EVENT: E. Patrick Johnson Discusses Film MAKING SWEET TEA
GIDEST is hosting a seminar with E. Patrick Johnson next Friday, October 14th at 12pm to discuss his film Making Sweet Tea, which may be of interest to your students and faculty. Please feel free to circulate the attached flyer at your discretion, and see our website for more information about our future programming.
E. Patrick Johnson is Dean of the School of Communication and Annenberg University Professor at
Northwestern University. He is the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of
Authenticity (2003); Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History (2008); Black. Queer.
Southern. Women.—An Oral History (2018); and Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love
Women (2019), in addition to several edited and co-edited collections, essays, and plays.
His staged reading, “Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales,” has toured to over 100
college campuses since 2006. The full-length stage play, Sweet Tea—The Play, premiered in Chicago,
toured across 8 other cities, and to the National Black Theater Festival. Johnson is also among the subjects and co-executive producer of the film, Making Sweet Tea, which has received several awards, including Best LGBTQ Film at the San Diego Film Festival, Best Documentary Audience at the Out on Film Festival, and the Silver Image Award from the Association of American Retired Persons (AARP) for Positive
Representation of LGBTQ People Over Fifty at the Chicago Reeling LGBTQ Film Festival. He is a 2020
inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.