FOR THE LOVE OF FRIENDS
*PACIFIC NORTHWEST PREMIERE*
SUN OCT 16| 12:00 PM | NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
AVAILABLE VIRTUALLY OCT 13-23
FOR THE LOVE OF FRIENDS
Cara Consilvio; 2021; USA; 98 min.
Screens with the short film, Erin McGrady
This emotionally-charged documentary blends stage performance with stock footage to highlight the remarkable life and work of AIDS activist Brent Nicholson Earle. At the height of the epidemic, Earle refused to watch his friends suffer due to government inaction and public ignorance about the disease. His audacious response in 1986 was to embark on a 10,000-mile run around the perimeter of the United States to draw attention to the plight of AIDS patients, all while overcoming public backlash, a homophobic media blackout, his own health challenges, and an inconvenient lack of any long-distance training. Earle and his co-conspirators perfectly balance tragedy and comedy in revisiting this wild, inspirational, important, and unjustly obscure episode from American LGBTQ+ history.
CONTENT WARNINGS: VULGAR LANGUAGE, DISCUSSION OF HOMOPHOBIC/TRANSPHOBIC VIOLENCE
Plays with:
ERIN MCGRADY
Faith Briggs & Tim Kemple; 2022; USA; 9 min.
The story of a photographer and writer who works with her wife Caroline Whatley, to create and celebrate safe spaces for others in the queer community. Together, in spite of all they are up against as queer women in the South, they turn their attention toward the joy they recieve from traveling and creating community.