Lesbianism, or the suggestion of it, began early in filmmaking. The same constructs of how lesbians were portrayed—or for what reasons—as what had appeared in literature were placed on women in the films. Women challenging their feminine roles was a device more easily accepted than men challenging masculine ones. Actresses appeared as men in male roles because of plot devices as early as 1914 in "A Florida Enchantment" featuring Edith Storey. In "Morocco" (1930) Marlene Dietrich kisses another woman on the lips, and Katharine Hepburn plays a man in "Christopher Strong" in 1933 and again in "Sylvia Scarlett" (1936). Hollywood films followed the same trend set by audiences who flocked to Harlem to see edgy shows that suggested bisexuality.
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Yes Yes, in "A Florida Enchantment" Yes Yes, films like  A Florida Enchantment, Morocco, Sylvia Scarlette, Pandora's Box etc
what is don valley parkway?
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It is a municipal expressway.
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has it been represented in media?
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Yes, the music video for the song Subdivisions by Canadian rock group Rush features scenes of the DVP
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when was the construction completed?
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1966
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is it a busy expressway?
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what places does it connect?
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It connects Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Gardiner Expressway in downtown Toronto.
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It is a new, brash, rag-tag place—a big mix of periods and styles.
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is the crime rate high here?
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It  has a fairly low diurnal temperature range.
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what all modes of transport are available?
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road, rail and air networks are available
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has there been any developments in the city in the current century?
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They hosted WorldPride in June 2014, and the Pan American Games in 2015
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what is the former?
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It is an event that promotes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ pride) issues on an international level through parades, festivals and other cultural activities.
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where was it first held?
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where would it be held in 2023?
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about the various groups that you mentioned, have the first one been depicted on films?
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Lesbianism, or the suggestion of it, began early in filmmaking. The same constructs of how lesbians were portrayed—or for what reasons—as what had appeared in literature were placed on women in the films. Women challenging their feminine roles was a device more easily accepted than men challenging masculine ones. Actresses appeared as men in male roles because of plot devices as early as 1914 in "A Florida Enchantment" featuring Edith Storey. In "Morocco" (1930) Marlene Dietrich kisses another woman on the lips, and Katharine Hepburn plays a man in "Christopher Strong" in 1933 and again in "Sylvia Scarlett" (1936). Hollywood films followed the same trend set by audiences who flocked to Harlem to see edgy shows that suggested bisexuality.
Lesbian | Film
Originally a collaboration between the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF) and the Gay & Lesbian Community Services Association (later known as Calgary Outlink), the first Fairy Tales International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival was founded by Calgarian LGBT activists and CSIF volunteers and employees Trevor Alberts, Kelly Langgard, and Kevin Allen. The first incarnation was held was held in June 1999 during Calgary Pride at the Garry Theatre (now the Ironwood Stage and Grill) in Inglewood. The two-day festival caused significant controversy, largely due to the inclusion of Sandi Somers' erotic lesbian film "Gens de Phoque" (1994). It was subject to a number of bomb threats and many festival-goers wore masks or paper bags to avoid being publicly outed by photojournalists waiting outside of the theatre.
Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival | 1999-2003
The personnel involved in the production of "Film for Discussion", "Woman's Day 20Cent"s and "Home" made the decision that no individual credits would appear on any of the three films. This was influenced by the wide-reaching and radical women's liberation critique of individualistic and hierarchical practices which were regarded as contributing to "famous men" notions of history. The production entity was therefore named as the Sydney Women's Film Group for these three films.
Sydney Women's Film Group | The Early Films
The film was shown primarily at LGBTQ film festivals in the United States between 2003 and 2004. It has also been shown at benefits for women's organizations or other non-profit organizations, as well as at some colleges and universities, usually as part of classes or workshops on feminism, gender equality, or gay studies.
Radical Harmonies | Screenings
The first event was held in 1989, as a "cinéclub", with subsequent festivals in 1992 and 1993, all held at the La Clef Cultural Center in Paris. As the festival grew, it moved venues, first to the André Malraux Cultural Center (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre) until 2000, when the number of attendees grew to between 2000-3000, and then to the Le Trianon theater. Since 2010, the festival screens at l'Espace Reuilly.
Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival | History
Traum-Kino, Kiel, Germany 2018. Berlin Porn Film Festival, Germany 2018. BIG!ff - Bari International Gender film festival, Italy 2018. Rio Festival de Gênero & Sexualidade no Cinema 2018, Brasil. Videopride de Arcópoli, Museo La Neomudejar, Madrid 2018. Festival cultural de diversidad sexual y género, Cuernavaca, Mexico 2018. Chéries-Chéris 2018 MK2 Paris, France 2018. Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, Switzerland 2018. The International Queer Film Festival Merlinka or Merlinka festival, Belgrade, Serbia 2019. Queer Zagreb, Perforacije Festival Zagreb, Croatia 2019. The Porn Film Festival Vienna, Austria 2019. Hacker Porn Film Festival-No Gender No Border, Rome, Italy 2019. The IV DIGO – Goias Sexual diversity and gender international Film Festival, Brazil 2019.
Antony Hickling | Film Festivals
This film festival, has been created for an exclusively female audience. Historically it has given rise to debates and meetings between participants and is a hotbed of discussion on lesbianism and feminism. The association Cineffable is self-managed and the festival is financially independent, being self-financed since 2003. However the association receives a grant from the city of Paris under the Observatory of equality between men and women of the Paris City Hall.
Cineffable | Organisation
Though occasionally films by straight women (and one man) have been included in the festival lineup, the majority of films are by lesbian and bisexual women. Every year the festival has a theme, and a short promotional movie is produced. These promos have become very popular online. In its first years, the festival took place in various venues, though in recent years, as it has grown to sold-out crowds, the Tel Aviv Cinematheque has become its home.
Lethal Lesbian | The festival
FiveFilms4Freedom 2018 ran from 23-31 March. The programme screened five short LGBTQ+ films online, selected from BFI Flare, made by directors from all over the world to support the message 'Love is a human right. It achieved views from 152 countries.
