After wng aclas abroad, a Geian movie about gay love is drawg threats at home, wh far-right groups threateng to block Friday's premiere the nservative Csian natn.
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- MOVG TO GAY GEIA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
- GAY MEETS GOD DOCUMENTARY ‘WONRFULLY MA’
- GEIAN FAR RIGHT THREATENS HOME PREMIERE OF H GAY MOVIE
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The openg night film is the Atlanta-set “When the Beat Drops, ” which follows a crew of gay Ain-Amerin men as they pneer the Southern-rooted unrground dance scene known as “buckg. ” Created the South, “buckg” was born as a rponse to beg shunned om majorette rout, due largely to homophobia.
GAY MEETS GOD DOCUMENTARY ‘WONRFULLY MA’
Together wh his crew of fellow gay Ain-Amerin men, Anthony Davis — an Atlanta-born kid wh a love of dance — helped grow buckg to a natnal movement, plete wh fierce petns, and the procs has created a haven for a generatn of displaced black gay men. The closg night film will be Ondi Timoner’s “Mapplethorpe, ” starrg Emmy nomee Matt Smh (“The Crown”) a superb performance as the legendary gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Andrew Flemg’s “Ial Home” stars Pl Rudd and Steve Coogan as a bickerg gay uple whose life is turned si out when a ten-year-old boy shows up at their door claimg to be a grandson.
Several web seri will be clud this year’s program, cludg the acclaimed “After Forever, ” starrg Atlanta’s Mchell Anrson, which a sgle gay man his 50’s sudnly has to re-negotiate his life.
GEIAN FAR RIGHT THREATENS HOME PREMIERE OF H GAY MOVIE
Out On Film hosts s first-ever Horror Night on Friday, October 6 wh Col Mihan’s “What Keeps You Alive, ” which majtic mountas, a still lake and venomo betrayals engulf a female married uple attemptg to celebrate a one-year anniversary, and Matt Montgomery’s “Devil’s Path, ” which two men enunter each other on a dangero gay cisg park trail and quick fd themselv ught up a adly game of t and moe. Sponsors for the event clu Turner, The Geia Voice, Geia Council for the Arts, the Fulton County Arts Council, The W Atlanta Midtown, Edge Media Network, Jonathan Buckhead (proprieter, Jonathan Shapero), Geia Film Office, Craig Harsty, Project Q Atlanta, Apr Diem, Atlanta Pri, Out Front Theatre Company, Atlanta Film Society, Heeken, MEAK Productns, Cornerstone Fancial, Jim Anrson, Absolut, Eldredge ATL, Peach ATL, the DeKalb Conventn and Visor’s Bure (Disver DeKalb), Bill Kael Marketg, Atlanta Beltle Partnership, AARP, Geia Productn Partnership, MAAP, John Sarta and Mike Nifong, Warren Gump and Gayborhood.
87 m EVENING SHADOWS Dir: Sridhar Rangayan, India, 102 m FREELANCERS ANONYMOUS Dir. Mart Ds, Argenta, 90 m MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDING Dir. The ma character’s gay bt iend Michael is played by Rob J, who is alg wh an HIV diagnosis.