Newsletter

The Queer Film LA team will be at West Hollywood Pride, today and tomorrow, and Los Angeles Pride next Saturday, June 8. We'll be giving away these amazing glitter stickers, and raffling off donations from our partners, including exhibition catalogs from the Academy Museum, annual memberships at Vidiots, event passes at the Philosophical Research Society, and more.

Queer films at LA Latino International Film Festival, the new Black Cat Cinema Series at LOOK, Taking Pride Series at American Cinematheque and more!

FREE: The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love May 25, 2:00 PM @ Mazer Lesbian Archives Touching and poignant, the acclaimed coming-of-age comedy The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls In Love tells the story of two teenagers whose unexpected friendship grows into the joyful wildness of first love.

Dzi Croquettes at the Hammer Museum, Queer picks at the LA Latino International Film Festival, the Academy Museum summer program, and more!

Lavender Men at LOOK, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, Parting Glances at UCLA and more!

The TCM Classic Film Festival takes over the TCL Theater in Hollywood with a weekend of classic Hollywood films. There's an abundance of Queer picks, including gay playwrights Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer and Terrence McNally's The Ritz; Golden Age Sapphic icons Katharine Hepburn and Marlene Dietrich; Rocky Horror; The Birdcage; and more!

Farewell My Concubine Apr 18, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum This Chinese 1992 Palm D'Or winner (the Queer Palm didn't exist until 2010) was banned in its home country shortly after release, in part for the film's unrequited gay love story. Stars out bi Cantopop star Leslie Cheung, who also starred in Wong Kar Wei's Happy Together.

This week brings two chances to see the new restoration of High Art, the iconic 1998 indie lesbian romantic drama that has been hard-to-see for too many years. Director Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) joins for Q&As at Vidiots and The Egyptian. Don't miss it!

Gay rom-com A Nice Indian Boy, starring Jonathan Groff and Karan Soni, finally releases in theaters Friday--but be sure to catch the sneak preview with director Roshan Sethi on Monday night!