FiveFilms4freedom | FiveFilms4Freedom 2018
The Sydney Women's Film Group first appeared in the production credits of three films made in the early 1970s, "Film for Discussion (1974)", "Woman's Day 20Cent"s (1973) and "Home (1973)""," as part of the burgeoning Women's Liberation Movement. The name was then adopted for the distribution and exhibition group that was formed in 1973 within the Sydney Filmmakers Co-op. Sydney Women's Film Group and Feminist Filmworkers effectively ceased to exist once the Co-op's cinema closed in 1981 when the AFC decided to no longer subsidise the cinema's operation.
Sydney Women's Film Group | History
LGBT-related films released in the 2020s are listed in the following articles:
List of LGBT-related films of the 2020s | Introduction
In 1974, the first National Lesbian Conference was held in Wellington.
Sisters for Homophile Equality | History
The Melbourne Queer Film Festival is an annual LGBT film festival held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1991. Held in March, the festival is regarded as the largest queer film event in the Southern Hemisphere. The festival attracts around 23,000 attendees at key locations around Melbourne. Melbourne Queer Film Festival showcases the finest, contemporary queer cinema from Australia and beyond. The 2020 festival presents over 100 sessions at The Capitol, Cinema Nova and Village Cinemas, encompassing Australian and International features, documentaries and shorts, including world premieres, Australian premieres, and Melbourne premieres.
Melbourne Queer Film Festival | Introduction
The Q! Film Festival, held annually in the city of Jakarta in Indonesia, was Asia's largest LGBT film festival, in terms of the number of films shown. It was established in 2002, and continued until 2017. In 2003, it overtook the Jakarta International Film Festival and a number of other international ones, in the number of films shown, venues and overall length of Festival, showing 51 films in a range of venues across Jakarta. It was also the first-ever LGBT film festival to be organised in a predominantly Muslim country. On March 4, 2017, Q! Film Festival's official Twitter feed reproduced a message sent the previous day by its founder, John Badalu, stating that the Festival would no longer continue at the present time, that it had "been a long fight and struggle to keep it going year after year" and that it "might come back one day when the time is right".
Q! Film Festival | Introduction
The lesbians' fight against the Persians, with Mrs. Garrison kicking the messenger, Rauf Xerxes's physical appearance, and a plethora of slow-motion sequences, are references to the Zack Snyder film "300". The film that is parodied, 300, portrays the defense of the Greek city-states by Spartan warriors at the Battle of Thermopylae. The bar "Les Bos" can be compared to the Greek island of Lesbos, from which the word Lesbian is derived. It is also a take on the closings of gay bars across the United States.
D-Yikes! | Cultural references
WorldPride Sydney 2023 is the international LGBTQI pride festival being held in Sydney in Australia in 2023. InterPride, the organization that governs WorldPride, confirmed the city in October 2019; it will be the first time the event will be held in the Southern Hemisphere.
WorldPride Sydney 2023 | Introduction
The London Lesbian Film Festival is an annual film festival in London, Ontario, which presents an annual program of lesbian-interest films. The only exclusively lesbian-oriented film festival in North America, the event has been staged by the Reeling Spinsters organization since 1991.
London Lesbian Film Festival | Introduction
The first erotic kiss between two members of the same sex in a film was in Cecil B. DeMille's "Manslaughter" (1922). Marlene Dietrich was the first leading lady to kiss another female on screen in 1930's "Morocco". During the period of the Great Depression in the 1930s, the cinema audience had significantly waned. Filmmakers produced movies with themes and images that had high shock value to prompt people to return to the theaters. This called for the inclusion of more controversial topics such as prostitution and violence, creating a demand for pansies and their lesbian counterparts to stimulate or shock audiences.
History of homosexuality in American film | Early films and productions
Originally a collaboration between the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF) and the Gay & Lesbian Community Services Association (later known as Calgary Outlink), the first Fairy Tales International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival was founded by Calgarian LGBT activists and CSIF volunteers and employees Trevor Alberts, Kelly Langgard, and Kevin Allen. In 2004, the film festival separated from the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers to become an independent non-profit known as the Fairy Tales Presentation Society. After separating, the organization expanded considerably, stretching the festival from three days to seven days and adding a series of panel discussions. In 2018, the Fairy Tales Presentation Society rebranded as the Calgary Queer Arts Society.
Calgary Queer Arts Society | History
Films projected in the following international film festivals 2010–2019 : Festival of films Gays & Lesbien Paris, France FFGLP 2010. Gay et Lesbien film festival of Turin, Italy 2015. Mix Brasil Festival of Sexual Diversity 2014. Porn Film Festival Berlin 2013 & 2014 Germany. Festival Désir..Désirs Tour, France 2013. The International Film Festival of Uruguay 2013. LesGaiCineMad Madrid International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Madrid, Spain 2013. Iris Prize Wales, UK 2014. Kashish MIQFF Mumbai, India 2012. Durban Gay & Lesbian film festival S.Africa 2013. BFI Flare London, U.K 2013. TimiShorts Romania 2014. Cinemarge Bordeaux, France 2014 & 2015. Next Film festival Romania 2014.
Antony Hickling | Film Festivals
The first lesbian-themed feature film was "Mädchen in Uniform" (1931), based on a novel by Christa Winsloe and directed by Leontine Sagan, tracing the story of a schoolgirl called Manuela von Meinhardis and her passionate love for a teacher, Fräulein von Bernburg. It was written and mostly directed by women. The impact of the film in Germany's lesbian clubs was overshadowed, however, by the cult following for "The Blue Angel" (1930). Until the early 1990s, any notion of lesbian love in a film almost always required audiences to infer the relationships. The German silent film Pandora's Box (1929) is the first film to have a lesbian subplot, where a Countess (portrayed by Alice Roberts) is deeply infatuated with the protagonist Lulu (Louise Brooks).
Media portrayal of lesbianism | Cinema
The Paris Feminist and Lesbian Film Festival (French: Festival International du Film Lesbien et Féministe de Paris) is a women-only film festival founded in Paris, France, in 1989. The festival is organized by Cineffable, an association dedicated to promoting lesbian cinema, and encouraging lesbian creativity.
Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival | Introduction
In 2015, the British Council launched fiveFilms4freedom a free, online, 10-day LGBT film festival with the British Film Institute supported by the UN Free & Equal campaign. It was the first global online LGBT film festival. The festival runs a 24-hour campaign to ask people to watch a movie and show that love is a human right. In 2016, films were viewed by over 1.5m people in 179 countries.
British Council | fiveFilms4freedom
Though some groups continue to hold demonstrations on an irregular basis (San Francisco Avengers demonstrated against Proposition 8), one of the Lesbian Avengers' most enduring legacy may be the annual Dyke March.
Lesbian Avengers | Introduction
Several independent national initiatives and campaigns for gender parity in the film industry have also emerged under the banner #5050x2020. The British Film Institute's decision was largely influenced by campaigning by the organization Directors UK, starting in 2016, demanding that 50% of films backed by UK-based public funding bodies to be directed by women by 2020. Also in the UK, ERA 50:50 is an industry-led campaign working for 50/50 gender balance on British stages and screens by 2020, with of support from actors including Emma Thompson, Jude Law, James McAvoy and Olivia Colman. Similarly, the UK's National Theatre has committed to ensuring gender equality in terms of the directors and living writers the venue employs by 2021.
5050x2020 | National initiatives and campaigns
Gay Film Nights 2006 was held between 25 and 30 September, and was the first festival to include short films (the short films shown were "Highlanders Too", "Toilet Treatments" and "Providence Dirt Newsreel"). A different full-length film was shown each day at 19:00 at Club Angels, with five films shown in total (considering that the festival runs for five nights): Additionally, at 22:00 every night, a different LGBT party was held as part of the festival, including a karaoke night, a live music party and the Miss Travesty event on September 30. The Gay Prize Gala 2006 took place on September 29 at 22:00 at Club Angels, with the following recipients in the following categories:
Gay Film Nights | Gay Film Nights 2006
The Geelong Pride Film Festival is an LGBT film festival held in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Its first film screening was in 2017 and the first festival was held in 2018. The festival screens contemporary and classic LGBTIQA+ themed feature-length and short films. The first festival in 2018 was a sold-out event. The festival is run by volunteers through a non-profit incorporated association. The festival aims to bring more diverse films to the Geelong region and to contribute to the development of a thriving and vibrant community in Geelong for those who identify as LGBTQIA+ and their allies. The 2020 Geelong Pride Film Festival will be held from 2nd to 5th April at the Pivotonian Cinema and Courthouse Youth Arts.
Geelong Pride Film Festival | Introduction
2006 (1st year), from July 29 2007 (2nd year), from July 21 2008 (3rd year) from July 27
Aomori International LGBT Film Festival | Films Shown
Lesbianism is generally viewed as forbidden in Orthodox Judaism (see Homosexuality and Judaism). In Jerusalem, a number of Orthodox Jewish lesbians formed a group called OrthoDykes for mutual support and to learn the relevant issues in Jewish law. The film describes lives of three of them. One is Yudit, single and trying to have her same-sex marriage follow the Orthodox rules. Another is Miriam-Ester (pseudonym), who is married to a man and has ten children. She is suppressing her lesbian feelings in order to keep her marriage for religious reasons. Ruth, another married lesbian, keeps her marriage for the same reason, while her husband agrees to her seeing her lover regularly.
Keep Not Silent | Introduction
The second film festival ran from 23 to 31 October 2009. Unlike the year before, it did not provoke such a strong reaction in society, and the screenings took place in public venues. The organizers had sought support from Western consulates and cultural centers to ensure the film festival would not be disrupted. According to the organizers, the festival was visited by more than two thousand people. Besides the film screenings, several roundtable discussions were organized on various issues: human rights and discrimination, the history of the LGBT-community, coming out, same-sex marriage, children with same-sex parents, problems of elderly LGBT people, transgender myths and reality, masculinity in contemporary society, religion and sexuality, among others.
Side by Side (film festival) | 2nd Side by Side LGBT Film Festival (2009)
Some even suggested to do these kinds of events on a regular basis. As a result, Q-Munity decided to make the film screening their annual activity, and planned to tour the QFS to other cities in Indonesia. Q-Munity said that a "gay-related event in Indonesia", with a population that is 80% Muslim, is "not an easy task to do". As the first-ever LGBT film festival organised in a predominantly Muslim country, Q-Munity members faced death threats from a strong Islamic group. Tensions increased in 2009 and 2010, when members were asked by the Jakarta local government to prove that the Festival conformed to Islamic culture.
Q! Film Festival | History
LGBT characters in films began to appear more regularly only in the 1980s. Films in the late 1920s and early 1930s reflected the liberal attitudes of the day and could include sexual innuendos and references to homosexuality, but from the 1930s until 1968 the film industry in the US followed the Production Code. The code spelled out what was morally acceptable for a public audience; references to sexual "perversions" such as homosexuality were forbidden. Virtually all motion pictures produced in the United States adhered to the code, and similar censorship was common in other countries, for example an early version of the first lesbian vampire film "Dracula's Daughter", a film described in "The Celluloid Closet" as presenting "homosexuality as a predatory weakness", was rejected by the British Board of Film Censors in 1935, who said in part "..."Dracula's Daughter" would require half a dozen ...
LGBT themes in speculative fiction | Film
Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival seeks to present rare contemporary and historical films on a wide range of LGBT topics from Hong Kong and across the world. Its activities are directed by the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Foundation, which states that it "seeks to promote equal opportunities and eliminate discrimination against sexual minority groups in Hong Kong through cinematic works of art". The Festival is screened annually each September, and in Chinese is known as the "Hong Kong Tongzhi Film Festival", with both the title and the resurrection of the word "tongzhi" (), which translates into English as "Comrades", the idea of one of its first organisers, Edward Lam (林奕華).
Hong Kong Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival | Background
Society has become more relaxed and open-minded in its thinking". Community organizers say that gay-themed events that would have been banned a few years ago are now being permitted.
Beijing Queer Film Festival | Background
The second edition of the festival was March 22–25, 2019, in downtown Tunis. The 2019 festival aimed to cover the full LGBTQI spectrum, and have a strong focus on feminism. A total of 31 films were shown, including Argentinian, Chinese, Indian, Kenyan, Pakistani, Portuguese, and Tunisian films. In addition to films, there were performances, debates, and a theater workshop entitled "Towards a Queer Theater".
Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival | Second edition
Semana Rainbow, A Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora (Zona da Mata – MG), Brasil 2020. TLVFest, Tel Aviv’s International LGBT Film Festival, Israel, Sept 2020. OutfestPeru Festival de Cine Gay, Lésbico, Trans, Bi, Republic of Peru, July 2020.
Antony Hickling | Film Festivals
This was one of the first British films to feature positive images of gay sexuality; its dialogue was entirely in Latin. He followed this with "Jubilee" (shot 1977, released 1978), in which Queen Elizabeth I of England is seen to be transported forward in time to a desolate and brutal wasteland ruled by her twentieth-century namesake. "Jubilee" has been described as "Britain's only decent punk film", and featured punk groups and figures such as Wayne County of Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, Jordan, Toyah Willcox, and Adam and the Ants.
Derek Jarman | Films
The film premiered at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood on January 13, 2013 and has shown in various LGBT and general film festivals including at Out In The Desert 2013 (Tucson, Arizona), Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (Atlanta, Georgia), Queergestreift Film Festival (Konstanz, Germany), the Polish LGBT Film Festival (Warsaw, Poland), Philadelphia QFest (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). It premiered in Israel on June 26, 2013 during the Tel Aviv LGBT International Film Festival.
Undressing Israel: Gay Men in the Promised Land | Screenings
In 1985, Zuni held the first homosexuals film festival in its clubhouse in Causeway Bay, which was probably the first of its kind in Hong Kong. Films selected included Bigger Splash, Boys in the Band, Querelle, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, and Victor Victoria.
Zuni Icosahedron | Gay-themed film festival
The first notable suggestion of homosexuality on film was in 1895, when two men were shown dancing together in the William Kennedy Dickson motion picture "The Dickson Experimental Sound Film", commonly labeled online and in three published books as "The Gay Brothers". At the time, the men were not seen as “queer“ or even flamboyant, but merely as acting fancifully. However, film critic Parker Tyler stated that the scene "shocked audiences with its subversion of conventional male behavior". During the late nineteenth century and into the 1920s and 30s, homosexuality was largely depicted through gender-based conventions and stereotypes. Oftentimes male characters intended to be identified as gay were flamboyant, effeminate, humorous characters on film.
History of homosexuality in American film | Early films and productions
The Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (HKLGFF), () is an annual LGBT film festival held each September in Hong Kong. It is reputedly the oldest LGBT film festival in Asia, having been founded in 1989.
Hong Kong Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival | Introduction
Overt female homosexuality was introduced in 1929's "Pandora's Box" between Louise Brooks and Alice Roberts. However, the development of the Hays Code in 1930 censored most references to homosexuality from film under the umbrella term "sex perversion". German films depicted homosexuality and were distributed throughout Europe, but 1931's "Mädchen in Uniform" was not distributed in the U.S. because of the depiction of an adolescent's love for a female teacher in boarding school. Because of the Hays Code, lesbianism after 1930 was absent from most films, even those adapted with overt lesbian characters or plot devices. Lillian Hellman's play "The Children's Hour" was converted into a heterosexual love triangle and retitled "These Three".
Lesbian | Film
ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival (ShPFF), Shanghai, China, 2019. Exhibition "Champs d'amours, 100 ans de cinéma arc-en-ciel", at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France June 2019. BU Festival transfemminista Queer, Genoa, Italy 2019. 8th Muestra Internacional de Cine Queer de la Cineteca Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico, June 2019. Semana Rainbow, A Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora (Zona da Mata – MG), Brasil 2019. Playa del Carmen International Queer Film Festival, Mexico, Nov 2019. L'Etrange Film Festival, Forum des Images, Paris, France, Sept 2019. Chéries-Chéris Nov 2019, MK2 Paris, France. DIGO – Goias Sexual diversity and gender international Film Festival, Brazil 2020.
Antony Hickling | Film Festivals
The first festival took place from January 15–18, 2018. It received funding support from the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation. Major themes were gender and non-heteronormative sexuality. In addition to showing 12 short- and medium-length films, the festival included concerts, debates, and the panel discussions "Queer as Art" and "Queer as Resistance".
Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival | First edition
This article lists lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-related films. The list includes films that deal with or feature significant LGBT issues or characters. The English film title, original title, country of origin and production year are listed. Order is alphabetical by title. Made-for-television films and animated films are listed separately. There are also lists of films by year, by storyline, and those directed by women.
List of LGBT-related films | Introduction
The film "Pride", which depicted the unity of LGSM and the Onllwyn mining community in Wales, also mentioned the LAPC splinter organisation.
Lesbians Against Pit Closures | Depiction in "Pride"
Shortly after the Swedish Film Institute's event at the Cannes Film Festival, several national film commissions and film institutes, such as the British Film Institute, Telefilm Canada, Screen Ireland and Screen Australia, committed to the gender parity goal of #5050x2020. Later, the Austrian Film Institute also joined the national film institutes working for 50/50 gender parity. In September 2016, Creative Scotland made a commitment to gender equality across Scotland's five publicly funded arts sectors by making a formal pledge to achieve 50/50 gender balance across their boardrooms by 2020. In October 2017, Eurimages, the cultural support fund of the Council of Europe, adopted a new Gender Equality Strategy aiming at 50/50 support divided across female and male film directors by 2020.
5050x2020 | National film commissions
The Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is a movie screening event that takes place each October in Tampa, Florida. The primary venue is the Tampa Theatre, but several other cinemas in or near the downtown area and in St. Petersburg simultaneously host the event as well. While most of the films focus on homosexual themes, some films explore other areas of human sexuality including transgender issues and gender roles.
Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival | Introduction
In 2018, they participated in "Now and Then", an exhibition of works by LGBTQ artists in conjunction with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. Their contribution was the short film "Elmiteskuatl", an interrogation of the complex relationship between First Nations peoples and colonialist conceptions of archives and museums.
