Spring Fever Movie Night: a fundraiser for IDA
Suggested donation $10, sliding scale $5-$20 and NOTAFLOF.
Join us for a benefit screening of FORBIDDEN LETTERS (1979), a gay film classic bridging the world of arthouse cinema and golden-age gay porn.
Told through flashbacks and unsent letters, FORBIDDEN LETTERS tells the story of Larry (Robert Adams) and Richard (Richard Locke), two lovers separated by the penal system and homophobia in San Francisco. FORBIDDEN LETTERS is playful, cinematic, and undeniably hot.
Idyll Dandy Arts (IDA) is a Southern, rural community land project and educational space tucked into the hills of rural Middle Tennessee. The mostly wooded hollow provides residential and communal space for queer, trans and gender non-conforming people of color (QTPOC).
IDA “stewards and encourages a world within a world, where ideas and marginalized LGBTQ+ people can flourish [and] build upon the traditions of survival organizing that have kept our intersecting communities afloat through difficult times.” Under a barrage of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and growing hostility, it is vital to support projects like IDA. Learn more here.
One of the pioneers of independent gay cinema in the 1970s and ‘80s, Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. is best known for his devastating 1985 drama, Buddies (the first feature film about AIDS). Working across multiple genres including documentary, narrative, adult and short form filmmaking, Bressan’s boldness and artistry as a writer-director earned him both acclaim and controversy over the course of his decade-long filmmaking career.
Bressan died of AIDS in 1987. The majority of his films have long been unavailable. The Bressan Project is currently undertaking efforts to preserve and make them available once again.