Black Sheep Books, in collaboration with the
Central Vermont Queer Liberation Army and
Revolutionary Knitters, presents:
STITCH & FLIX: A monthly movie and socializing series
Tuesday, September 19 at 7:30 p.m.
at 4 Langdon Street, Montpelier
* with knitters' caucus at 6:30 p.m.
(upstairs in Black Sheep Books)
"Southern Comfort"
This 90-minute feature-length documentary is about the life of Robert Eads, a 52-year-old female-to-male transsexual who lives in the back hills of Georgia. "A hillbilly and proud of it," he cuts a striking figure: sharp-tongued, bearded, tobacco pipe in hand. Robert passes so well as a male that the local Klu Klux Klan tried to recruit him to become a member.
Though his home is nestled among tranquil hills dotted with hay bales, Robert confronts a world as hostile to him as if he were an African American in the ante-bellum South. He was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, then turned away by more than two dozen doctors who feared that taking on a transgendered patient might harm their practice.
"Southern Comfort" follows the final year of Robert Eads's life. Beginning in spring, he falls deeply in love with Lola, a male-to-female. That summer, his mother and father drive ten hours to visit their "lost daughter," a trip they know may be their last. His final dream is to make it to the Southern Comfort Conference in Atlanta, the nation's preeminent transgender gathering. Beating the odds, he addresses a crowd of 500 and takes Lola to "The prom that never was."
For more on the film, see http://www.nextwavefilms.com/southern/
Free! All wecome!