![]() She was a longtime friend of Stormé DeLarverie and has been a resident at the Chelsea Hotel for decades. The film won the Honorific Mention and Audience Award at the Guadalajara Film Festival’s LGBT division, where Wood also won the Queer Icon Award. She is the subject of the documentary Miss Rosewood (Helle Jensen, 2017) which explores her life and work. She is the headliner at the Box nightclub in London and New York City and performs both throughout the United State s and internationally. Rose Wood is a performance artist and self-defined “gender terrorist” known for performances which explore gender identity and social issues. Reddick is also a board member at the New York Preservation Archive Project. Reddickis an architectural historian and a long-time resident of Harlem (recently profiled here). He serves as vice president of the board of Harlem Pride, an organization whose mission is to empower Harlem’s SGL/LGBTQ community through forums, workshops, networking events, and other community outreach activities including the annual Harlem Pride Day Celebration. She was awarded the Prix du Public at the Festival International de Creteil Films de Femmes and the Audience and Best Biography Awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Her films include But Then She's Betty Carter (1980), Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in the Rock (1983), and Storme: Lady of the Jewel Box (1987). Michelle Parkerson is an award-winning independent film/video maker and an assistant professor in Film & Media Arts at Temple University. J essica Green (moderator), Artistic Director, Houston Cinema Arts Society.Rose Wood, performance artist and longtime friend of Stormé.Michelle Parkerson, Director, Stormé : The Lady of the Jewel Box.Afterwards, friends and followers of the two iconoclasts sit down for a conversation about the intersections between Stonewall, trans history, and queer black history in New York City, featuring: Johnson found herself on the doorstep of history on the night of the Stonewall uprising. The second, Happy Birthday, Marsha! (14 min, 2018), imagines the hours before Marsha P. ![]() ![]() The first, Stormé: The Lady of the Jewel Box (21 min, 1987), traces the life of Stormé DeLarverie, a lesbian activist rumored to have thrown the first punch at Stonewall. Kick off Pride Month with a screening of two short films that look back at the trailblazing activists who helped ignite the Stonewall uprising in 1969. Hear her story and that of Stormé DeLarverie, both at the vanguard of the gay rights movement, in this evening of film and conversation. Johnson is being honored with one of the world’s first monuments to a transgender person. ![]()
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