{"id":737,"date":"2013-06-21T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faggotz.org\/wp?p=737"},"modified":"2025-01-19T18:57:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T22:57:28","slug":"summer-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faggotz.org\/wp\/2013\/06\/summer-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After being selected to show my work at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ticketing.frameline.org\/festival\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frameline<\/a> International LGBT Film Festival in San Francisco, I&#8217;ve pulled my short experimental film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/faggotz.org\/wp?page_id=580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">things are different now&#8230;<\/a> <\/em>in order to support the <a href=\"http:\/\/pacbi.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel<\/a>. \u00a0Frameline has been targeted\u00a0for it&#8217;s complicity with Israeli <a href=\"http:\/\/pinkwatchingisrael.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pinkwashing<\/a>. The festival has been targeted by\u00a0local queer activist groups like Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (<a href=\"http:\/\/quitpalestine.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QUIT<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/gayshamesf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gay Shame<\/a> for over a decade. \u00a0I gave a short <a href=\"http:\/\/artthreat.net\/2013\/06\/friday-film-pick-things-are-different-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with ArtThreat over pulling my film and <em>things are differnet now&#8230; <\/em>will be screened alternatively at Periwinkle Cinema&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/194351340715844\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rejected!!!<\/a> <\/em>on June 20th at the Artist Television Access in San Francisco instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>things are different now&#8230;<\/em> has also screened as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualaids.org\/events\/detail\/not-over-25-years-of-visual-aids#.UcJHWj771TM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NOT OVER: 25 Years of Visual AIDS<\/a> in New York at LaMama gallery. \u00a0The show also includes a small print version of my broadsheet\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/faggotz.org\/wp?page_id=617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Is Not Up<\/a>. <\/em>The show, currated by Kris Nuzzi and Sur Rodney (Sur), is up for the entire month of June and features the work of lots of friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"does this bother you poster?\" src=\"http:\/\/faggotz.org\/images\/does_this_bother_you.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>D<\/em><em>oes This Bother You?<\/em> a collaborative street based poster project that I participated in this spring will see a full scale exhibition and catalog in the fall of 2013 in Montr\u00e9al. \u00a0More information about the project is forthcoming, but in the mean time the project has already provoked a bit of press both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fugues.com\/main.cfm?l=fr&amp;p=100_article&amp;Article_ID=24102&amp;rubrique_ID=152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">locally<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xtra.ca\/public\/National\/Provocative_postering-13508.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nationally<\/a> in Canada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also my <em><a href=\"https:\/\/faggotz.org\/wp?page_id=755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You Must Marry<\/a><\/em> posters, a pastiche based on the original Homocult <a href=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-prn1\/314327_187613214645365_3536501_n.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poster<\/a>, made there first appearance at Southern Maine Pride and will be coming with me for a special night of\u00a0wheat pasting\u00a0in NYC for Pride. \u00a0More details about this project forthcoming after I hit the streets for NYC Pride.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.againstequality.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Against Equality<\/a> news, I&#8217;ve been busily working away on the manuscript for a new unabridged addition of Against Equality&#8217;s three anthologies all in one along with some new material. \u00a0The new anthology will help us greatly reduce our printing and shipping costs while still providing free books to prisoners. \u00a0It is due out in the spring of 2014 through AK Press and AE members will be touring to support the launch of the new anthology<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, the video from the Imagining Queer Justice panel I spoke at on behalf of Against Equality this past spring with <a href=\"http:\/\/ericastanley.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Stanley<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thespiritwas.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reina Gosset<\/a>t is now available online below. \u00a0Special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/margotweiss.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margot Weiss<\/a> at\u00a0Wesleyan\u00a0University for making it all possible!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"300\" height=\"169\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yYeS3gNQnaQ?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yYeS3gNQnaQ?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being selected to show my work at the Frameline International LGBT Film Festival in San Francisco, I&#8217;ve pulled my short experimental film things are different now&#8230; 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