US PREMIERE
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
1993
10th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival
Coming Out Under Fire
with Private SNAFU Censored
A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuality during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several homosexual WWII veterans.
Based on Allan Bérubé’s acclaimed book, ten gay and lesbian veterans of World War II tell their stories. In WWII the military first adopted its policies to identify, reject, and discharge homosexuals as mentally ill. The fill uncovers the story of the men and women who were fighting two wars–one for their country, and one against witch hunts, “queer stockades,” and stigmatization as “sex perverts” by the country they were serving.These histories shed especially eloquent light on the latest bureaucratic machinations of bigotry, the Senate’s challenge of Clinton’s pledge to lift the ban.
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Private Snafu Censored
Private Snafu wants to tell his sweetheart, Sally Lou, that he thinks his unit will be sent to the South Pacific. But every effort he makes to get his letter through uncensored is thwarted by a resourceful (and unseen) censor with an array of contraptions and booby traps. Not even Snafu’s carrier pigeon can avoid the censor – not when he has a hawk for an assistant. Technical Fairy, First Class, comes to the rescue and agrees to deliver the letter – but he has good reason to say that he’ll hate himself in the morning.
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