This week in Gay Palm Springs Aug 9 to Aug 15, 2017

Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ
Film Festival
Celebrates Ten Years; Opens with Armistead
Maupin Documentary.
Maupin to Attend Opening Night Screening;
Sign Copies of New Memoir
August 7, 2017, Palm Springs, CA - Cinema
Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ Film
Festival (Cinema Diverse), which is celebrating
its tenth anniversary this year, will
open with The Untold Tales of Armistead
Maupin - the new documentary about the
beloved writer of the Tales of the City novels,
which were set in San Francisco, beginning
in the mid-seventies and continuing
through 2010. Armistead Maupin is set to
attend the opening night event, where he
will participate in a Q&A, receive a lifetime
achievement award, and sign copies of
his upcoming memoir, Logical Family: A
Memoir, which will not otherwise be available
until October.
Cinema Diverse opens on Thursday, September
21st and continues through Sunday,
September 24th at the Camelot Theatres
in Palm Springs. The following weekend,
a special Best of Fest celebration will take
place at the Mary Pickford Theatres, with
screenings on Friday, September 29th and
Saturday, September 30th.
“We are excited about the number of
award-winning LGBTQ films that have
come out this year,” said Michael C. Green,
Cinema Diverse Festival Director and Executive
Director of the Palm Springs Cultural
Center. “These films are not just attracting
the notice of festivals like Sundance, Tribeca
and SXSW, they are also winning awards
at those festivals. It’s exciting to see the
genre continue to grow, and gain traction
among mainstream audiences.”
Cinema Diverse is one of several niche film
festivals owned and operated by The Palm
Springs Cultural Center, a local nonprofit
that was established in 2007 by local philanthropists
Ric and Rozene Supple to encourage
the development of the cultural arts in
the Coachella Valley with a specific focus in
the areas of film, fine art, live performance,
and community festivals.
Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ
Film Festival September 21 - 24, 2017
Passes, as well as Tickets for Opening Night
are available online at: CinemaDiverse.org
For over 23 years Online and in print facebook.com/desertdailyguide 37