1996

Ward, Mark

1996

When the music stops and the sex is over, the sun comes up and fear and responsibility set in. Clinic E may be a comedy short, but laughing when one man worries about getting an HIV test only diffuses the gravity of the situation. And if the test comes up positive, what does loss, love and companionship mean?

Hurwitz, Elise

1996

This fun and campy video diary reveals the personal experience of going thru a sex reassignment from Female-to-Male mix heritage Asian style. Christopher tells about love, life and mom.

Winter, Stephen

1996

If you see one movie at this year's Festival, make it Chocolate Babies. It's a hilariously witty and poignant film about a queer, quasi-drag band of people of color terrorists, who fulfill every AIDS activist’s fantasy by running rampant through Manhattan accosting recalcitrant politicians, corporate executives, closeted homosexuals, and conservative and religious demagogues for exploiting the AIDS/HIV epidemic and doing nothing to stop the crisis. Fortunately, the heroes and heroines of our story are not ivory saints. Their peccadilloes — infidelity, drug use, pitiful lip-synching, prostitution, and obsessions with style, glamour, couture, make-up, and divas — keep them from being too squeaky clean and holier-than-thou. As they tear through New York's boroughs trying to make the world safe for all queers, you can't help but be touched by their fierce dignity, tawdry fabulousity, proud defiance, and unshakable loyalty to each other and their cause. Don't miss the chance to jump on their bandwagon.

Thynne, Lizzie

1996

Lizzie Thynne’s Child of Mine chronicles a custody battle between two lesbians for their son John. The film follows Liz as she attempts to win access to her son through the Scottish courts and highlights two cases in England where lesbian parents have fought for legal recognition and won.

Quince, Donna

1996

Charlene's angels is an animated film using Barbie and her Friends as the characters in a lesbian satire based on the 1980's television show Charlie's Angels in which three beautiful women work as detectives.

Lane, Eric

1996

Cater-Waiter tells the story of two gay cater-waiters at a Republican fund-raiser. (OR: There's more than coffee brewing at a Republican fund-raiser.)

Pietrobruno, Ileana

1996

A young model attempts to insulate herself from sinister medicalization through the retelling of tabloid tales.

Fitzgerald, Thom

1996

A pair of gay men enjoy Canada Customs censored pornography.

Gilpin, Margaret
Bennaza, Luis Felipe

1996

Fifteen years after the Revolution, la Güinera, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Havana, was still a marginalized area. In this setting, a clandestine drag culture developed much like the ghetto cultures that came into being in the U.S. at about the same time.Yet the Revolution had promised everyone a chance to make themselves a new home. Under this mandate local citizens started to build themselves apartment complexes to replace the shacks and shanties. These two strong movements--financial self-determination and sexual freedom--could have led to confrontation. Due to the courage of several women who held powerful positions in the new local government, the new drag culture wasn't suppressed. Instead it was given space. One woman, Fifi, asked the queens to perform in the cafeteria where many of the workers and locals ate. That was the beginning of a shared culture: drag queens are respected as artists and as fellow Cubans.This phenomenon is spreading beyond la Güinera. Butterflies on the Scaffold highlights images of working-class drag queens performing drag intercut with interviews that reveal other interests, other occupations. In this community many queens have other jobs, other vocations. Drag is just one of many ways that gays can add to strength of their society.