Kopkind Colony

Saturday, June 27: CineSLAM, Vermont’s LGBT Short Film Festival, an international, multi-genre lineup of intriguing films, with an out-of-this-world finale! 4 PM, Latchis Theatre, 50 Main St. in downtown Brattleboro. Tickets:  filmfreeway/cineslam.com (You can also buy tickets at the door.)

Sunday, June 28: Late Brunch with Roger Lancaster, speaking on Sex, Class and the Urgency of Desire. 2 PM, Tree Frog Farm, 158 Kopkind Rd., Guilford. No charge (donations gratefully accepted), but please make reservations with JoAnn Wypijewski at jwyp2000@gmail.com.

Roger Lancaster, a brilliant writer, speaker and scholar, is author, most recently, of The Struggle to Be Gay, in Mexico, for Example. His writing, there and in works including Life Is Hard and Sex Panic and the Punitive State, is thrilling for its combination of stories, ethnography, historical and political analysis, and polemic. In his latest book, based on years of observation and life experience in Mexico’s ambiente, he puts sexual identity and class in conversation — the Rainbow, one might say, and the rainbow, historic symbol of rebels united against kings and capitalist oppressors. Desire is particular and universalist; intimate and material; a fascination, a struggle — and much, much more. Any political movement for a humane future would be foolish to ignore its breadth and urgency.