Tonight’s movie is “Red Without Blue”:

Winner of numerous “Best Documentary” awards, including at the SF International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, the Slamdance Film Festival, and the Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, RED WITHOUT BLUE is the groundbreaking documentary about the indestructible ties of family. This arresting film chronicles the close yet sometimes strained relationship between identical twins Mark and Alex as Alex undergoes a transformation into a woman named Clair.

RED WITHOUT BLUE (the title referring to the colors the twins wore as children to distinguish between the two) provides a heartbreaking, but ultimately optimistic look at the tribulations of growing up gay and transgender in rural Montana and maintaining strong family bonds in the face of adversity–74 min.

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
7:00-8:00pm
Q Center
69 SE Taylor Ave at SE Water Ave, Portland (map)
FREE

Each month, the folks at the Portland Lesbian & Gay Film Festival bring some of the best movies ever made to Q Center.

On Wednesday, December 4th at 7pm, Q Center (map) will show “Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives:”

Forbidden Love is creatively framed within the story of a fictional pulp novel lesbian couple from the 1950s paperbacks. With sensationalistic titles, they were most often about butch/femme relationships, with formulaic plots in which one of the women met a tragic ending or left for the love of a man.

This was the public face of the lesbian in the 1950s, but this documentary turns this stereotype on its head by interviewing real women who came out in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Through these interviews and archival footage and photographs, the real lives of lesbians in Vancouver, Toronto and Quebec come to life.

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Ah must first say that you MUST click the links and buy “Stonewall” title IMMEDIATELY. Not only is the film filled with Fabulousness - much like myself! - it is a dramatic and stirring tale about the most momentous moment (hmmm) in homosexual history!

Far from being a dry, fictionalized account of the people involved in the 1969 Stonewall Riots, this adaptation of Martin Duberman’s book is instead a rollicking musical drama that successfully blends gay history and queer fabulousness to wonderful effect.

This what-might-have-been-happening on the days

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