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ENTERTAINMENT February 1993 • The Lambda • 9 Fun^illed Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week will be held March 29th through April 3rd. The following is a tentative schedule of the week, which is sponsored by B-GLAD. Additional events are in the planning stages. In addition to these activities, B-GLAD will also have an information and paraphanalia table in Pit. Pink arm bands and raffle tickets will be distributed two weeks prior to LGA Week. Also, pro-gay Pit preachers and performance artists will be out and about throughout the week. For more information, please call the B-GLAD office at 962-4401. If you want to get involved with any of these activities or you have more ideas, give us a buzz. Please note: After a long thought-provoking discussion, B-GLAD decided NOT be sponsoring Jean’s Day this year. Instead, we ask pro-gay folk to voluntarily support us by wearing pink or lavendar armbands/bookbag bands. Monday, March 29th 12 p.m.: Rally for Lesbian and Gay Rights in the Pit Tuesday, March 30th 11 a.m.: How Many People Can You Fit Into the Closet? Stuffing Contest begins in the B-GLAD office (Carolina Union Room 216B) 11:30 a.m.: How Many People Can You Fit Into the Closet? Raffle Drawing in the Pit 12 p.m.: Who’s Out (naming known out gays) in the Pit 3 p.m.: Media Trends Affecting Gays and Lesbians Panel Discussion in Carolina Union Room 208 7 p.m.: Gay Marine Sergeant Justin Elzie speaks in Hanes Art Center Auditorium Wednesday, March 31st 11 a.m.-lp.m.: TV parodies^in the Pit 6:30,9 p.m.: Edward II will be shown in the Carolina Union Auditorium. Sponsored by the Carolina Union Activities Board. 7 p.m.: Crae Pridgen, victim of Wilmington gay-bashing, speaks in Hanes Art Center Auditorium. 9 p.m.: WXYC (89.3)’s Lesbian and Gay Music Show Thursday, April 1st 11 a.m.: Names of AIDS victims in the Pit. 12 p.m.: Safer Sex Games in the Pit. 2 p.m.: AIDS Awareness Workshop in Carolina Union Room 208. Spon sored by CARE. 6 p.m.: Religious Perspectives on Homosexuality in the Toy Lounge of Dey Hall 7 p.m.: Candlelight March Friday, April 2nd 12 p.m.: Kiss-in in the Pit (an affection-in for the Victorians) 3 p.m.: Rap session on homosexuality in Carolina Union Room 220 Saturday, April 3rd 2 p.m.: UNC system gay campus organizations will meet in Carolina Union Room 205 Hope to see you at these events! Two new gay films to run at Chelsea F ilm pundits are start ing to get excited about a new genre in film- making. Queer Film is the hot new term for those new films whose directors are talented, young arid queer. Finally, it seems the film industry has awakened to a new era. The queers are here ... and they’re making movies. In the next few months, the Chelsea cinema will be show ing two of the most recent queer films that have caused a stir among gay and straight film fanatics and magazines. Tom Kalin’s Swoon takes an other look at the story of the old Hitchcock classic Rope. It is the true story of two young intellectual Jewish boys who decide to commit the perfect murder. Swoon, unlike Rope, focuses mainly on the trial as opposed to the murder. It also reveals what Hitchcock ig nored: The two young boys were lovers. Kalin decided to make the film because he be lieved that the boys were pun ished so severely because they were gay and Jewish. Kalin’s film has received a great deal of praise through out the film industry. It has MSweeftnanl even picked up a couple of awards. That a gay director can make such a film and re ceive so much praise and at tention marks a significant change in attitude. The Living End, Greg Arraki’s road movie to end all road movies, has received similar praise. The film concerns the Thelma and Louise-like road trip of two young men, both of whom are HIV positive. Arraki, known for low budget obscure comedies such as The Long Weekend o’ Despair, has taken a slightly larger budget and a much darker subject to create a very slick film. Both of these directors are setting a standard for queer filrh, and they are not the only ones. Monika Trent, a German lesbian director, has also been making her mark. Then there are those gay directors who already work in the main stream. Gus van Sant, director of My Own Private Idaho and Drugstore Cowboy, is presently working on the film adapta tion of Tom Robbins’ Only Cowgirls Get the Blues. Derek Jarman has been working in the industry for far longer, as well. Now it’s time for the new kids on the block to take up some space. The whole Queer Film movement has come about in the recent era of mainstream Hollywood movies that have characterized lesbians, gays and particularly bisexuals as psychotic ice-pick wielding maniacs. With queer directors making queer positive films, there is at least some hope of retribution. The more press these films receive, the more likely it is that they will be seen. From this standpoint they can then go on to fight the stereotyped characteriza tions of queer people by mak ing movies that present us as we are. Keep an eye on local press for details of dates for Swoon and The Living End. Charles Streeter/Special to Lambda In the Closet B-GLAD will hold a rafflo to sea how many people can fit In Its very small office. More details to come.
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