Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/LGBT films from SIFF 2023 edit-a-thon

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This is an edit-a-thon celebrating the confluence of Wiki Loves Pride 2023 and the screening of LGBT films at the 2023 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). This currently is from the films on this topic that the primary organizer, Peaceray, saw at SIFF.

This list includes:

20,000 Species of Bees
Jump to corresponding section.
The Blue Caftan
Jump to corresponding section.
Egghead & Twinkie
Jump to corresponding section.
L’immensità
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Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes
Jump to corresponding section.

As of May 29, 2023, some of these films have articles, and some do not. For the existing articles, there may be improvements available from other language Wikipedia articles. There is additional opportunity for collateral improvements: major performers in and crew for the films may not have Wikipedia articles or even Wikidata items, and there may be linked articles that can use attention or creation. The latter is particularly true for the documentary on George Platt Lynes.

" " symbols indicate Women in Red.

These were not the only LGBT films at SIFF 2023; other editors are encouraged to add any additional LGBT films that screened at SIFF 2023 and to make additions to this page as they deem fit. A more complete list can be found here:

"Lots of Queer Films At SIFF 2023". Seattle Gay Scene – Your Daily Gay In Seattle. 2023-05-09. Retrieved 2023-06-05.

Location and schedule

Location: University Branch of the Seattle Public Library (SPL),

Please bring a laptop and power cord
Food and beverages are allowed in the meeting room but not the main part of the library
Experienced editors are encouraged to work independently or to help others
If you are a new editor or have only limited editing experience, please note your experience level after your signature

More information ADA accessibility notes ...

ADA accessibility notes

This library building is over 100 years old and there is no elevator. The library claims to be " Fully Accessible", but this comes with caveats.
There is a driveway with a handicap access parking spot between the library, 5009 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, and the University District Food Bank, 5017 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105.
The meeting room is on the lower floor. The handicap access is via the driveway. There is a door at this level with a buzzer. The library staff will need to come open the door.
The public bathroom (ADA) is on the upper floor in the main library. To get to the upper floor means to exit the lower floor, go around to the 9th Ave NE side of the building, and access the library via the ramp.

Dates and times

Saturday, June 17, 10–3pm

Aspirational schedule

10am arrival and setup, introductions
10:15am–2:45pm PDT Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85444931318?pqid=QmdmYXZUM0FqQVNzZ0FsK0FkUStxQT09
10:30am Starting the creation process with Wikidata
12:30pm Translating articles from another language
throughout: conversing and editing!

Sunday, June 18, noon–5pm

noon arrival and setup
12:15pm–4:45pm PDT Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85444931318?pqid=QmdmYXZUM0FqQVNzZ0FsK0FkUStxQT09
12:30pm Let's talk about George Platt Lynes and what needs to be further done
then edit!

General instructions

Do sign for the "LGBT films from SIFF 2023 edit-a-thon dashboard". Programs & Events Dashboard.
Attendees are expected to participate in making this friendly, safe, and brave space. Please consider these policies.
Editors who wish to sign up but not share their username publicly can send an email to Peaceray.
When starting new articles, keep in mind that:
- Films must meet the film notability guidelines.
- Biographies must meet the notability guideline for people.
- Organizations must meet the notability guidelines for organizations and companies.
- Other topics must meet the general notability guidelines.
- Not every person or topic is notable!
It is often expedient to create a Wikidata item first. The Wikidata notability criteria is less strict. Creating a Wikidata item should be okay as long as it "refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity that can be described using serious and publicly available references." One can then add properties to the item and verify those properties with URLs or other sources.
It is best for newer editors to start a new article in the Draft namespace. One can create a draft here.

Some translation resources

Content translation tool tutorial for extended confirmed users; aimed at biographies, but much is applicable to other articles
Translating the Rose Beuret article.pdf, a presentation on translating the Rose Beuret article

20,000 Species of Bees

More information 20,000 Species of Bees ...

20,000 Species of Bees

This film won the 2023 SIFF Official Competition Grand Jury Prize.^[1]

Synopsis: An eight-year old child, assigned male at birth, strives to identify as a girl while on a trip to a family gathering. A sympathetic great-aunt becomes an ally.

Links

Article: 20,000 Species of Bees
On the SIFF website: "20,000 Species of Bees". SIFF. 2023-05-12. Archived from the original on 2023-05-12. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
Official website
This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding Basque article: eu:20.000 especies de abejas. In particular, it lacks the plot.

