Annual Film Series - fall screening schedule

Fall 2008

Annual Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen Film Series: Intersections of Sexuality & Faith in Film

All screenings at 7pm, room locations vary by screening - please see info below.

Thursday, August 28th  Camp Out

Ten Midwestern teenagers attend the first overnight Bible Camp for gay Christian youth. Struggling to find a way to be true to both their spirituality and their sexual identity, they come to camp hoping to find a place of acceptance.

Thursday, September 4th  For the Bible Tells Me So - 

***location change to Williams 323***

Five Christian families help the audience discover how insightful people of faith handle the realization of having a gay child. The film offers healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.

Double Feature: Monday, September 22nd

***location change to Williams 323***

I Exist  Explores the individual stories of lesbian and gay people of Middle Eastern cultures living in the United States and shows the journey many take in learning how to join both their cultural heritage and sexual identity.

Act of Faith  Can one be gay and Muslim at the same time? The struggle of gay Muslims.

Thursday, October 23rd  Trembling Before G-d

Location TBA

Shattering assumptions about sexuality, faith and religion, this film is built around intimately-told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian.

Monday, November 3rd  In Good Conscience

Location TBA

An unlikely and very funny rebel, an American nun, finds herself at the center of a human rights storm.

Screening in observance of the Transgender Day of Remembrance

Thursday, November 20th  Call Me Malcolm

A story of the human spirit and God’s spirit, and the liberating struggle to realize and express with  confidence the gift of one’s truest sense of self.  This film chronicles the life of a transgender seminary student and his struggle with faith, love, and gender identity. 

Screening in observance of World AIDS Day

Monday, December 1st  The Smith Family

A Mormon family’s experience with sexual identity and AIDS.

For more information, contact the LGBT Center. All films are free and open to the public.