movie poster for screening of the film Kiki
September 25, 2024

Queer Classic Cinema: Kiki

Event Details

Date & Time

Wednesday, Sep 25, 2024 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM


Department

Lincoln LGBTQ+ Resource Center


Cost

Free


Location

Hemmingson Auditorium


Event Type & Tags

  • Diversity Inclusion

About This Event

Join us to build community watching LGBTQ+ classic films and discuss their impact and application to current LGBTQ+ issues.

Kiki is an American-Swedish co-produced documentary film, released in 2016.It takes place in New York City, and focuses on the "drag and voguing scene [and] surveys the lives of LGBT youth of color at a time when Black Lives Matter and trans rights are making front-page headlines".The film was directed by Sara Jordenö and considered an unofficial sequel to the influential 1990 film Paris Is Burning, the film profiles several young LGBT people of colour participating in contemporary LGBT African American ball culture.