This Friday, [Ryan] will be hosting a movie night at my place in Venice. For those of you who haven't been to my place to watch a movie, I share a spacious two-story, four-bedroom loft apartment and we project movies on one of the two-story walls in the living room.
We will be screening "Small Town Gay Bar," an award-winning documentary exploring the lives of queer bars past and present in northern Mississippi. It was executive produced by Kevin Smith of "Clerks" and "Chasing Amy" fame. Here's the first paragraph of the Onion's A.V. Club review of "Small Town Gay Bar":
Malcolm Ingram's Small Town Gay Bar is the documentary equivalent of a Xeroxed, stapled 'zine: Its homemade scruffiness provides much of the charm. In the best punk tradition, it's all about self-expression and passion rather than slickness. Kevin Smith produced this Sundance sleeper, which takes a bemused, affectionate look at the small-town Southern gay bars that serve as life-affirming oases of queer-friendliness in a vast sea of intolerance. Homosexuality went mainstream ages ago, but countless burgs in the Deep South lag decades behind the curve. For blue-collar gays in shapeless jeans and faded sweatshirts, these bars function as much more than places to meet friends, drink beer, and scope out potential lovers; they're life preservers for Southern gays drowning in the Bible belt's small-mindedness and backward sexual politics.
If nothing else, it's a pleasant reminder to the cynical LA queers among us that the fight is far from over in much of the country.
Showtime is 8:30...bring an adult beverage to share if you'd like. We’'ll have some movie-type snacks. We'll probably stick around for cocktails after (and during) the show or else saunter down to the West Side's neighborhood queer (read: gay, as in not many women...sorry...) bar, Roosterfish, which is just a couple blocks away.
Ryan Dunn
UCLA OUTlaw Co-Chair
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment