We’re back with Lesflicks Fireside Chat!

On May 1st’s edition, we’ll be chatting with Anna Alfieri (Borderline), Nicole Pacent (Delta & Daisy, Passage) and Jillian Armenante (Judging Amy, Fresh Off The Boat) about the one of the most important collaborations in the film industry: the actor and the filmmaker.

Hosted by Naomi Bennett, the CEO and founder of Lesflicks based in London.

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Without filter or fear, singer-songwriter Jada Michael unapologetically projects a confident spirit within her music anchored in a body-positive, sex-positive, and self-positive presence underscored by an inimitable alternative R&B brew.

Join her as she serenades listeners with a collection of her original music and covers, including her latest single “Freak.”

Jada brings us laidback, warm, R&B vibes with a little something for everyone! A sweet sound on both her original music and covers will leave you feeling butterflies.

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If there are over 300 lesbian feature films in existence, why don’t you know about them?

Fireside Chat brings directors Christie Conochalla (Forever Not Maybe), Kanchi Wichmann (Break My Fall, Mixed Messages) and Emily Schooley as we explore how to find the queer movies you love on a global scale.

Hosted by Naomi Bennett, the CEO and founder of Lesflicks based in London.

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Mayhem and madness meet the mystical, as these leading paranormal authors share their wildly-popular words in otherworldly ways, with opening readings followed by action-packed Q+A.

K.Aten

Kelly Aten lives in Michigan with her wife, two kids, two cats, and a dog. She’s written 12 novels across multiple genres, with the 12th set to publish in November of 2020 through Regal Crest Enterprises. She loves fanfic, gravitates toward speculative fiction in both reading and writing, and will talk your ear off about books. Kelly’s goal with each new novel is to make people #Think, #Feel, and #Discuss.

Karen F. Williams

Karen F. Williams is a writer, clinical social worker, licensed wildlife rehabilitator, and animal advocate who lives in NYC and rural Massachusetts. She was a recipient of the Dog Writers Association of America Award. Karen’s essay on unconditional love appears in the March 2020 issue of Bark Magazine. Her recent romances, Meeting Ms. Roman and As the Crow Flies, were both Goldie finalists, and her new novel, Coyote Blues, releases June 1st from Bold Strokes Books. She loves music, dancing, romantic comedies, and philosophical conversations.

Reba Birmingham

Reba Birmingham is the author of the Hercynian Forest Series, a fun fantasy mashup involving Panda and Mitzi Fowler, a married couple. Floodlight, Book One, and Words on a Plate, Book Two are available now. The Wolf You Feed, Book Three, will be released later this year. Since 2012 she has been the poet for Lesbian News, and in her other life is an award-winning attorney in California. Reba is a member of Golden Crown Literary Society and the Author’s Guild. RebaBirmingham.com

Moderator:  Sallyanne Monti

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Rock-pop chick Mishti teams up with producer/guitar player extraordinaire Alex Nolan (Cyndi Lauper, Toshi Reagon, Jill Sobule, Jagged Little Pill) to stream heartache and badass riffs to the quarantined masses.

Or just one mass. Her new single “Fortunes in Footprints” (about the apocalypse incidentally) will be released as part of the Curve festival with her proceeds going to Rethink Food NYC (https://www.rethinkfood.nyc/

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PAMELA MEANS, Out and proud queer artist, singer-songwriter, with a penchant for protest songs, guitarist, vocalist, activist, and educator, is an artist that cannot be musically contained. A conservatory-trained musician, Means also fronts her own jazz quartet, breathing life into
classics once sung by Billie Holiday, Chet Baker and the like. And, Means recently added a new show to her plethora of projects, performing the entirety of the album, The Beatles Abbey Road, solo
acoustic, in celebration of its 50th anniversary.

