Date: Tuesday 16 November 2021
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Venue: Online
Category: Films and theatre, Social events

Tues 16 November 2021
4pm
Online - Book your ticket
(brought to you by the LGBTQ+ Staff Network)

Meet Mama Gloria. Chicago’s Black transgender icon Gloria Allen, now in her 70s, blazed a trail for trans people like few others before her. Emerging from Chicago’s South Side drag ball culture in the 1960s, Gloria overcame traumatic violence to become a proud leader in her community. Most famously, she pioneered a charm school for young transgender people that served as inspiration for the hit play Charm. Luchina Fisher’s empathic and engaging documentary is not only a portrait of a groundbreaking legend, but also a celebration of unconditional love, the love Gloria received from her own mother and that she now gives to her chosen children. And it is driven by the love that Luchina has for her teenage transgender daughter, Gia.

Mama Gloria is a co-production of Little Light Productions and Black Public Media with major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Field Foundation of Illinois and WORLD. It has received additional support from Sisters in Cinema, SouthPaw Video Productions, the 2020 Athena Film Festival’s Works in Progress Program and Women Make Movies Production Assistance Program.

Published under a 1 year educational screening licence from Mama Gloria Film LLC - (if you would be interested in screening this film for your society/school please contact the LGBTQ+ Staff Network via gla.ac.uk/lgbt)

76 mins, 2020, subtitled
Content advisory: themes of suicide, rape, domestic violence

Due to licensing restrictions open to UofG staff and students only, please use your University email address when booking, thanks.