STONEWALL (1995)
Part of the Northern Pride 2010
| Director: | Nigel Finch |
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| Certificate: | Not Rated |
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| Format: | Other |
| Language: | English |
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PART OF THE FESTIVAL OF GB: Gender Bending Art - Film - MusicSTONEWALL (1995)Who could have guessed that a bunch of men in dresses would breath life into the movement to win equal rights for gay men and lesbians? Certainly not the police who raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular "drag" bar in Greenwich Village. After a long history of police raids, extortion, and brutality, a gaggle of drag queens at the Stonewall decided they'd had enough and begun to riot when the police try to load them into a paddy wagon. Told by "La Miranda" (Hector), a regular customer at the Stonewall Inn, the film is a recounting of events that led up to that fateful day in 1969. "Matty Dean" is the handsome angry young man that La Miranda meets at the Stonewall one day and with whom she/he quickly falls in love. "Bostonia" is the self-styled Queen Mother of the drag queens and guides each initiate gently "into the life." Her lover, Vinnie, is the closeted proprietor of the Stonewall. His tragic response to the suffocation he feels bearing down on him from a homophobic world
perhaps as much as anything else
sparks the riots. This is the Stonewall Riots "As Told By La Miranda". TRAILER: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2139488537/With discussion and short films, including BOYS BEWARE and PAREE IS BURNING.http://www.festivalofgb.com
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Film: Xxy (2007)
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Film: Hedwig And The Angry Inch (2001)
25 Jul 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Hedwig, born a boy named Hansel in East Berlin, fell in love with an American G.I. and underwent a sex-change operation in order to marry him and flee to the West. Unfortunately, nothing worked out quite as it was supposed to - years later, Hedwig is leading her rock band on a tour of the U.S., telling her life story through a series of concerts at Bilgewater Inn seafood restaurants. Her tour dates coincide with those of arena-rock star Tommy Gnosis, a wide-eyed boy who once loved Hedwig… but then left with all her songs