‘Fairyland’ screening to include talk-back with LGBTQ+ activists 

Fairyland Courtesy Sundance Institute The Tara Theatre will host a special screening of Andrew Durham s award-winning film Fairyland on Dec at p m The event is being coordinated by Touching Up Our Roots Georgia s LGBTQ Story Project and New South Associates There will be a post-show talkback with activist veterans about the origins of the LGBTQ civil and human rights movement from the s to the present day Speakers will include Abby Drue Lorraine Fontana Maria Helena Dolan Gil Robison and Gus Kaufman Wes Nimmo from New South Associates which authored Atlanta s LGBTQ Context Declaration will moderate the conversation There will also be a tribute to activist and historian Dave Hayward the co-founder of Touching Up Our Roots who died last month The film tells the true story of the late Steve Abbott a former Atlanta resident who lost his wife in a car accident in and moved with his daughter to San Francisco so he could live as an openly gay man The film based on the memoir by Abbott s daughter Alysia chronicles Abbott s life as a poet novelist and the AIDS problem that would engulf San Francisco in the s Abbott died from complications of the sickness in Fairyland was produced by Oscar-winning director Sofia Coppola and stars Scoot McNairy as Abbott and Emilia Jones as Alysia with co-stars Academy Award winner Geena Davis and singer actor Adam Lambert The post Fairyland screening to include talk-back with LGBTQ activists appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta