Reclaiming the gaze since 1993
The Committee for LGB Studies added the T to become the Committee for LGBT Studies in 2001. The 10th anniversary season of LL also included our first screening of a trans film, A Boy Named Sue, following the FTM transition of the filmmaker's close friend, and its effect on his girlfriend and their community of friends.
Love Ltd
(Jennifer Thuy Lan Phang's, USA, 1999)
4 PM
(Samantha Bakhurst and Lea Morement, UK, 2000)
Bare
(Deb Strutt and Liz Baulch, 2000, Australia)
Plus 4 more!
Seven fabulous shorts from the US, UK and Australia. Highlights include Jennifer Thuy Lan Phang’s dysfunctional family dinner turned coming out party, Love Ltd (USA, 1999), and a pair of uproarious morning-after tales about one-night stands that end with a twist, 4 PM (Samantha Bakhurst and Lea Morement, UK, 2000) and Bare (Deb Strutt and Liz Baulch, 2000, Australia).
Join us at a reception at WINGSPAN from 6 to 8 p.m. for hors d’oeuvres, music by Betty Diamond and clips from our 10 year Lesbian Looks history! WINGSPAN is located at 300 East Sixth Street, just west of the corner of Sixth Street and Fourth Avenue.
Joyce Warshow’s new biodoc Hand on the Pulse chronicles the life and career(s) of Joan Nestle, political and sexual Bad Girl, author, teacher, activist, and cofounder of The Lesbian Herstory Archives. Program also includes Dayna McLeod’s tongue-in-cheek performance rant Watching Lesbian Porn (2001, Canada) and Guadalupe Olvera San Miguel’s history of the lesbian rights movement in Mexico AND The March Continues (1997, Mexico).
A Boy Named Sue (Julie Wyman, 2000, USA) traces the filmmaker’s friend Sue’s FTM transition into Theo. Shot over seven years, this documentary follows Sue/Theo’s physiological and psychological journey along with its effect on his lesbian girlfriend and their community of friends. Preceded by Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the Haunted Body (Canada, 1999), Marusya Bociurkiw’s campy yet serious satire which finds the gal detective now grown up and investigating a case about incest and “false memory syndrome.”
My Left Breast (Canada, 2000), Gerry Roger’s award winning, intimate diary of illness and recovery takes the audience with her and partner Peggy to doctor appointments, the chemo room, the radiation chamber, and a potluck wig "hair-raiser" which she organizes in defiance of cancer. Hailed by critics as "extraordinary," "amazingly candid," "life changing" and "not to be missed." Preceded by Body Burden (France Quyeras, 2001), a lyrical essay intertwining the filmmaker’s meditations on her own illness with a critique of the chummy relationship between the pharmaceutical and chemical industries and the state of our global environment.
