Documentary on the LGBT Experience During the Pandemic to Screen at The Center on August 6

Attend Me: Dispatches from the Pandemic, a new full-length documentary focusing on the LGBT experience during the Covid-19 Pandemic, will be screened at the LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada on August 6, 2021, at 7 pm.

Donations will be gladly accepted but not mandatory.

The film is by Steven F. Dansky, a Las Vegas resident since 2004 and an LGBT pioneer since 1969 after the Stonewall Rebellion in New York City.

An activist, writer, and photographer for more than 50 years, Dansky is the publisher of Christopher Street Press and the executive director of Outspoken Films and Outspoken: Oral History from LGBTQ Pioneers. Three years ago, he screened his documentary, From Trauma to Activism, at The Center.

In Attend Me: Dispatches from the Pandemic, Dansky interviewed three dozen people across the country during the first year of the pandemic. The interviews are juxtaposed against images and videos of pandemic-related street murals that were all made in downtown Las Vegas at 18b: The Arts District. The film explores the loneliness, isolation, and adverse psychological effects of the pandemic on the LGBTQ community, often referencing the despair of the AIDS epidemic.