Michael Lumpkin recently took the reins as IDA’s new executive director, following a distinguished 25-year tenure at Frameline, the well-regarded San Francisco-based LGBT media arts organization. Documentary spoke with Lumpkin, just after his first week at IDA and just before he took off for Sundance, about his tenure at Frameline, his aims and objectives for IDA and the challenges that lie ahead. Looking back over your time at Frameline, what are some of the projects and/or accomplishments of which you’re especially proud? Michael Lumpkin: I am especially proud of being able to establish
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Dear IDA Community: I can vividly recall my first political moment, when, amid a snowstorm, we were sent home early from school. My Papa gathered us around our brand new massive black-and-white TV to watch a historic speech, and he explained to us the significance of the man who, in his view, "was about to change the world." On January 20, 1961, I was barely a first grader. I heard the newly inaugurated US President John F. Kennedy declare, "My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." As I spent most of this summer