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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.