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Gay and Lesbian Pride Month

WETA TV 26 recognizes Gay and Lesbian Pride Month

 

June 2009

WETA Television celebrates Gay & Lesbian Pride Month with an array of biographical, historical and issues-based films pertaining to the gay, lesbian, and transgender experience in America.

Throughout the broadcast year, WETA is committed to presenting programs reflecting the diversity of our community. See below for:

 

WETA's Gay Pride Month brochure lists this month's special programming.
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Programs airing on TV 26

In the Life

Tuesday, June 9 at 12:30am
In the Life documents the full range of the gay experience and the issues that impact upon the lives of the GLBT community (and upon its extended communities) through stories covering politics and public policy, personal and community health, religion and spirituality, and more.

Water Flowing Together

Saturday, June 13 at 11:30pm
An intimate portrait of dancer Jock Soto, who retired from the New York City Ballet at age 40 after a 24-year career. Soto’s journey as an openly gay man of Navajo Indian and Puerto Rican descent provides a rare glimpse into the life of a dancer and the disparate worlds which have shaped this artist.

The Education of Shelby Knox

Sunday, June 14 at 12:30am
This film follows a 15-year-old Christian student’s campaign for comprehensive sex education and a gay-straight alliance in Texas high schools, and her dawning understanding of how deeply personal beliefs can inform political action.

Ask Not

Wednesday, June 17 at 10:30pm
As wars rage in the Middle East, the U.S. military is eager for more recruits — unless they are openly gay. This documentary explores the tangled political battles that led to the infamous “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, and reveals the personal stories of gay Americans who serve in combat under a veil of secrecy.

Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Saturday, June 20 at 11pm
Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, has emerged as one of the country’s leading playwrights — and one of its fiercest moral critics. In this film, Oscar-winning director Freida Lee Mock followed Kushner for three tumultuous years to delve into the passions that keep him reaching for the great American play.

Emile Norman — By His Own Design

Sunday, June 21 at 11:30pm
This portrait of the self-taught California artist Emile Norman chronicles his independent spirit. At age 88, Norman is still working with the same passion for life, art, nature and freedom that inspired him through seven decades of a changing art scene and turbulent times for a gay man in America.
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Screaming Queens

Monday, June 22 at 12:30am
This film relates the story of a 1966 San Francisco riot in which transgendered prostitutes fought back against police harassment.

Beyond Hatred

Saturday, June 27 at 11:30pm
In September 2002, three skinheads roaming a park in Rheims, France, assaulted a gay man. Twenty-nine-year-old François Chenu fought back fiercely but was killed. This film is the story of the crime’s aftermath and the Chenu family’s struggle to seek justice while trying to make sense of pointless violence and unbearable loss.

Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life

Sunday, June 28 at 11:30pm
As Duke Ellington's co-composer, arranger and right-hand man, Billy Strayhorn wrote some of the greatest American music of the 20th century. As a gay man, though, Strayhorn had to lead a discreet existence, while Ellington played to thunderous applause on center stage.
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