“Singer-songwriter and demigod, Pamela Means, is one of the fiercest guitar players and politically rooted [singer-songwriters] in the music industry today… With [Pamela Means Jazz Project Vol. 1] Means takes her rightful place among contemporary superstar jazz vocalists such as
Cassandra Wilson and Norah Jones.” Curve Magazine

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Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Elle Winston strips down some of her favorite original tunes and discusses her exciting forthcoming EP.

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JOIN MUSIC PRODUCER BARB MORRISON AS THEY DISCUSS THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING MUSIC DURING THE PANDEMIC

Platinum record producer Barb Morrison (Blondie / LP/ Rufus Wainright / Asia Kate Dillon) will be discussing how to navigate creativity during social distancing and why its so important.

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Streaming

Creating content that shows Dom/sub and erotica for a lesbian audience

Join Venezuelan-born director and lead actor behind the BDSM short Road of Bygones, Astrid Ovalles along with owner of Sugar Town Girls and director of Pleasure Seekers, Julia Schönstädt for a panel discussing the creation of the racy content that makes our hearts skip with every watch – making ethical adult film for a female audience

Hosted by Naomi Bennett, the CEO and founder of Lesflicks based in London.

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Tracy City will play videos  from previous live shows and produced “music videos” with Q & A

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ME & DEBOE hail from the North of England, UK. Combining two guitars and two vocals.

Elevating energetic acoustic music across audiences on both a national and international stage.

The duo has established a firm place on the UK’s live music scene.

Female Acoustic Duo

Two Vocals Two Guitars

Original music

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Bring your cold drink as these leading romance writers reveal their sexy, sultry secrets in connecting characters in the powder keg where erotica and relationships collide.

Authors will open with a 5-minute reading, followed by a steamy Q+A.

Annette Mori

Annette is an award-winning author, published by Affinity Rainbow Publications, who lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her wife and their five furry kids. With twenty published novels and one Goldie Award for her fourth novel, Locked Inside, she finally feels like a real author. Annette came up with the One Fan at a Time tagline, because it rolled off the tongue much better than One Reader at a Time. If someone picks up one of her books and it touches them, she believes she has achieved her goal of reaching each reader. It is who she is at her core.

Isabella

Isabella, an award-winning author for Sapphire Books, has written fifteen novels, with her newest release, Faithful Valor, third in the Faithful series. She is currently working on the fourth in the, American Yakuza saga, Blood Honor. 

She also writes under the nom de plume. Jett Abbott, with two books in the Scarlet series, Scarlet Masquerade and Scarlet Assassin.

Check out her erotic shorts, Last Train, A Marine Christmas, coming soon, The Tinderella Chronicles.

She lives on the central coast of California with her wife. she teaches at a local college and has three wonderful sons. She rides motorcycles when she’s not writing or remodeling a cabin in the Sierra foothills.

Virginia Black

Virginia Black drinks fine whiskey and writes gritty women-loving-women tales of lustful angst with happy endings. Her works include the contemporary romance novella Big City Blues, and the short story “Constant” in the upcoming GCLS Writing Academy anthology Writing Freedom. Virginia lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family and is always hoping for rain.

Moderator:  Sallyanne Monti

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Acting brings these wonderful creations together on screen, and these people work hard as hell to make it happen.

Join BIFL and Delta&Daisy star Mandahla Rose and British series Bad Girls actors Alicya Eyo to explore more into the world of acting in independent movies.

Hosted by Naomi Bennett, the CEO and founder of Lesflicks based in London.

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Meet Leah Plave. She is an American cellist living in Montreal, CA. Leah just released her debut album, Impressions: The Rediscovery of Henriette Bosmans.

Bomans was a highly celebrated but now long since forgotten 20th century Dutch composer/pianist (bisexual and half-Jewish) living during WWII. She performed and composed in secret, producing exquisite, colorful music even after her music was banned by the Nazi regime.

Leah will introduce the album, followed by Q&A

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Streaming Live on Curve Facebook , YouTube

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Sunday 10th May 2020 EST (North America) 7:30pm-8:30pm (Please adjust to your own local time zone)

Monday 11th May 2020 GMT (United Kingdom) 12:30am-01:30am(Please adjust to your own local time zone)

Monday 11th May 2020  AEDT  (Australia) 9:30am-10:30am  (Please adjust to your own local time zone)

Moderator:  Melissa Brayden

A coming-out story that sparked a revolution

Francesca Curtis and Phyllis Papps are many things. Researchers. Writers. Ultra-Feminists. Partners.

They are also the first lesbian couple to come out on national television almost fifty years ago. Putting everything on the line, Phyllis and Francesca appeared on This Day Tonight’s interview about lesbianism in October 1970. Since that appearance, the couple unpredictably became the face of change, creating Australia’s first gay political rights group, the Daughters of Bilitis, now known as the Australasian Lesbian Movement.

With Phyllis and Francesca’s work spanning over decades, the couple not only open up about their contribution to one of the biggest societal shifts in Australian history, but about love, lose and political change solidified inside a fifty year relationship. Now in the last years of their lives and a new generation emerging, Phyllis and Francesca shine light on their activism, their relationship and the barriers that still stop them from being seen as who they are today.

“Why Did She Have To Tell The World?” is a half hour documentary currently in development by Director Abbie Pobjoy, Producer Bonny Scott and over seen by Australian Executive Producer Sue Maslin. Since being attached to the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and Melbourne Arts in 2019, the documentary now enters post production with the end goal of being broadcasted on ABC’s Compass in 2021 along with being screened at LGBTQI festivals. Why Did She Have To Tell The World? has also recently been attached to the Documentary Australia Foundation through their fiscal sponsorship.

This is a call to action to share and donate to the documentary’s campaign, the ensure the films completion.

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It’s another edition of Fireside Chat, and we’re talking about the vital importance that webseries hold in our community!

We’re chatting with director and actor Nicole Pacent (Delta&Daisy/Anyone But Me), Jane Clark, director of Crazy Bitches) and director of Mixed Messages Kanchi Wichmann as we explore how webseries help the queer film community, and why they’re just so damn popular…

Hosted by Sophie Hogan, a journalist in London serving as the Resident Editor of Lesflicks.

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Author Monika M. Pickett discusses her #1 best-selling African-American Lesbian romance novel “Pretty Boy Blue,” whose heroine Nikki Blue always knew she liked girls and wanted to be married – to a wife.

However, given the 1990s setting of the story, such a desire seemed unlikely. That did not stop Nikki Blue from dreaming and exploring her deepest same-sex desires.

Monika M. Pickett is a relatively new voice in an often-overlooked literary category, African-American lesbian romance. She shares about how she brought the coming-of-age story “Pretty Boy Blue” to life and what it’s like to be an African-American lesbian in the U.S. coming out at just 13 years of age.

The story is loosely based on Monika’s life, and, like Nikki Blue, Monika was a medic in the U.S. Army. “Pretty Boy Blue” includes the rarely-depicted journey of a lesbian in the U.S. military.

In addition to being an award-winning author, Monika is a single mother, grandmother and service veteran of the Iraq War who also suffers from Neurosarcoidosis, an auto-immune disease. Pickett wrote Pretty Boy Blue and its sequel The Darkest Shade of Blue while recovering from a stroke caused by the disease.

Pickett is also a LGBTQ rights advocate and a cultural commentator who shares her thoughts, experiences and advice on multimedia platforms including MonikaMPickett.com, EURWeb.com, HuffingtonPost.com and Medium.com.

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Join us for another Lesflicks Film Focus, where we hear from the creators of three of the hottest webseries at the moment:

Cory Xenos (Fortnight) , Aryka Randall  and Hillary Esquina (Passage).

Watch 3 trailers to tempt you and then hear from their creators about why different platforms offer different opportunities and challenges for both the creator and the audience.

Hosted by Naomi Bennett, the CEO and founder of Lesflicks based in London.

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Lesbian Love Coach, Jordana Michelle / Getting Through Covid19 On Your Own: A Single Lesbians Guide To Coping With Isolation During The Coronavirus

An exploration of loneliness and strategies for managing feelings of isolation, anxiety and depression during times of uncertainty.

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FemmePower TV-queer content for quarantine-SUN 5/17, 5PST/7CT/8EST on twitch.tv/FemmePower! FemmePower Productions brings you innovative and intersectional web series, narrative, experimental, and documentary short films by Femme Queen Chronicles, Mercy Mistress, Thirza Jean Cuthand, Dorian Edward Wood, Dante Alencastre, and Siobhan Aluvalot 

Hosted by Heather María Ács of FemmePower Productions with a brilliant bevy of filmmakers and special guests!  

Tune in, Turn On, Come Out for some queer magic makers & culture creators!  https://www.facebook.com/events/2675765586038947/

A panel discussion about the Lebanese documentary “Album” and its impact campaign

Album is a creative documentary that spotlights three queer individuals in Beirut and their relationships with their mothers as they grapple with love, self-discovery and ‘coming out’

This documentary and its film team want to go beyond the release of the film and organize a series of activities that will get them to their goals of impacting the society bit by bit towards a more tolerant environment, an environment where no one is judged for how they feel, look or presents themselves. The Film team is currently fundraising for the post-production of the film as well as its impact campaign

The speakers listed below will go from talking about “Album” and the program it’s participating in to create social impact; Good Pitch بالعربي (in Arabic); to the role of the LGBTQ+ NGOs in Lebanon in supporting queer artists and with them create an impact through art.

The panel will also discuss with the film’s protagonists the reality of the LGBTQ+ community in Lebanon and how the impact campaign planned for the film “Album” plans to affect that reality.

Speakers:

Farah Fayed – Manager Good Pitch بالعربي (in Arabic)
Dayna Ash– Founder of Haven For Artists
Omar Sfeir – “Album” director and one of the protagonists of the film “Album”
Nicole Farah – the second protagonist of the film “Album”

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Streaming Live on Facebook , YouTube and LinkedIn

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Friday 22nd May 2020 EST (North America) 4:00pm-5:00pm (Please adjust to your own local time zone)

Friday 22nd  May 2020 GMT (United Kingdom) 9:00pm-10:00pm(Please adjust to your own local time zone)

Saturday 23rd May 2020  AEDT  (Australia) 6:00am-7:00am (Please adjust to your own local time zone

Quit your job and follow the world! It’s an article headline we have all seen over and over and brushed off as being impossible.

However, follow Kirstie and Christine and watch how this lesbian couple turned it possible.

Learn about traveling as LGBT, budgeting, tips and more! 

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You can catch Travel with Kirstie & Christine from Onairplanemode on Curve’s Facebook and  YouTube at below time:

Friday 22nd May 2020 EST (North America) 7:30pm-8:30pm (Please adjust to your own local time zone)

Saturday 23rd May  2020 GMT (United Kingdom) 0:30am-1:30am (Please adjust to your own local time zone)

Saturday 23rd May 2020  AEDT  (Australia) 9:30am-10:30am (Please adjust to your own local time zone)

Delve into the world of short films with creators Sierra Schepmann (Only One/Life at Home), Jade Winters (Love on the Cards) and Florencia Manovil (Encuentro).

Host: Jacinta Stringer

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Four femmes share their experiences of early femme icons, “beauty” through a queer lens, often being invisible in and out of LGBTQ+ spaces, and taking up space. Join us as a fashion blog editor, a writer, a sex educator and a standup comic explore how divergent backgrounds can share an expansive identity. 

Moderator: Merryn Johns

Panel Guests:

Anita Dolce Vita (she/her) is the Publisher and Creative Director of dapperQ, a premier queer style digital magazine and production company dedicated to “ungendering fashion.”  Anita  is the executive producer behind some of the world’s largest queer fashion shows, including the annual New York Fashion week queer runway event at Brooklyn Museum. She is also a contributing fashion editor at Curve, the nation’s best selling lesbian magazine. Anita’s fashion shows and writing have been featured in reputable media outlets such as Forbes, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Vice, HBO, Teen Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Refinery29, to name a few.

