ROCHESTER, N.Y. – On Tuesday, the Little Theatre and Trillium Health celebrated Pride Month and Juneteenth with a film screening. Organizers showed the 1996 film “The Watermelon Woman,” which follows ...
It was only a few years ago that I found out that the first feature film directed by a Black lesbian — The Watermelon Woman by Cheryl Dunye — was released in 1996, only 30 years ago. I was shocked by ...