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The Whistle + The Unlikely Story of the Lesbians of First Friday

Double Feature

Sunday

Jul 26

@

1:00 pm

With in person.

Wicked Queer 36

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Whistle + The Unlikely Story of the Lesbians of First Friday

Double Feature

Sunday

,

Jul 26

@

1:00 pm

With in person.

Wicked Queer 36

US PREMIERE

WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

The Whistle + The Unlikely Story of the Lesbians of First Friday

Double Feature

Sunday

Jul 26

@

1:00 pm

Xerb.tv

With 
 in person.
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Content warning:
This film is presented in
with English subtitles.
Two hour-long shorts explore two communities of lesbians in the 1980s, supporting each other against the tides of the conservative "Moral Majority"
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The Whistle

56
min 
Content warning:
A 45 year old Latinx trans man returns to his birthplace - Albuquerque, New Mexico - in search for the origin of a secret lesbian code he learned when he identified as a teenage dyke in the 80s.​ The Whistle is a documentary film that tells the story of a secret code created by and shared among young lesbians in 1970s & 80s Albuquerque as a means of self-­identification and finding community.
DIRECTOR
StormMiguel Florez
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English

The Unlikely Story of Lesbians of First Friday

63
min 
Content warning:
In the 1980's, a group calling itself First Friday sprung fully formed from the imaginations of a group of lesbians living in the small city of Roanoke, Virginia. Some of the women were locals and some moved to the Roanoke Valley for employment. It was the Reagan era and homosexuals were vilified, especially in the Bible Belt. Spurred on by the pure serendipity of finding each other, the group created safe space, threw fantastic events and grew a community of lasting friendships, all in the shadow of the Moral Majority.
DIRECTOR
Kathryn L Beranich
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English
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