‍The Queer Film Institute and the Wicked Queer Film Festival present a special free screening of Annalise Ophelian's MAJOR!

Winner of the Audience and Jury Award for Best Documentary at the 2016 WQFF, MAJOR! follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a 73-year-old Black transgender woman who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years.

Miss Major’s personal story and activism for transgender civil rights, from mobile outreach and AIDS prevention to fighting the prison industrial complex, intersects LGBT struggles for justice and equality from the 1960s to today. She is a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion and was incarcerated at Attica months after the 1971 Uprising. Most recently, Miss Major has served as the executive director of the San Francisco-based Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), a grassroots organization advocating for trans women of color in and outside of prison that is led by trans women of color.

Miss Major passed away on October 13th, 2025 in Little Rock, Arkansas, surrounded by family and friends after a recent hospitalization.

This is a free event but tickets are required.

7 PM, Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount Theatre, Emerson College.

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This free screening is supported by a grant from the City of Boston’s Beyond Pride Grant Program. A special thanks to the Mayor's Office of LGBTQIA2S+ Advancement for their support.

For more information about Miss Major and to learn about ways to support her surviving partner and child please click here.

Fallen Fruit.

Free Screening! November 6th. Cambridge Public Library.

Alex (Ramiro Batista), is a 20-something-year-old who begrudgingly moves back to his childhood home in Miami from New York after a breakup. Blinded by his optimism of returning to New York after the Summer, Alex underestimates the inevitable hurricane that is adulthood. As his Miami life takes its turns, Alex documents his version of rock bottom with an old camcorder found in his bedroom-turned-storage closet. Looking for an escape, he soon finds comfort in Chris (Austin Cassel), a random hookup, who shows him what a life in Miami might have to offer. Blinded by optimism and lust, the reality of adulthood comes flooding in, forcing him to begin to grow up.

Dir. Chris Molina. 2024. 86 min.

This is a FREE screening co presented by MGH Sexual Health Center and the CHA Sexual & Reproductive Health Department

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WQ Docs is back November 14th!

Website and ticketing go live on Monday, November 3rd.

Wicked Queer and WQ: Docs are projects of the Queer Film Institute.

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