LGBT PRIDE MONTH - WETA · Sunday, June 24 • 3:30 p.m. GREAT PERFORMANCES: INDECENT — Filmed for television, the Tony Award-winning play follows a troupe of actors who risked

LGBTPRIDE

MONTH 2018 Program Guide

The Rainbow Flag, courtesy of Ludovic Bertron via Creative Commons

In June, WETA Television recognizes LGBT Pride Month with specialprogramming. Schedule subject to change; visit weta.org for completelistings and local resources. All programs air on WETA TV 26/HDexcept when noted.

Sunday, June 17 • 9 p.m.MAN IN AN ORANGE SHIRT ON MASTERPIECE — A remarkable castheaded by Oscar-winner Vanessa Redgrave portrays a pair of lovestories, sixty years apart, linked by family ties, sexual identity and amysterious painting. Repeats Mon 6/18, 4 p.m.; Fri 6/22, noon

Friday, June 22 • 11:30 p.m.POV: FROM THIS DAY FORWARD — Meet an American family copingwith one of life’s most intimate transformations. Filmmaker SharonShattuck’s father came out as transgender, living as Trisha. Hermother remained committed to their marriage. Now Sharon wants to understand how the family survived intact.

Man in an Orange Shirt, courtesy of Nick Briggs/Kudos for BBC and MASTERPIECE

Saturday, June 23 • 11:30 p.m.DENIAL: THE DAD THAT WANTED TO SAVE THE WORLD — While ona quest to find solutions to the global energy crisis, Dave Hallquist,the CEO of a Vermont electric utility, reveals a family secret. He, whopresents as a chainsaw-wielding, hardhat-wearing CEO in a male-dominated industry, is a woman inside.

Sunday, June 24 • 1:30 p.m.LORRAINE HANSBERRY: SIGHTED EYES/FEELING HEART: AMERICAN MASTERS — Through rare photos, unpublished documents and interviews with Hollywood legends such as SidneyPoitier, Ruby Dee and Harry Belafonte, the film explores the workand life of this remarkable playwright, activist and writer. Her bestknown work, the play “A Raisin in the Sun” changed the face ofAmerican theater by depicting the limitations of the American dreamthrough the lives of a black family on Chicago’s South Side.

POV: From This Day Forward, courtesy of POV Digital; Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart: American Masters, courtesy of David Attie

Sunday, June 24 • 3:30 p.m.GREAT PERFORMANCES: INDECENT — Filmed for television, theTony Award-winning play follows a troupe of actors who risked theirlives and careers against enormous challenges to perform a work inwhich they deeply believed, at a time when art, freedom and truthwere on trial.

Sunday, June 24 • 11 p.m.INDEPENDENT LENS: THE UNTOLD TALES OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN— The documentary examines the life and work of one of the world'smost beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservativeson of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer, whose novels have inspired millions to claim their own truth.

Tuesday, June 26 • 11 p.m.POV: MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART — Follow filmmaker CeciliaAldarondo’s investigation of a buried conflict around her uncleMiguel’s death during a time when AIDS was synonymous with sin.

INDEPENDENT LENS: Real Boy, courtesy of Shaleece Haas

Wednesday, June 27 • 11 p.m. INDEPENDENT LENS: REAL BOY — A moving and intimate story of a family in transition, the documentary follows the journey of transteen Bennett as he navigates adolescence, sobriety, and the physicaland emotional ramifications of his changing gender identity.

Thursday, June 28 • 11 p.m.WE’LL MEET AGAIN: COMING OUT — Join Ann Curry as people whofirst met during the early days of the LGBT movement reunite. Before the 1970s, being gay in America meant facing widespreaddiscrimination. To come out was to risk everything: family, job andeven safety. For two young men growing up in New England, living alife out of the closet was only possible because of the people whohelped them open the door. Tom longs to find the friend who helpedhim accept his sexuality, while Paul searches for the student activistwhose courage changed his life.

We’ll Meet Again: Coming Out, courtesy of David Turnley

...................................................WETA Television also celebrates the diversity of our community with

special programming for Hispanic Heritage Month, Black History Month andAsian Pacific American Heritage Month. WETA publishes and distributes freeprogram guides like this one for each of these months, which would be

impossible without the generous support of our members.

If you would like to become a member, call (703) 998-2724 or visit weta.org

GREAT PERFORMANCES: INDECENT , courtesy of © Carol Rosegg

Friday, June 29 • 11:30 p.m.FRONTLINE: GROWING UP TRANS — Explore the struggles andchoices facing transgender kids and their parents. Through movingpersonal stories of children, parents and doctors, the film examinesnew medical interventions increasingly being offered at younger ages.

WETA TV 26: Via antenna: 26.4 • Comcast: 26 • Cox: 26, 802 • Verizon FiOS: 26 • RCN: 26WETA HD: Via antenna: 26.1 • Comcast: 220, 219 (Baltimore) • DirecTV: 26, 26-1

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