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Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/LGBT films from SIFF 2023 edit-a-thon

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This is an edit-a-thon celebrating the confluence of Wiki Loves Pride 2023 and the screening of LGBT films at the 2023 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). This currently is from the films on this topic that the primary organizer, Peaceray, saw at SIFF.

This list includes:

As of May 29, 2023, some of these films have articles, and some do not. For the existing articles, there may be improvements available from other language Wikipedia articles. There is additional opportunity for collateral improvements: major performers in and crew for the films may not have Wikipedia articles or even Wikidata items, and there may be linked articles that can use attention or creation. The latter is particularly true for the documentary on George Platt Lynes.

" " symbols indicate Women in Red.

information Note: We will hold the meetup for this edit-a-thon on June 17–18, 2023 at a Seattle Public Library (SPL) branch. The SPL is not a sponsor of this event. This event is open to the public. Some activities will occur via Zoom.

These were not the only LGBT films at SIFF 2023; other editors are encouraged to add any additional LGBT films that screened at SIFF 2023 and to make additions to this page as they deem fit. A more complete list can be found here:

  • "Lots of Queer Films At SIFF 2023". Seattle Gay Scene – Your Daily Gay In Seattle. 2023-05-09. Retrieved 2023-06-05.

Location and schedule edit

Location: University Branch of the Seattle Public Library (SPL),

  • Please bring a laptop and power cord
  • Food and beverages are allowed in the meeting room but not the main part of the library
  • Experienced editors are encouraged to work independently or to help others
  • If you are a new editor or have only limited editing experience, please note your experience level after your signature
ADA accessibility notes
  • This library building is over 100 years old and there is no elevator. The library claims to be "  Fully Accessible", but this comes with caveats.
  • There is a driveway with a handicap access parking spot between the library, 5009 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, and the University District Food Bank, 5017 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105.
  • The meeting room is on the lower floor. The handicap access is via the driveway. There is a door at this level with a buzzer. The library staff will need to come open the door.
  • The public bathroom (ADA) is on the upper floor in the main library. To get to the upper floor means to exit the lower floor, go around to the 9th Ave NE side of the building, and access the library via the ramp.

Dates and times

  • Saturday, June 17, 10–3pm
Aspirational schedule
  • Sunday, June 18, noon–5pm

General instructions edit

Some translation resources

20,000 Species of Bees edit

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20,000 Species of Bees

  This film won the 2023 SIFF Official Competition Grand Jury Prize.[1]

Synopsis
An eight-year old child, assigned male at birth, strives to identify as a girl while on a trip to a family gathering. A sympathetic great-aunt becomes an ally.

Links

Creation / expansion possibilities

Interested editors edit

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The Blue Caftan edit

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The Blue Caftan

  This film won the Golden Space Needle Audience awards for Best Director (Maryam Touzani) and Best Performance (Lubna Azabal).[1]   This film made the shortlist for the 95th Oscars International Film.[2]

Synopsis
A woman and her closeted gay husband run a caftan store in the medina of Salé, Morocco. They hire a young man as an apprentice who is attracted to the husband.

Links

  Done in both Wikidata & the article. Peaceray (talk) 05:44, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Creation / expansion possibilities

  • There is no Wikidata item or article yet for Ayoub Missioui as Youssef, the apprentice
  Partly done Article not created but Wikidata item is created: Ayoub Missioui [d] Peaceray (talk) 05:37, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interested editors edit

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Egghead & Twinkie edit

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Egghead & Twinkie

  The official website touts this "as the first feature to successfully crowdfund on TikTok".

Synopsis
Twinkie, a heretofore closeted lesbian who is an adopted Asian American, is a junior in a predominantly white high school. She rebuffs her best friend, Egghead, a nerdy, straight senior boy who is about to graduate, when he tries to kiss her. Twinkie comes out to him, and Egghead reluctantly accepts this. When Twinkie comes out to her parents, however, they become upset and reject her. Twinkie decides to run away for a few days to see the lesbian DJ that she has been corresponding with over social media, and recruits Egghead to drive her father's car. While on the road trip, she meets Jess, a bisexual woman who is also Asian American, and they develop an acquaintance. The DJ rebuffs her over the phone when Twinkie and Egghead reach the performance venue. Egghead has grown into being an ally, and brings her back to her new acquaintance on the way back home so that Twinkie can realize that there is a spark with her new friend.

