Beautiful Thing
Sling Blade
Stonewall
Waiting for Guffman
Nowhere
In the Gloaming [HBO]
My Best Friend's Wedding
Love! Valour! Compassion!
When The Cat's Away [Chacun Cherche Son Chat]
Hollow Reed
Boyfriends
In & Out
Kiss Me, Guido
Twilight of the Golds
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
In theatres: The Object of My Affection, based on the novel by Stephen McCauley
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| June 7, 1997 | The Quire, Spring Concert "Songs of Love and Liberation",
People's Church Unitarian Universalist, 600 3rd Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, 7:30PM |
| June 8 | The Quire, Spring Concert "Songs of Love and Liberation",
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 123 E Market St, Iowa City, 4PM |
| June 14 | 1997 Pride Parade & Festival, College Green Park, Iowa City,
12-4 Special Guest: Heather Findlay, Editor-in-Chief Girlfriends magazine |
| June 15 | Tenth Annual ICARE/New Pioneer Co-op Pancake Breakfast, Pride Month Talent Show |
| June 19 | Gay Pride and Civil Rights Issues Presentation, speaker Jan Alderton
Palleson, GLRC, 1111 3rd St SE, Cedar Rapids, 7 PM |
| June 14-22 | Donna Reed Festival for the Performing Arts, Denison, Iowa Special guests: Gordon Hunt, director of 'Frasier' and 'Mad About You' and Shelley Fabares of 'Coach'; call 800/336-4692 for details. |
| June 20 | Reading by Mark Zubro, mystery writer, Prairie Lights Book Store, 8 PM |
| June 20 | 5th Annual Day
of Compassion On TV and the Internet Lots of programming related to HIV/AIDS on Oprah, Rosie O'Donnell, Sally Jessy Raphael, Jenny Jones, Leeza, Montel Williams, Geraldo, Maury Povich, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, One Life to Live, Port Charles, The Bold and the Beautiful, Guiding Light, The Young and the Restless, many cable networks |
| June 21 | Annual Summer PRIDE Picnic, Palisades-Kepler State Park, Cedar Rapids, 11AM-6PM |
| June 27-28 | Second Annual AIDS Benefit for Clare Hospice House, Rockafella's, Cedar Rapids |
| July 3-4 | Iowa City Jazz Festival, Downtown Iowa City |
| July 11-13 | Big Night, 1996, Bijou, Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa |
| July 24-30 | Kolya,
Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 1996, in Czech with English subtitles, Bijou, Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa |
| Aug 15-17 | A trip to Chicago this weekend should include Boys
Life 2, which includes the short film Alkali, Iowa, starring Mary Beth Hurt, a Marshalltown native. Music Box Theatre. Call 773/871-6604 for showtimes. Let's hope the Bijou can get this film so the rest of us can see it. [We stumbled across Boys Life 2 at the Uptown Theater in Minneapolis Aug 12 and were glad we did] |
| Sept 4-7 |
, Bijou, IMU |
| Sept 7 | Gazebo Gayla, 1-4PM, College Green Park, Iowa City |
| Sept 11-14 | Waiting for Guffman, Bijou, IMU |
| Sept 15-17 | Burroughs, Bijou, IMU |
| Oct 2 | Tim Miller returns to Iowa City to read from Shirts
and Skin: A Novel Approach to Life. His performance at Hancher in November 1994 delighted the Inqueery audience. Is the second floor of Prairie Lights ready for him? 15 S Dubuque St, 8PM |
| Oct 3-4 | Tim Miller performs at CSPS, Cedar Rapids, 8PM, $12 [adult material] |
| Oct 7-12 | Tap Dogs, Hancher Auditorium |
| Oct 16-19 | Love! Valour! Compassion!, Bijou, IMU |
| Oct 17 | Holly Near, Capitol Theatre, 330 W 3rd St, Davenport, Iowa, 7:30 PM |
| Oct 22 | Elton John, The Mark, Moline, Illinois. Tickets go on sale September 27 at 10AM |
| Oct 27 | Jamaica Kincaid comes back to Iowa City to read from My
Brother. The story of her brother [who died of AIDS in January 1996] is sure to mesmerize. Warning: Don't fidget if you're sitting in the front row. Buchanan Auditorium, Pappajohn Business Building, 8PM |
| Dec 1 | World AIDS Day 1997: Children
Living In A World With AIDS, Triangle Ballroom, Iowa Memorial Union, 7:30PM |
| Dec 6 | Allan Gurganus reads from Plays Well With Others, Shambaugh Auditorium, 8PM |
| Dec 6 | The Quire, Holiday Concert, CSPS Hall, 1103 3rd St SE, Cedar Rapids, 7:30PM |
| Dec 7 | The Quire, Holiday Concert, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 123 E Market St, Iowa City, 7:30PM |
| Dec 6-7 | "Don We Now XIX: Sounds of the Season," 941 W Lawrence, Chicago,
Illinois, Dec 6, 8PM; Dec 7, 3PM; $16-$20 |
| Feb 20-22, 1998 | "Across the Fruited
Plain: The 1998 Midwest Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, Transgendered College Conference"; University of Illinois, Chicago |
| Mar 7 | Chick Corea and Gary Burton, Hancher Auditorium, 8PM |
| Mar 9-12 | Latin Boys Go to Hell, 1997, Bijou, Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa |
| Mar 30-31 | Urinal, 1988, Bijou, Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa |
| Apr 4 | Tom Robinson, CSPS, 1103 3rd St SE, Cedar Rapids, 8PM |
| Apr 1-5 | Happy
Together, 1997, Bijou, Iowa Memorial Union, University
of Iowa; Kar-Wai Wong: Award for Best Director at the 1997 Cannes festival |
| Apr 5 | Chanticleer, Hancher Auditorium, 3PM - Highly Recommended! |
| Apr 16-19 | Bent, 1997, Bijou, Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa |
| Apr 23 | Have You Seen Anything Good Lately? , a video produced by
GLAAD showing images of GLBT in the media, Iowa Memorial Union, 7PM |
| Apr 25 | Ferron & Jami Sieber, cello,
MacBride Auditorium, 8PM. Info: 319/335-1486 [Songwriter's Workshop Info: 319/338-8542; $150] |
| May 4 | "Sexual Orientation: Toward an Ethic of Inclusiveness," Rev Steven P Sabin, pastor of Lord of Life Lutheran Church, Ames, his partner, Karl von Uhl, and Rev Jimmy Creech, pastor of First United Methodist Church, Omaha; Old Brick, Clinton & Market, 7:3PM |
| May 9 | The Quire, Spring Concert "Hear Creation Sing", Hope United
Church of Christ, Hiawatha, Iowa, 4:00PM |
| May 10 | The Quire, Spring Concert "Hear Creation Sing", Gloria
Dei Lutheran Church, Dubuque & Market Street, Iowa City, 7:30PM |
| June 20 | 1998 Iowa City Pride Festival--Parade, Rally, and Festival For all the events go to http://www.icarus.net/icpride/ |
| June 21 | 11th Annual ICARE Open Air Pancake Benefit, Pedestrian Mall, Iowa City 8:30AM-1PM All Proceeds to Iowa Center for AIDS Resources & Education |
| June 19-21 | Heartland Gay Rodeo Association Regional Rodeo, Sarpy County Fairgrounds, Springfield, Nebraska; 5 miles south of Omaha |
| Aug 1-8 | Gay Games, Amsterdam |
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22st San Francisco International
Lesbian & Gay
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Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival,
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