Week of Jun 23
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This week, the Supreme Court issued a major legal setback to the Trans community in US v Skrmetti. Gather with your community and join the free West Coast premiere of Heightened Scrutiny, the documentary about Chase Strangio and the team of ACLU Lawyers who bravely fought this case on behalf of Trans kids in Tennessee against their state's gender-affirming care ban.
FREE: Heightened Scruitny
Jun 24, 7:30 PM @ Hammer Museum
From director Sam Feder and the team that brought you DISCLOSURE comes this critically timed snapshot of the state of transgender rights and justice in America.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive
And for even more keep-up-the-good-fight Queer stories, don't miss Army of Lovers on Tuesday:
18+ ONLY: Army of Lovers, or Revolt of the Perverts (1979)
Jun 25, 8:00 PM @ 2220 Arts + Archives
Not Streaming Anywhere!
Queer film trailblazer Rosa von Praunheim spent eight years making this film during his travels in the US, meeting gay rights leaders across the country and documenting the fight for liberation in the years following Stonewall.
Call for Volunteers
It takes a small army of committed volunteers to keep Queer Film LA running, and we're opening our doors for new volunteers. Whether you want to help keep the calendar updated, create content and keep our socials updated, or organize in-person events, we want to hear from you!
Email volunteer.la@queer.film if you want to get involved!
Frameline at Home
San Francisco's LGBTQ+ film festival celebrates its 49th edition this week--and while many festivals have dropped their pandemic-era streaming component, Frameline's at-home program is going strong, with $11.50 for a single ticket or an $80 pass for the entire program. Celebrate with our friends in SF and enjoy the best of Frameline from your couch!
Frameline49 at Home: June 23-30
Loud and Proud
Culture Machine, the Emmy-nominated production company founded by Dear White People creator Justin Simien—joins forces with criminal justice nonprofit Last Prisoner Project to launch Loud & Proud, a new short-form docuseries about the queer people who’ve long turned to cannabis—not just for healing, but for survival. The series centers voices often excluded from the mainstream weed narrative: those who have used cannabis as a tool of care, resistance, and cultural expression.
Loud and Proud series on Instagram
Queer, Period
The Academy Museum's Queer, Period screening continues through Jun 30. Use code QueerPeriod2025 for a $2 discount.
Victor/Victoria
Jun 22, 6:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Julie Andrews stars in this musical remake of the 1933 German film about a woman singer who takes a job as a female impersonator.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Jun 23, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
This smoldering erotic drama from French auteur Céline Sciamma follows the desire that develops between a wealthy young woman and the painter who is charged to accompany her and paint her wedding portrait.
Maurice
Jun 27, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Gay director James Ivory won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1987 for this adaptation of gay author E. M. Forster's posthumously-published novel of the same name, about gay love and social class in Edwardian England (with a happy ending!)
Looking for Langston // The Sticky Fingers of Time
Jun 28, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
A hypnotic experimental film that weaves between reality and a fantastic recreation of the Harlem Renaissance of Langston Hughes, exploring the lives and desires of Queer Black writers and artists throughout time.
Also This Week
Go Fish
Jun 24, 8:00 PM @ Whammy Analog Media
Director &co-writer Rose Troche in person
This fresh new restoration of 1994 lesbian classic Go Fish was a collaboration between the Academy, Sundance, Frameline, MGM, and UCLA. It screened at Sundance this year, right where the film premiered 30 years ago.
Tickets from Hollywood Entertainment
Fruit Fly
Jun 26, 7:00 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Sing-Along with filmmaker H.P. Mendoza in person
Filipina performance artist Bethesda moves into an art commune to search for her long missing biological mother. Along the way, she comes to realize that she just might be a fairy princess, fruit fly.
Winter Kept Us Warm
Jun 29, 4:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
New Restoration!
It is the 1960s at the University of Toronto. Doug is a well-liked senior with an equally popular girlfriend. Peter is a shy Finnish freshman who is new to the big city. The two become best friends and begin doing all sorts of activities together — until Doug starts viewing their relationship differently.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Bound
Jun 23, 7:20 PM @ Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
The Hunger
Jun 23, 9:15 PM @ Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
Aren't all vampire movies gay? Maybe today, but The Hunger was something new when it came out, an erotic bi/lesbian vampire thriller (co-starting bi icon David Bowie) was steaming up the screen long before the 90s queer vampire craze.
Pariah
Jun 24, 7:00 PM @ Landmark Pasadena
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Tickets from Landmark Theatres
The Broken Hearts Club
Jun 24, 7:20 PM @ Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood and professional success. At various stages of life’s disarray, these young men share humorous and tragic relationships and always have each other to rely on.
Dorothy Arzner Double Feature
Jun 25, 2:00 PM @ Vista Theater Hollywood
Dorothy Arzner was a successful Hollywood director when there were few women, and even fewer out lesbians, at the top of the profession. This double feature picks two of Arzner's films for a trailblazing afternoon.
The Queen of My Dreams
Jun 25, 7:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Pakistani Muslim Mariam and her Canadian-born daughter Azra come of age in two different eras against the backdrop of a shared obsession with Bollywood fantasy.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Rope
Jun 26, 1:00 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
Is this the original "be gay do crimes" movie? Though heavily censored, this one-take Hitchcock thriller (from out screenwriter Arthur Laurents) is based off the real-life Leopold and Loeb case, where two gay students killed a boy just to see if they could get away with it.
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Jun 26, 7:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
Jennifer's Body
Jun 26, 8:40 PM @ Rooftop Cinema Club DTLA
15% of ticket sales will be donated to the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
Panned on release, queer film fans have since reclaimed this Diablo Cody-written horror film about a (literally) man-eating undead cheerleader and the... um... complicated relationship she has with her best female friend.
Tickets from Rooftop Cinema Club DTLA
Ponyboi
Jun 27, 7:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Unfolding over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey, a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
The People's Joker
Jun 27, 7:30 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
This parody of a certain caped crusader through the lens of trans creator Vera Drew was quick to disappear after its premiere at TIFF, due to rights issues from an unnamed giant media company. Why so serious?
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Jun 27, 8:30 PM @ Videotheque
Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles.
Pink Narcissus
Jun 27, 9:30 PM @ Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
This lush erotic epic, framed as the fantasies of a bored rentboy, was filmed over the course of six years on elaborate sets built inside the Manhattan apartment of director James Bidgood. No advance sales, tickets are free and open to the public.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Jun 27, 9:45 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert.
Strange World
Jun 28, 11:00 AM @ Academy Museum
This Disney film stirred controversy when it came out, for having an out Queer teen, voiced by out actor and comedian Jaboukie Young-White.
Love, Simon
Jun 28, 2:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it’s a little more complicated. He hasn’t told his family or friends that he’s gay, and he doesn’t know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he’s fallen for online.
Ma Vie En Rose
Jun 28, 4:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Author Alonso Duralde in person
Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and a favorite at festivals around the world, this unique film experience delivers magic of the rarest sort through a story of difference, rejection, and childlike faith in miracles.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Mulholland Drive
Jun 28, 8:00 PM @ Eastwood Performing Arts Center
In David Lynch's maniacal, notorious thriller, amnesia-suffering Rita, who barely escapes murder on winding, hilly Mulholland Drive, makes her way down to Hollywood, where she sneaks into the apartment of bright-eyed aspiring actress Betty.
