About The Film
Labor of Love
is a web-based archive project dedicated to archiving the history of lesbian space in D.C. through video interview and documentary approach. The documentary portion of the project, follows the DC Women's Initiative on their journey to create a new safe and
welcoming space for the DC area's diverse women of the LGBTQ community and their allies in March 2013. The space will connect existing organizations and serve a resource for women to find eachother. While following the Initiative's meetings and day-to-day
actions, the documentary will also feature historical vignettes of previously existing lesbian organizations, such as the Gay Women's Alternative 1981-1993, Sisterspace, and Lammas Bookstore (1980 - 2000). These vignettes will how how important these spaces
are for the foundation of LGBT existence in D.C. today. Clips from the interviews will appear on the project's website for viewers to listen to and reflect upon prior to the fim's premiere in March 2013.
Premiere: April 20, 2013
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Why It's Important
With your donations this archive project about lesbian history will be able to build a future that remembers the past and bring generations together to understand the challenges and struggles women
have faced sustaining ‘safe’ space in an urban environment. By having leaders and members of the DC LGBT community, from both past and present, reflect and (re)tell their stories about creating lesbian civic organization, they will not only better understand
their place, both physically and culturally in the community, but the challenges and successes’ they have face throughout the process. And, more importantly, the film itself will help promote the launch of the D.C. Women’s Initiative space in March 2013.
Check out the trailer and the clips on the website:
http://laboroflovefilm.org
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Elizabeth Birch, former President of Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and Labor of Love director, Kelsey Brannan
Kelsey Brannan, Director, with Papaya Mann, one of DC's LGBT Community Pioneers
Ina Alterman, founder of the Gay Women's Alternative (GWA) 1981-1993, with Director.
Stills from interviews:
June Crenshaw, Board of Whitman-Walker Health & Member of DC Women's Iniative
Denise Bump, former owner of Lammas Bookstore & Head of DC Women's Initative
Papaya Mann, Member of Sapphire Sapphos, Black Lesbian Support Group and Pioneer among the battle against HIV/AIDs in D.C.
Bonnie Morris, Professor in Women & Gender Studies at Georgetown & GW auther of Eden Built by Eves, and came-out in DC as a teen in 1980.
