Valentine’s Day Free Screening of the Movie "Loving"

The Library’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee is proud to sponsor an exhibit located in Geisel West on the 1st floor to promote the Office for the Prevention of Harassment & Discrimination (OPHD)’s screening of the movie Loving.  The FREE screening will be held on:

Tuesday, February 14

Price Center Theatre

6:00 PM

Loving celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry – and their love story has become an inspiration to couples ever since. The film has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor for Joel Edgerton and Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Ruth Negga.

OPHD’s mission is to educate the UC San Diego community about issues of bias, harassment and discrimination, and to assist with the prevention and resolution of these issues in a fair and responsible manner. In 2002, OPHD started Sex in the Cinema, sponsoring free screenings that highlight themes of sex and gender in popular films. Now, they also select films that include themes about race, religion, disability or veteran’s status and other protected categories and they pose questions to the audience before the film starts to increase awareness of bias, harassment and discrimination issues. The films provide a compelling forum for OPHD to engage the campus community through cinematic depictions of gender, race and other stereotypes, harassment and discrimination, and to advertise resources available to students and campus affiliates. For more information visit, ophd.ucsd.edu/programs/sex-in-cinema.