Bretten Hannam | Introduction
This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-related films that were directed by women. LGBT-themed films (and Q+) directed by women – especially, but not exclusively, lesbian-themed movies – are an important and distinct subset of the genre. Academics have studied the issue of how women as directors contribute to the way lesbian stories, in particular, have been told; while LGBT media, and to some extent the mainstream, have examined the difference a "female gaze" brings to a film. Telefilms and documentaries are included in the list. Films co-directed with men are not included. Titles beginning with determiners "A", "An", and "The" are alphabetized by the first significant word.
List of LGBT-related films directed by women | Introduction
Beijing Queer Film Festival (BJQFF), (), is an LGBT film festival, held annually in Beijing, the capital city of the People's Republic of China. It was the first LGBT film festival to be established in mainland China, founded in 2001 by the Chinese author and LGBT film director Cui Zi'en, a professor at the Beijing Film Academy. Other Chinese-language LGBT film festivals in the region, which also feature international LGBT films with Chinese subtitles, include "CINEMQ", "Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival", "ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival" and "Taiwan International Queer Film Festival". Like the "Beijing Queer Film Festival", "Shanghai Queer Film Festival", is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit event, and aims to help facilitate and promote the work of filmmakers from Chinese and other Asian backgrounds.
Beijing Queer Film Festival | Introduction
Lesbians portrayed in literature, film, and television often shape contemporary thought about women's sexuality. The majority of media about lesbians is produced by men; women's publishing companies did not develop until the 1970s, films about lesbians made by women did not appear until the 1980s, and television shows portraying lesbians written by women only began to be created in the 21st century. As a result, homosexuality—particularly dealing with women—has been excluded because of symbolic annihilation. When depictions of lesbians began to surface, they were often one-dimensional, simplified stereotypes.
Lesbian | Media representation
The second edition of the festival took place on 10 and 11 December 2016 at NCUI Auditorium and Convention Centre, New Delhi The event was organised by Harmless Hugs & Love Matters with support from various organisations like SCRUFF, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, High Commission of Canada, India HIV/AIDS Alliance, Ketto, DU Beat, Humsafar Trust, The Education Tree, Respect Women, Youth Lead India, UNDERGROUND Eagles. The Chief guest for the event was famous Bollywood actor and singer Piyush Mishra, who gave a performance too. In an interview with convener Harsh Aggarwal, he said, "“I see no difference in the homosexual and heterosexual community.
Delhi International Queer Theater and Film Festival | DIQTFF 2 (2016)
The 3rd edition of the festival took place on 9 and 10 December 2017 at Shah Auditorium, Civil Lines, New Delhi. The event was primarily organised by Harmless Hugs and Impulse New Delhi by AIDS Healthcare Foundation with support from various organisations like Canada High Commission, Asmita Theater Group, Ketto, Adhikaar Trust, Grindr, Doggy Style, DU Beat, Miss Woomaniya, Art Culture Festival and ED Times
Delhi International Queer Theater and Film Festival | DIQTFF TAKE 3 (2017)
Moore will appear in the upcoming horror television series, "Magic Hour", a gender-bending recreation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", directed by Che Grayson and filmed in Tokyo, on which they also serve as an executive producer. Moore is set to appear in the short film "Spot". Moore has been cast in the sequel to the 2019 psychological thriller film "Escape Room" which is scheduled to be released on January 1, 2021. In June 2020, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first LGBTQ Pride parade, "Queerty" named them among the fifty heroes “leading the nation toward equality, acceptance, and dignity for all people”.
Indya Moore | Upcoming projects
An LGBT film festival or queer film festival is a specialized film festival that has an LGBT focus in its selection of films. LGBT film festivals often screen films that would struggle to find a mainstream audience and are often activist spaces for awareness-raising around LGBT rights as well as for community building among queer communities. The first LGBT film festivals were organized in the US as part of the awakening LGBT movement in the United States in the 1970s. The longest-running film festival with an LGBT focus is the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, which is held since 1977.
List of LGBT film festivals | Introduction
The first edition of the festival took place on 12 and 13 December 2015 at Lok Kala Manch, Lodi Institutional Area, New Delhi. The event was primarily organised by Harmless Hugs with support from organisations like AIDS Healthcare Foundation, High Commission of Canada, GLIFFAA and others.There were seven plays and fourteen films, including Under The Shade (2013), directed by J.M. Hall, as well as talks by activists.
Delhi International Queer Theater and Film Festival | DIQTFF (2015)
Although the name originated to describe a production entity, subsequently the activities of the group centred on distribution, exhibition, workshops and discussions, and political lobbying.
Sydney Women's Film Group | Activities
Since then, more than 200 new films were created through QWOCMAP’s training program. Films created through the program have been showcased at QWOCMAP’s annual screening, which began in 2003 with the inaugural screening in the San Francisco LGBT Community Center. Participants' films have screened at the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival, the SF Latino Film Festival, the SF LGBT Film Festival, the Oakland Black LGBT Film Festival.
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project | Introduction
The first ever LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual) film festival in Tel Aviv was held in 2006, and focused on LGBT-themed films would otherwise never get theatrical, TV or DVD distribution in Israel. The festival took place at the Ha’ozen Hashlishit (Third Ear) music venue on King George Street and screened in five tiny theaters of 20–40 seats each. The festival opened with Greg Araki’s "Mysterious Skin" and the festival sold out every film, attracting more than 2,000 people. The festival moved to the bigger Tel Aviv Cinematheque in 2007.
TLVFest | History
An archive of the London group's work is kept at the People's History Museum in Manchester, England. It includes the minutes of the weekly meetings, correspondence, press cuttings, publicity material, enamel badges, photographs and the group's banner. The London group's alliance with the Welsh mining village of Onllwyn is dramatised in the 2014 film, "Pride", which was directed by Matthew Warchus. Several of the surviving group members participated in the film's promotion.
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners | Legacy
LesGaiCineMad, Festival Internacional de Cine LGBT de Madrid "(Madrid International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival)" is an LGBT film festival held in Madrid, Spain, and organised by the Fundación Triángulo. The inaugural edition was held in 1996. With an estimated audience of more than 14,000 spectators, the festival is well-attended by members of the Community of Madrid. It is covered by the Spanish Press in San Sebastian and Malaga. LesGaiCineMad has a digital catalogue of more than 3,000 independent movies and is considered to be a major archive of films on the subject of affective diversity in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries.
