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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. The AIDS panmic ntu to plague the gay muny, as has for over 20 years now. Gay and lbian Icelandic teenagers share their ank g-out stori Hrafnhildure Gunnarsdottir and Thorvaldur Kristnson’s “Straight Out, ” -wner of the documentary jury prize.

In “School’s Out: The Life of a Gay High School Texas, ” director Jeremy Simmons follows 10 stunts — cludg two transsexuals, an HIV-posive 16-year-old, and a young Republin — over a strsful school year which clg enrollment threatens to shut Dallas’ ty Walt Whman High.