Pride is over. July is Gay Shame Month, and Skirt Chasers Local is hosting.

What are we supposed to do with the skeletons in our closets? You know them—the self-hating homosexuals, the loathsome creatures who bring it on themselves. The ones we're embarrassed by, who give us a bad reputation?

In anticipation of Skirt Chasers Local Issue #3: Gay Shame Month, our team is presenting a selection of films that reject Pride as the only acceptable flavor of queer expression. These films don't fit that descriptor, and instead focus on repression, concealment, damnation, fear, and self-loathing. All real emotions put into the box of "negative depictions of homosexuality" 

Skirt Chasers Local is a lesbian and feminist arts and culture magazine based in Brooklyn and Queens. Issue Three is centered on opinions, stories, and reviews that don't fit comfortably within the concept of "Pride."

Section Two At Low Cinema: Wildcards

Dottie Gets Spanked (1993) was suggested for the festival by Todd Haynes. A shy young boy becomes fixated on an I Love Lucy-type television show called The Dottie Show. He is ostracized by his peers and chastised by his father for his interest in the domestic sphere, and fascination with Dottie's repeated spankings. 

(Dottie Gets Spanked will be followed by a wildcard secret short film, which will be introduced on the night of its screening.)