Images from Monday’s screening of “The New Black” at CUNY CLAGS

This past Monday night’s free screening of “The New Black” by Yoruba Richen, the 2011-2012 Robert Giard Foundation Fellow, drew a large and enthusiastic crowd to the CUNY Graduate Center. Professor andré carrington of Drexell University, a board member of CUNY’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), and Giard board president Carl Sylvestre were on hand to introduce the film and the director. Following the screening, Ms. Richen took questions from the audience and was joined onstage by Karess Taylor-Hughes, who features prominently in the film as one of the activists who worked to pass a referendum in favor of marriage equality in Maryland during the 2012 campaign. “The New Black” will be aired nationwide on PBS on June 14. www.newblackfilm.com

Presenter andré carrington, activist and film subject Karess Taylor-Hughes, and Giard Fellow and filmmaker Yoruba Richen during the Q&A.