Kopkind Colony

If not yet officially, summer is upon us, with June, with peonies and Pride Month, which also means with Kopkind’s CineSLAM festival of short LGBTQ+ films. June 24, at 4 pm, The Latchis Theater on Main Street in Brattleboro, Vermont. Mark your calendars, and watch this site for more details!

For today, for every day, let us raise a song for the Freedom to Be. Herewith, a bit from Walt Whitman’s “I Sing the Body Electric”:

I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, 

To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, 

To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, 

To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then? I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.