LGBT PRIDE MONTH June 2015 KQED Public Television Programming Highlights

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1 LGBT PRIDE MONTH June 2015 KQED Public Television Programming Highlights In June, KQED proudly celebrates the diversity of our community with a special programming lineup on KQED 9 and KQED Plus (+). KQED 9 is available over the air on DT9.1, 54.2 and 25.1 and via most cable systems on Channel 9. It is on XFINITY cable from Comcast (Channels 9, SD, and 709, HD) and on DIRECTV and DISH satellite systems (Channels 9, SD and HD). KQED Plus is available over the air on Channel 54, DT54.1, 9.2 and 25.2 and via many cable and satellite systems on either channel 10 or 54. It is on XFINITY cable from Comcast (Channels 10, SD, and 710, HD) and on DIRECTV (Channel 54, SD and HD) and DISH (Channel 54, SD only) satellite systems. This schedule also lists programs airing on KQED Life (Comcast 189, Channel 54.3) and KQED World (Comcast 190, Channel 9.3). Some programs repeat additional times on these two channels. Visit kqed.org/dtv for the complete digital program schedule. PROGRAMMING SYMBOLS R This program or episode will be repeated on the date/s noted. D Descriptive video information for the sight-impaired is available on televisions with stereo capability. Programs are subject to change after press deadlines. Thursday 4 noon World Independent Lens The Graduates explores pressing issues in education today through the eyes of six Latino and Latina students from across the United States. Saturday 6 11pm KQED 9 George Michael Live in London George Michael performs terrific renditions of "Father Figure," "Faith," "Amazing" and "Freedom 90." R (9) 6/7 5am; (Life) 6/28 8pm

2 Sunday 7 5am KQED 9 George Michael Live In London R (Life) 6/28 8pm 7pm World Finding Your Roots John Legend, Wanda Sykes and Margarett Cooper discover the extraordinary stories of their free black ancestors. 8pm World Independent Lens We Were Here looks at how the community worked together when AIDS came to San Francisco in the early 1980s. D R (9) 6/8 10pm, 6/9 4am; (Life) 6/12 10pm; (World) 6/11 11am 9:30pm World The Day It Snowed in Miami In 1977, an equal-rights statute in Miami galvanized the gay rights movement in Florida and beyond. R (World) 6/30 11am Monday 8 10pm KQED 9 Independent Lens We Were Here. D R (9) 6/9 4am; (Life) 6/12 10pm; (World) 6/11 11am Tuesday 9 4am KQED 9 Independent Lens We Were Here. D R (Life) 6/12 10pm; (World) 6/11 11am 7:30pm KQED 9 Spark Making Their Move. When successful local performers try to take their careers to another level, Spark asks, "Do they have what it takes?" R (9) 6/10 1:30am; (Life) 6/13 5:30pm Wednesday 10 1:30am KQED 9 Spark Making Their Move. R (Life) 6/13 5:30pm 8pm Life American Masters James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket is an in-depth portrait of James Baldwin, one of the great American authors of the 20th century. 9:30pm Life PBS Arts from Chicago: American Masters Bill T. Jones Choreographer Bill T. Jones mounts a dance event inspired by the life of Abraham Lincoln.

3 Friday 12 11:30pm KQED + Vicious Freddie and Stuart host a wake and are joined by their elderly friends for a very awkward evening. R (+) 6/13 5:30am Saturday 13 5:30am KQED + Vicious 6pm KQED 9 Facing Fear A former neo-nazi skinhead and a gay victim of his hate crime attack meet by chance after 25 years. R (World) 6/14 8pm Sunday 14 7pm World Finding Your Roots Born Champions. Three great athletes, Derek Jeter, Billie Jean King and Rebecca Lobo, discover their ancestry. D 9pm World American Masters Billie Jean King. The professional tennis star that fought for equality on and off the court presents her own story. 10:30pm World InnerViews with Ernie Manouse Margaret Cho. Features a conversation with the comedian, fashion designer, actress, author and recording artist. Monday 15 10pm KQED 9 Independent Lens Limited Partnership. For 40 years, a gay couple took on the U.S. government to fight for marriage and immigration equality. R (9) 6/16 4am; (Life) 6/19 10pm; (World) 6/18 noon 11pm KQED 9 Anyone and Everyone Poignant and often heartbreaking stories of families across the country who have a gay child. R (9) 6/16 5am; (World) 6/23 11am, 6/27 5pm Tuesday 16 4am KQED 9 Independent Lens Limited Partnership. R (Life) 6/19 10pm; (World) 6/18 noon 5am KQED 9 Anyone and Everyone R (World) 6/23 11am, 6/27 5pm 11am World The Campaign chronicles the campaign to defeat California s Proposition 8 and to defend same-sex marriage. R (9) 6/22 11pm, 6/23 5am; (World) 6/27 3pm

