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Our Events bring the community together to celebrate, learn, grow, and make change happen.
We are grateful to the beautiful people who have helped to create these events for us to be unified.
We appreciate the amazing community of support, kindness and love that Sedona has brought together!
We are grateful to the beautiful people who have helped to create these events for us to be unified.
We appreciate the amazing community of support, kindness and love that Sedona has brought together!
EDUCATIONOur events bring together incredible diversity and offer us all an opportunity to learn and grow. We explore and learn together as we discuss and understand how we can create equality.
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COLLABORATIONBy bringing together all voices and individuals who are taking action in our community, we create collaboration. Unify Sedona has a mission of creating change in our communities as a collaborated vision and collective development.
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CELEBRATIONOur events focus on celebrating the lives we live as we overcome. We come together, meet and mingle as we empower. We watch films with a purpose of sharing truth. And we dance to the rhythms of dignity and honor.
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Featured Event
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The Sedona Film Festival is proud to partner with Unify Sedona: A Rainbow Alliance and PFLAG Sedona/Verde Valley to present:
THE LAVENDER SCARE Narrated by Glenn Close and featuring the voices of David Hyde Pierce, Cynthia Nixon, Zachary Quinto and T.R. Knight With a pre-film reception and post-film discussion! One show only: Sunday, Sept. 22 at 7 pm
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With the United States gripped in the panic of the 1950s Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower deemed homosexuals to be “security risks” and vowed to rid the federal government of all employees discovered to be gay or lesbian.
Over the next four decades, the longest witch-hunt in American history, tens of thousands of government workers would lose their jobs for no reason other than their sexual orientation.
But the mass firings have an unintended effect: they stirred outrage in the gay community, helped ignite the gay rights movement, and thrust an unlikely hero into the forefront of the LGBTQ rights movement.
Partly based on the award-winning book by historian David K. Johnson, “The Lavender Scare” illuminates a little-known chapter of American history, and serves as a timely reminder of the value of vigilance and social action when civil liberties are under attack.
Over the next four decades, the longest witch-hunt in American history, tens of thousands of government workers would lose their jobs for no reason other than their sexual orientation.
But the mass firings have an unintended effect: they stirred outrage in the gay community, helped ignite the gay rights movement, and thrust an unlikely hero into the forefront of the LGBTQ rights movement.
Partly based on the award-winning book by historian David K. Johnson, “The Lavender Scare” illuminates a little-known chapter of American history, and serves as a timely reminder of the value of vigilance and social action when civil liberties are under attack.
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“I am grateful to the men and women who shared their personal stories on camera — not just the employees who lost their jobs, but the officials who carried out the government’s policies as well. Without their honest and thoughtful insights, this film could never have been made,” said director Josh Howard.
"A gripping, nimbly assembled documentary … vivid, disturbing and rousing." — Los Angeles Times "Fascinating and horrifying — and timely." — The New York Times “An essential and absorbing documentary." — Variety "A film that should be essential viewing." — The Hollywood Reporter |
