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Valentine film benefit to salute LESBIAN 'HERSTORY' |
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| Valentine film benefit to salute LESBIAN 'HERSTORY' | ||
| No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon and A Knock Out to be screened
by Tina Gianoulis - Special to the SGN Seattle's Dyke Community Activists are celebrating Valentines with a salute to Lesbian herstory and ground breaking women. As part of their 2006 Film Benefit Series, the group will screen a Dyke double feature this Saturday night, February 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Hearing, Speech & Deafness Center, 1609 19th Ave. (NW corner of 19th and Pine). The evening will feature two documentary films, No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon and A Knock Out, and all proceeds will be donated to the newly forming Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives. Admission will be a voluntary donation of $5-$15 with more gratefully accepted and no one turned away. No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon tells the story of two courageous women who began to work for the rights of Lesbians during one of the most socially conservative eras in American history. Lovers since 1952, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon were among the founders of a Lesbian liberation movement that developed and expanded the very definition of Lesbianism. Lyon and Martin not only helped lay the foundation for the Lesbian movement of the 1970s, but they also worked to link Lesbian liberation with other important political struggles. Martin and Lyon have also become Lesbian ground-breakers by staying in a committed relationship for over fifty years. The second film of the evening will be The Knock Out, a film exploration of how race, gender, and looks operate in the world of athletics. Michele Aboro is a world champion professional boxer, a mixed-race, working class, butch Dyke who refuses to change her image for profit. Though she is almost unstoppable in the ring, her career is placed in serious jeopardy because her image is not considered "marketable" enough. The Knock Out exposes the real championship fight-between a contender and her promoters, who too often value image and sex appeal over talent, drive, and heart. The audience at Saturday's screening will also have the opportunity to meet a local woman boxer. After the film, Tricia Turton, a professional boxer with a 7-0 record and a Northwest Title belt to her credit, will speak about her own experiences in the boxing world. Turton, a Cincinnati, Ohio native who has lived in the Northwest for ten years, took up boxing only four years ago to stay in shape after retiring from rugby. Having played that aggressive game on the national and international level, Turton was no stranger to contact sports, but she found that boxing presented new challenges. "It's the most physically and mentally demanding sport I've ever done," Turton said, "It's non-stop and you can apply a lot of boxing principals to your personal life-like overcoming challenges and learning patience and discipline." One of the biggest challenges for Turton herself was learning to keep her temper and stay cool while being hit. "If you get angry and start reacting emotionally, then you start making mistakes and leave yourself open to being hit some more." Turton started her career working out at Cappy's on Union, a "boxing gym for everyone." Invited by owner Cappy Kotz to join the gym's amateur boxing team, Turton honed her skills and went professional a year ago. Now a veteran of professional matches in Anacortes, Ferndale, and California, Turton also also coaches at Cappy's on Union and tries to be patient waiting for her next match. Organizers felt it only appropriate that these films documenting Lesbian experience should benefit a local project dedicated to preserving local Lesbian history. The idea for the Pacific Northwest Lesbian Archives (PNLA) was born at a Michigan Womyn's Music Festival workshop presented by the founders of Los Angeles' June Mazer Lesbian Archives. Lisa Cohen, current director of the PNLA attended that workshop during the 1990s and became inspired with the idea of preserving Lesbian history. "Our lives are important and deserve recognition and celebration as a surviving and thriving sexual minority community group," she writes of the PNLA mission, "Currently there are no collecting repositories in the Pacific Northwest specifically dedicated to preserving our herstory. We have the right to know where we came from and where we are going within the context of the Lesbian experience." Those who attend the February 11 screening will not only have the chance to watch some riveting documents of national and international Lesbian herstory, but will also have the chance to support the preservation of our own local Lesbian heritage. If you are unable to attend the films, send a Valentine for history-check out the PNLA website at www.pnwLesbianarchives.org and send them a donation. |
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