4 noon World Independent Lens Love Free Or Die. Faith, love, homosexuality and church collide as Gene Robinson becomes the first openly gay bishop. R (World) 6/21 9pm Wednesday 17 8:42pm Life Ellen DeGeneres: The Mark Twain Prize The work of Ellen DeGeneres is celebrated as she receives the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. R (Life) 6/21 10:30pm Thursday 18 11am World Independent Lens The New Black. Centering on the historic fight to win marriage equality in Maryland, this film takes viewers into the pews, onto the streets, and provides a seat at the kitchen table as it looks at how the African American community grapples with the divisive gay rights issue. R (World) 6/21 10pm Friday 19 11:30pm KQED + Vicious Stuart finds a way to secretly raises some cash to help Freddie buy a new coat for a fan club event. R: (+) 6/20 5:30am Saturday 20 5:30am KQED + Vicious 5pm World Finding Your Roots Sanjay Gupta, Margaret Cho and Martha Stewart. Sunday 21 7pm World Finding Your Roots Our American Storytellers. Ken Burns, Anderson Cooper and Anna Deavere Smith learn about their own family histories. D 8pm World Question One takes a probing look at the same-sex marriage issue focuses on Maine's 2009 marriage referendum election. Monday 22 10pm KQED 9 POV Out in the Night. A group of African-American lesbians charged with attempted murder face an uphill battle in court. R (9) 6/23 4am; (Life) 6/26 10pm; (World) 6/25 noon

5 11pm KQED 9 The Campaign R (9) 6/23 5am; (World) 6/27 3pm Tuesday 23 4am KQED 9 POV Out in the Night. R (Life) 6/26 10pm; (World) 6/25 noon 5am KQED 9 The Campaign R (World) 6/27 3pm 7:30am World Film School Shorts Playing with Power includes the short film Un Mundo Para Raul (Columbia University). R (9) 6/26 11pm, 6/27 5am, 6/28 11:30pm, 6/29 5:30am; (World) 6/23 1:30pm noon World I Am An Indian filmmaker travels across India to meet with parents of gay and lesbian South Asians. R (World) 6/28 11pm Friday 26 11pm KQED 9 Film School Shorts Playing with Power. R (9) 6/27 5am, 6/28 11:30pm, 6/29 5:30am 11:30pm KQED + Vicious When Ash secures an acting role after one audition, Freddie is thrown into a state of depression. R (+) 6/27 5:30am Saturday 27 5am KQED 9 Film School Shorts Playing with Power. R (9) 6/28 11:30pm, 6/29 5:30am 5:30am KQED + Vicious 4pm World History Detectives Korean War Letter, Diana, Lookout Mountain Painting. Sunday 28 7pm KQED 9 Alfredo's Fire On January 13, 1998, Alfredo Ormando, a closeted gay writer from Sicily, shocked the world by lighting himself on fire in St. Peter s Square, the only time such a protest had taken place on Vatican soil. 7pm World Finding Your Roots Our People, Our Traditions explores the ancestors of celebrated Americans Tony Kushner, Carole King and Alan Dershowitz. D

6 7:41pm KQED 9 Decoding Alan Turing A brilliant Cambridge mathematician and a hero many times over, Turing was later persecuted by the same country he fought to protect for being a homosexual. 8pm KQED 9 Last Tango in Halifax #301. An unexpected visitor forces Alan to think about his past, making Gillian and Caroline anxious. R (9) 6/29 2am; (Life) 6/30 7pm World Independent Lens How to Survive a Plague. Two grassroots coalitions fought to turn AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. D 9pm Life Live from Lincoln Center The Nance Starring Nathan Lane. Chauncey Miles faces a changing world during the fading twilight of burlesque in 1930s New York. 9:30pm World Independent Lens God Loves Uganda looks at how the American Evangelical movement is influencing Uganda's laws against homosexuality. D 11:30pm KQED 9 Film School Shorts Playing with Power. R (9) 6/29 5:30am Monday 29 2am KQED 9 Last Tango in Halifax #301. R (Life) 6/30 7pm 5:30am KQED 9 Film School Shorts Playing with Power. 11pm KQED 9 Rex Ray: How to Make a Rex Ray offers a journey inside the mind of contemporary artist Rex Ray. R (9) 6/30 5am Tuesday 30 5am KQED 9 Rex Ray: How to Make a Rex Ray 7:30am World Film School Shorts Responsible Parties features the short film Disaster Preparedness (University of California Los Angeles). R: (World) 1:30pm 10pm KQED 9 FRONTLINE Growing Up Trans explores the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their parents.