Bright Vignettes:
How Astoria Got its Pride
Event Description
Join LPAC for a free screening of Bright Vignettes - How Astoria Got its Pride at Stuart Cinema and Cafe!
The first film about Astoria’s Queer culture begins outdoors in the playful sensorium of a historical cruising site from the 1800s onward, and ends in a Queer club with a call to action for the most vulnerable, five months before the 2024 presidential election in the U.S. New York City is home to The Stonewall Inn, the site of a protest in June of 1969 that galvanized the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the U.S. In this same city, there are neighborhoods celebrating their first public Pride events into the 2020s. This is the Queer side of one of those neighborhoods.
As anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in the United States reaches unprecedented levels of implementation, Astoria felt the ramifications: burning a Pride flag outside its longest-running Queer bar in 2024; breaking the window of a new Queer bar in 2024; hateful comments on the public Instagram page for Astoria’s Annual Pride event in 2023; as well as ad hominem attacks documented in local news. Starting with the achievements and activity leading up to the neighborhood’s inaugural Pride event in 2023, Bright Vignettes portrays this vibrant, nurturing community of experimental performers, and progressive activists making this neighborhood “…a place to grow old in…and pass down our stories, and our cultures.”
Duration 1hr 20 mins
Presented in partnership with:
Event Date:
June 18th at 6:30PM
Tickets:
FREE w/ RSVP
Bright Vignettes: How Astoria Got its Pride is made possible (in part) with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by the NY Foundation for the Arts; and with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered by Flushing Town Hall. Additional funding provided by The Puffin Foundation.