‘A Taste For Every Palate’ will take place May 16 at Architectural Artifacts, 4325 N. Ravenswood, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Proceeds will benefit Women’s Services at Howard Brown Health Center. The host will be Alpana Singh, who is also the host of Check, Please! on WTTW-11. For more info, contact Amy Bloom at (773) 388-8996.
The Chicago International Documentary Festival will take place April 1-10. Among the showings is Susan Kaplan’s Three of Hearts, about a gay couple who invites a woman to live intimately with them. The main venue will be the Gallery Theatre at 1112 N. Milwaukee. For more information, call (773) 486-9612, e-mail info@chicagodocfestival.org or visit www.chicagodocfestival.org.
Two same-sex marriage documentaries, Flowers from the Heartland and One Wedding and a Revolution, will be shown on March 30, 6:30-8 p.m., at the Jane Addams Hull House Center for Arts & Culture, 1136 W. Wilson. Call (773) 278-8563.
Five of the plaintiffs in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network’s landmark federal lawsuit, Cook v. Rumsfeld, will be interviewed and profiled on the ABC-TV newsmagazine 20/20 this Friday, April 1. The story will provide major visibility for SLDN’s efforts to lift the ban against lesbian and gay military personnel. See www.sldn.org.