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• A CELEBRATN OF QUEER CEMA: THE SAN FRANCIS INTERNATNAL LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL

A CELEBRATN OF QUEER CEMA: THE SAN FRANCIS INTERNATNAL LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL

As the documentary rells, the Gay Film Ftival of Super-8 Films, showed the movi on a screen ma om a bed Framele founr Marc Hutis (right) ont of the Castro theatre the 1970s. In 1922, San Francis’s Nasser fay opened the Castro Theatre: an event that me to fe an era and what would bee a gay neighborhood.

Lnched to fame the early 1970s and fluential electg Harvey Milk, the first openly gay official the cy, the Castro is fully open about s herage.

A Celebratn of Queer Cema: The San Francis Internatnal Lbian & Gay Film Ftival.

Jason Pritly as Tony Parker and Natasha Lyonne as Edh Ssman “Die Mommie Die, ” which opened the San Francis Internatnal Lbian & Gay Film Ftival. The 27th San Francis Internatnal Lbian and Gay Film Ftival (SFILGFF), June 12-29, began on a note of 1960s-era glamour wh Charl Bch’s wicked Hollywood satire, “Die Mommie Die, ” and end wh the punk-rock gnge of Alex Steyermark’s melodramatic “Prey for Rock & Roll. The documentary prize went to Nancy Kat and Bent Sger’s “Brother Outsir: The Life of Bayard Rt, ” a ser work limng the life of a man who fought social battl on two onts, as a civil rights lear and as an openly gay man, long before a gay liberatn movement existed.

Canada’s move to legalize gay marriage and the U. Billy Hay’ “Cock & Bull Story” is a ridiculo story of a straight boxer whose erectns the clch lead to trouble, but also serv as a chillg remr of the vlence that homophobia breeds.

Both the Italian “Thelma & Louise”-like thriller, “Gasole” by Moni Strambi, and French director Francis Girod’s spooky “Genr Bias” hge on homophob who menace queer characters.