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Las Gage and Zachary Quto talk about queer movi and their rnchy look at gay life, 'Down Low.'

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LAS GAGE AND ZACHARY QUTO ON THE ‘UNABASHED GAYNS’ OF THEIR RNCHY SXSW COMEDY ‘DOWN LOW’

A jazz legend, a drag queen and a heartbroken trick walk to a gay bathhoe... * gay sxsw 2013 *

PJ Raval's Before You Know It was jt one of several of the gay-themed movi that screened durg At's SXSW. John lled "the bt black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano geni New Orleans has ever produced.

It's a topic equently explored gay cema -- Weekend stands as a memorable recent example -- but not as poignantly and hontly as P Stop, Yen Tan's film about two gents tryg to figure all out and keep together a small Texas town. CONTINENTAL: In this Kickstarter-fund documentary, Mallm Ingram, director of the celebrated Small Town Gay Bar, explor the legendary Contental Baths, the bathhoe that om 1968 until 1975 served not only as a sexual playground for New York Cy's burgeong gay muni, but as an artistic epicenter for performers like Barry Manilow and Bette Midler.

Three documentari highlight a generatn of gay ins * gay sxsw 2013 *

As gunshots sound quick succsn, the red, whe, and blue Amerin flag is replaced wh a rabow-hued gay pri flag. This is the openg sequence of Contental, Mallm Ingram's (Bear Natn, Small Town Gay Bar) new documentary premierg this year at SXSW.

PJ Raval's doc follows three gay men lookg for support as they enter old age. * gay sxsw 2013 *

The 1970s were ltered wh gay spac and ins that, the terveng years, have sce taken on a mythic stat – perhaps none more so than the Contental Baths New York Cy, the subject of Contental.

And today, as discsns of marriage reign supreme gay polics, Ingram's documentary puts the spotlight squarely on nonmonogamo sex. Ostrow, now livg Atralia, has kept his penchant for muny anizg by foundg Mature Age Gays, one of Atralia's largt gay senr groups.

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Four Gay Movi Shown At SXSW 2013 .

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