Summer of Camp
Ongoing Series
Inspired by Susan Sontag’s famous essay on camp, this series interrogates the idea of a “guilty pleasure” and proclaims your right to enjoy a movie simply because it’s fun!
Summer of Camp
UPCOMING SCREENINGS
Mark your calendar for these amazing events.
Sleepaway Camp
Academy Museum
Equally as memorable as it is problematic, Sleepaway Camp is an iconic 80s slasher with a complicated place in queer horror representation and history. The screening will be introduced by BJ & Harmony Colangelo, authors of the critical text SLEEPAWAY CAMP from DieDieBooks.
After a terrible boating accident, Angela Baker is sent to Camp Arawak, where a series of bizarre and violent “accidents” begin to claim the lives of various campers.
Short Films by the Gay Girls Riding Club
Academy Museum
Come see new digital restorations of four short films by the Gay Girls Riding Club, a pre-Stonewall club of gay entertainment industry pros (including cinematographers Ray Harrison and James Crabe) who made high camp drag satires of popular films.
Vegas in Space
Academy Museum
Filmmaker Phillip R. Ford
This camp classic, distributed by Troma films, is a wacky sci-fi drag story about three soldiers who must take a sex change pill to infiltrate a pleasure planet and fight a galactic villain. Starring drag icons Doris Fish, Miss X, Tippi and more!
Three male soldiers have a sex change so they can go on an undercover mission to an all-woman planet, where they must uncover and foil a plot to disrupt the most important pleasure planet in the universe.
But I'm a Cheerleader
Academy Museum
For anyone who has ever worried that all lesbian films are too serious, Jamie Babbit signle-handedly proves that queer women can be funny as hell in this now-classic queer comedy.
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn’t like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she’s pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to “sexual redirection” school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
The Birdcage
Academy Museum
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé’s conservative moralistic parents.
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Academy Museum
Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
Showgirls
Academy Museum
A clumsy depiction of female bisexuality would normally not be enough to make Showgirls count as queer--but the film's cult classic status is sustained in large part by loyal Queer fans. Watch it, then go see documentary "You Don't Nomi" by Jeffrey McHale.
https://letterboxd.com/film/showgirls/
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