Shropshire LGBT Film Festival
Feature Length Films.
LGBT History Month Screening: (Sunday 19th February, 10:30 – The Old Market Hall). In TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL we will meet, for the first time, the real Tab Hunter as he shares with us the whole story of a happy, healthy survivor of Hollywood’s roller coaster.
Feature Film: (Thursday 1st December 2016, 20:00 – The Hive). HOLDING THE MAN – Tim and John fell in love and embarked on a forbidden high school romance that was to last a lifetime.
Feature Film: (Saturday 15th October, 13:30 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). A warm and personal history of the changing face of lesbian life and culture in Britain from the 1920s to the 1990s. 16 women from various backgrounds give first-hand accounts in two documentaries, first shown on Channel 4 as part of the ground-breaking 1980’s TV series: ‘Out On Tuesday’, with a Shropshire twist!
Feature Film: (Saturday 15th October, 20:00 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). In 1971, Carole, Parisian feminist campaigner and Delphine, rural farm worker, meet, fall in love and discover how the balance of a life can change forever on the strength of one fateful choice.
Feature Film: (Friday 14th October, 18:30 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). Randy is hiding a secret inner struggle and denial of his true self.
Feature Film: (Sunday 16th October, 15:30 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). The film is inspired by the real life ordeal of 64-year-old Professor Siras (played by Manoj Bajpayee), who was suspended by the Aligarh University for being homosexual.
Feature Film: (Sunday 16th October, 18:30 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). A male youth begins exploring his attraction to older men.
Feature Film: (Saturday 15th October, 16:30 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). REAL BOY is the coming of age story of a transgender teen on a journey to find his voice — as a musician, a son, a friend, and a man.
To mark this years International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), Shropshire Rainbow Film Festival are screening the documentary “This Is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights & the War in Ukraine” in Shrewsbury.
The Times of Harvey Milk – Sunday 14th February 2016 @ 14:30, The Hive. Plus: Harvey’s nephew, Stuart Milk, President of The Harvey Milk Foundation will be giving a talk. Like Harvey, Stuart has chosen to speak out as an openly gay advocate for not only the LGBT community, but all who remain marginalized or diminished by inequality in the law, or societal inequality.
