Week of Oct 13
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We're thrilled to team up with Sapphic LA, LA's Lesbian & Queer City Guide, for a joint meetup at the LA Premiere of 2025 Teddy-award winner Lesbian Space Princess at Animation is Film Festival. Meet up at 7:30PM in the lobby bar of the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres on the 3rd floor of Ovation Hollywood. The movie theater validates parking— $3 for 4 hours.
Use code QFLA-25 for 20% off your AIFF tickets.
Lesbian Space Princess
Oct 17, 8:30 PM @ TCL Chinese Theaters
Introverted lesbian space princess Saira embarks on a mission to rescue her ex from evil incel aliens, enlisting the help of an enby popstar and a cantankerous boomer spaceship.
Tickets from Animation is Film
AFI Fest
We're thrilled to share even more Queer picks at this year's AFI Fest, Oct 22- 26, including Kristen Stewart's directorial debut The Chronology of Water, SXSW shocker Fucktoys, absurdist Thai drama A Useful Ghost, the World Premiere of Junkie from out director William Means, and many more!
Individual tickets are on sale now, and you can get a discount of 20% by using code QueerfilmAFI2025 at checkout.
Also This Week
Doppelgängers³
Oct 18, 6:00 PM @ Ahamson Auditorium Pasadena
Director Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian in person
An experimental documentary that draws on the experience of diasporas to challenge the commercialisation of the moon. Through encounters with doppelgängers and meetings with scientists, visionaries, and cultural inventors, Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian and her doppelgängers offer an experimental vision and template for a future diaspora beyond Earth.
Blue Moon
Oct 14, 7:00 PM @ University of Southern California
Advance Screenings Oct 15, 7:00 PM + more @ AMC Rolling Hills
Ethan Hawke and Andrew Scott star in this biopic of bisexual Broadway composer Lorenz Hart in the latest from Richard Linklater, which opened NEWFEST, New York's LGBT Film festival.
Tickets from USC
Tickets from South Bay Film Society
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Oct 17, 7:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Director Linus O'Brien in person
A wild journey into the origins of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the biggest cult film of all time, its impact on popular culture and socio-political resonance to this day.
ParaNorman
Oct 18, 2:00 PM @ TCL Chinese Theaters
Director Chris Butler and Star Anna Kendrick in person
Screening with all-new short film “ParaNorman: The Thrifting”
Co-directed by out animator Chris Butler, ParaNorman is a fun stop-motion supernatural romp, and the first animated studio film to feature a gay character.
Tickets from Animation is Film
The Watermelon Woman
Oct 18, 4:15 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Vidiots celebrates Video Store Day! Here’s the quintessential video store movie and a fun and feisty queer romantic comedy from groundbreaking filmmaker Cheryl Dunye.
Cheryl, a young black lesbian, works a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical “mammy” roles relegated to black actresses during that period.
Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl
Oct 19, 12:00 PM @ TCL Chinese Theaters
Creator Kiana Khansmith, Voice Actors Anairis Quiñones and Christine Marie Cabanos, and Editor Emily Rifkin in person
With awe-inspiring powers, courageous storylines, and jaw-dropping transformation sequences, everyone wants to be a magical girl, right? Wrong! Watch the pilot animatic for Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl in a special panel and Q&A.
Tickets from Animation is Film
Circa Queer Histories Festival
Stuart Timmons WeHo@40 LGBTQ History Tour
Oct 15, 6:00 PM @ West Hollywood Council Chambers
Join us for a special evening honoring the legacy of historian Stuart Timmons (The Trouble with Harry Hay, GAY L.A.) as part of West Hollywood’s 40th Anniversary and the One Institute’s Circa: Queer Histories Festival.
Connection | Isolation
Oct 19, 7:00 PM @ Los Angeles LGBT Center
Director + Producer G. Chesler and Composer + Associate Producer Luka Fisher in person
The documentary Connection | Isolation presents eight intimate portraits of trans and post-gender individuals navigating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst moments of connection and isolation, participants reveal a deepening awareness of gender, their bodies, and tra
18+ ONLY: Shinjuku Midnight Story: Man and Woman
Oct 19, 8:00 PM @ Whammy Analog Media
Two in the Pinku podcast co-hosts Dakota Noot and Christopher Velasco in person
Shinjuku Midnight Story: Man and Woman (1972) is a “pink film” released by major studio Nikkatsu. It follows a lesbian bar hostess, who is betrayed by her lover for a man. Eventually, the hostess finds new love with a trans woman and cons men.
Quotations from a Ruined City
Oct 22, 7:00 PM @ Los Angeles LGBT Center
Quotations from a Ruined City is a sort of apocalyptic follies: an evening of song, dance, poetry, nudity and torture set in a world whose center has clearly long ceased to hold. Created and directed by the gifted young theatrical cult artist Reza Abdoh, the work is a kaleidoscopic catalogue of images of decay and destruction that range through the centuries and around the globe.
Torture Trilogy: Reflecting on Two Decades of Infamy with Ron Athey
Oct 24, 8:00 PM @ Los Angeles LGBT Center
Artist Ron Athey in person
In conversation with curator Anuradha Vikram, Athey will present documentation of Four Scenes in a Harsh Life at LATC and other works in the accompanying Torture Trilogy including Deliverance (1994) which was never shown in its entirety in Los Angeles due to censorship.
Next Week
I Am a Ghost
Oct 23, 7:00 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Writer/Director H.P. Mendoza in person
One part post-modern queer indie horror, one part existential classic, and one part no-budget/high-concept gothic treasure, this haunting tale of a Victorian spirit trapped in a seemingly-endless limbo breathes fresh life into the age-old tradition of ghost stories.
The Haunting
Oct 20, 10:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
The Haunting was remarkable for 1963 for having a main character who was a lesbian, without being punished for it. The 2018 Netflix miniseries adaptation makes Theo even more explicitly gay (and badass).
Tickets from American Cinematheque
DECODINGS, A Queer Film Tribute to Carl Bogner
Oct 23, 8:00 PM @ 2220 Arts + Archives
First and foremost, this program is a celebration of queer avant-garde filmmaking and filmmakers, featuring incredible work by Curt McDowell, Barbara Hammer, Michael Wallin, George Kuchar, Su Friedrich, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and even two extremely rare shorts by Gus Van Sant
The Prodigy
Oct 24, 8:00 PM @ Eastwood Performing Arts Center
A desperate sex worker named Adam goes into the desert with a man he doesn’t know is a burgeoning serial killer. Meanwhile, another young hustler, Lucas, desperate for money, starts forming his own relationship with the dangerous man.
American French Film Festival
The American French Film Festival returns Oct 28 - Nov 3 with some great Queer films, including 2025 Queer Palm winner The Little Sister, a coming of age film about a young French-Algerian woman.
Use discount code CINEMA for 20% off your tickets.
Queer Picks at the American French Film Festival
In Cinemas
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Bill Condon - 128 min - Opened Oct 10
Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna.
Fairyland
Andrew Durham - 116 min - Opened Oct 10
A young girl recounts growing up in San Francisco in the ’70s and ’80s with her gay dad, activist and author Steve Abbott.
