June
2007
KQED proudly celebrates the diversity
of our community with a special lineup
in June. These programs are highlighted
in a guide along with listings of community
resources. All programs are on KQED Channel
9 unless listed as KQED
HD, KQED
Encore, KQED Life, KQED World, or KQED Kids.
These four digital channels are available
to viewers with a digital receiver or
via Comcast digital cable. Visit www.kqed.org/dtv for
more information. The digital channels
are KQED HD (high definition; 9.1, Comcast
709), KQED Encore (9.2, Comcast 189),
KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190), KQED Life
(9.4, Comcast 191) and KQED Kids (9.5,
Comcast 192).
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Please note: Programs are subject to change. For the latest information, call
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For videotaping purposes, allow five minutes for early starts and late finishes.
Saturday, June 2
4pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | FRONTLINE: The Age of AIDS, Part 1 of 2 On the 25th anniversary of the first diagnosed cases of AIDS, FRONTLINE: presents the definitive chronicle of one of the worst pandemics the world has ever known. After decades of denial, stigma, policy battles, research and global education, HIV/AIDS continues to spread.
Repeats: 6/5 8pm (KQED HD); 6/9 10pm (KQED HD).
Sunday, June 3 8pm KQED HD (high definition; 9.1, Comcast 709) | Great Performances: Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 In
Performance: The San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas
Thomas conducts this performance at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.
Repeats: 6/6 9pm (KQED HD); 6/9 10pm (KQED Life).
Monday, June 4 9pm KQED HD (high definition; 9.1, Comcast 709) | American Experience: Kinsey
Alfred Kinsey compiled exhaustive data from tens of thousands of interviews about the sexual practices of men and women. The results were the explosive, best-selling Kinsey Reports.
Repeats: 6/7 11:30pm (KQED HD).
11:30pm KQED 9 | F.A.Q.: LGBT Pride
The process of growing older can be complicated and challenging for everyone, but LGBT seniors face unique difficulties grounded in the culture when they came of age, one that is vastly different from modern America. This program features a panel of experts and offers resources that can help LGBT seniors.
This broadcast is simulcast on KQED World.
Repeats: 6/8 8pm (KQED HD); 6/11 7:30pm (KQED World); 6/12 1am (KQED 9); 6/15 8pm (KQED HD); 6/16 7pm (KQED World).
Tuesday, June 5 10pm KQED HD (high definition; 9.1, Comcast 709) | FRONTLINE: The Age of AIDS, Part 2 of 2
Part 2 explores the chasm that emerged between rich and poor following the development of the miraculous "triple cocktail" HIV treatment in the mid-1990s and the political struggle to lower drug prices in the developing world.
Repeats: 6/9 4pm (KQED World); 6/10 10pm (KQED HD).
Wednesday, June 6 10pm KQED HD (high definition; 9.1, Comcast 709) | Great Performances: Dance in America--Beyond the Steps:
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater enters a period of growth and reflection as it travels to Russia, moves into a state-of-the-art custom facility and creates a new ballet, Love Stories, choreographed by artistic director Judith Jamison in collaboration with hip-hop pioneer Rennie Harris and modern dance maverick Robert Battle.
Repeats: 6/10 6pm (KQED HD); 6/10 10pm (KQED Life).
Thursday, June 7 9pm KQED HD (high definition; 9.1, Comcast 709) | American Masters: Sweet Honey In The Rock: Raise Your Voice
The African American women who form this sextet raise their voices against injustice with music born of spirituaks, slavery and the Civil Rights Movement.
Repeats: 6/10 11:30am & 6:30pm (KQED Life); 6/16 9pm (KQED Life).
Saturday, June 9 2:30pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | InnerViews With Ernie Manouse Judy Shepard
The mother of Matthew Shepard talks about the events surrounding the murder of her son in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming, and her resulting activism.
Repeats: 6/17 5pm (KQED 9).
3pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Turning Points: Stories of Life and Change in the Church
Issues of sexuality and faith--specifically the place of gays and lesbians in religion--are examined through the lives of real people.
