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GAY CHIGO
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25, about a trans woman and her two gay iends ntendg wh the begng of the AIDS crisis Brazil. The Bijou Theatre was advertised as “The Olst Theatre the US showg the very ft Gay Films sce 1969”.
CINEMA GAZE: GAY MEN DISCS GAY FILMS
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It was opened by Sean O'Connor on July 14, 1971 screeng avant gar/unrground movi shown om 16mm prts but gradually went over to screeng gay porn wh a year. It's also home to one of the bt gay scen the untry. You'll fd many gay bars the Boystown district: a great place to beg if you're visg Chigo.
GAY CEMA ENTERS THE POST-TABOO ERA
Although Chigo’s Lbian and Gay Internatnal Film Ftival () is takg the year off, queer cema is still alive and well this fall Chigo. The Activist Wh highlights the battle for marriage equaly Arizona and California, while Love Free or Die turns s lens on openly gay bishop Gene Robson.
Roundg out the feature films are Wterland, a German entry about two loners who nnect one wter on the gay-equented island of Sylt, and Out the Dark, a star-crossed love story that weav together the overlappg issu of sexual orientatn and natnaly of a Paltian and an Israeli.
Speakg of lol filmmakers, gay photographer and UIC profsor Doug Ischar, whose 2009 exhib “Margal Waters” featured his photos of the queer muny at the Belmont Rocks the summer of ’85, buts a llectn of shorts at Chigo Filmmakers () Friday 5 llectively tled Exprsns of Self: New Films by Doug Ischar.