Summer of Solutions Summer Camp!
About this Event
Pack your bags, babes, we’re going to camp!
For the third year in a row, LOOKOUT is putting on our Summer of Solutions, a four-part series of discussions meant to help inform Arizona's LGBTQ+ community on issues they care about, but bring people together to come up with meaningful solutions.
This year, we're doing things a bit different: a glitter-drenched, community-powered series where civic engagement meets campy cult classics. And unlike past years, all of our events this year are entirely FREE thanks to our sponsors at The Royale and Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF).
Between June 9 and July 28, we're doing a movie night every Tuesday from 6-9 p.m. Every other week we'll have our typical Summer of Solutions panel discussions, while other weeks we'll lean be showing camp classics, from Jawbreaker to Cry Baby.
Hosted at The Royale in their courtyard. Bring a blanket and some snacks, or buy drinks and food from The Royale Kitchen & Cocktails.
Schedule of Events:
June 9 — What's In a Message
Film: How to Survive a Plague
Plus: Panel discussion on activism, resistance, and how simple messages can work to fight back against fascism. We'll also be launching the "Today Is A Good Day" campaign, with members who were involved in its making.
Speakers: Betsy Boggia, Arizona Resilience States Project; David Boyles, community archivist; Kendra Dingley, Ideas Collide
June 16 — Film: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
June 23 — Can't Shut Us Down
Film: The Celluloid Closet
Plus: Panel discussion on banned books, media suppression, and queer storytelling under fire, with a special pop up of Changing Hands's Banned Books exhibit, as well as a table from Votebeat.
Speakers: Amanda Kehrberg, ASU researcher Walter Cronkite School of Mass Communications; Allie Cesmat, Children's Book Buyer, Changing Hands; Sonido Reyes, Author, "The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School"; Charissa Lucille, Wasted Ink Zine Distro
June 30 — Film: But I'm a Cheerleader
July 7 — Building Kinky Communities
Film: Kink Crusaders
Plus: Panel discussion exploring how kink families form strong bonds, and what vanilla communities can learn from them.
Speakers: Eddie Broadway, drag performer; Derek Cook, Shibari performer; Xioayi Griot, The Annex of the Carter-Johnson Leather Library
July 14 — Film: Cry-Baby
July 21 — Rubbing Against A.I.
Film: The AI Doc
Plus: Panel discussion on the growing divide in artificial intelligence and who gets left behind
Speakers: Shelby Grossman, Professor of Practice at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism; Savannah Stevens, drag artist Ms. Phoenix Pride 2026
July 28 — Film: Jawbreaker
Where is it happening?
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