The 22nd annual ftival returns wh entertag and provotive feature films, documentari and shorts highlightg the gay, lbian and transgendred experience.
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PTSBURGH LBIAN & GAY FILM SOCIETY
Ptsburgh Lbian & Gay Film Society.
Ptsburgh Lbian & Gay Film Society began 1982 wh the goal of providg opportuni for viewg media by and about lbian, trans, gay, and queer people and their experienc. She’s creative g social media even when historic buildgs and limed Inter accs stand the way of 2011, the Ptsburgh Post-Gazette v Sue and her partner, Lra, to subm a rponse to homophobic slurs ed by the Ptsburgh Steelers’ Jam Harrison an terview wh a natnal men’s magaze. In 2010, she was the first lbian to be named to the “Listed” by lol blogger Infonymo along wh openly gay Cy Councilman, Bce Krs.
In 2010, she was named “Lbian of The Year” by the Keystone Alliance Gaylife Newsletter. This Friday marks the start of the 22nd annual Ptsburgh Internatnal Lbian and Gay Film Ftival, and among the two dozen films offered are two sg-along events. Also on the slate: entertag and provotive feature films, documentari and shorts highlightg the gay, lbian and transgenred experience.
THE PTSBURGH INTERNATNAL LBIAN AND GAY FILM FTIVAL
An Amerin high school Europe is a challenge for ary brat Chance: He's openly gay, prone to snarky quippg, no physil match for the rough-hog jocks, and teen fashn has got him down.
Of urse you remember Slutty Summer, Casper Andreas' bchy-funny o to wag tabl New York's Gayborhood that screened at PILGFF 2004? Set a lively Tel Aviv neighborhood, this drama om Eytan Fox (Yossi and Jagger) prob the difficulti faced by two gay lovers, one an Israeli Jew, the other a Paltian. A teen-age boy explor his burgeong sexualy agast the backdrop of his small Atralian town and the homophobic surfg subculture om which he draws his inty.