Our Lives On Film, May 13, 2012 | Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

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Lesbian Factory

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Susan Chen

57 min

Mandarin

Taiwan

Lesbian Factory is a love story as well as a document of a social movement. It portrays a group of foreign migrant workers far from home, courageously resisting an unjust social system in a strange country. At the same time it faithfully records the trust and emotional bonds between people during times of greatest difficulty. Lesbian Factory presents the stories of seven lesbian couples against an atypical setting, covering labor disputes, reflecting on the migrant worker system, examining the discriminatory treatment of migrant workers, and showing love without bounds.

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T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s

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Robert Phillipson

28 min

English

USA

The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues divas such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter created and promoted a working-class vision of blues life that provided an alternative to the Victorian gentility of middle-class manners. In their lives and music, blues divas presented themselves as strong, independent women who lived hard lives and were unapologetic about their unconventional choices in clothes, recreational activities,

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