A trio of films that explores American queer history through a celebration of life, community, politics, and even death. THIS IS A FREE PROGRAM. PLEASE RSVP TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE.

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SAT OCT 21| 3:30 PM | NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

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GREETINGS FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.
Lucy Winer; 1981; USA; 29 min.
On October 14, 1979, thousands of people converged onto Washington, D.C. for the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Director Lucy Winer (Silent Pioneers) along with producers Rob Epstein, Frances Reid and Greta Schiller, celebrate the community of diverse queer activists from across the country who came together to take a unified stand for our rights. This new restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project shows how far our community has come and how far we still have to go. Distributed by Milestone Film & Video.

TONY & DENISE: CINEMATIC MEMOIR OF DENISE D'ANNE
Brian J Favorite; 2022; USA; 27 min.
Denise D'Anne started life in a Brooklyn Orphanage, joined the army, transitioned in the late 1960s, and became a prominent labor and gender activist throughout the 1970s. In this "cinematic-memoir-love-letter" to Denise, director Brian J Favorite (The Queendom of Tonga) brings her autobiography Going the Distance: The Life of Denise D’Anne to life using animation and archival photos.
CONTENT WARNINGS: DISCUSSION OF TRANSPHOBIC VIOLENCE

SURVIVING VOICES - AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT PANEL MAKERS
Jörg Fockele; 2023; USA: 25 min.
In the midst of the 1980s AIDS crisis, the community poured its grief and pain into the creation of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Now consisting of 50,000 panels, the quilt is a monument to our ability to find strength through love. SURVIVING VOICES captures the personal and political history of the quilt through stories of both the keepers of the quilt and the survivors who have made their own panels.