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Screenings & Events

Festivals, Special Guests, Retrospectives and more "one night only" queer cinema screenings.

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The Celluloid Closet

Sun, Jul 20 @ 4:00 pm

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Vidiots Eagle Theater

Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman

1995

102 min

Starting in 1972, Vito Russo put together a traveling clip show of LGBT representation in film, marking one of the first efforts to chronicle Queer cinema history. It was turned into a book in 1981 then a movie in 1995, making it a landmark of Queer images in classical Hollywood.

This documentary highlights the historical contexts that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals have occupied in cinema history, and shows the evolution of the entertainment industry’s role in shaping perceptions of LGBT figures. The issues addressed include secrecy – which initially defined homosexuality – as well as the demonization of the homosexual community with the advent of AIDS, and finally the shift toward acceptance and positivity in the modern era.

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But I'm a Cheerleader

Summer of Camp

Mon, Jul 21 @ 7:30 pm

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Academy Museum

Jamie Babbit

1999

85 min

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.

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Hellraiser

Wed, Jul 23 @ 7:30 pm

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Culver Theater

Clive Barker

1987

94 min

The first film in gay writer/director Clive Barker's pain-and-pleasure demon horror franchise, which only got queerer in the 2022 reboot.

Hedonist Frank Cotton finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, who open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.

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Tongues Untied

Sun, Jul 27 @ 4:00 pm

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Getty Museum

Marlon Riggs

1989

55 min

Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs telling the story of his growing up, scenes of men in social intercourse and dance, and various comic riffs, including a visit to the “Institute of Snap!thology,” where men take lessons in how to snap their fingers: the sling snap, the point snap, the diva snap.

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The Watermelon Woman

Sun, Jul 27 @ 6:30 pm

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Academy Museum

Cheryl Dunye

1996

85 min

DCP

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. This was the first feature film directed by an “out” black lesbian.

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Chutney Popcorn

Sun, Aug 10 @ 6:30 pm

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Academy Museum

Filmmaker Misha Ganatra

Nisha Ganatra

1999

92 min

35mm

Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is happily married, discovers that she is infertile. Reena offers to be a surrogate mother for her sister’s baby, hoping to improve her relationship with their mother, who disapproves of Reena’s sexual orientation. Reena has second thoughts when her girlfriend Lisa feels left out.

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The Birdcage

Summer of Camp

Mon, Aug 11 @ 7:30 pm

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Academy Museum

Mike Nichols

1996

119 min

35mm

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.

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Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Double Feature with 3 Women

Sat, Aug 16 @ 7:30 pm

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Hammer Museum

Robert Altman

1982

110 min

This ensemble film about a group of James Dean groupies reuniting for the 20th anniversary of his death, starring cis Karen Black as a trans woman, and co-starring Cher, has recently been reclaimed by Queer film fans.

On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fanclub gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion.

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Queer Lens on Los Angeles: Artists’ POV

Sun, Aug 17 @ 1:00 pm

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Getty Museum

Artists Anthony Friedkin, Catherine Opie, and Reynaldo Rivera

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A panel discussion with three photographers who documented Queer life in Los Angeles from the 1960s through the 1990s.

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Theatrical runs

Now In Theaters

Prefer your movies with popcorn and trailers? Here some the queer films at LA cinemas right now...

Brokeback Mountain: 20th Anniversary

Opened Jun 20, 2025

Opens Jun 20, 2025

Ang Lee

134 min

Rodeo cowboy Jack and ranch hand Ennis are hired as sheepherders in 1963 Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, they spark a physical relationship. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider, they keep up their tortured, sporadic love affair for 20 years.

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The Queen of My Dreams

Opened Jun 20, 2025

Opens Jun 20, 2025

Fawzia Mirza

97 min

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.

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The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka and the Art of Survival

Opened Jul 17, 2025

Opens Jul 17, 2025

Julie Rubio

96 min

A visually stunning and sweeping feature documentary that traces the life and survival of the renowned bisexual painter through her powerful paintings – from her rise to international stardom in 1920s Paris, to her move to the United States in 1940, fleeing the rise of fascism, and her revival in the current art market. Tamara de Lempicka was the preeminent Art Deco painter, known for her high-gloss sensual nudes and portraits of high society during the Jazz Age. She was marginalized and gained notoriety for her romantic liaisons with her models and her indulgent, decadent lifestyle, but she was so much more.

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