Creation / expansion possibilities

Sofia Otero as Aitor/Cocó/Lucía, the eight-year old Sofia Otero won the 2023 Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance for this film.

Done Peaceray (talk) 20:30, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, director This is the director's first feature film.

Done Peaceray (talk) 03:59, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Expand Patricia López Arnaiz from eu:Patricia López Arnaiz or es:Patricia López Arnaiz, as Ane, the mother
Ane Gabarain, as Lourdes, the great-aunt
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Interested editors

The Blue Caftan

More information The Blue Caftan ...

The Blue Caftan

This film won the Golden Space Needle Audience awards for Best Director (Maryam Touzani) and Best Performance (Lubna Azabal).^[1] This film made the shortlist for the 95th Oscars International Film.^[2]

Synopsis: A woman and her closeted gay husband run a caftan store in the medina of Salé, Morocco. They hire a young man as an apprentice who is attracted to the husband.

Links

Article: The Blue Caftan
On the SIFF website: "The Blue Caftan". SIFF. 2023-05-12. Archived from the original on 2023-05-12. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
Official website ¡This needs to be entered on Wikidata and in the article.!

Done in both Wikidata & the article. Peaceray (talk) 05:44, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding German, French, and Italian articles: de:Das Blau des Kaftans, fr:Le Bleu du caftan, and it:The Blue Caftan, respectively.

Creation / expansion possibilities

There is no Wikidata item or article yet for Ayoub Missioui as Youssef, the apprentice

Partly done Article not created but Wikidata item is created: Ayoub Missioui [wd] Peaceray (talk) 05:37, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

For Ayoub Missioui, Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
For The Blue Caftan, Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Interested editors

Egghead & Twinkie

More information Egghead & Twinkie ...

Egghead & Twinkie

The official website touts this "as the first feature to successfully crowdfund on TikTok".

Synopsis: Twinkie, a heretofore closeted lesbian who is an adopted Asian American, is a junior in a predominantly white high school. She rebuffs her best friend, Egghead, a nerdy, straight senior boy who is about to graduate, when he tries to kiss her. Twinkie comes out to him, and Egghead reluctantly accepts this. When Twinkie comes out to her parents, however, they become upset and reject her. Twinkie decides to run away for a few days to see the lesbian DJ that she has been corresponding with over social media, and recruits Egghead to drive her father's car. While on the road trip, she meets Jess, a bisexual woman who is also Asian American, and they develop an acquaintance. The DJ rebuffs her over the phone when Twinkie and Egghead reach the performance venue. Egghead has grown into being an ally, and brings her back to her new acquaintance on the way back home so that Twinkie can realize that there is a spark with her new friend.

Links

Article: Egghead & Twinkie
On the SIFF website: "Egghead & Twinkie". SIFF. 2023-04-29. Archived from the original on 2023-05-12. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
Official website

Creation / expansion possibilities

Egghead & Twinkie can be translated from the German article, de:Egghead & Twinkie. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

There are no articles or Wikidata items yet for:

Sarah Kambe Holland, director This is the director's first feature film. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Done ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:42, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
Sabrina Jie-A-Fa as Twinkie Harris Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Partly done Article not created but Wikidata item is created: Sabrina Jie-A-Fa [wd] Peaceray (talk) 05:44, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Louis Tomeo (redirect page)Louis Tomeo as Egghead; this is a redirect to Every Witch Way, not a stand alone article. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Partly done Wikidata item created & linked: Louis Tomeo (Q120754917) Peaceray (talk) 04:39, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Asahi Hirano as Jess Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Partly done Article not created but Wikidata item is created: Asahi Hirano [wd] Peaceray (talk) 00:25, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Interested editors

---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:17, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

L’immensità

More information L’immensità ...

L’immensità

Synopsis: Assigned female as birth, the Andrea / Adri / Adriana strives to assert a male identity while living in a dysfunctional family in 1970s Rome.

Links

Article: L’immensità (film)
On the SIFF website: "L'immensità". SIFF. 2023-05-12. Archived from the original on 2023-05-12. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
Official website ¡This and the Italian language website need to be entered on Wikidata, and the English version in the article.!

