Pride Week includes first Cincinnati gay film fest

Cincinnati Pride Alive 2006 has announced Out Reels. Cincinnati's first-ever gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender film festival.

Out Reels debuts during Pride Week, June 11-17, with a program of feature films and short subjects exploring the lives of gay men, lesbians. bisexuals and transgender people, highlighting the controversial documentary Gay Sex in the '70s.

Most festival screenings are at the Esquire Theatre, 320 Ludlow Ave. in Clifton, with one encore screening Saturday night at the Adonis nightclub, 4601 Kellogg Ave

Wednesday, June 14,

7:30 pm: Small Town

Gay Bar, with the film's creator, Malcolm Ingram. A cocktail party reception for the filmmaker follows at Universal Grille, formerly known as Hamburger Mary's, 909 Vine Street, Downtown. Also showing is the short film Sissy Frenchtry.

Thursday, June 15, 7:30 pm: Gay Sex in the 70s, by Joseph Lovett, also showing the short film Sissy Frenchfry.

9:30 pm: Blood, Sweat and Glitter by Sasha Aickin, also showing the short film Javwalking

Saturday, June 17, 3 pm: feature film by Angelina Maccarone, also showing the short film Hung

8 pm: Encore screening at Adonis: Gay Sex in the 70s, with short Sissy Frenchfry

Small Town Gay Bar is a startling and poignant look at the multiple struggles waged

by gays and lesbians in the rural South, focusing on the only social institution available to them. The film features a not-to-be-missed interview with Fred Phelps, notorious for disrupting the funerals of Matthew Shepard and US soldiers killed in Iraq.

The dramatic feature Unveiled is the story of Fariba, an Iranian woman who flees persecution because of her love for another woman. In Germany, she lives under an assumed male identity until a German woman falls in love with him." The film features a stunning

performance by Jasmin Tabatabai (Bandits). In German, with English subtitles.

The documentary Blood, Sweat & Glitter follows six contestants as they vie for the title of Miss Trannyshack. Variety dubbed it “jawdroppingly tasteless," but the film is an entertaining and surprisingly touching exploration of the clash of traditional drag and post-

modern performance art. The film won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Frameline, San Francisco's GLBT film festival, and the Director's Circle Award for Best Feature at the Fresno Pride Film Festival.

The festival's encore film, Gay Sex in the 70s, explores the now little-known era between Stonewall and the AIDS epidemic in New York City, when gay men felt that the very act of having sex was an act of political liberation. Combining still photos, film clips and personal narratives from the likes of photographer Tom Branch and the writers Larry Kramer and Arme kantrowitz, the filmrevokes the dawn of gay liberation, which was to mature during the AIDS epidemic. led by these sexual rebels.

Short films to be shown include Jaywalking, by Kathy Huang and I eigh Iacobucci. A ten-minute video about a rising drag king star Jay Walker.

Hung by Guinevere Turner. Female friends take a pill that gives them a penis for 24 hours.

SISSY Frenchtry, written by Joe Brouillette: features Leslie Jordan as West Beach High's Principal Principle. Sissy runs for student body president against socially intolerant transfer student Bodey McDodey You'll love this film.

Visit Out Reels website at www.outreels.com for continuous film updates and advanced ticket purchases. Out Reels mission is to increase the visibility of Cincinnati's GLBI community, make GLBT films accessible to all Cincinnatians and to enrich. nurture and educate the greater Cincinnati population through the art of film.

Don't miss your opportunity to see important. fun and provocative gay-themed films right here at home. Be part of Out Reels, a Cincinnati GLBT first.

Carol Lippmann and Ron Righy are the cochairs of the inaugural Out Reels Cincinnati GLBT Film Festival

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