Hip-Hop Celebrity Teams Up with Queer Black Cinema to Promote
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Support the Black LGBTQ community’s emerging stars.

On June 17th at trendy hotspot, Luke & Leroy’s, Homorevolution Tour’s Shorty Roc will give a special performance all in the name of charity for Queer Black Cinema’s QBC VISIONS Pride Benefit 2007. Shorty Roc will help QBC launch New York City’s Pride Week by premiering some of the series’ best film shorts and powerhouse live performances from today’s most notable LGBTQ artists. Scheduled to appear are Siya, Tangarae, Jesse O, Steph, the Sapphic Songstress, and Bad Boy Entertainment’s hip hop princess and QBC VISIONS 2007 host, Babs Bunny. The focus of QBC VISIONS 2007 is to raise developing funds for Queer Black Cinema’s first international film festival and promote HIV/AIDS prevention during June. For details regarding sponsorship, volunteering and tickets for the event, visit the Queer Black CinemaTM web site at www.queerblackcinema.org.

In 2003, Shorty Roc emerged on the music scene with his underground smash “Ten Gay Commandments”, his rendition of the classic DJ Premiere produced Biggie joint “Ten Crack Commandments”. Shorty has performed at gay clubs such as Langston’s, The Legendary Warehouse, The Clubhouse, and The Lab as well as Nuyorican Poets Café. He gained underground praise for his street delivery, catchy punch lines and his heavy performance. His first CD, “The Mixtape: Jackin’ Beats, which contained the classic, “This is My Quest”, which expressed the troubles of dating, society, and the growing rate of HIV/AIDS in the LGBTQ of color community. A participate in the gay hip-hop festival “Peace Out East” in NY and “Peace Out East” in Atlanta, Shorty also makes a guest appearance the documentary, How U Doing: Homophobia in Hip Hop. This year Shorty Roc will be releasing a new CD titled “Personal”, will be participating in the first ever LGBT tour “Homorevolution Tour” and will be performing for QBC VISIONS Pride Benefit 2007.

“QBC VISIONS is our way of showing what the best of QBC is about: “edu-tainment” or socially-conscious entertainment. We strive to show not only groundbreaking films but, feature Black LGBTQ artists and musicians with a mission and nonetheless soul. It means the world to us that these artists, straight and LGBTQ, have come on board to fully support QBC”, says Angel L. Brown, executive producer of QBC.

To honor Pride Week in New York City, QBC will celebrate with Shorty Roc and others with a night filled with live music performances, films and special guest appearances on June 17, 2007 at Luke & Leroy’s. Located on 21 Seventh Avenue South and Leroy Street doors open at 7 PM. Tickets are available online for $ 10.00 and more at the door. To learn more details about the series’ benefit and the event’s special host, Babs Bunny, sign up to QBC’s mailing list, qbcfilmseries@yahoogroups.com, or go to www.queerblackcinema.org | www.myspace.com/queerblackcinema.