Now in its 12th year, P Town’s annual Womxn of Color Weekend has become a major event for that community and their friends. We went to Roux to cover their Basketball Tournament & Cook Out on Saturday afternoon which turned out to be all about the food and the partying, This crowd sure know to have fun.
Queer filmmaker YEN TAN’s latest exceptional drama takes place in the early stages of the AIDS pandemic when so many gay men who had yet to come out to their families about their sexuality, were now faced with dealing with their HIV diagnosis alone. 1985 is one such story where a young Texan man goes home to visit with his family probably for the last time and then is destined to take his secret to the grave with him.
1985 was selected as the Closing Night Gala film at OUTshine, Miami’s LGBTQ Film Festival where it played to a sold-out crowd. Whilst Tan was in town, he talked with Roger Walker-Dack about the film, and why it is important that movies about AIDS are still made.
At the centerpiece of PTown‘s first Gay Pride was Yvette Mattern‘s spectacular Global Rainbow which lit up the whole town at night. We met up with Yvette to find out the story behind her wonderful installation.