2nd Sunday movie for July 13 is "Sordid Lives"

Writer-director Del Shores serves up a heaping helping of Southern-fried comic melodrama in this adaptation of his own play about infidelity, country & western music, and Airstream trailers. When their sister dies, Latrelle (Bonnie Bedelia), LaVonda (Ann Walker), and Sissy (Beth Grant) plan her funeral -- an unenviable task, considering that they must carefully hide the deceased's affair with amputee G.W. (Beau Bridges) from his wife, the vindictive Noleta (Delta Burke). Meanwhile, the trio has to come to terms with two cases of sexual orientation: Latrelle's openly gay soap-opera star son Ty (Kirk Geiger), whose sexuality she continues to deny; and their only brother, Boy (Leslie Jordan), who's serving a sentence in a mental ward for his adamant belief that he is actually country & western legend Tammy Wynette. Playing an aspiring singer-songwriter, Olivia Newton-John turns up to provide the film with the occasional musical interlude. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
Theatrical Feature Running Time:
111 mins
Complete Cast:
Newell Alexander - Wardell Owens
Bonnie Bedelia - Latrelle Williamson
Earl Bullock - Ty Williamson
Kirk Geiger - Ty Williamson
Sarah Hunley - Juanita Bartlett
Olivia Newton-John - Bitsy Mae Harling
Terry Brannon
Mary Margaret Lewis
Rosemary Alexander - Dr. Eve Bollinger
Beau Bridges - G. W. Nethercott
Delta Burke - Noleta Nethercott
Bethy 13 is "Sordid Lives"

2nd Sunday Movie fro June 8 is "Fat Girls"

Two misfits struggle to make their way through the living hell that is high school in this independent comedy drama. Rodney (Ash Christian) lives in a small Texas town where most folks don't have much use for musical theater or much understanding of the gay lifestyle. Since the barely closeted Rodney wants little else besides a boyfriend and the leading role in a Broadway show, this doesn't make life easy for him, and he has only one close friend -- Sabrina (Ashley Fink), a smart and funny girl who happens to weigh nearly three hundred pounds. Sabrina encourages Rodney to embrace his inner "fat girl," and he finds someone who understands his dreams when he strikes up a friendship with Mr. Cox (Jonathan Caouette), the school's drama coach, who also does a mean Liza Minnelli impersonation in his spare time. Written and directed by leading man Ash Christian when he was only 20 years old, Fat Girls was screened in competition at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

2nd Sunday OUUT Movie "An Angel Named Billy" May 11

2nd Sunday OUUT movie May 11

Filmmaker Greg Osborne directs this gay romantic drama concerning a young homosexual looking for love and another who is running from hate. Loving father Mark has recently suffered a stroke, yet even in his frail state he recognizes that his gay son James is in desperate need of a companion. When Mark and his best friend Thomas launch a search to find James a suitable mate, they soon make the acquaintance of troubled teen Billy. Having been recently kicked out of his home for kissing another man, Billy responds to a help wanted ad posted in a gay neighborhood café. It was Mark who placed that ad, and soon after meeting Mark introduces Billy to his lonely son James. While it remains to be seen whether Billy and James' relationship will blossom unto true love, the companionship that they provide for one another will help both to come to terms with their true sexuality and finally understand what it means to meet someone who is truly accepting. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Complete Cast:
Dustin Belt - Billy
Hank Fields - James
Allison Fleming - Donna
Kadyr Gutierrez - Guy
Brent Battles - Todd
Richard Lewis Warren - Mark
Buddy Daniels Friedman - James
Amy Lyndon - Nancy
Steve Houston - Allen Poe
Shawn Richardson - Rick
May 11

2nd Sunday movie for 4/13 is 3rd Man Out

Third Man Out tells the story of homosexual detective Donald Strachey. He takes on the responsibility of protecting John Rutka, a controversial gay activist who outs prominent homosexual citizens. After Strachey feels Rutka may be planning to out him, he quits the job. However, after Rutka is killed, Strachey takes it on himself to solve the murder. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Running Time:
99 mins

OUUT MOVIE FOR MARCH 9 @ 2ND UU 6:00 P.M.

> Second Unitarian Church of Omaha presents> For the Bible Tells Me So> An award winning film by Daniel Karslake (2007, 99 minutes)>>>> Welcoming Congregation & Social Justice Potluck and Movie Night (free)> When: Sunday, March 9th, Potluck at 5:30 P.M., movie starts at 6:00 P.M.>> Where: Second Unitarian Church of Omaha 3012 S. 119 St, Omaha (just SE of> 120th & Center off Westwood Lane)>> Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm> separating gays and lesbians and Christianity too wide to cross? Is the> Bible an excuse to hate?>>> Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Seattle> International Film Festival, Dan Karslake's provocative, entertaining> documentary brilliantly reconciles homosexuality and Biblical scripture, and> in the process reveals that Church-sanctioned anti-gay bias is based almost> solely upon a significant (and often malicious) misinterpretation of the> Bible. As the film notes, most Christians live their lives today without> feeling obliged to kill anyone who works on the Sabbath or eats shrimp (as a> literal reading of scripture dictates).>> Through the experiences of five very normal, very Christian, very American> families -- including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt> and Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson -- we discover how insightful people> of faith handle the realization of having a gay child. Informed by such> respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harvard's Peter Gomes, Orthodox> Rabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO> offers healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs> of scripture and sexual identity.

OUUT Movie for Feb 10 is Cruising

New York City detective Steve Burns Al Pacino receives orders from Captain Edelson Paul Sorvino to solve a series of brutal murders in the gay community. Steve scours the gay bars that caters to same-sex sadomasochism in a desperate attempt to solve the crime. As he infiltrates the scene, he slowly comes loose from the moorings of his own reality, and an innocent victim is tortured by the cops in an effort to exact a confession. The story is based on actual murders that took place between 1962 and 1979. The film gained considerable publicity because of the controversial subject matter while censor argued between an X and R rating for the feature. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
Running Time:
102 mins
Complete Cast:
Al Pacino - Steve Burns
Karen Allen - Nancy
Don Scardino - Ted Bailey
James Sutorius - Jack
Randy Jurgensen - Detective Lefransky

Rhode Island Churches Back Marriage Rights

Churches back gay nuptials

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

By Bruce Landis

Providence, R.I., Journal Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE — Religious leaders from several denominations reaffirmed their support for same-gender marriage yesterday and announced an advertising campaign intended to get that word out and to dispel any impression that religion doesn’t support the policy change.

“We wanted to make the point that there are religious folks who are in favor of same-gender marriage,” said the Rev. Eugene T. Dyszlewski, pastor of the Riverside Congregational United Church of Christ and chairman of the Rhode Island Religious Coalition for Same-Gender Marriage.

“It’s a different kind of pulpit,” Dyszlewski said of the advertising campaign. “We want to put a public face on it.”

A dozen religious leaders and supporters showed off their signs on buses at the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority headquarters on Elmwood Avenue yesterday afternoon. The advertisements will run on 10 RIPTA buses for a month, the agency said. The advertisements depict two dozen religious leaders and carry the message, “Rhode Island Religious Leaders Supporting Same-Gender Marriages.”