Used as a code for gay identification during more homophobic times, the wearing of green on Thursdays has since become a symbol of the oppression against gay people by those who continue to place credence in such outdated stigmatizers when searching for gays to bash. This film examines the culture of violence among homophobes and highlights the work of the Pink Angels, a Chicago community activist group. “A distressing, compassionate, and extremely valuable film.” — LA Weekly

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A no-holds-barred exposé of the raunchy, creative juices flowing in the writer’s veins, director Gerry Ciccoritti pulls out all the stops in this relentless tale of sex, sex, sex, and more sex! Lucy Quick, a hip young novelist cast in the image of Anaïs Nin, finds herself suffering from writer’s block and at the end of her tether. Enter Sloan, a wiry avenging angel with a perpetual hard-on. They embark on an odyssey to the center of their sexual imaginations, eventually drawing in everyone around them. Ciccoritti demonstrates true finesse in his direction of straight, gay, and S&M sex scenes, pushing sexual tension beyond expected limits into the realm of absolute anarchy and hilarity.

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La Ronde, the classic sexual merry-go-round, is updated to the age of AIDS by Themistocles Lopez and given a gay perspective that results in a sexy, funny, and hauntingly civilized film that does Schnitzler proud. Here, in contemporary New York, it is chanteuse meets pious workman meets wife meets doctor meets maid meets writer meets young hustler meets social worker meets dancer, etc. With Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) as an avid chicken-hawk.

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