Dirty Looks: Los Angeles | 14th October | LA

Hot on the heels of Stonewall, Hollywood’s widely-panned gay liberation epic, Dirty Looks: Los Angeles presents two films that offer a much more honest and nuanced depiction of this revolutionary period in the history of gay rights. Rosa von Praunheim’s It is not the Homosexual who is Perverse but the Society in which He Lives — made in 1971, two years after homosexuality was legalized in Germany — follows a young gay man through the various facets of gay urban life in Berlin. Carole Roussopoulos’s documentary Le F.H.A.R.(1971) focuses on the pioneering French gay rights group Le Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionaire, whose actions and meetings produced an early form of what would become known as queer theory.

Rosa von Praunheim, Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt (1971), 16mm on dv, 67min. (via facebook)

$5 suggested donation.

Tom of Finland Foundation
(TOM House, 1421 Laveta Terrace, Echo Park, Los Angeles)

Published: 14th October 2015

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