LesGaiCineMad | Introduction
The screening of LGBT films presents a challenge to filmmakers and festival organizers in China, as the country has a censorship law that prohibits any positive depiction of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender lives in films or TV shows. The selection of mainstream venues is not permitted, and the big international festivals in Shanghai and Beijing do not show gay-themed films, whilst DVDs of films such as "Brokeback Mountain" are only available on the black market. The founder of the Beijing Queer Film Festival, Cui Zi'en, says "The biggest change is that I'm not the only one doing this... There's more support from the gay community.
Beijing Queer Film Festival | Background
We really got to know a lot of the inmates, and we researched their crimes very well. There were about sixty women who wanted to be in the film; we narrowed the list to half a dozen people that we really wanted to focus on," said Cole in an interview for the book, "" by Matthew Hays. This feature film was important in the acceptance of lesbian relationships in film, especially documentary. The lack of men present in this film made the idea more believable, helping audiences to accept the love between two female inmates shown on screen.
Janis Cole | First feature film
The Melbourne International Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival began in February 1991 opening with "Longtime Companion" at the Dendy Brighton Cinemas. Other screenings over the weekend took place at the National Theatre in St Kilda. It was originally as part of the Midsumma Festival. In response to the New Wave of Queer Cinema emerging at the time, the Midsumma board asked film maker Lawrence Johnston and lesbian identity Pat Longmore to be the first Festival Directors. It drew good audiences and was a marked success. The 1992 Festival screened at the State Film Theatre (Treasury Place). In September 1992, Madeline Swain and Suzie Goodman came on board.
Melbourne Queer Film Festival | History
The first festival was created entirely from the private collections of the organisers. The first festival, known as 'Q! Film Screenings (QFS)', was held in September 2002 for 5 days, screening over 20 LGBT films. It was attended by more than 1,500 people. The intention from the beginning was to ensure free entry to films and events and to be non-commercial. In the first year, the organisers helped an AIDS organisation to distribute its research report on HIV to members of the audience. Feedback from the audience was an integral part of the Festival: responding to a questionnaire given during the screenings, most of the audience had a positive response to the event.
Q! Film Festival | History
Asian Queer Film Festival (AQFF) is a film festival for LGBT audiences, held in Tokyo, Japan. It screens only Asian films. The festival began in 2007 and is held every second year.
Asian Queer Film Festival | Introduction
Several days before the ceremony, LGBT activist groups such as Queer Nation and Out in Film announced plans to stage a protest outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The organizations were voicing their complaints regarding derogatory and unflattering portrayals of homosexuals in film such as "The Silence of the Lambs", "JFK", and the upcoming film "Basic Instinct". Queer Nation spokesman Rick Wilson said that the demonstrators "would stop cars from getting to the Oscars. It'll be a stall-in". Wilson also announced plans to disrupt the proceedings inside the theater. In response, producer Gil Cates stated, "Anyone can protest about anything they want outside the show." But he said that the standard, "generic response" to something happening during the ceremony on camera, "would be to cut to a commercial." Moreover, Academy spokesman Bob Werden reiterated that while security plans would not be as stringent as the previous year, firemen and police officers would be on hand in case of fallout from the protests.
64th Academy Awards | LGBT in film protest
The 2018 edition took Inclusion as its theme and was inaugurated by screenwriter and LGBTQ activist Apurva Asrani. "Bird of Dusk", a documentary on Rituparno Ghosh by Sangeeta Datta who challenged gender boundaries with this life and work, was the opening film.
Kazhcha-Niv Independent Film Festival | 2018
The Cineteca di Bologna screened "Filibus" in 1997 as part of the Cinema Ritrovato festival, with its program calling the film "an odd and funny forerunner of science-fiction movies." When the Dortmund Cologne International Women's Film Festival screened the film in 2013, its program described Filibus as "probably one of the first lesbian characters in the history of film." A film festival program for the Yugoslav Film Archive, where "Filibus" was shown in 2015, also commented on its pioneering exploration of lesbianism in film, nominating Filibus as cinema's first lesbian "bad girl". In 2017, EYE Film Institute's restoration of the film was shown at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, with a score by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
Filibus | Release and reception
This LGBT-film festival is being held from 2005 in the city. The shorts, documentary and feature film submissted usually explore the intersections among sexuality/gender identity and other forms of marginalization, also including those based on gender, disability, immigrant/refugee status, caste, socio-economic class, religion, age, and race/ethnicity.
Chennai International Queer Film Festival | Background
For preview screenings, the series was edited to an 83-minute feature film. The global premiere of the film version was on June 23, 2005, at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, for the 29th Frameline Film Festival. This was the first occasion on which the four students were able to meet. After the screening, the audience greeted director Jeremy Simmons and producer Thairin Smothers with a standing ovation. A second standing ovation followed as Gabbie, T.J., Lucas, and Raci walked to the stage. Screenings at more film festivals followed, including Outfest in July; the Gay Orlando Film Festival and the North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in August; and the Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the Houston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival in September.
TransGeneration | Broadcasts, releases, and screenings
The first China Women's Film Festival was organized in November and December 2013 by several individuals and organizations that had the same goal: use art and culture as a means to raise awareness about the many issues that women face today. In 2014, the festival received the second place Intercultural Achievement Award given out by the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since receiving this award, the scope of the festival has widened and it is now part of a larger project related to gender equality. In addition to simply screening films, the festival now includes events that aim to develop a strong network of female Chinese film directors, as well as activities organized by student groups that are related to film and gender equality.
Crossroads Centre Beijing | History
An exhibition of LGBT film festival posters from Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa was also held, in order to visually show the history of the development of such festivals. The non-competition program under the name of "Love Behind the Iron Curtain" presented vintage films shot in the countries from the former Eastern Bloc: the Hungarian film "Another way" from 1982 by Károly Makk; "Westler", a film from West Germany by Wieland Speck; and "Coming out" by Heiner Carow, which was the first and last gay film produced in the German Democratic Republic as it was released only a few hours before the Berlin Wall fell.
