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Screenings & Events
Festivals, Special Guests, Retrospectives and more "one night only" queer cinema screenings.
Sep
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8:00 pm
Pepi, Luci, Bom
Spotlight on Pedro Almodóvar
Brain Dead Studios
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.
Aug
31
August
31
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31
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7:00 pm
Mulholland Drive
Egyptian Theatre
In David Lynch’s maniacal, notorious thriller, amnesia-suffering Rita, who barely escapes murder on winding, hilly Mulholland Drive, makes her way down to Hollywood, where she sneaks into the apartment of bright-eyed aspiring actress Betty.
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Aug
29
August
29
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29
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7:30 pm
In The Summers
Writer/director Alessandra Lacorazza
Landmark Sunset
Free Screening for Film Independent Members-Only. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year, In The Summers is a coming of age story about two siblings told through the summers they spend in New Mexico with their father.
On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Aug
28
August
28
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28
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7:30 pm
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Egyptian Theatre
The Australian drag road trip classic turns 30!
Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, whilst widening comfort zones and finding new horizons.
Aug
28
August
28
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August
28
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7:00 pm
Crossing
University of Southern California
Advance screening of 2024 Teddy Award winner, about a retired teacher in Georgia searching for her long lost transgender niece. Free and open to the public, RSVPs required.
Lia, a retired school teacher living in Georgia, hears from a young neighbour Achi that her long lost niece Tekla, a transgender woman, has crossed the border into Turkey. Hoping to bring Tekla home after a period of estrangement, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi to find her. Exploring the hidden depths of the city, they cross paths with a transgender lawyer called Evrim, who helps them in their search.
Aug
27
August
27
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August
27
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7:30 pm
My Beautiful Laundrette
with Queer Film LA Meetup!
Vidiots Eagle Theater
A very sexy young Daniel Day Lewis co-stars in this landmark British exploration of race, class and sexuality, about a Pakistani-British man and his English lover trying to manage a rundown laundromat. Join us early at 6pm for a Queer Film LA Meetup at the Vidiots bar.
A British-Pakistani man renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
Aug
24
August
24
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August
24
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3:00 pm
Queer Horror: A Film Guide
Editors
Dark Delicacies
Dark Delicacies hosts a signing for Queer Horror: A Film Guide with the editors, cover artist and several contributors. With more than 900 entries, this critical filmography is a comprehensive, critical, yet playful examination of the history of LGBTQIA content in horror films.
Aug
23
August
23
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August
23
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10:00 pm
I Saw The TV Glow
Art Theater Long Beach
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
Aug
23
August
23
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August
23
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7:30 pm
Showgirls
Vidiots Eagle Theater
A clumsy depiction of female bisexuality would normally not be enough to make Showgirls count as queer--but the film's cult classic status is sustained in large part by loyal Queer fans. Watch it, then go see documentary "You Don't Nomi" by Jeffrey McHale.
https://letterboxd.com/film/showgirls/
Aug
20
August
20
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20
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10:00 pm
The Anniversary Party
Los Feliz 3
American Cinematheque celebrates notorious bisexual Alan Cumming with a series that includes Traitors, Titus, and Romy & Michele's High School Reunion. While not a queer story, check out this indie gem, co-written and co-directed by Alan Cumming with Jennifer Jason Leigh.
While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash and the British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.
Aug
19
August
19
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August
19
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7:00 pm
Merchant Ivory
Director Stephen Soucy
Laemmle Royal
Presented as part of Stephen Farber's "Reel Talk" film series, this documentary is about life-and-business partners Ismail Merchant and James Ivory who made 43 films together, including A Room with a View (1985), Howards End (1992), and gay romance Maurice (1987).
Merchant Ivory is the longest running partnership in the history of cinema. As a film production entity, Merchant Ivory was founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant (1936–2005) and director James Ivory (b. 1928). Merchant and Ivory were life and business partners from 1961 until Merchant’s death in 2005. During their time together they made 43 films.
Aug
18
August
18
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18
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7:00 pm
Rebel Without a Cause
Vidiots Eagle Theater
"It is of course vita that there be no inference of a questionable or homosexual relationship between Plato and Jim” wrote the MPPC censors, scolding this film from bisexual director Nicholas Ray with bi star James Dean and the "first gay teen on screen" played by out Sal Mineo.
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid’s real troubles begin.
Aug
18
August
18
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August
18
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1:00 pm
No Time For Love
Author Alonso Duralde
Los Feliz 3
Join author/podcaster/movie critic Alonso Duralde for a book signing before this screening. No Time For Love is a Golden Age romance from gay/bi director Mitchell Leisen, whose camera adores shirtless Fred MacMurray as much as the film's photographer heroine.
Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.
Aug
17
August
17
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17
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10:30 pm
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Landmark Westwood
Long in the shadow of a similarly long-titled Australian movie about a drag act stuck in a small town in the 90s, this Spielberg-produced comedy was groundbreaking for Hollywood at the time.
Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
Aug
16
August
16
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16
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7:00 pm
Days
Los Feliz 3
Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
Aug
14
August
14
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14
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10:00 pm
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Los Feliz 3
On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature “Dragon Inn”. As the film plays, the lives of the theater’s various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors arrive to mourn the passing of an era.
Aug
14
August
14
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August
14
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7:30 pm
Fellow Travelers
with Philadelphia
Screenwriter Ron Nyswaner
Aero Theater
Watch the first episode of Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer's gay miniseries Fellow Travelers on the big screen, with a Q&A with out screenwriter Ron Nyswaner. Double feature with 1991 AIDS drama Philadelphia, which won Tom Hanks an Oscar and earned Nyswaner a nomination.
Aug
14
August
14
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14
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7:00 pm
Medusa of the Roses
Author Navid Sinaki
Skylight Books
Join us for sex, vengeance, and betrayal in modern day Tehran--Navid Sinaki's bold and cinematic debut is a queer literary noir following Anjir, a morbid romantic and petty thief whose boyfriend disappears just as they're planning to leave their hometown for good.
Aug
14
August
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14
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7:00 pm
The Celluloid Closet
Philosophical Research Society
Starting in 1972, Vito Russo put together a traveling clip show of LGBT representation in film, marking one of the first efforts to chronicle Queer cinema history. It was turned into a book in 1981 then a movie in 1995, making it a landmark of Queer images in classical Hollywood.
This documentary highlights the historical contexts that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals have occupied in cinema history, and shows the evolution of the entertainment industry’s role in shaping perceptions of LGBT figures. The issues addressed include secrecy – which initially defined homosexuality – as well as the demonization of the homosexual community with the advent of AIDS, and finally the shift toward acceptance and positivity in the modern era.
Aug
11
August
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10:00 pm
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Los Feliz 3
If Saltburn left you feeling a need for more homoerotic social-climbing thrillers, check out the unavoidable comparison--based on the novel by lesbian icon Patricia Highsmith (whose other novels became Carol, Strangers on a Train, and more).
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Aug
11
August
11
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6:45 pm
Rope
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Is this the original "be gay do crimes" movie? Though heavily censored, this one-take Hitchcock thriller (from out screenwriter Arthur Laurents) is based off the real-life Leopold and Loeb case, where two gay students killed a boy just to see if they could get away with it.
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
Aug
10
August
10
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August
10
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8:00 pm
People's Joker VHS Release Party
Whammy Analog Media
Celebrate the VHS release of The People's Joker with a FREE party at Whammy Analog Media! Party starts at 8, followed by a VHS screening of the People's Joker at 9. RSVPs required.
A law-breaking comedian who is grappling with her gender identity forms a new anti-comedy troupe with a friend and finds herself battling a fascistic caped crusader.
Aug
10
August
10
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August
10
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7:30 pm
Vegas in Space
with Space Truckers
Director Phillip R Ford
Hammer Museum
This camp classic, distributed by Troma films, is a wacky sci-fi drag story about three soldiers who must take a sex change pill to infiltrate a galactic pleasure planet and fight a galactic villain. Starring drag icons Doris Fish, Miss X, Tippi and more!
Three male soldiers have a sex change so they can go on an undercover mission to an all-woman planet, where they must uncover and foil a plot to disrupt the most important pleasure planet in the universe.
Aug
9
August
9
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August
9
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5:00 pm
HollyShorts LGBTQIA+ Shorts
Filmmakers in Attendance
TCL Chinese Theaters
HollyShorts celebrates their 20th anniversary with ten days of short films, industry panels, and parties. Catch this program block dedicated to Queer short films, and check out Lesbophilia in the Women Director's block.
Aug
7
August
7
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August
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7:00 pm
Prey for Rock & Roll
Director Alex Steyermark, screenwriter Cheri Lovedog and stars Gina Gershon, Shelly Cole and Lori Petty
Laemmle Royal
See a new 4k restoration of this rock and roll cult classic. Gina Gershon plays a bi rocker in 1980s Los Angeles, with original songs produced by Hedwig songwriter Stephen Trask.
In late 1980s Los Angeles, Jacki and her all-girl punk rock band, Clam Dandy, are trying to make it big. On the verge of turning 40, Jacki decides that if the band’s one last shot at the big time is unsuccessful, she will give up her dreams of stardom. Along the way, the women are rocked by personal tragedies that threaten to break up the band before they can get their last shot at success.
Aug
6
August
6
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August
6
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10:30 pm
Cuckoo
Director Tilman Singer
Vista Theater Hollywood
This horror film, which screened in competition for the Teddy Award this year, stars trans actress and Euphoria star Hunter Schafer as a teen girl who moves with her family to German, only to find that their town hides sinister secrets.
After reluctantly moving to the German Alps with her father and his new family, Gretchen discovers that their new town hides sinister secrets, as she’s plagued by strange noises and frightening visions of a woman pursuing her.
