“Trembling before God” and “Rene’s Story”

Posted on May 2, 2008
Filed Under GLBT, activism, coming out, discrimination, event coverage, gay issues, lesbian issues, queer issues, relationships, religion, sexual identity, stage play, transgendered issues
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Pelangi Pride Centre presents (10th May 2008) -
“Trembling before God” and “Rene’s Story”.

1) Trembling before God (84mins)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trembling_Before_G-d

Awards

Year Group Award[5][30] Result
2001 Washington Jewish Film Festival Audience Award ― Special Mention Won
Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize Nominated
Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Audience Award ― Favorite Documentary Won
L.A. Outfest Grand Jury Award ― Outstanding Documentary Feature Won
Chicago International Film Festival Gold Plaque Won
Berlin International Film Festival Don Quixote Award ― Special Mention Won
Teddy ― Best Film
2002 Glitter Awards Best Documentary voted by the U.S. Gay Press Won
Independent Spirit Awards Truer Than Fiction Award Nominated
2003 GLAAD Media Awards Outstanding Documentary Won
2004 Satellite Awards Best Documentary DVD Nominated

2) Rene’s Story (77mins)
Rene, 31, a female-to-male gender reassignment candidate took hormones
for years and “passed” as a man for all of his adult life. Married to
his high-school sweetheart, Wona, a heterosexual woman, for 12 years,
no one would guess Rene was biologically a woman. Living under a veil
of secrecy and lies, Rene and Wona’s lives seemed fine until someone
“outted” the couple at their beloved church and everything they knew
was destroyed. The public revelation of Rene’s secret starts to
unravel his marriage to Wona. Through all of it, Rene continues to
hold on to his lifelong obsession to become a biological male and goes
on a cross-country search to find the best transgender surgeon, only
to discover that the current surgery options are flawed. At the last
minute, Rene finds a surgeon who has created an experimental
procedure, which will be seen in THE OPPOSITE SEX for the first time.

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RSVP - This event is by invitation only, as there are limited seats,
prior registration is required.
For an invite -please email [pelangipridecentre at yahoo dot com] to
RSVP with your name, contact number, the name/s of your guests.

Details at a Glance
Event: “Trembling before God” and “Rene’s Story”.
Date: Saturday, 10th May 2008 (100508)
Time: 4pm
Venue: Pelangi Pride Centre - 54 Rowell Road (in Little India)
Cost per person: $6 (cost of 2 drinks and finger food)

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For directions on how to get to the new PPC:

Come into Hindoo Road from Jalan Besar. Look for tall HDB block 639 at
the end of the road. Corner terrace house with grapevines growing.
Come in from the back door.

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‘Wilde’ gala premiere

Posted on May 1, 2008
Filed Under GLBT, activism, discrimination, event coverage, gay issues, queer issues, stage play
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============= FROM PEOPLE LIKE US ===============

A film that has been banned for the past 11 years, will at last be screened in Singapore. The gala premiere will be a benefit event to raise funds for this year’s Indignation season.

And what an appropriate film it is - Wilde, a highly acclaimed film telling the story of Oscar Wilde, who was and remains the most famous person ever to be convicted under the UK’s “gross indecency” law. That law is the ancestor of our infamous Section 377A.

Oscar Wilde was a celebrated genius of the English stage. His works, including The Importance of Being Earnest, are still performed today.

lido_poster

But he was also gay - and some of you might say ‘but naturally, he being a creative genius and all’.

His greatest love was an upper class young man - Lord Alfred Douglas, whose father, the Marquess of Queensberry, was violently homophobic and who harassed Wilde until he found an opportunity to take him to court. The irony was that it was Wilde who created that opportunity for him.

Yet, Queensberry did not want his son’s name brought up in the trial, and so the case against Wilde was not built around the affair between Wilde and Douglas but built on the testimony of rentboys whom Wilde had been intimate with. If that hypocrisy was not enough, the chattering classes of the day also implicated the foreign minister in the campaign to convict Wilde.

It’s a tale that somehow doesn’t seem far away when we still have Section 377A and the police are still raiding saunas (looking for convenient evidence?)

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And did you know that the famous expression “the love that dare not speak its name” was coined by none other than Lord Alfred Douglas, in his poem, Two Loves

“Unasked by night; I am true Love, I fill
The hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.”
Then sighing, said the other, “Have thy will,
I am the love that dare not speak its name.”

Please support this benefit gala on Tuesday, 13 May 2008 at Lido. You can buy tickets ($20 or $50 - the latter with cocktail reception) from Fridae’s website (www.fridae.com/wilde/)

Fridae’s gala premiere is an important fundraiser for Indignation, since Indignation events themselves (scheduled for August 2008) are traditionally free of charge, in order to be accessible to everyone. Tickets are priced at $20 (US$15) and $50 (US$38) - the latter includes a cocktail reception - and are available from Fridae’s movie site www.fridae.com/wilde/index.htm or more directly from Fridae’s movie tickets shop at http://www.fridae.com/shop/cart/home.php?cat=416.

It will help greatly towards another successful Indignation Gay Pride Season.

Please also disseminate this email to as many friends as you can.

People Like Us would like to thank sponsor/organiser Fridae.com, and sponsors Crocodile Men’s Wear and Shaw Theatres.

See also
www.plu.sg
www.plu.sg/indignation
www.fridae.com

images credited to www.plu.sg

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QueerCast #57: Review of The Community

Posted on February 12, 2008
Filed Under HIV, activism, coming out, gay issues, government, news, podcast, singapore
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Chinese New Year is over and we are getting off our over-stuffed butts and bringing you more shows! But in order to go forward, we should always know where we’re at.

On this episode, we examine the gay culture, where we’ve been, where we’re at and where we’re going (hopefully). We re-explore what are our biggest issues at the moment!

Also a big thank you to Jafar Sinwan, who created the sound clip we’ll be using in our show!

Validation, Validation!

QueerCast #57: Review of the Community (24.1MB)
To download, right click on the link above and choose “Save Target As…”.
(Format: MP3, Duration: 26:09 mins, Stereo)

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