Gay San Francis: Lost Film, 1965-1970 — Tenrlo Mm

Contents:

• A CELEBRATN OF QUEER CEMA: THE SAN FRANCIS INTERNATNAL LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• OUT ARGENTE DIRECTOR’S LATT IS HIS FIRST GAY FILM
• GAY SAN FRANCIS
• GAY SAN FRANCIS: LOST FILM, 1965-1970

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.

A Celebratn of Queer Cema: The San Francis Internatnal Lbian & Gay Film Ftival.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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.

OUT ARGENTE DIRECTOR’S LATT IS HIS FIRST GAY FILM

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.

The ptivatg and often hysterilly funny “Put the Camera on Me, ” pil the home movi that Ste ma between the ag of five and 15 wh his brother and iends playg everythg om ncentratn-mp victims to gay superhero and terspers them wh new and revealg terviews. Filmmakers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey received this year’s Framele Award for their ongog ntributns to gay and lbian media arts and screened a new documentary, “Dark Roots: The Unthorized Anna Nile, ” as well as their first narrative feature, “Party Monster.

GAY SAN FRANCIS

-based profsnal league to e out as gay. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. A Skeleton the Closet, out January 12 on DVD, is out gay Argente filmmaker Nilás Teté’s poignant drama about Manuel (Facundo Gambandé), a gay man who has been livg Buenos Air, where he is studyg archecture and datg Maximo (Ramiro Delgado).

I am gay, like Manuel, but I ma the drama fictnal. All people have a difficult time wh their parents when they e out as gay, but this story is not my life.

Kramer: The film picts attus towards homosexualy. If I am gay, my fay will hate me; this town is not for me.

GAY SAN FRANCIS: LOST FILM, 1965-1970

When I was a teenager, I didn’t know other gay people the cy. The only gay people the cy had problems. They were hairdrsers, and people thought and talked about [homosexualy] like was a bad thg.

But Buenos Air I n have a gay life and ’s not a problem. It’s a ltle better for gay people the town. And we’ve had many s of homophobic attacks the streets for gay upl who hold hands or kiss the street.