Side by Side (film festival) | 3rd Side by Side LGBT Film Festival (2010)
2013 the organizers received around ninety one films from 22 countries, out of which 35 films including shorts, documentaries, and feature films were screened. These were from India and over 10 countries. The three-day event was from 11 to 13 July 2013 and some movies screened were Gay_Lonely, about a 30-plus gay man, Kuch Palon Mein, Veena Kulkarni’s ‘Reminiscene of Ether’, Debalina Majumder’s ‘Ebang Bewarish (And the Unclaimed)’ among others.
Chennai International Queer Film Festival | 2013
The Delhi International Queer Theater and Film Festival (DIQTFF), is a queer cultural festival curating films, plays, talks and performances (dance & drag). It is organised by a queer collective in Delhi called Harmless Hugs. The film festival is intended to connect with larger diaspora of the Indian LGBTQ struggle for equal human rights and to reach out to masses via omnipotence of Media, Theatre and Cinema. Movie screenings and plays are well complemented by a round of panel discussions and debates, including some of the biggest names from the Indian LGBTQ Movement. Discussions around tumultuous territories of politics, gender disparity, coming out and involvement of families and more will also be a part of this two-day event, that is happening every December since its initiation in 2015.
Delhi International Queer Theater and Film Festival | Introduction
Thessaloniki International LGBTQ Film Festival (Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki Cinémathèque), Greece 2017. Festival Les Hérault du Cinéma et de la Télé, Le Cap d'Agde, France 2017. MIX Mexico Festival de Cine y Video 2017 (Cineteca Nacional de Mexico). Cine-Pride l'Association Homogène, le Mans, France 2017. CAC La Traverse, Centre d'art contemporain d'Alfortville, France 2017. Festival cultural de diversidad sexual y género, Mexico 2017. Les Bisqueers Roses, Reins, France 2017. Bucharest Film Awards, Romania 2017. Zinegoak Bilboa, Spain 2018. TLVFest Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Israel 2018. L'Etrange Films Festival Forum des Images, Paris, France 2018. MIX Mexico Festival de Cine y Video 2018 (Cineteca Nacional de Mexico).
Antony Hickling | Film Festivals
Gay Film Nights (Romanian:"Serile Filmului Gay") film festival organised annually in Cluj-Napoca, Romania by the LGBT association Be An Angel. By presenting a series of films with LGBT themes, it seeks to showcase LGBT culture and cinema, while also initiating a dialogue with other members of society. The complete title of the event is "Festivalul de Film "Serile Filmului Gay"" (or "Gay Film Nights" Film Festival). The festival was first organised in 2004. Entry to the films is free. The films shown at the Gay Film Nights are somewhat different from those shown as part of Bucharest's annual GayFest, which also includes a film festival.
Gay Film Nights | Introduction
The Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival (formerly the "Fairy Tales International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival") is an annual event held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Since its founding in 1999, the festival has attracted over 35,000 attendees. It is currently the longest running LGBT film festival in Alberta.
Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival | Introduction
Lesbian and erotic themes were restrained or coded in early cinema. Even scenes suggestive of lesbianism were controversial, such as the presentation of women dancing together in "Pandora's Box" (1929) and "The Sign of the Cross" (1932). "Pandora's Box" is notable for its lesbian subplot with the Countess (Alice Roberts) being defined by her masculine look and because she wears a tuxedo. Lesbian themes were found in European films such as "Mädchen in Uniform" (1931). By the mid-1930s, the Hays Code banned any homosexual themes in Hollywood-made films and several pre-Code films had to be cut to be re-released. For example, "The Sign of the Cross" originally included the erotic "Dance of the Naked Moon", but the dance was considered a "lesbian dance" and was cut for a 1938 reissue.
Lesbian erotica | Cinema and television
Lethal Lesbian is Israel's only lesbian film festival. The festival has been held annually since 2008, and screens independent short, documentary and feature films from Israel and abroad.
Lethal Lesbian | Introduction
The Paris Feminist and Lesbian Film Festival grew out of dissatisfaction with the treatment of Lesbians in the Créteil International Women's Film Festival. Many lesbian women felt that in spite of the fact that lesbian films frequently won the Viewers Choice awards ("prix du public"), lesbian films, filmmakers and attendees were not given sufficient space or attention at the festival, and so they decided to create their own event, which would not only provide lesbians with screening opportunities, but would also be a shared community for knowledge sharing, a way to increase lesbian visibility and combat lesbophobia, and a social outlet.
Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival | History
The association of gay men with opera, ballet, couture, fine cuisine, musical theater, the Golden Age of Hollywood and interior design began with wealthy homosexual men using the straight themes of these media to send their own signals. In the heterocentric Marilyn Monroe film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", a musical number features Jane Russell singing "Anyone Here for Love" in a gym while muscled men dance around her. The men's costumes were designed by a man, the dance was choreographed by a man and the dancers (as gay screenwriter Paul Rudnick points out) "seem more interested in each other than in Russell"; however, her presence gets the sequence past the censors and works it into an overall heterocentric theme.
LGBT culture | Gay male culture
The Frameline Film Festival (aka San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival) (formerly San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival; San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival) began as a storefront event in 1976. The first film festival, named the Gay Film Festival of Super-8 Films, was held in 1977. The festival is organized by Frameline, a nonprofit media arts organization whose mission statement is "to change the world through the power of queer cinema". It is the oldest LGBTQ+ film festival in the world. With annual attendance ranging from 60,000 to 80,000, it is the largest LGBTQ+ film exhibition event.
Frameline Film Festival | Introduction
The Mardi Gras Film Festival is an Australian LGBTQ+ film festival held in Sydney, New South Wales annually as part of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras celebrations. It is organised by Queer Screen Limited, a non-profit organization, and is one of the world's largest platforms for queer cinema.
Mardi Gras Film Festival | Introduction
Queering the Script is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Gabrielle Zilkha and released in 2019. Beginning at ClexaCon, a fan convention for lesbian, bisexual, queer and transgender women, the film explores the issue of LGBTQ representation in media, including the ways in which social media activism has influenced the telling of queer women's stories in entertainment by organizing campaigns against storytelling tropes such as queerbaiting and Dead Lesbian Syndrome. The film premiered on May 26, 2019 at the Inside Out Film and Video Festival in Toronto. It was subsequently screened at Outfest in Los Angeles, where it won a Special Programming Award for Freedom.
