OUT LOUD A Celebration of Onscreen LGBTQ+ Changemakers

OUT LOUD is a weekend-long exploration of the legacy of queer representation in film, filled with laughs, frustration, love, and activism.

Inspired by Baltimore Pride’s 2024 theme of “Power of the Past, Force of the Future” we’re teaming up with our good friends at the Club Car to reflect on iconic moments in LGBTQ+ film history – celebrating our progress while acknowledging the work that still lies ahead.

We’ve picked four films that span queer cinema’s more experimental and underground roots through to contemporary favorites with big named stars. The Watermelon Woman’s wry humor and playful grittiness and the anger, eroticism and poetry of Marlon Rigg’s Tongues Untied both offered groundbreaking critiques of queer representation on the screen – while laying the foundation for new forms of empowered expression from within the community. Call Me by Your Name and Close to You, offer a striking contrast – showing Hollywood’s turn toward embracing and amplifying LGBTQ+ stories.

On Saturday, join Tramour Wilson from the Pride Center of Maryland as they lead a public discussion on the evolution of LGBTQ+ representation in film, featuring cinema experts and activists, including Faridah Gbadamosi, Senior Programmer, Tribeca Enterprises, EK Outlaw, Mosaic Cooperative, and Kenneth Moore, Jr., founder of the Baltimore International Black film Festival and board member of the Pride Center of Maryland.

Each day, kick off with happy hours in the Parkway lounge and wrap up the night with after-parties – and after after-parties – at the Club Car.

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OUT LOUD FULL SCHEDULE

Friday, October 18

5:30pm – Happy Hour – Come early for drink specials and community networking!

6:30pm – Tongues Untied

8pm – Call Me by Your Name

10pm – After-Party at The Club Car

Saturday, October 19

3pm – Watermelon Woman

5pm – Out Loud Panel: “The Past, Present, and Future of On-screen LGBTQ+ Representation”

6pm – Happy Hour – Keep the conversation going in our lounge!