That's What I'm Talkin' About
June 14, 2007

Crossposted to doorQ.com, The Gay SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Website.

Last night was the kick-off party for Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. (Though the festival itself isn't until next month, the festival season commenced Wednesday night with full festivities.) I've been involved with the festival as a volunteer since I moved to Los Angeles 10 years ago. The event and the people I've met through it have been cornerstones in my life as a result, a type of summer camp for adults, where we have a maddening 10 days pulling off the largest gay film fest in the world.

As I walked into that party last night, I was possessed of a near tangible sense of loss, full of the knowledge that, for the first time in forever, I wouldn't be volunteering. Quite unexpectedly, I am now on the other side of the rope, no longer facilitating the exhibition of the products of others' dreams but now inviting people to participate in my own. That's a fairly lofty way of sayin' I'm trying to be a playa'.

Despite my fears and sadness, I got an incredible response to the site, and to the project as a whole. Eyes lit up, smiles emerged, and asides were proffered by many, may folks who admitted to their secret loves of monsters, aliens, and / or loincloth-clad barbarians. By the end of the night I was beaming, floating home on a high, eager to push on with doorQ and make it what I know it can be.

And then I read this, this morning:

Dilemma Averted for London Gay Who Fans

TV Series NewsJune 13, 2007 • Posted By R. Alan Siler

As reported by PinkNews, the final episode of Series Three of Doctor Who, The Last of the Time Lords, is being broadcast on the same day as the London Pride Festival, held in Trafalgar Square.

Organizers of the event, in an effort to not make gay Who fans choose between the annual celebration and the season finale of their favourite show, have come up with an interesting compromise: they plan to carry the live BBC broadcast of the episode at 7:10 p.m. on a big screen at the event's main stage in Trafalgar Square. And if that's not enough to get gay fans out to the event, they've also arranged to have John Barrowman co-host the event with Graham Norton. Barrowman will be speaking earlier in the afternoon about his role as Captain Jack on Doctor Who and Torchwood.

The event kicks off at 3:00 following the Pride parade through town and concludes with the broadcast of The Last of the Time Lords.

How frakkin' cool is that? Scifi is such a conerstone for Mos in general and Who-Mos in particular that motherfrakkin' Gay Pride adapts to meet the demand. Awesome!

As I mentioned yesterday, doorQ started out as an idea to create genre films with gay characters and as things have matured, my partners and I realized there was a hell of a lot more to it than just that. Because of that, the space we're building here is going to contain a lot of networking and community building opportunities, from blogs, to podcasts, to discussion forums, personal profiles, matchmaking, user-generated content, and of course, original content. We're still a bit aways from a Beta roll-out. There's a lot of work to do behind the scenes to get this ship ready for launch.

The landing page here is going to be for updates, news, announcements, the occasional podcast, and a few sneak peaks of what's going on. We're also curious to get some feedback from you guys, your thoughts of the kinds of things you are looking for in the site, the stories you like, even your own projects and events -- ways that we here at doorQ can help. At this point I'm certain there's a community out there, ready and waiting for its chance to shine.

Posted by Jody at June 14, 2007 04:32 PM

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