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HARTFORD, CT GAY CY GUI : MAKG YOUR HOME THIS HISTORIL CY
AlteRnaTiveS (as was origally known) was found 1987 by Bill Mann as a gay and lbian cultural anizatn Hartford, agast a backdrop of LGBT social activism, spired part by the ath of Richard Reihl and the trial of his killers. Wh Terri Reid as -chair, the anizatn explored a variety of different activi cludg theater, film, a gay history project and a lerary journal, Invert, which produced four issu. This was, after all, Connecticut’s first-ever Film Ftival, and at the time, a gay & lbian event such as this was que unual.
Another first 1995 was a program voted to the gay af muny, wh a sign language terpreter featured. Sce then, the Ftival has hosted many benefs for several other muny anizatns, such as Ctud, the Hartford Gay & Lbian Health Collective and the Hartford Gay & Lbian Communy Center.
In October 1999, Alternativ began llaboratg wh the Try College gay-straight stunt anizatn EROS (Enuragg Rpect of all Sexuali) to prent the EROS Film Ftival. In 2003 the Connecticut Gay & Lbian Film Ftival donated s historic rerds and papers to the library archiv at Central Connecticut State Universy. In December of the same year, the name of the anizatn was officially changed om “Alternativ: The Hartford Gay and Lbian Cultural Organizatn” to “Out Film CT” to better reflect the foc on film events.