Aug
3
August
3
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August
3
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9:45 pm
Stranger by the Lake
Brain Dead Studios
This very sexually explicit French erotic thriller is about gay men who are found murdered at a popular cruising spot, and a man who realizes his new flame is the killer.
At a cruising spot near a lake, Franck falls in love with Michael, a handsome and lethally dangerous man. Even though Franck is aware of this, he chooses to follow his passion.
Aug
3
August
3
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August
3
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7:30 pm
The River
with Rebels of the Neon God
Director Tsai Ming-liang and actor Lee Kang-sheng
Aero Theater
Xiao-Kang shares a modern highrise apartment in Taipei with his parents, but the three of them rarely speak to each other and lead very separate lives. His mother, an elevator operator is having an unsatisfying affair. His father, now retired, visit’s the city’s gay saunas, while Xiao-Kang drifts through life without a job. Xiao – kang’s life suddenly changes when he develops a chronic neck ailment and his family seeks ways to cure it. THE RIVER is a metaphysical meditation on the anomie of modern urban life.
Aug
3
August
3
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August
3
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8:00 am
Pumping Iron II: The Women
Whammy Analog Media
This 1985 documentary about female bodybuilders just screened a retrospective at Frameline this year--and this is a rare chance to catch it on Laser-Disc at Whammy!
PUMPING IRON II: THE WOMEN, a film that is changing the way the world views the female physique-creating “a new definition of the female form.” Join four women as they prepare for the 1983 Caesars Palace World Cup Championship: the sultry and curvaceous Rachel McLish, the current champion; the super-muscular Bev Francis, Rachel’s toughest competition; and newcomers Lori Bowen and Carla Dunlap.
Aug
2
August
2
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August
2
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7:00 pm
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Director Tsai Ming-liang and actor Lee Kang-sheng
Egyptian Theatre
On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature “Dragon Inn”. As the film plays, the lives of the theater’s various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors arrive to mourn the passing of an era.
Aug
2
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August
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6:30 pm
Jennifer's Body
New Beverly Cinema
Panned on release, queer film fans have since reclaimed this Diablo Cody-written horror film about a (literally) man-eating undead cheerleader and the... um... complicated relationship she has with her best female friend.
A newly possessed cheerleader turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
Aug
1
August
1
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August
1
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7:30 pm
Orlando
Vidiots Eagle Theater
Adapted from Virginia Woolfe's novel, this film follows Tilda Swinton as Orlando, an young nobleman who lives for centuries, and awakes one day to find himself transformed into a woman. Watch it, then check out last year's Teddy documentary winner Orlando: My Political Biography.
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.
Aug
1
August
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7:00 pm
Call Me By Your Name
Los Feliz 3
In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father’s research assistant.
Jul
31
July
31
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31
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7:30 pm
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
with Vive L'Amour
Director Tsai Ming-liang and actor Lee Kang-sheng
Aero Theater
Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street. Rawang lovingly nurses him on a mattress he found. When he is almost healed, Hsiao-kang meets the waitress Chyi. His love for Rawang is put to the test.
Jul
31
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31
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7:30 pm
Paris is Burning
Vidiots Eagle Theater
This iconic documentary, filmed over seven years at the beginning of the AIDS crisis in New York City's ballroom scene, captures the end of a "Golden Age" drag scene--and introduced a whole lot of Queer vocabulary to mainstream audiences.
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza — PARIS IS BURNING brings it, celebrating the joy of movement, the force of eloquence, and the draw of community.
Jul
28
July
28
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28
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7:00 pm
The Queen of My Dreams
Queer Rhapsody
Director Fawzia Mirza & Producer Andria Wilson Mirza
Egyptian Theatre
Azra is worlds apart from her conservative Muslim mother. When her father suddenly dies on a trip home to Pakistan, Azra finds herself on a Bollywood-inspired journey through memories, both real and imagined; from her mother’s youth in Karachi to her own coming- of-age in rural Canada.
Jul
28
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28
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3:00 pm
Determined Defiance: Voices of Change Shorts
Queer Rhapsody
Filmmakers in attendance
Egyptian Theatre
Throughout history, queer people have conceptualized and practiced various forms of resistance – politically and artistically; individually and collectively. The films in this block examine the world as it is while raising the possibility of what it can be. Whether based on a tru
Jul
27
July
27
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July
27
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7:30 pm
Transcendent Movements: Queer Artists in Motion Shorts
Queer Rhapsody
Filmmakers in attendance
Hammer Museum
Embark on a journey through short films celebrating queer resilience, creativity, and diverse identities. Follow Felicia Oh, a Taiwanese-American drag queen in NYC; Saturn Risin9, a Bay Area performance artist; Shoog McDaniel's celebration of marginalized bodies in Florida; Fran'
Jul
27
July
27
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27
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7:00 pm
Desire Lines
Queer Rhapsody
Writer Nate Gualtieri
Egyptian Theatre
Past and present collide when an Iranian American trans man time-travels through an LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying and erotic quest to unravel his own sexual desires.