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SUMMER 2021

June 1, 2021 by Susan Taunton

Queer Film Festivals Streaming Your Way!

Beat the heat with these cool summer film fests, featuring new films, panels and more, streaming directly to your climate-controlled couch.

Still from Fanny, the Right to Rock
Fanny, the Right to Rock (Frameline45)

JUNE 4-7
NY NEWFEST PRIDE MONTH SERIES

NewFest kicks off Pride month with a weekend-long summer series including six new films, a shorts program presented with Vimeo, and a handful of LGBTQ-focused panels & special events!

JUNE 11-13
17th annual QWOCMAP (Queer Women of Color) festival presents 19 films in three FREE programs

From Chumash ancestors who mapped the stars, to two older queer Latinas rekindling a geode of love, to queer and transgender people of color battling gentrification and displacement, these films resonate across generations and lay the cornerstone for change. All films are Subtitled for the Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing, and ASL Interpretation and CART/live open captions will be provided for live, interactive Filmmaker Q&As.

JUNE 17–27
FRAMELINE45

Celebrate Frameline’s 45th anniversary season with a cornucopia of content. The largest, longest running queer festival in the world. »Film Guide

AUG 13-22
LA OUTFEST

Virtual All-Access pass to 165 films includes features, short films, centerpiece screenings and more for $125. Tickets to stream individual films are $10 each. See complete digital film guide here.

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August 6-16, 2020

July 24, 2020 by Susan Taunton

aGLIFF virtual festival August 6-16

image: aGLIFF virtual festival August 6-16

Austin’s All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival (aGLIFF) will go virtual for 2020 over two weekends this August. The online festival, aGLIFF 33: Prism will be held August 6-16 offering more than sixty-five films, with features, shorts, and events showcasing the diverse experiences of LGBTQIA+ people.
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Full Program
aGLIFF memberships give first access to all screenings from now until the end of 2021, including this year’s festival, next year’s festival and all the monthly screenings in between.
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June 25-28, 2020

June 23, 2020 by Susan Taunton

44th Annual Frameline Fest offers online access

Frameline44 Pride Showcase is a set of online film screenings offered to our audiences June 25 – 28, 2020. Film screenings will include special live and pre-recorded intros, Q&A’s and other unique enhancements that will make our Pride Showcase as close to an in-cinema Frameline experience as possible. After all, Pride weekend (let alone the 50th anniversary of SF Pride) just isn’t the same without Frameline!

»HOW TO ATTEND, VIRTUALLY.

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June 30, 2020, 4pm EST / 1pm PST

June 23, 2020 by Susan Taunton

Wild Nights with Emily + Q&A

Don’t miss this virtual screening of Wild Nights with Emily and a Q&A with director Madeleine Olnek.

Wild Nights With Emily is the story of Emily Dickinson’s life-long romantic relationship with Susan Gilbert, Emily’s life as a writer, and the comic soap opera that was 1880’s Amherst.

»REGISTER

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Starting 6/19. Live-stream discussion 6/24, 9pm EST/6pm PST

June 21, 2020 by Susan Taunton

Netflix doc DISCLOSURE + livestream conversation with Laverne Cox, director Sam Feder, and more

DISCLOSURE is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Now streaming on Netflix, plus live-stream conversation with Laverne Cox, director Sam Feder and more Wed June 24.

»RSVP: Live Conversation & Celebration with DISCLOSURE Talent

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June 22, 2020

June 20, 2020 by Susan Taunton

FREE Encore Screening: UNSETTLED + panel

If you missed (or loved!) the Lesbian Looks/DocScapes event at the Loft in Feb 2020, here’s another chance to see this great film about LGBT refugees and asylum seekers resettling in SF.

Image from documentary UNSETTLED with info about screening and panel discussion on June 22, 2020

The filmmakers have teamed up with ITVS and World Channel for a special live online screening event this Monday, June 22, at 7pm EST (4pm PST) with NPR’S Ari Shapiro, former US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, Subhi Nahas, one of the subjects of our film, and Tom Shepard, the director of UNSETTLED…. »RSVP here

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June 19-21, 26-28, 2020

June 19, 2020 by Susan Taunton

OUT of Site: SOMA

We have an antidote to being physically disconnected from our communities! An interactive, online show performed live touring the streets of San Francisco…virtually.

OUT of Site: SOMA is virtual-live-street-theater project that explores the history of San Francisco’s South of Market district, a catalyst for radical change and a stronghold for queer and activist organizing.

June 26th will feature a talkback with The Women of SOMA: 4 fierce activists and artists who changed the neighborhood and the culture forever.

»MORE INFO & BUY TICKETS

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June 19, 2020 by Susan Taunton

Sisters of ’77, Stream for Free, June 18-21

In 1977, over the course of four days, approximately 20,000 women would congregate in Houston, Texas, to attend the first ever National Women’s Conference, as presided over by Congresswoman Bella Abzug. This 2005 film combines incredible archival footage and insightful interviews with attendees to present an inside look at this historic event that defined the […]

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June 2020

June 19, 2020 by Susan Taunton

Loft Streams Pioneers of Queer Cinema

Classics of early queer German cinema are now streaming in gorgeous new restorations from the Loft Cinema: Victor and Victoria (1933), Mädchen in Uniform (1931), Michael (1924)….
»PIONEERS OF QUEER CINEMA AT THE LOFT

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June 19, 2020 by Susan Taunton

Now List 2020: Gwen Shockey’s Archive of NYC’s Lesbian Spaces Is More Important Than Ever

Poster for Gwen Shockey's NOW List

New York City-based artist Gwen Shockey has set out to preserve the memory of lesbian bars through her Addresses Project (2016-present). By conducting interviews and sifting through a slew of newspaper clippings, blogs, Facebook event listings, police records, tax information, and business bureau records, she has pinpointed nearly 100 lesbian bars and parties that have existed from 1900 to the present day throughout the city’s five boroughs…  »READ FULL ARTICLE

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