Now is your chance to bring one of the greatest film festivals to your state! Sundance is looking to relocate to a state that is pro-LGBTQ+ friendly!
DeadlineBy Dominic PattenMarch 12, 2025By the end of April, the new home of the Sundance Film Festival should be public knowledge with the Salt Lake City/Park City combo, Boulder, Colorado or Cincinnati bid picked as the host for the next decade. However, a bill heading toward Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s desk that would ban the Pride flag in schools and other state government buildings might be an eleventh-hour obstacle to the Beehive State’s hopes of keeping the Robert Redford-founded shindig past 2026.“What are they thinking?” a Sundance insider said late Tuesday of the bill to ban the LGBTQ+ flag after a virtual meeting between united Utah leaders and members of the festival’s selection committee. “Utah is Utah, but this goes to the heart of the community Sundance has worked years and years to develop.”“It is a terrible law, a terrible look for the state,” the insider added of the Republican legislation that was passed by the state Senate on a 21-8 vote last week. “No matter what they say, we all know who it’s aimed at — the LGBTQ+ community, and that’s unacceptable.”
All you Vermonters here is an excellent time to bring Sundance to the east coast... how would Stratton or Sugarbush or Stowe or Mt. Snow!
KPCW writes...
At a press conference Wednesday to mark the start of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, event director Eugene Hernandez said the nonprofit is still evaluating a potential move to Boulder, Colorado or Cincinnati, Ohio.
What about Vermont?
Today I am up at the new True Color SOGIE conference at UConn and I am giving a workshop on trans-history. The True Colors conference was the largest LGBTQ+ conference in the world! Hopefully the new conference will follow in their foot steps
Even though this conference brings out some good points it looks to me like a big money making event from admissions to tables. Of course they have to pay the big names spouses of the white elite among us to come and more than likely not say anything. I know that there are volunteer positions etc but it is really something in these times to pay up to $200 to get in the door for two days. Oh well so once again if the poor, working poor or seniors can't afford it we can always sing for our supper while the well heeled lord over us. I hope that someone spoke out for revolution but knowing both of the sponsors or whatever they are called I really don't think so.
ReplyDeleteYes but I figured it would fit right in to a yuppie (Is that dating me?) town like Stowe.
ReplyDeleteYes I would also. I do hope that they consider Stowe or some other town in Vt. My comment was referring to the SOGIE nice but I don't give it a prize. But I must say I am glad that you were teaching TransStories at the event as these stories are so important to learn. So many compasses and weapons in them that can be used today. Be well and safe Diana and keep working.
DeleteOps... that's what I get for reading it when I was half asleep.
DeleteYes, to all your comments about the conference but those other than children who attend are usually professionals who work with children and they are there for the CECs. If they went to a conference like the NASW one they would be paying for the same amount.
And the children when they are getting off the bus and their faces are worth it. For the first time in their lives they are in a place that is totally accepting is priceless.
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This year age got the better of me, I needed a wheelchair to get around. It was depressing. Very depressing.
But I want to do the workshop again and again. What was different this year from the last time was Trump... the children saw the parallels between the Lavender Scare, the AIDS epidemic and how Reagan demonized us and now with Trump.
I emphasized we made it through once and we can do it again.