Links

Creation / expansion possibilities

There are no articles or Wikidata items yet for:

  Partly done Article not created but Wikidata item is created: Sabrina Jie-A-Fa [d] Peaceray (talk) 05:44, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  Partly done Wikidata item created & linked: Louis Tomeo (Q120754917) Peaceray (talk) 04:39, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  Partly done Article not created but Wikidata item is created: Asahi Hirano [d] Peaceray (talk) 00:25, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interested editors edit

L’immensità edit

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L’immensità
Synopsis
Assigned female as birth, the Andrea / Adri / Adriana strives to assert a male identity while living in a dysfunctional family in 1970s Rome.

Links

Creation / expansion possibilities

  Partly done Article not created but Wikidata item is created: Luana Giuliani [d] Peaceray (talk) 05:33, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interested editors edit

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Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes edit

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Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes
Synopsis
A documentary about George Platt Lynes, a gay man at the nexus of the 1930s and 1940s gay scene in NYC and a photographer who created a significant body of work concentrating on male nudes.

Links

Instructions edit

Chronololgy / comments based on the film edit

  • 1925 Lynes goes to Paris aspiring to be a writer
  • expatriate scene in paris / gay scene
  • Became part of Gertrude Stein's circle
  • mentioned in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas as "Baby"
  • Back in US, started & dropped out of Yale in 1926
  • Met Monroe Wheeler & Glenway Wescott, ex-patriates. Meets Wescott in NY
  • Wheeler was one of the founders of of the Museum of Modern Art
  • John Stevenson (He was in the last ménage à trois with Wheeler / Wescott, Lynes was the first. This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
  • Lynes, started bookstore in NJ then sold it six months later & went back to Paris on sale money;
  • Went to Wheeler & Wescott, then living in Gil France / French Rivera?
  • Jean Cocteau lived upstairs
  • Travel albums photography by / of the three
  • Lynes returns to NYC in 1928
  • Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University has Lynnes's correspondence with Wheeler & Wescott
  • Encouraged to turn from writing to photography by Wheeler & Wescott
  • Untrained as a photographer
  • Lynes sailed to Paris again in 1931, meets Julien Levy, who displayss Lynes's photos, also a display at MOMA in 1932
  • Lecy holds a showing of 50 Lynes photographs in 1934[3]
  • Lynes used large format photography
  • Themes/subjects were surrealism, mythology, theatre subjects, also fashion photography
  • In 1934, Wheeler & Wescott move to NYC & Lynes moves in with them, sharing a bedroom with Wheeler
  • image (not usable in WP) https://mfa.org/article/2020/stone-blossom-a-conversation-piece by Paul Cadmus
  • Lynes becomes principal photographer for the American Ballet / New York City Ballet
  • 1940s relationships with George Tichenor (killed in WW II) & his younger brother Jonathon Tichenor
  • 1946 accepts position with Vogue Studio[4]
  • Lives beyond his means; suffers from depression because he is in a deeply homosexual town where homophobia is also rampant; misses friends in New York.
  • 1948 returns to NYC; out-of-style by then
  • Relationship with Laurie Douglas
  • After 1948, meets & befriends Alfred Kinsey
  • 1954 arranges to give his negatives to the Kinsey institute
  • 1955 went to Paris for final time, returns & is hospitalized, & discovers he had lung cancer & had metastasized to his brain.
  • In his later years, Lynes destroyed a lot of his early work, particularly his fashion work for which he did not want to be remembered.

In Lynes's circle: edit

 
Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein in 1941

Exhibition / Archives edit

Additional Biliography / Links edit

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Articles that need updating edit

Wikidata item, no article edit

Vincent Cianni (Q42315096)

No article or Wikidata item edit

  • Jensen Yow / Alexander Jensen Yow
  • Chuck Howard
  •   Laurie Douglas Horbach / Laurie Douglas / "Dougie"
  • Frederick R. Koch Foundation

Credits edit

Crew edit

Cast edit

Contributing institutions edit

Contributing family member edit

Interested editors edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Seattle International Film Festival 2023 Award Winners". SIFF. May 21, 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
  2. ^ "95th Oscars Shortlists Announced for 10 Categories". Academy of Motion Picture Arts. 2023-01-24. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  3. ^ The History of Photography Archive (2023-05-27). "Julien Levy Gallery - Fifty Photographs by George Platt Lynes, October, 1934". Flickr. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  4. ^ Ellenzweig, Allen (2022-01-18). "Exiles in Paradise". George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 385–C26.F1. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190219666.003.0026. ISBN 0-19-021966-1.
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