Film, double feature: Screaming Queens & Watermelon Woman

Jul 28 2008 - 6:30pm
Jul 28 2008 - 10:00pm
Etc/GMT-4

Screaming Queens: A documentary about transgenders and transvestites fighting police harassment at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's Tenderloin in 1966, three years before the famous riot at Stonewall Inn bar in NYC. Watermelon Woman: While doing research for a movie about a forgotten African-American actress, black video-store clerk Cheryl (writer-director Cheryl Dunye, playing herself) discovers that her subject shared a secret love affair with a white female director. In a stroke of intergenerational coincidence, Cheryl soon finds herself in love with a white woman.

Location
The Aqueerium
1361 Monroe St. NW
(Columbia Heights Metro)
Washington, DC
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