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Michael Stabile

San Francisco, CA

Michael Stabile is a journalist and filmmaker best-known for his work in and about the adult film industry. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Huffington Post, LA Weekly, the Village Voice and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. I... view more

  1. AIDS Memorial Quilt Mobile Web App by Anne Balsamo

    The AIDS Quilt Touch Mobile Web App enables people to browse images, search for NAMES, and add comments in a digital guestbook.

    • 5% funded $1,635 pledged
    • 9 backers
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  2. IN SEARCH OF AVERY WILLARD by Cary Kehayan

    This intimate documentary portrait uncovers the life and work of a groundbreaking yet forgotten queer artist.

    • 41% funded $1,450 pledged
    • 30 backers
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    Mixed Personality Disorders by David Michael Taylor

    Mixed Personality Disorders, a world premiere solo show by David Michael Taylor, is sure to be the feel-good feel-bad play of the year.

    • 108% funded $1,625 pledged
    • 33 backers
    • Funded May 25, 2012
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    MALA MALA: A Transformative Puerto Rican Documentary by Antonio Santini & Dan Sickles

    Mala Mala is a feature length documentary exploring the lives of young Puerto Ricans in the trans community.

    • 101% funded $30,380 pledged
    • 307 backers
    • Funded Apr 13, 2012
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    A Parklet at Farm:Table by Friends of the farm:table

    With your help, we're going to create San Francisco's wildest, greenest, most delicious parklet yet, in the city's densest 'hood.

    • 105% funded $15,327 pledged
    • 186 backers
    • Funded Apr 02, 2012
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    IN THEIR ROOM - LONDON by Travis Mathews

    an ongoing multi-city series about gay men, bedrooms and intimacy.

    • 101% funded $12,195 pledged
    • 151 backers
    • Funded Apr 05, 2012
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    The Charlie Visconage Show: Rocking Out with DC Artists. by Topher Bellavia

    DC has some of the most amazing artists in the world. Discover them and their work in this weekly, live, comedy talk show.

    • 108% funded $8,010 pledged
    • 161 backers
    • Funded Jan 19, 2012
  8. LGBTQ Homeless Youth Leadership Project by Megan Rohrer

    Traveling the underground homo railroad to film the stories of LGBTQ Homeless Youth across the country.

    Funding Unsuccessful (01/26/2012)
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    The Starlite Project: Starlite (We Came to Sweat) by Kate Kunath and Sasha Wortzel

    Starlite is a film about Brooklyn's legendary black-owned non-discriminating and LGBTQ-friendly bar est. in 1959.

    • 105% funded $26,304 pledged
    • 387 backers
    • Funded Dec 05, 2011
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    documentary film about family secrets and dual identity by lacey schwartz

    OUTSIDE THE BOX is an intimate portrait of one woman's journey to self-actualizing an identity that was unknown to her for 18 years

    • 157% funded $22,032 pledged
    • 282 backers
    • Funded Nov 15, 2011
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    Earth Camp One by Jennie Livingston

    A new film by the director of PARIS IS BURNING, EARTH CAMP ONE is about grief, a hippie summer camp in the 1970s, and the afterlife.

    • 105% funded $42,316 pledged
    • 540 backers
    • Funded Nov 11, 2011
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    "Candy" - A Short Horror Film by Mark Bessenger

    CANDY is a short horror film about the dangers of safe sex and 976 chat lines.

    • 208% funded $1,040 pledged
    • 12 backers
    • Funded Oct 24, 2011
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    For I Know My Weakness - a documentary memory by John Dentino

    This film shows what happens when a woman who has been a homeless alcoholic for many years returns to the children she had abandoned.

    • 103% funded $5,199 pledged
    • 88 backers
    • Funded Oct 15, 2011
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    I AM A GHOST (Post-Production) by H.P.

    I AM A GHOST is the story of Emily, a ghost trying to find her way out of her own haunted house with the help of Sylvia, the psychic.

    • 104% funded $10,405 pledged
    • 130 backers
    • Funded Oct 07, 2011
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    Jackpot: A Comedy About a Boy and his Porno. by Adam Baran

    A hysterical short comedy about a 14-year-old boy in 1994 on a quest to make it home with a stash of gay porn before anyone finds out.

    • 111% funded $22,250 pledged
    • 324 backers
    • Funded Oct 13, 2011
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    Nikita Schoen's LEFT-HANDED DARLING by foulplaysf

    This campaign supports Foul Play's New Writers' Program and its inaugural world premiere play, Nikita Schoen's LEFT-HANDED DARLING

    • 103% funded $5,670 pledged
    • 45 backers
    • Funded Jul 22, 2011
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    Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine by Michele Josue

    This documentary takes an intimate look at Matthew Shepard and his tragic death from the point of view of those who cared about him.

    • 120% funded $60,414 pledged
    • 669 backers
    • Funded May 29, 2011
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    Continental (a documentary) by Malcolm Ingram

    From the guy who brought you 'small town gay bar' comes another fairy tale. An examination of the infamous Continental Baths.

    • 109% funded $21,865 pledged
    • 187 backers
    • Funded May 11, 2011
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    El Elle is hungry for Deluxe White Vinyl / CDs > Are YOU?? by Lisa Light

    El Elle dreams of a heavyweight white vinyl, with a glittering gatefold and a CD to match. Let us AWAKEN her, and pump up the stereo!

    • 104% funded $4,514 pledged
    • 80 backers
    • Funded Apr 28, 2011
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    SHAKEDOWN - a feature length documentary film by LEILAH WEINRAUB

    SHAKEDOWN is the story of a black lesbian strip club in Los Angeles. The film is anchored in the stories of three women.

    • 118% funded $29,525 pledged
    • 694 backers
    • Funded Feb 07, 2011
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    Kings Point documentary film by Sari Gilman

    Kings Point, a documentary about aging in America, is a story about six seniors living in a retirement community of 15,000 people.

    • 101% funded $10,165 pledged
    • 111 backers
    • Funded Jan 09, 2011
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    Put A Egg On It: Tasty Zine! #3 by Ralph McGinnis

    Put A Egg On It is a digest-sized art and literary magazine about food, cooking and the joys of eating with friends & family

    • 120% funded $3,000 pledged
    • 51 backers
    • Funded Dec 31, 2010
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    Besties by Rebecca Cutter

    Besties follows Sandy's quest to be popular, and asks, how far will she go to befriend her gorgeous and manipulative neighbor Angela?

    • 100% funded $5,002 pledged
    • 36 backers
    • Funded Dec 18, 2010
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    Inchy Makes Friends 2: New Detroit Super Heroes by LOVELAND

    Help a group of young boys on the east side of Detroit create some new super heroes and stay out of trouble.

    • 134% funded $402 pledged
    • 16 backers
    • Funded Oct 26, 2010
  25. WE ARE NOT ALONE by Myles Cooper & Skye Thorstenson

    We Are Not Alone is a new musical video collaboration between Myles Cooper and Skye Thorstenson that celebrates music, love, and life in 2012.

    Funding Unsuccessful (10/17/2010)