CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
Pride Weekend: ‘After Stonewall’ is Reviewed on ‘Reel Pride’
CHICAGO – The 2020 Pride Weekend, which occurs every year around the June 28th anniversary date of the Stonewall Inn uprising, will be remembered not for the LGBTQ+ themed parades or observances, but the cancellation of those events due to COVID-19. But the celebration continues, as the film series “Reel Pride” reviews the documentary “After Stonewall.”!—break—>
“Reel Pride” is co-hosted by Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com and arts reviewer Jeffrey Leibham of AroundtheTownChicago.com. The YouTube series reviews LBGTQ+ films through cinema history, to increase awareness of the passion for these cinematic stories within feature films and documentaries. For additional reviews, click the title links of ”Stonewall” (1995), ”Stonewall” (2015) and ”Parting Glances” / “Cruising”.
’After Stonewall,’ Directed by John Scagliotti
Photo credit: First Run Features
“After Stonewall” was a documentary from 1999, narrated by Melissa Etheridge, that tracked LGBTQ+ history from the Stonewall Inn uprising in 1969 through 1999, a timeline of progress and setbacks endured in LGBTQ+ activism and advocacy after the events of the uprising.
Reel Pride 2020 - AFTER STONEWALL …
By PATRICK McDONALD |