9pm KQED Life (9.4, Comcast 191) | Great Performances: Keeping Score: MTT on Music
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, explores Tchaikovsky's "Symphony No. 4" and provides commentary on the powerful music.
Sunday, June 10 9pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Independent Lens: The Great Pink Scare
In 1960, a renowned Smith College professor suddenly became the target of a witch hunt. His career and the careers of other gay professors were instantly destroyed when a controversial police raid uncovered homoerotic magazines in their homes.
10pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | FRONTLINE: A Hidden Life
This program examines the scandal and hidden life of Jim West, a popular, socially conservative Republican mayor of Spokane.
Repeats: 6/19 10pm (KQED HD); 6/21 11pm (KQED HD).
11pm KQED Life (9.4, Comcast 191) | Independent Lens: The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out
In a small, conservative college town in Illinois, music student Kristina Boerger assembled a ragtag group of volunteers into a lesbian choir.
11pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | P.O.V.: 90 Miles
Filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldavar recounts the strange fate that brought him, as a teenage
communist, to exile in Miami during the Mariel boatlift.
Wednesday, June 13 9am KQED Kids (9.5, Comcast 192) | Postcards from Buster: Sugartime! (Hinesburg, Vt.)
Buster explores Vermont life with the help of Emma, Lily and their families. The depiction of same-sex parents in this program caused controversy when it premiered in 2005.
Repeats: 6/20 6:30am (KQED 9).
Saturday, June 16 6pm KQED 9 | Billie Jean King: Rogue Champion
King completely revolutionized women's tennis, breaking down barriers and changing attitudes toward women in professional sports forever.
10pm KQED HD (high definition; 9.1, Comcast 709) | Independent Lens: Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
Explore the life and career of the unheralded man who changed jazz and popular music forever.
Repeats: 6/17 noon (KQED 9); 6/17 8pm (KQED Life); 6/17 9pm (KQED HD); 6/24 am (KQED Life).
10:30pm KQED Life (9.4, Comcast 191) | Janis Ian: Live at Club Café
Since a young age, Ian has been moving audiences with such songs as "At Seventeen" and the controversial "Society's Child." This concert from Pittsburgh captures Ian in an intimate club setting performing her classic hits and new songs.
Repeats: 6/17 11:30am (KQED Life).
Sunday, June 17 noon KQED 9 | Independent Lens: Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
See KQED HD Saturday, June 16 10 pm.
Repeats: 6/17 8pm (KQED Life); 6/17 9pm (KQED HD); 6/24 am (KQED Life).
2pm KQED 9 | Lily's Detroit
Lily Tomlin reminisces about growing up in Detroit.
Repeats: 6/20 2:30am (KQED 9).
4:30pm KQED 9 | Innerviews With Ernie Manouse Michael Feinstein
One of the premier interpreters and keepers of popular music, Feinstein went from being
Ira Gershwin's assistant to recording more than 20 albums and owning his own New York showroom at the Regency Hotel.
5pm KQED 9 | InnerViews With Ernie Manouse Judy Shepard
See KQED World Saturday, June 9, 2:30pm.
6pm KQED 9 | Truly CA:
Our State, Our Stories Emile Norman: by His Own Design
This program is a portrait of the California artist.
Repeats: 6/17 9:30pm (KQED Life); 6/18 6am (KQED Life); 6/20 11pm (KQED 9).
10:30pm KQED Life (9.4, Comcast 191) | Independent Lens: Brother to Brother
A young art student struggles with homophobia in the black community.
Monday, June 18 1:30am KQED 9 | Rock Hudson: Tall, Dark and Handsome
This program examines how the Hollywood publicity machine turned Roy Fitzgerald into one of the most famous faces of the '50s.
Repeats: 6/21 8pm (KQED 9); 6/21 11pm (KQED Encore); 6/22 3am (KQED Encore); 6/24 8pm (KQED Encore).
7:30pm KQED 9 | The Josh Kornbluth Show: Michael Tilson Thomas
This broadcast is simulcast on KQED HD.
Repeats: 6/19 11pm (KQED HD); 6/22 2:30am (KQED 9); 6/22 9:30pm (KQED Life); 6/23 2:30pm (KQED Life).