Jaime Karpovich (she/her) is a writer, speaker, and Emmy-nominated TV host. Her work covers gender-inclusive workshops on body image and self-esteem, dismantling diet culture, accessible vegan cooking, and creative community-building.

Jaime’s blog was voted “Best Food Blog” four years in a row by The Morning Call news publication. Her work is featured in Philadelphia Weekly and VegNews Magazine where she produced exclusive cooking videos for the VegNews audience. For three years, Jaime authored “Fresh Perspectives with Jaime K”, a column in Lehigh Valley Style magazine that featured her photography, recipes, and interviews.

Most notably, Jaime hosted “Save The Kales!”, a cable TV show. At the time of airing, her show was one of only five vegan cooking shows to have aired on TV in the United States. Jaime lives in Frenchtown, New Jersey, with her partner and two cats

Erica Smith is a sexuality educator from Philadelphia. For the majority of her career, she provided sex education, HIV prevention, and supportive services to young women and LGBTQ+ youth detained in the juvenile justice system. She currently provides private sexuality education, consulting, and trainings, and coordinates social support groups for transgender youth and their families. Erica developed the Purity Culture Dropout Program to help people learn all of the sex education that they missed growing up in purity culture- sex ed that is accurate, queer inclusive, trauma informed, and comprehensive. She received her Master of Education from Widener University’s Center for Human Sexuality Studies.

She and her husband have a family full of rescue animals and she spends most of her time with her pitbull, Ranger.

Melanie Vesey is a comedian, actress and writer/director whose comedy special/album Wild Animal is available to watch on Revry TV and to listen to all major streaming platforms. In addition to her TV comedy spot on Laugh After Dark for Amazon, she’s opened for Marc Maron, Tweeted for Tig Notaro, WON round 4 of the U.S. Comedy Contest, and been comedian of the week on the Jackie Kashian & Laurie Kilmartin podcast. Notably, she co-starred with Jim Carrey in the Andy Kaufman bio-pic “Man on the Moon” and has been seen at the Burbank, Motor City, Palm Springs and the Ladies Laugh Comedy Festivals. Melanie also co-produces Make It Rain Comedy a monthly comedy show at Cheetah’s Strip Club where LA’s best comedians do a set on the MIC and a set ONTHE POLE!
As a former Vice President of Public Relations at a boutique record label, Melanie transitioned into opening her own PR consulting firm, PromotionalRescue.com where she helps award-winning independent artists and small business owners grow their audience and visibility through private coaching and workshops.

She lives with her brilliant and loving wife, son and a dog named Fig.

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You can catch the Live stream on Curve’s Facebook and  YouTube at below time:

Sat 23rd May 2020 EST (North America) 7:30pm-8:30pm
Sun 24th May 2020 GMT (United Kingdom) 0:30am-1:30am
Sun 24th May 2020 AEDT (Australia) 9:30am-10:30pm

The world as we know it is shifting beneath our feet. Circumstances change day to day.

We’re all adapting and coping during these uncertain times.

Authors are writing contemporary fiction that might be accurate today, and outdated tomorrow. How are lesbian authors of romance, mystery, and other genres dealing with creating contemporary stories even as every day looks different than what we knew the day before?

Join best-selling, award-winning authors Lynn Ames, Melissa Brayden, Cheryl Head, and KG MacGregor as they discuss Writing Contemporary Fiction in Real Time.

Moderated by Melissa Brayden

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Streaming Live on Curve Facebook and YouTube 

Join us (see your time zone)

Sunday 24th May 2020 EST (North America) 6:00pm-7:00pm (Please adjust to your own local time zone)

Sunday 24th May 2020 GMT (United Kingdom) 11:00pm-00:00am(Please adjust to your own local time zone)

Monday 25th May 2020  AEDT  (Australia) 8:00am-9:00am (Please adjust to your own local time zone)