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WED, OCT 18, 2017 / 7pm

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Bruising for Besos

(Adelina Anthony, 2016)
The Loft Cinema / FREE
In Person
Filmmaker Adelina Anthony
Co-sponsored by Lesbian Looks Film and Video Series, Faculty Fellows Program, LGBTQ Resource Center, Guerrero Student Center, Common Ground Alliance, Department of Mexican American Studies, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Institute for LGBT Studies
Bruising for Besos

Intimate character study of YOLI — a charismatic and complicated Xicana lesbian making family in a Queer and Trans People Of Color (QTPOC) suburban Los Angeles scene. She’s an artist at heart, and along with her best friend, RANI, makes do with a mundane job. One night she pursues, DAÑA, an alluring Puerto Rican woman. This romance upends the seeming calmness of her life as Yoli soon finds herself recreating a tumultuous past.

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SUN, MAR 18, 2018 / 2-4pm

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Lives: Visible / Leftovers

Lives: Visible
(Michelle Citron, 2017, 35 mins)

Leftovers
(Michelle Citron, 2014, 23 mins)

The Loft Cinema / FREE
In Person
Filmmaker Michelle Citron
Lesbian Looks and Southern Arizona Senior Pride present two short films by the legendary Michelle Citron. CO-SPONSORED by the Institute for LGBT Studies and the Department of Gender & Women's Studies.
Still from Lives: Visible (Michelle Citron)

Two thousand private snapshots hidden away for over fifty years reveal the rich history of Chicago’s working class butch/fem life in the pre-Stonewall era. Spanning four decades, from the 1930s to the early 1970s, the snapshots provide a rare look at a vanished and vibrant Lesbian culture.

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WED, FEB 13, 7 pm

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Mosquita y Mari

(Aurora Guerrero, 2012)
The Loft Cinema
Institute for LGBT Studies, The Hanson Film Institute, German Studies, Gender & Women's Studies, School of Theatre, Film & Television Visiting Artists Program
Mosquita y Mari

This exquisitely-crafted coming of age tale follows a pair of Latina teens who gradually fall in love against the backdrop of East LA. “…unassuming indie jewel”—The New York Times

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THU, FEB 28, 2013, 7pm

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Before Stonewall

(Greta Schiller, 1984)
The Loft Cinema / FREE
In Person
Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss in a post-screening discussion with historian Elizabeth Kennedy about the evolution of LGBT history since this film's release.
Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss

In 1969 the patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village decided to fight back, transforming a routine police raid into three nights of rioting which marked the beginning of the Gay Liberation movement. Groundbreaking, classic documentary.

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FRI, MARCH 22, 2013, 7pm

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Morir de Pie (Die Standing Up)

(Jacaranda Correa, 2012)
Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 Theater / FREE
In Person
Director Jacaranda Correa
Co-Presented by Cine Mexico and in association with Ambulante, Mexico. This screening is made possible with support from the UA Gender & Women's Studies Department Anti-Racism Task Force.
Morir de Pie (Die Standing Up)

Born into a male body, Irina grew up idolizing Che Guevara and spent much of her young life fighting in the Cuban solidarity movement. It’s also the love story of Irina and her partner Nelida, whom she married as a man. Nelida has committed herself to understanding her feelings towards her partner’s disability and massive life changes.

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THU, APR 4, 2013, 7pm

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My Best Day

(Erin Greenwell, 2012)
The Loft Cinema

With a small town like this, Karen’s own journey sets in motion a crazy chain of events that will change not just her but this one small town forever.

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