"I Do" for Queer Love

"I Do" for Queer Love
An Evening of Performances to Celebrate Equality for All

Co-Hosted by Locus Arts and API Equality

FEATURING:

Danny Nguyen, Humorist
Jennifer Lin, Comedian
"Muni To the Marriage" Short Film by Stuart Gaffney
DJ Toro spinning hip-hop, r&b and old skool classics.

and more.

About the Film

"Muni To the Marriage"
February 12, 2004—the day San Francisco made marriage
history. A short Muni ride to City Hall suddenly turns partners
of 17 years into newlyweds.

During the ride, the filmmaker reflects on the difficulties
experienced by his Chinese-American mother and white
father more than 50 years ago, who were only able to marry
when California’s law against interracial marriage was
overturned.

About the Artists

Danny Thanh Nguyen is a co-creator of the literary-trash
character DJ Berkley: The Worst Spoken Word Artist In The
World. His writing has recently appeared in Salt Hill, Lodestar
Quarterly, and Transfer, among other journals and
magazines. His essay "Something for the Ladies" is
forthcoming in the anthology The Full Spectrum (Knopf,
2006), which benefits the organization GLSEN. Danny lives in
San Francisco and is a member of the Vietnamese Artist
Collective.

Jennifer Lin has performed at open mikes at the SF Comedy
College and Carmen's. Jennifer is a first generation
immigrant as she came over with her family from Taipei,
Taiwan in 1971. Her family landed in Ohio where Jennifer
grew up until she attended college in Cambridge, MA. She is
an architect by day and standup comic by night and political
activist in whatever spare time she has left. Laughter is all
about being in the moment and she hopes to keep people
laughing as long as she can.

Stuart Gaffney has been making films and videos about his
Queer and Eurasian identities since 1994. His works have
screened worldwide at a wide variety of venues locally and
worldwide, including KQED, APAture, The Guggenheim
Museum and the San Francisco International Asian American
Film Festival.

Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis have been prominent voices
for marriage equality for same-sex couples since they got
married at San Francisco City Hall last year after 17 years
together. They are two of the plaintiffs in Woo v. Lockyer,
one of the consolidated lawsuits seeking to declare
California’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples
unconstitutional, and are co-leaders of the San Francisco
Chapter of Equality California’s Marriage Equality Project.

Stuart and John have traveled across the country as part of
the Marriage Equality Caravan and have appeared
extensively in local, national, and international media as
advocates for equal access to marriage. Stuart is a Project
Director at the University of California, San Francisco's
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.

DJ Toro is a community music giver, who built her chops
spinning beats for APA and LGBTQQ parties in New York
City. She is currently the Policy Director at Chinese for
Affirmative Action and will be making her Bay Yeah!-Ria
debut at Locus Arts.


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Mar 4, 2006 8:00pm
SPACE180 - 180 Capp Street, 3rd Floor (@17th Street), San
Francisco
Admission: $5-7 sliding scale