World AIDS Day screening of 'Kiki'

Please join us to commemorate World AIDS Day 2017 with a special screening of Kiki, a documentary exploring the experiences of LGBTQ youth involved in Kiki, a sub-scene of Ballroom, many of whom are HIV positive and have experienced or are experiencing homelessness.

Directed by Sara Jordenö and co-written by Jordenö and Twiggy Pucci Garçon, starring Chi Chi Mizrahi, Gia Marie Love, Divo Pink Lady, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, Zariya Mizrahi, Symba McQueen, and many more

DOORS: 6PM

SCREENING: 6:30PM

TALK: 8:00PM

RECEPTION: 8:30 - 9PM

About Kiki:

The spectacular Kiki balls, a consistent component of the Kiki subculture, offer performers a safe and empowered space to enact various modes of gender expression, including a stylized femininity that, if executed in the communities in which they grew up in, could provoke ridicule and violence. Kiki scene-members range in age from young teens to 20’s, and many have been thrown out of their homes by their families or otherwise find themselves on the streets. As LGBTQ people-of-color, they constitute a minority within a minority. An alarming 50% of these young people are HIV positive. The Kiki scene was created within the LGBTQ youth-of- color community as a peer-led group offering alternative family systems (“houses”), HIV awareness teaching and testing, and performances geared towards self-agency. The scene has evolved into an important (and ever-growing) organization with governing rules, leaders and teams, now numbering hundreds of members in New York and across the U.S and Canada. Run by LGBTQ youth for LGBTQ youth, it draws strategies from the Civil Rights, Gay Rights and Black Power movements.