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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!

Iconic lesbian erotic thriller Bound has two upcoming can't-miss screenings: with star Jennifer Tilly at the Egyptian on Mar 30, and with co-director Lilly Wachowski at Vidiots on April 26.

This week's Queer films, by some coincidence, have a number of options to make you blush in a crowded theater.

March comes in like a lion with a storm of Queer film screenings, now that Awards season is wrapping up and LA's cinemas return to repertory and festival screenings. We've added a lot of events in the last few days, so check out the full calendar for all the amazing options!