Welcome to Low Cinema
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
Desperate Living (1977) features the gay shame location of Mortville, a shantytown dumping ground for social outcasts and perverts ruled by the evil, shame-inducing Queen Carlotta. After killing her husband, Peggy and Grizelda flee to Mortville, where they shack up with the deranged lesbian couple Mole McHenry and Muffy St. Jacques, the "most beautiful woman in Mortville.
Gay Shame Parade Film Festival: Desperate Living
Upcoming Showings
SAT JUL 18
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
Desperate Living (1977) features the gay shame location of Mortville, a shantytown dumping ground for social outcasts and perverts ruled by the evil, shame-inducing Queen Carlotta. After killing her husband, Peggy and Grizelda flee to Mortville, where they shack up with the deranged lesbian couple Mole McHenry and Muffy St. Jacques, the "most beautiful woman in Mortville.