11pm KQED 9 | Not in Our Town Northern California: When Hate Happens Here
Residents in several Northern California communities come together to fight back when their neighbors are targets of intolerance based in religion, race and sexual orientation.
Repeats: 6/19 2am, 6am & 6pm (KQED Encore); 6/22 4am (KQED 9)
Wednesday, June 20 6:30am KQED 9 | Postcards From Buster: Sugartime! (Hinesburg, Vt.)
See KQED Kids Wednesday, June 13, 9 am.
10pm KQED 9 | No Secret Anymore: The Time of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
This program tells the important story of two lesbians who have been helping pave the path to something approaching equality for the past several decades.
Repeats: 6/21 1am, 5am & 10pm (KQED Encore).
11pm KQED 9 | Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories - Emile Norman: by His Own Design
See KQED 9 Sunday, June 17 6pm.
Thursday, June 21 8pm KQED 9 | Rock Hudson: Tall, Dark and Handsome
See KQED 9 Monday, June 18, 1:30am.
Repeats: 6/21 11pm (KQED Encore); 6/22 3am (KQED Encore); 6/24 8pm (KQED Encore).
9pm KQED 9 | Laramie--Inside Out
Beverly Seckinger visits her home in Wyoming to investigate the impact of Matthew Shepard's murder.
Repeats: 6/22 mid, 4am & 8pm (KQED Encore); 6/28 3am (KQED 9).
10pm KQED 9 | It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School
This program is an award-winning documentary that shows what can happen when teachers address lesbian and gay issues with their students in an age-appropriate, nonjudgmental environment.
Repeats: 6/22 1am, 5am & 9pm (KQED Encore); 6/28 4am (KQED 9).
11pm KQED 9 | In the Life
This monthly newsmagazine dedicated to gay and lesbian life includes segments on health, youth, the arts, relationships, global issues and more.
Repeats: 6/22 2am, 6am & 10pm (KQED Encore).
Sunday, June 24 11pm KQED Life (9.4, Comcast 191) | Power of Harmony
The personal experiences of a gay men's chorus in the heart of the Bible Belt cut to the heart of such controversial issues as coming out, gay marriage, religious views on homosexuality and gay adoption.
Repeats: 6/25 11pm (KQED 9 & HD); 6/26 2am, (KQED Life); 6/28 9pm (KQED HD).
Monday, June 25 11pm KQED 9 | Power of Harmony
See KQED Life Sunday, June 24, 11pm.
This broadcast is simulcast on KQED HD.
Repeats: 6/26 2am, (KQED Life); 6/28 9pm (KQED HD).
Tuesday, June 26 11:30pm KQED 9 | ACLU Freedom files Gay and Lesbian Rights
This episode of The ACLU Freedom Files shows how the members of gay and lesbian families in America are treated as second-class citizens under the law, lacking rights that many people take for granted.
Repeats: 6/27 2:30am & 6:30am (KQED World); 6/30 5:30pm (KQED World).
Wednesday, June 27 11:30pm KQED 9 | Innerviews with Ernie Manouse k.d. lang
Singer, songwriter and activist Lang created a commotion in the traditional country music
industry that never faded, even when she crossed over to the contemporary pop charts.
Repeats: 6/28 2:30am, 6:30am & 6:30pm (KQED Encore).
Thursday, June 28 8pm KQED 9 | Why We Sing!
This program looks at the transformative power of gay, lesbian and transgender choral music and how singers and music lovers from around the globe have been moved to change their worlds through song.
Repeats: 6/28 11pm (KQED Encore); 6/29 3am & 7pm (KQED Encore); 6/30 3am & 6pm (KQED 9).
11:30pm KQED 9 | God and Gays: Bridging the Gap
This program explores the religious struggle reconciling sexuality and spirituality.
Repeats: 6/29 1:30am, 5:30am & 9:30pm (KQED Encore).
Saturday, June 30 5:30pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | ACLU Freedom Files Gay and Lesbian Rights
See KQED 9 Tuesday, June 26, 11:30pm.
6pm KQED 9 | Why We Sing!
See KQED 9 Thursday, June 28, 8pm.
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