StoryQuest 2016 - LGBTQ Project

Originally from Mexico City, award-winning producer/director/writer Melissa Sue Lopez has been in the American film industry for 15 years. She has worked on several independent films from different companies, including ABC Film & Video and MoonSue Productions. Her introduction to film was at Oklahoma City Community College, where she produced her first short film "Shoot Happens" and “Masquerdade" and where she is currently the lead photographer for the newspaper “The Pioneer.” At the age of twenty-five Melissa Sue met scholar/author Clenora Hudson-Weems, who introduced her to Barry Morrow, the Oscar award-winning co-writer of "Rain Man," while they worked together on a screenplay about Emmett Till, the "true catalyst of the modern Civil Rights Movement." During this period she moved to New York City to follow her dreams. There she worked in theater, music, and filmmaking, completing her first major short film, "Emociones." She returned to Oklahoma City, her adopted hometown, to produce, direct, and write for MoonSue Productions. It was here that she co-wrote, directed, filmed, edited and produced her first feature length film "Shutter Mind." Shutter Mind won two awards at the In-Color Film Festival in Oklahoma City: The People's Choice Award, and the prestigious Jury Award.

"Alternate Channels" traces the monumental growth of gay, lesbian, and bisexual images on radio and television from the 1930s to the present. Splashed against the tumultuous backdrop of the McCarthy witch hunts, Stonewall and the gay liberation movement, the birth of the 700 Club and the religious right, the outbreak of AIDS and the arrival of in-your-face queer activism, this chatty, authoritative broadcast history tells the stories of such as... from mocking banter between Bing Crosby and Bob Hope on '50s radio to a historic peck between women on '90s television, from the stereotyping of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals as sissies and psychopaths to their widespread acceptance as real people. Amazon.com