Wicked Queer 36
US PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
The Whistle + The Unlikely Story of the Lesbians of First Friday
Double Feature
Sunday
Jul 26
@
1:00 pm
Wicked Queer 36
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
The Whistle + The Unlikely Story of the Lesbians of First Friday
Double Feature
Sunday
,
Jul 26
@
1:00 pm
Wicked Queer 36
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
The Whistle + The Unlikely Story of the Lesbians of First Friday
Double Feature
Sunday
Jul 26
@
1:00 pm
Xerb.tv
With
in person.
Content warning:
This film is presented in
with English subtitles.
Two hour-long shorts explore two communities of lesbians in the 1980s, supporting each other against the tides of the conservative "Moral Majority"
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This short film program includes the following films:
The Whistle
56
min
Content warning:
A 45 year old Latinx trans man returns to his birthplace - Albuquerque, New Mexico - in search for the origin of a secret lesbian code he learned when he identified as a teenage dyke in the 80s. The Whistle is a documentary film that tells the story of a secret code created by and shared among young lesbians in 1970s & 80s Albuquerque as a means of self-identification and finding community.
DIRECTOR
StormMiguel Florez
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English
The Unlikely Story of Lesbians of First Friday
63
min
Content warning:
In the 1980's, a group calling itself First Friday sprung fully formed from the imaginations of a group of lesbians living in the small city of Roanoke, Virginia. Some of the women were locals and some moved to the Roanoke Valley for employment. It was the Reagan era and homosexuals were vilified, especially in the Bible Belt. Spurred on by the pure serendipity of finding each other, the group created safe space, threw fantastic events and grew a community of lasting friendships, all in the shadow of the Moral Majority.
DIRECTOR
Kathryn L Beranich
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English
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