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Shorts: Three Decades to Remember
Shorts: Three Decades to Remember (104 min.) April 14, 1982 16 min. On the eve of recording Thriller, Michael Jackson's carefully controlled world is unexpectedly disrupted by an encounter with a hotel room service attendant. Here, Queer, and On TV 16 min. Before YouTube, "Lavender Lounge" lit up public access TV with a '90s queer and trans dance party and groundbreaking show, capturing San Francisco's first Dyke March and the first official Pride video. Thirty years later, creator Mark Kliem brings rare footage to light, reuniting the original crew with younger generations when queer history is again under attack. Kansas, 1989 13 min. The story of a Midwestern teen in the 80s on the verge of coming out, and the night of danger that changes the course of his life. Lesbians in Boystown 27 min. LESBIANS IN BOYSTOWN reveals the forgotten history of lesbians and queer women in West Hollywood, the first “gay city” in the U.S. The documentary honors lesbian activism through Dyke Marches, the AIDS crisis, nonprofit organizing, and grassroots work ensuring that this legacy is remembered despite our culture’s predilection towards lesbian invisibility. Shelly's Leg 17 min. In 1970, an eccentric young stripper named Shelly Baumann loses her leg in a freak parade canon accident, then uses her settlement money to open 'Shelly's Leg' disco - one of the nation's first and most consequential openly gay spaces. Narrated by Oscar-nominee, Kathleen Turner. Spinach 15 min. WORLD PREMIERE. In the neon soaked shadows of 1989, an experimental immersion into queer nightlife and the silent encroaching AIDS crisis reveals that for a generation under siege, survival is the ultimate revolutionary act
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Shorts: Three Decades to Remember (104 min.) April 14, 1982 16 min. On the eve of recording Thriller, Michael Jackson's carefully controlled world is unexpectedly disrupted by an encounter with a hotel room service attendant. Here, Queer, and On TV 16 min. Before YouTube, "Lavender Lounge" lit up public access TV with a '90s queer and trans dance party and groundbreaking show, capturing San Francisco's first Dyke March and the first official Pride video. Thirty years later, creator Mark Kliem brings rare footage to light, reuniting the original crew with younger generations when queer history is again under attack. Kansas, 1989 13 min. The story of a Midwestern teen in the 80s on the verge of coming out, and the night of danger that changes the course of his life. Lesbians in Boystown 27 min. LESBIANS IN BOYSTOWN reveals the forgotten history of lesbians and queer women in West Hollywood, the first “gay city” in the U.S. The documentary honors lesbian activism through Dyke Marches, the AIDS crisis, nonprofit organizing, and grassroots work ensuring that this legacy is remembered despite our culture’s predilection towards lesbian invisibility. Shelly's Leg 17 min. In 1970, an eccentric young stripper named Shelly Baumann loses her leg in a freak parade canon accident, then uses her settlement money to open 'Shelly's Leg' disco - one of the nation's first and most consequential openly gay spaces. Narrated by Oscar-nominee, Kathleen Turner. Spinach 15 min. WORLD PREMIERE. In the neon soaked shadows of 1989, an experimental immersion into queer nightlife and the silent encroaching AIDS crisis reveals that for a generation under siege, survival is the ultimate revolutionary act
Shorts: Three Decades to Remember
Shorts: Three Decades to Remember (104 min.) April 14, 1982 16 min. On the eve of recording Thriller, Michael Jackson's carefully controlled world is unexpectedly disrupted by an encounter with a hotel room service attendant. Here, Queer, and On TV 16 min. Before YouTube, "Lavender Lounge" lit up public access TV with a '90s queer and trans dance party and groundbreaking show, capturing San Francisco's first Dyke March and the first official Pride video. Thirty years later, creator Mark Kliem brings rare footage to light, reuniting the original crew with younger generations when queer history is again under attack. Kansas, 1989 13 min. The story of a Midwestern teen in the 80s on the verge of coming out, and the night of danger that changes the course of his life. Lesbians in Boystown 27 min. LESBIANS IN BOYSTOWN reveals the forgotten history of lesbians and queer women in West Hollywood, the first “gay city” in the U.S. The documentary honors lesbian activism through Dyke Marches, the AIDS crisis, nonprofit organizing, and grassroots work ensuring that this legacy is remembered despite our culture’s predilection towards lesbian invisibility. Shelly's Leg 17 min. In 1970, an eccentric young stripper named Shelly Baumann loses her leg in a freak parade canon accident, then uses her settlement money to open 'Shelly's Leg' disco - one of the nation's first and most consequential openly gay spaces. Narrated by Oscar-nominee, Kathleen Turner. Spinach 15 min. WORLD PREMIERE. In the neon soaked shadows of 1989, an experimental immersion into queer nightlife and the silent encroaching AIDS crisis reveals that for a generation under siege, survival is the ultimate revolutionary act