Creation / expansion possibilities

There is no Wikidata item or article yet for Luana Giuliani as Andrea / Adri / Adriana, the lead performer. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Partly done Article not created but Wikidata item is created: Luana Giuliani [wd] Peaceray (talk) 05:33, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Alvia Reale, as the grand-mother, can be translated from the Italian article it:Alvia Reale.
L’immensità (film) can be expanded from the plot and background sections of the German article, de:L'immensità.
The Acolades section of the article can be expanded from the Riconoscimenti section from the Italian article, it:L'immensità_(film)
The Cast section of the article can be expanded from the Distribution section of the French article, fr:L'immensità (film).

Interested editors

Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

More information Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes ...

Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

Synopsis: A documentary about George Platt Lynes, a gay man at the nexus of the 1930s and 1940s gay scene in NYC and a photographer who created a significant body of work concentrating on male nudes.

Links

Article: Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes [wd]
On the SIFF website: "Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes". SIFF. 2023-04-26. Archived from the original on 2023-05-12. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
Official website

Instructions

Please read the general instructions.
Please consider registering for:
- The Internet Archive; one can sign up here.
- The Wikipedia Library, which provides access to scholarly, newspaper, and genealogical databases. Sometimes one has to apply for additional access through the Library, so it is best to do this immediately.
Links to Wikidata and ORES assessment can be found at the Wiki List Tool for Hidden Master George Platt Lynes.
- See Wikipedia:Content assessment.
- Any article that has an ORES rating of Start or C can probably be improved. See the B class and the Good article criteria.
Images by George Platt Lynes that can be used on Wikipedia are scarce. However, we can add a gallery to Lynes's article of his pictures from commons:Category:George Platt Lynes and Category:George Platt Lynes. Note: For any non-free images, {{Non-free media rationale}} should be placed on that image's file page for each article that the image is used in, as recommended by the non-free use rationale guideline.

Chronololgy / comments based on the film

1925 Lynes goes to Paris aspiring to be a writer
expatriate scene in paris / gay scene
Became part of Gertrude Stein's circle
mentioned in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas as "Baby"
Back in US, started & dropped out of Yale in 1926
Met Monroe Wheeler & Glenway Wescott, ex-patriates. Meets Wescott in NY
Wheeler was one of the founders of of the Museum of Modern Art
John Stevenson (He was in the last ménage à trois with Wheeler / Wescott, Lynes was the first. This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
Lynes, started bookstore in NJ then sold it six months later & went back to Paris on sale money;
Went to Wheeler & Wescott, then living in Gil France / French Rivera?
Jean Cocteau lived upstairs
Travel albums photography by / of the three
Lynes returns to NYC in 1928
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University has Lynnes's correspondence with Wheeler & Wescott
Encouraged to turn from writing to photography by Wheeler & Wescott
Untrained as a photographer
Lynes sailed to Paris again in 1931, meets Julien Levy, who displayss Lynes's photos, also a display at MOMA in 1932
Lecy holds a showing of 50 Lynes photographs in 1934^[3]
Lynes used large format photography
Themes/subjects were surrealism, mythology, theatre subjects, also fashion photography
In 1934, Wheeler & Wescott move to NYC & Lynes moves in with them, sharing a bedroom with Wheeler
image (not usable in WP) https://mfa.org/article/2020/stone-blossom-a-conversation-piece by Paul Cadmus
Lynes becomes principal photographer for the American Ballet / New York City Ballet
1940s relationships with George Tichenor (killed in WW II) & his younger brother Jonathon Tichenor
1946 accepts position with Vogue Studio^[4]
Lives beyond his means; suffers from depression because he is in a deeply homosexual town where homophobia is also rampant; misses friends in New York.
1948 returns to NYC; out-of-style by then
Relationship with Laurie Douglas
After 1948, meets & befriends Alfred Kinsey
1954 arranges to give his negatives to the Kinsey institute
1955 went to Paris for final time, returns & is hospitalized, & discovers he had lung cancer & had metastasized to his brain.
In his later years, Lynes destroyed a lot of his early work, particularly his fashion work for which he did not want to be remembered.

In Lynes's circle:

Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein

Partly done Article not created but uploaded image & created Wikidata item: Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein [wd]

George Balanchine
George Tooker
Jared French
Jensen Yow
John Connolly (This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
Kinsey Institute
Lincoln Kirstein
Man Ray
Margaret French
Marsden Hartley
PaJaMa
Paul Cadmus
Pavel Tchelitchew

Exhibition / Archives

Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

"Sensual/Sexual/Social: The Photography of George Platt Lynes". Newfields. 2019-02-24. Retrieved 2023-05-29.

