Please join us Tuesday, June 14th for allgo’s monthly movie night featuring:

My Beautiful Laundrette

Synopsis:  Young Londoner Omar (Gordon Warnecke) isn’t sure what he wants out of life, but his uncle Nasser (Saeed Jaffrey) provides a corrupt, capitalist role model as Omar graduates from washing cars for the old crook to running his run-down laundromat. After a chance meeting with Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis), an old school chum whose flirtation with fascism deeply wounded Omar’s principled Papa (Roshan Seth), Omar hires Johnny to work for him. Soon, the pair begin a romantic relationship that remains as under wraps as the illicit drug-running and enforcement work they perform for Nasser’s associate, Salim (Derrick Branche). On the domestic front, Omar must balance his knowledge of Nasser’s long-running affair with posh Brit Rachel (Shirley Ann Field) with his own loyalty and attraction to Nasser’s westernized daughter, Tania (Rita Wolf). After successfully transforming his laundrette into a vision of resplendent pastel suds and providing a bright spot in his otherwise squalid London neighborhood, Omar seems to have a bright future in Nasser’s organization. The spectre of Johnny’s past, however, combines with Omar’s conflicted immigrant loyalties to threaten the sense of identity the young man has managed to stake out for himself.

Location: allgo, 701 Tillery Suite A-1, Austin TX, 78751

Event is free but donations are accepted

Join allgo this year as we participate in Queerbomb on Friday, June 3rd!  Queerbomb is a celebration of queer culture and individuality and is comprised of many queer organizations and groups in Austin, including allgo.  We’ll be tabling at the rally and marching in the procession.  Come by our table and say hi and join the festivities throughout the entire weekend!

What: Queerbomb Rally, Procession and Afterparty

Where: East Side Drive In – 1000 East 6th Street – Austin, TX

When: 7pm to 2am

This year’s Statewide Queer People of Color Summit is scheduled for May 13, 6:00 p.m. through May 15, 2011 at 4:00 pm at Greene Family Camp 1192 Smith Lane Bruceville, Texas 76630 (map).

You are invited to participate.

The Texas Queer People of Color Statewide  Summit, is a gathering of individual and organizationally connected queer people of color and ally activists coming together to build relationship, think critically, envision liberation, and create strategies that build and sustain a queer people of color movement across the state of Texas.

The Summit is a space to dialogue about how we can build a movement coming from a place of engaging possibilities, and that works to create our own power.  The Summit is also intended to explore how we can carry out this work in a way that is sustainable and supportive in a continuum of movement building.  A group of community members have put a lot of energy, spirit and passion into developing an agenda designed to foster the vision of the Summit.

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6:30pm-9:30pm

Join us for this month’s movie night and discussion:

Touch of Pink

701 Tillery, Austin TX, 78702

Snacks are provided and donations are accepted.