(Photo from fromselmatostonewall.com)
ORLANDO | onePULSE Foundation is holding a free virtual screening of “From Selma to Stonewall: Are We There Yet?” for all community members. The screening is set to take place Aug. 18 from 7-8:30 p.m.
The screening of the documentary and the panel discussion that will follow are part of the onePULSE’s broader Conversation Starters, a series of events from the foundation’s onePULSE Academy that is committed to “positively impacting change at the individual, group and community levels.”
The documentary features Rev. Gil Caldwell, a black, straight preacher and Civil Rights Movement foot soldier alongside Marilyn Bennett, a white, lesbian author and activist. They form an unusual bond in which they seek to find both similarities and differences between the Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ Equality movements.
The conversation consists of today’s struggles—hate crimes, anti-blackness, police brutality, anti-LGBTQ religious hostility, queer youth homelessness, and white supremacy.
Dr. Earl Mowatt, vice president of education for onePULSE Foundation, will facilitate the panel discussion. The panelists include Marilyn Bennett, director and co-executive producer of “From Selma to Stonewall: Are We There Yet?”; Asa Roberts Shaw, an Afrofuturist and a value-driven revolutionary who believes in the magic of culture and deep organizing; Dr. Darnell Gooch, Jr., the pastor of the Cathedral of Praise Church of Memphis; and Amelia Leon, who came out as bisexual, polyamorous, intersex and genderfluid at Florida International University, where she decided to start a queer sexual education club called Simple Pleasures.
onePULSE Foundation is the nonprofit established following the tragic events of June 12, 2016, in honor and to preserve the legacy of those killed and to create a sanctuary of hope. The event is sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Central Florida Foundation, Lockheed Martin, Orlando Utilities Commission and Skanska USA Building, Inc.
To RSVP to the screening, go to onePULSE’s Eventbrite page and for more information on the onePULSE Foundation, visit onePULSEfoundation.org.
Watch the film’s trailer below.
