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Contents:

• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
• GAY FILM A POST-GAY WORLD
• SEATTLE LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL EXPOSED!
• SEATTLE LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL 2023
• SEATTLE LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL HAS STRONG LP
• SEATTLE LBIAN AND GAY FILM FTIVAL SETS PROGRAM FOR 20TH EDN
• SEATTLE LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL 2022
• SEATTLE LBIAN AND GAY FILM FTIVAL: ‘BOLD IS BETIFUL’

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

THREE DOLLAR BILL CINEMA fosters eper muny engagement by showsg queer film programmg, tnal experienc, and social provi accs to films by, for, and about lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+) people and their fai, and a fom for LGBTQ+ filmmakers to share and discs their work wh dienc. Jt east of downtown, the Capol Hill neighborhood has long been the cy’s gay epicenter, wh rabow-pated crosswalks and many ways to dive to the LGBTQ+ scene. Asi om Capol Hill, there are gay-iendly and gay-owned tablishments jt about everywhere town.

Jt east of downtown, Capol Hill has long been the Seattle’s gay epicenter and home to artists, hipsters, stunts and now-famo micians, not to mentn some of the bt rtrants, bars, ffee shops, live mic venu and public parks.

GAY FILM A POST-GAY WORLD

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Madison Pub – Prifully boastg “no DJs, no ver, no problem, ” a gay bar for the sportg type.

SEATTLE LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL EXPOSED!

Seattle has one of the largt percentage of gay, lbian or bisexual rints among large ci the U. Gay Cy Health Project. Multicultural gay men’s health anizatn and the leadg provir of HIV and STD ttg Kg County.

Non-prof social/charable anizatn whose purpose is to provi funds and servic to other non-profs wh the gay and lbian muny of Seattle and Kg County Washgton. NW Lbian and Gay History Mm Project. Found 1994, NWLGHMP is an anizatn which rearch, terprets and munit the history of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people the Pacific Northwt for the purpos of study, tn and enjoyment.

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SEATTLE LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL 2023

Provis accs to films by, for, and about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and their fai.

Producers of The Seattle Lbian & Gay Film Ftival. As the Edorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways wr, eds and do about a ln other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most vised LGBTQ news, arts and entertament webse now celebratg s 14th year as a media outlet.

SEATTLE LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL HAS STRONG LP

Homosexual acts are illegal Malaysia and punishable by f and up to 20 years prison. You are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progrsive, ” he said addrsg the dience.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s ernment Saturday cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance. ” Healey ed profany his speech cricizg the ernment’s stance agast homosexualy, before kissg bass player Ross MacDonald.

SEATTLE LBIAN AND GAY FILM FTIVAL SETS PROGRAM FOR 20TH EDN

Homosexualy is a crime the untry that is punishable by up to 20 years prison and agency charge of approvg performanc by foreign artists said was disappoted wh the band’s nduct, llg “an sult and disrpectg the laws of the untry. ” It said the group will be blacklisted om performg wasn’t the first time that Healy ed the stage to fend lbian and gay rights. In 2019, he kissed a male fan durg a ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also outlaws homosexual acts, acrdg to media reports.

When the Seattle Lbian & Gay Film Ftival first appeared, "don't ask, don't tell" was three years on the books, the Defense of Marriage Act had jt been signed to law, and nsensual gay sex was still outlawed many stat. The trend toward artfully entertag gay films and higher-profile panrg rried to 1996, which brought the crowd-pleasg Brish romance Betiful Thg, Cheryl Dunye's history-makg, genre-bendg The Watermelon Woman, the Wachowski brothers' hot-sh lbian crime thriller Bound, the European trans edy Different for Girls, and, y, the imprsively star-packed (and crappy) Hollywood panrg of The Birdge.

It was a perfect time to be a lbian and gay film ftival, wh the new crop of LGBT films appealg to ever-wir dienc while still provg too hot for mastream media. (In the gay-acceptance time le, 1996 fell two years after Roseanne's prime-time kiss wh Mariel Hemgway ed a Chick-fil-A-sized shstorm and two years before the arrival of Will & Grace signaled a new age of mastream acceptance. Films like Brokeback Mounta, The Kids Are All Right, Far om Heaven, A Sgle Man, and Begners have ma movi by and about gays and lbians the stuff of Ceplex and Osr ceremoni.

SEATTLE LBIAN & GAY FILM FTIVAL 2022

Inpennt films that would once have been relegated primarily to gay film fts—Keep the Lights On, Weekend, Tarnatn, Hedwig and the Angry Inch—now fd happy hom at Cann and Sundance and SIFF. I Stand Corrected (a documentary about the brilliant transgenr jazz bassist Jennifer Leham) played the Translatns Transgenr Film Ftival, while Love Free or Die (a doc about the openly gay Anglin bishop Gene Robson) and Cloudburst (a romantic dramedy starrg Osr wners Olympia Dakis and Brenda Fricker as an agg lbian uple on a life-changg road trip) both played at this year's SIFF.

A thoand non-gay film fts uld screen a thoand totally gay films, and actual LGBT humans would still crave the pleasur of watchg films by and about LGBT folk an dience full of LGBT folk. This year's Seattle Lbian & Gay Film Ftival kicks off October 11, which also happens to be Natnal Comg Out Day.

Whatever the se, Stck by Lightg is a historil first: a young, out gay actor, who's famo for playg a young, out gay character on work TV, wrg, producg, and starrg his own feature film. Gays grown placent wh Amerin acceptance need only to st their ey to Uganda for a chillg lson how far the rt of the world lags behd. In Uganda, not only is homosexualy illegal, but those found guilty of have their fac published on the ont page of a newspaper, and recent years have seen ph to make homosexualy a crime punishable by ath.

SEATTLE LBIAN AND GAY FILM FTIVAL: ‘BOLD IS BETIFUL’

As glam-rock die-hards know, Jobriath was the flamboyant New York sger-songwrer whom Elektra Rerds spent lns to promote the early 1970s as "an thentilly gay David Bowie. " Instead, Jobriath smashed to a wall of homophobia that end his reer before his eventual ath om AIDS.

Other promisg attractns clu Yossi, Eytan Fox's sequel to his 2002 gay-Israeli-soldier romance Yossi & Jagger; the Sundance crowd-pleaser My Bt Day; a film versn of Matthew Bourne's Tony Award–wng all-male Swan Lake; and BearCy 2, another sunny blast of gay love, body hair, and sual urethral torture.

For the full Seattle Lbian & Gay Film Ftival 2012 schle, see. ) which part entirely om the tried-and-tired Gay Film Ft formula (victims + "g of age" + tortured gym shower scen + lispg queens x dis / hate crime = movie) entirely and seem rather, well, not so all that gay, paratively speakg. ) bpic about the life and tim of famo gay rantr Quent Crisp as played brilliantly by John Hurt.