Circa: Queer Histories Festival is a month-long programming series showcasing the trailblazing histories and vibrant cultural contributions of LGBTQ+ communities through the lends of present-day challenges and triumphs. Circa features queer and trans artists, activists, and educators leading the movement for LGBTQ+ liberation.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
SUN Sept. 28 @ 4pm: The Sky Is Always Falling: HIV/AIDS Activists Unleashing Power in Los Angeles Then and Now
SAT Oct. 4 @ 7pm: "Paradise" (2023): Revisiting South Korea's Gay/Queer Pasts
SAT Oct. 4 @ 7pm: Jeanne Córdova: Butches, Lies & Feminism
SUN Oct. 5 @ 7pm: Circa Opening Plenary: NEA 4 Revisited in a New Era
WED Oct. 8 @ 7pm: The Alphabet Mafia: Gen Z Leaders on the LGBTQ+ Movement Today
THURS Oct 9. @ 7pm: Abby Land: Allyship
FRI Oct. 10 @ 8pm: Queer Comedy w/ Alamin
SAT Oct. 11 @ 2:30pm: HIV Writers Festival
SAT Oct. 11 @ 7pm: ACT UP LA Oral History Panel
SUN Oct. 12 @ 2:30pm: Black Tears of Oil and Honey
SUN Oct. 12 @ 7pm: Sapphic Chic: From Lesbos to Los Angeles: Sappho Was a Pop Star: A Herstory of Sapphic Pop
SUN Oct. 12 @ 7pm: Sapphic Chic: From Lesbos to Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Origins and Global Impact of “Lesbian Chic”
THURS Oct. 16 @ 7pm: Life and Death at the Bon Mot Cafe
FRI Oct. 17 @ 7:30pm: Mujre Ki Raat (Mujra Night): A night of gender-bending South Asian Dance and Drag
SAT Oct. 18 @ 1pm: Generations Connected
SUN Oct. 19 @ 7pm: Connection | Isolation
WED Oct. 22 @ 7pm: Screening: Reza Abdoh's "Quotations from a Ruined City" (1993)
THURS Oct. 23 @ 7pm: Who is a Sex Werqer? A Slice of History: NYC Ball/Voquing Culture
FRI Oct. 24 @ 8pm: Torture Trilogy: Reflecting on Two Decades of Infamy with Ron Athey
SAT Oct. 25 @ 7pm: Distinguished Scholar Lecture: Rethinking the Closet: New York Gay Life Before Stonewall
SUN Oct. 26 @ 3pm: Deep Listening, Deep Change: Storytelling for Movement Building
SUN Oct. 26 @ 7pm: Outliers and Outlaws
MON Oct. 27 @ 7pm: UPDATE with STRIPPER CO-OP DANCERS : SEIZING the MEANS of S3DUCTION!