning documentary The Castro (reviewed in The Advocate, March 18, 1997), which traces the history of the world-famous San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden neighborhood. The network follows up on June 23 with Licensed to Kill, Arthur Dong's disturbing film about homophobia and homicide. Cable's Cinemax devotes each Wednesday night in June to queer cinema. On June 10 lip-synching drag queens This is a list of drag queens and female impersonators. Only those subjects who are notable enough for Wikipedia articles should be included here. A
v. stone·walled, stone·wall·ing, stone·walls v.intr. 1. Informal a. . On June 17 Late Bloomers turns the lens on two women whose unexpected romance revitalizes them and scandalizes their small town. The drama Hollow Reed, screening June 24, follows a gay father's attempts to win custody of his abused son. If news of Culture Club's reunion tour has sent you scrambling for tickets, don't miss the premiere of VH1's Storytellers documentary on the band on June 14. On June 27 the Lifetime channel will be rerunning its made-for-cable film Labor Of Love, which explores the friendship between a gay man (David Marshall Grant David Marshall Grant (born June 21, 1955, in Westport, Connecticut) is an American actor and playwright. Immediately after graduating from the Yale University School of Drama, his first paying job was as Richard Gere's lover in the Broadway play Bent. ) and a straight woman (Marcia Gay Harden Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Biography Early life Harden, one of five children, was born in La Jolla, California, daughter of Beverly (née Bushfield), a housewife, and Thaddeus Harold Harden, a Texas ) who have a child together. Finally, the Sundance Channel offers one gay-themed feature, short, or documentary film every day throughout June. Most notable are the television premieres of the British love story Beautiful Thing and the short film Just One Time. Also on the roster: It's My Party, Savage Nights, Parallel Sons, Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Film, Nervous Energy, Everything Relative, Poison, Chief, Maybe ... Maybe Not, Totally F***ed Up, Resident Alien Resident Alien A foreigner who is a permanent resident of the country he or she resides, but does not have citizenship. Notes: Resident and non-resident aliens have different filing advantages and disadvantages. : Quentin Crisp in America, My Pretty Little Girlfriend, and 27. If that's still not enough to satisfy you, there are always reruns of your favorite prime-time shows with gay, lesbian, or just queer-friendly characters. Check local listings for times. |
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