Frederick R. Koch

Additional Biliography / Links

Moved to Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Seattle/LGBT films from SIFF 2023 edit-a-thon/Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

Articles that need updating

Wikidata item, no article

Vincent Cianni (Q42315096)

No article or Wikidata item

Jensen Yow / Alexander Jensen Yow

"Jensen Yow - Biography". MutualArt. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
"Jensen Yow Artist Biography" (PDF). David Zwirner Gallery. 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
"Yow, Alexander Jensen". Social Networks and Archival Context. Retrieved 2023-05-29.

Chuck Howard

Rolle, Elisa (March 9, 2023). "queerplaces - Chuck Howard". elisarolle.com. Retrieved 2023-05-29. blog
"Chuck Howard, José "Pete" Martinez and the others". LiveJournal. 2008-04-03. Retrieved 2023-05-29. blog
"Artist's Muse: Chuck Howard". Brian Ferrari's Blog. 2022-09-10. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
"Chuck Howard, 75, Sportswear Pioneer". Women's Wear Daily. 2002-10-03. Retrieved 2023-05-29.

Laurie Douglas Horbach / Laurie Douglas / "Dougie"

Ellenzweig, Allen (2022-01-18). "Breaking Away". George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye. New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190219666.003.0023. ISBN 0-19-021966-1. see page 343
Brown, Elspeth H. (2019-07-04). ""A Not-So-Simple Love Story" - LRC". Literary Review of Canada. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
Brown, Elspeth H. (2017-06-01). "Queering Glamour in Interwar Fashion Photography". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 23 (3). Duke University Press: 289–326. doi:10.1215/10642684-3818429. ISSN 1064-2684.
Brown, Elspeth H. (2019-05-28). Work!. Duke University Press Books. ISBN 978-1-4780-0214-7. OCLC 1079410751. PDF available here
Baynes, Thomas D (2019-07-05). More than a Spasm, Less than a Sign: Queer Masculinity in American Visual Culture, 1915-1955. Scholarship@Western (PhD). The University of Western Ontario. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
"Model Honor for City Girl". Theta Alpha Kappa Journal. 54 (1). Theta Alpha Kappa, University of Missouri: 14–15. November 1939.

Frederick R. Koch Foundation

Credits

Crew

film company A Precious Few, LLC.
director Sam Shahid
producer Sam Shahid
producer Matthew Kraus
producer John MacConnell
producer Nando DeCarvalho
executive producer O'Brien Kelley
executive producer Raja Sethuraman
cinematography Matthew Kraus
sound John MacConnell
lighting John MacConnell
editor Conor McBride (film editor)
composer Sarah Lynch

Cast

Allen Ellensweig
Anne M. Young
Bernard Perlin
Bill O'Connor (This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
Bruce Weber (photographer)
Charles Leslie (This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
Charles L. Venable, Ph.D.
Demitri Levas
Don Bachardy
Duane Michals
George Platt Lynes II
James Crump
James Smalls, Ph.D.
Jansen Yow
Jarrett Earnest
Jerry Rosco
John Connolly (This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
John Olsen (disambiguation) (This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
John Stevenson (This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
Mary Panzer (art historian)
Matthew Leifheit
Michael Scheiber
Nick Mauss
Peter Hay Halpert
Philip Gefter
Rebecca Fasman
Robin Cooper (This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
Sarah Morthland
Steven Haas (art historian), director of the George Platt Lynes Foundation, photographer, & editor of George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes
Stewart Shinning
Vince Aletti
Vincent Cianni

Contributing institutions

The George Platt Lynes Foundation
Whitney Museum of American Art
David Zwirner Gallery
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York), credited as The Woodlawn Cemetery & Conservancy
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin

Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/LGBT films from SIFF 2023 edit-a-thon

Location and schedule

General instructions

20,000 Species of Bees

Interested editors

The Blue Caftan

Interested editors

Egghead & Twinkie

Interested editors

L’immensità

Interested editors

Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

Instructions

Chronololgy / comments based on the film

In Lynes's circle:

Exhibition / Archives

Additional Biliography / Links

Articles that need updating

Wikidata item, no article

No article or Wikidata item

Credits

Crew

Cast

Contributing institutions

Contributing family member

Interested editors

References

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