As June comes to a close, we here at Q Center can take a collective deep breath and be thankful for yet another fabulously successful Pride month–so many great events, so many wonderful personal interactions, and so much FUN!
We drive home the point often, but we’ll continue to say it:
Q Center could not accomplish all the great things we do here without your support.
The hours you put into this organization and the generosity of your giving are the foundations of Q Center and we are grateful to all of our volunteers and friends in the LGBTQ community for making Q Center what it is–an awesome place that is open to all of us.
And we’d like to say an extra special “Thanks!” to Terry Bean, the Gay and Lesbian Yellow Pages, and the Equity Foundation for their fantastic sponsorship of all of our Pride events. We would also like to thank Ron Mitchell at Boxxes/RedCap for again helping Q Center raise $5,000 at this year’s Stark Street Block Party and the great folks at Salon Q for hosting Salon Q for Q, a terrific benefit that raised $1000 for your Q Center!
This year’s 
The movies are over 100 years old, and gay movie characters have been with us since the very beginning—even during the Production Code years, when “sex perversion” was explicitly forbidden. From comic sissies to lesbian vampires, from pathetic queens to sadistic predators, Hollywood has both reflected and defined how we think about homosexuality—and about what it means to be a man or a woman. With clips from over 100 Hollywood movies, and interviews with many of the filmmakers and actors who created them (including Tom Hanks, Shirley Maclaine, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg and Gore Vidal), The Celluloid Closet is an epic story—by turns surprising, hilarious and disturbing. The Celluloid Closet makes us see Hollywood images in a whole new light, exploding sexual myths and examining our attitudes about sexuality and sex roles as they evolved through the 20th century.
