Wednesday, September 3rd at The LGBT Community Center, Queer Black Cinema® (QBC) premieres Morty Diamond’s sexy, hot and steamy docu-porn, Trans Entities: The Nasty Love of Papi & Wil. This exclusive and spicy multi-media event helps not only to further develop Queer Black Cinema’s 1st Annual International Film & Music Festival (October 30 – November 2, 2008); It aims to highlight the organization’s commitment to HIV/AIDS prevention and safer sexual freedom through the launch of Just|BE- QBC’s 2nd Annual Black LGBTQ Erotica Poetry & Film Competition. Performances include erotic spoken word, male-illusionist acts, safer-sex kits and DVD giveaways and a special guest appearance by film’s co-stars, Ignacio Rivera and Khane Morris. Tickets are available online for $ 15.00 and $20.00 at the door. Due to anticipation of the event, it is highly recommended that tickets be purchased online at www.queerblackcinema.org/tickets.

The intention of QBC's Just|BE: 2nd Annual Black LGBTQ Erotica Poetry & Film Competition is to create opportunities for Black LGBTQ filmmakers, artists and their allies to demonstrate their talent and increase the visibility of erotic films that promote HIV/AIDS and STI prevention. In 2007, Queer Black Cinema® exhibited LaJon Daniels’ soft-core film, Fluidity, to promote the socially-conscious and sexy venture akin to BET’s Rap-It-Up Competition. This year QBC introduces audiences to the newly acclaim genre of doc-porn with Morty Diamond’s Trans Entities: The Nasty Love of Papi’ and Wil.

“I believe showing a person how to use a condom and dental dams are more effective then telling them to use it…Going to a sex shop with your partner can be a great date. With this screening, I hope that people get that safer-sex can be fun. I would like to see more couples get tested for HIV/AIDS and STI’s together”, states Angel L. Brown, Executive Producer of Queer Black Cinema.

Trans Entities, is a sexy, thought-provoking and above all touching portrait of a real loving, polyamorous couple who identify as Trans-Entities- a word they have coined to describe their gender identity. The cinéma vérité film allows the viewer to engagingly look into the uninhibited exploration of stigmatized topics that are particularly taboo in LGBTQ communities of color: polyamory, role-playing, BDSM and gender fluidity. Diamond and Trans Entities co-stars, Khane Morris and Ignacio Rivera, join the legacy of directors, performance artists and sex educators & workers such as Tristan Taormino, The Punany Poets, Annie Sprinkle, John Cameron Mitchell and Katherine Linton, director of HereTV’s Lesbian Sex & Sexuality Series; who use film and media to explore candid issues about sex and sexuality.

Black LGBTQ erotica has enjoyed continuous success online, in-print and theater. From the popular writings of Zane, Fiona Zedde, Black Artemis, Steven G. Fullwood, Renair Amin and Raymond Berry to the advent of web sites like KUMA, Stephanie Adam’s GODDESSY and Black FUNK-the art form continues to flourish and satisfy clientele globally to no end. However, examples of imaginative Black LGBTQ erotica and more importantly, feminist-identified/genderqueer adult films of color that promote safer sex are undeniably underrepresented on the big screen. Queer Black Cinema® has taken on the challenge to promote more films like Trans Entities due to the film's sexy but, intellectual and loving content.

The September 3rd showing of Trans Entities: The Nasty Love of Papi & Wil is an exclusive event intended for mature audiences only. For more information about tickets, sponsorship, programming or volunteering go to www.queerblackcinema.org.