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Event Details & Information:
GLBTI Family Film Night Featuring A Special
Screening Of Two Films - "Our House - Kids Of Gay & Lesbian Families" &
"All Aboard! - Rosie's Family Cruise"
Thursday, June 5, 2008
7:00 pm
At Malco's Studio On The Square Movie Theater (2105 Court St., Memphis, TN,
38104)
One Night Only! Limited Seating! One Price Two Great Movies!
Tickets Online $5.00 (Til June 4, 2008)
(Click
Here To Purchase Ticket Online)
$6.00 At The Door! ($5.00 Kids Ages 5-12)
About Film: Our House - Kids Of Gay & Lesbian
Families
What is it like to grow up with gay or lesbian parents? Today, there are
millions of children in the United States who fit that description. These
families are at the heart of debates in courtrooms, schools and places of
worship around the country as Americans struggle to define “family values.”
Our House is a groundbreaking documentary that explores what it's like to grow
up with gay or lesbian parents. Traveling to urban, rural and suburban
communities in Arizona, Arkansas, New Jersey and New York, director Meema
Spadola (the daughter of a lesbian mom and the director of Breasts: A
Documentary) profiles the sons and daughters of five families - African
American, Latino and white; Mormon, Christian, and Jewish - who illustrate some
of the diversity of America’s gay and lesbian families. (56 mins)
All Aboard! - Rosie's Family Cruise
What is a family? Is it something defined by law, by tradition, or by love?
For the growing numbers of gay and lesbian families in America, the answer is
most definitely love - but too often, parents and children in such families are
stigmatized, unable to participate in many of the simple, public joys that most
families take for granted.
For years, Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell, parents of four, dreamed of a society free
of such discrimination. In 2004, they made that dream come true when 1,500
people - gay, lesbian and straight - set sail on a seven-day cruise to the
Caribbean. With a bold stroke only Rosie O'Donnell could make, a joyous new
community was born in this judgment-free setting, as passengers celebrated their
freedom and made a positive, progressive statement about what "family" means
today.
In 2002, comedian/actor Rosie O'Donnell, her partner Kelli and their friend
Gregg Kaminsky (a travel-industry executive) were discussing the possibility of
creating vacation packages for the gay and lesbian community. According to
O'Donnell, Kaminsky said, half-seriously, "Why don't we rent a cruise ship?"
From this conversation emerged what O'Donnell dubbed "the first gay cruise with
family values," organized by Kelli and Gregg's "R Family" agency and held
onboard the chartered cruise ship Norwegian Dawn in the summer of 2004.
In addition to providing viewers with the sights and sounds of the
precedent-setting cruise, All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise includes profiles of
many of the guests: from an older gay couple facing an empty nest once their
teenaged daughter goes to college, to a lesbian couple looking for a possible
sperm donor among their shipmates, to a gay couple who have adopted five
children (two sets of biological siblings), to onetime NFL star Esera Tuaolo,
who was "in the closet" as a player but made headlines when he "came out" after
retiring, and now is a role model in the gay community as well as the proud
father of twins.
Executive produced by Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell along with HBO's Sheila Nevins,
All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise was produced and directed by Shari Cookson,
Emmy®- nominated for HBO's 2001 documentary Living Dolls: The Making of a Child
Beauty Queen. Also for HBO, Cookson directed 1993's Skinheads USA: Soldiers of
the Race War, and produced 1992's Asylum. (91 mins)
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