Queering the Script | Introduction
At the North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, T.J. Jourian was on hand to answer questions. Of the approximately 150 preview screenings before the television premiere, most were at US colleges and universities. Among these were the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Georgia, Depauw University, Boise State University, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Some off-campus screenings were organised in collaboration with LGBT groups, such as the San Francisco LGBT Community Center and the United Gays and Lesbians of Wyoming.
TransGeneration | Broadcasts, releases, and screenings
Out on Film, Atlanta, Georgia's gay film festival, was established in 1987 and is one of the oldest gay film festivals in the United States devoted to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. The festival is now held in Midtown Atlanta in October to coincide with LGBT History Month and Atlanta Pride. Additional screenings and events are held throughout the year. Out on Film is a non-profit all-gay and lesbian operated 501(c)(3) corporation. Programming includes films by, for and about the LGBT community.
Out on Film | Introduction
Beijing has a large LGBT community. The Festival originated from Peking University, and is considered to be "the only community-based non-governmental film festival in China with a special focus on gender and sexuality".
Beijing Queer Film Festival | Introduction
Some countries the conferences discuss include France, Taiwan, and South Korea.
Seoul International Women's Film Festival | Initiative Towards Gender Equality
The original group grew quickly, dozens of chapters appeared nationally, and even a handful internationally. The London group emerged from OutRage!. One activist told Salholz, "When a lesbian walks into a room of gay men, it's the same as when she walks into a room of heterosexual men ... You're listened to and then politely ignored." Lesbian Avenger Ann Northrop underlined the point. "We're not going to be invisible anymore ... We are going to be prominent and have power and be part of all decision making." Her assumptions were largely proved in interviews with Avengers in the 1993 documentary film, Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire, Too edited by Su Friedrich and Janet Baus.
Lesbian Avengers | Growth
On 17 March 2016 the British Council released a Global List of people promoting LGBTQ+ rights.
FiveFilms4freedom | FiveFilms4Freedom 2016 Global List
In March 2018, Oscar-winning drama "Call Me By Your Name" has been pulled from the Beijing International Film Festival's lineup. It was widely speculated that the organizer of this festival was under political pressure to not show the film.
Censorship of LGBT issues | China
The Lesbian Avengers was conceived by Ana Maria Simo, Sarah Schulman, Maxine Wolfe, Anne-Christine D'Adesky, Marie Honan, and Anne Maguire, six longtime lesbian activists who were involved in a variety of LGBT groups from the Medusa's Revenge lesbian theater to ACT-UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and ILGO (the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization). Their first recruiting flyer, handed out at New York's Pride March, invited "LESBIANS! DYKES! GAY WOMEN!" to get involved. "We're wasting our lives being careful. Imagine what your life could be. Aren't you ready to make it happen?"
Lesbian Avengers | Founding
A few members of the planning committee tried to take back the stage and return to the original program, but gave up in the face of the resolute Menaces and the audience, who used applause and boos to show their support. The group and the audience then used the microphone for a spontaneous speak-out on lesbianism in the feminist movement, and several of the participants in the "zap" were invited to run workshops the next day on lesbian rights and homophobia (Jay 144). Straight and gay women from the congress joined an all-women's dance (a frequent organizing and social tool used by Gay Liberation Front men and women) (Brownmiller 98).
Lavender Menace | Second Congress to Unite Women
Sociologist Igor Kon, psychotherapist Dmitriy Isaev, LGBT activist Igor Kochetkov, artist Ivan Chechot, German activist Mahide Lein, HIV activist Nikolai Panchenko, poet-performer Olga Krauze, human rights defenders Alexander Vinnikov, Vladimir Shnitke, Maxim Ivanozov, and Nina Tagankina, among others. However, the event did not pass without incidents. Before the presentation of the book "Malchik — otets muzhchiny" by Igor Kon, correspondents of NTV and a group of nationalists led by Roman Zentsov showed up in the hall where a discussion was to take place. The festival organizers accused the NTV correspondents of an attempt to create a scandal. Outside the competition program a retrospective of German cinema from the Weimar Republic was shown: "Different from the Others" - the first gay movie in the history of cinema, "Mädchen in Uniform" – the first movie to touch the theme of female homosexuality, and cult film "Michael".
Side by Side (film festival) | 2nd Side by Side LGBT Film Festival (2009)
Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Chicago, Illinois, dedicated to LGBT film. The inaugural festival took place in April 1981, and is one of the oldest festivals of its kind in the world. Each year, Reeling showcases a variety of LGBT-themed films, including both features and shorts. The festival is a production of Chicago Filmmakers, a not-for-profit media arts organization that serves the independent film community in Chicago.
Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival | Introduction
The film is a science fiction mockumentary set in an alternate timeline several decades after a near-Earth object almost hit Earth in 1952, making it possible for women to reproduce by parthenogenesis without men. Men are no longer born, and they have disappeared from all important positions. The male sex has become a dying breed. The remaining men are kept on a reserve and are no longer part of society, with the exception of a few men who are allowed to do menial work. In this world women are wearing the pants, are asexual, and have no male offspring anymore.
No Men Beyond This Point | Plot
The magazine argues that, with Thailand's enactment of the 2015 Gender Equality Act, discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation is no longer tolerated in Thai society. Despite the advances made over many years, the magazine believes that the LGBT community is not always portrayed in a positive light in Thai films and other forms of media, with certain stereotypes still prevalent whenever movies, in particular, address gender diversity. The magazine believes that the Festival will therefore help to provide a more realistic and varied view of the LGBT community. The first film to open the first Festival in 2015 was "How To Win At Checkers (Every Time)", a film about two brothers, one gay, set around a military draft day in Thailand.
Bangkok Gay and Lesbian Film Festival | Introduction
"The Boys Who Said NO!" had its first festival screening in July 2020, at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. The film will have its U.S. premiere on October 8 in the Mill Valley Film Festival.
The Boys Who Said NO! (film) | Film Festivals