Performance artist Jason Jenn brings to life some of award-winning filmmaker and poet James Broughton’s most love-infused and inspired poetry alongside a group of several local performing artists who will create a colorful staged reading and reinterpretation of Broughton’s luminous 1978 marriage to partner Joel Singer. The wedding text is full of poetic beauty and splendor that stands as a monument to queer love and sexual liberation. James Broughton was a California native who would have been 100 years old this year and a most unique voice in queer liberation, as well as an original member of the Radical Faeries, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and a pre-beat poet who was part of the San Francisco Renaissance movement. The recent documentary film “BIG JOY: The Adventures of James Broughton” has brought this important figure back into the light (There will be a screening of BIG JOY on June 10, 2014 at 8pm in the City Council Chambers as part of One City One Pride).

The presentation will include a slide show of rarely seen photographs from “Behold the Bridgegrooms: A Connubial Masque for James and Joel”, which took place on board the hundred-year old ferryboat SS Vallejo belonging to the Alan Watts Society for Comparative Philosophy. It will be an inspiring and uplifting evening testifying the astounding power of love and a look back at an underappreciated LGBTQ figure.

Fiesta Hall

7377 Santa Monica Blvd.

West Hollywood

Admission - Free

www.hiveworld.org  

June 21, 2014 at 7 pm (preceded immediately by the Apt 3F/Planet Queer 'A Midsummer Afternoon's Queer Wedding Reception' event). May contain explicit content.

Three hours of free parking in Plummer Park parking lot.