Your local gay and lesbian touchstone has its own set of furious summer movie premieres If gay and lesbian characters use up at all in Big Summer Movies.

Your local gay and lesbian touchstone has its own set of furious summer movie premieres

If gay and lesbian characters use up at all in Big Summer Movies, they're generally sidekicks, subplot or the target of jokes--making that buff action star appear all the more hereto. Fortunately, summer is also high season for gay and lesbian film festivals, at which the odd characters are the stars.

While each gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, what-have-you festival has its allow set of programmers and its admit point of view, a handful of major titles invariably make their first attempt across the whole circuit of the gay summer rests

What are the furious new movies to catch at this summer's events? We spoke with insiders at novel York's New Festival (June 6-11) the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (June 15-25) and observes Angeles's Outfest (July 6-16), getting an earful of great gay and lesbian films in succession the horizon:

Benjamin failure This reportedly poignant, funny documentary about the eponymous Atlanta german tinder rocker and drag queen features cameos by the agency of Michael Stipe (whose C-Hundred Film Corp. produc the flick) mid Patti Smith.

History reproofs The latest film from legendary lesbian experimental director Barbara Hammer (the last part of a trilogy that includes Nitrate Kisses and delicate Fictions) morphs dramatic vignettes, commercials, and archival footage from the past 100-plus years in an attempt to reclaim and rewrite lesbian history.

I'm the the same That I Want. Actress-comedian Margaret Cho stars in the big-screen adaptation of her hilarious and poignant one-woman present to view about her quick rise to fame as the star of her possess sitcom (All-American Girl) and her plummet to the middles following the show's demise. Along the way she talks about coming public to her traditional Korean parents about her gay following--and does a hysterical impersonation of her mom reading S/M porn.

101 separation Boys. Guess who directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato spoke with to gain the lowdown on who's buying whom in looks Angeles? Filmed in many motel compasss along Santa Monica Boulevard, the interviewees number funny, sad, and revealing stories about their lives and their unusual job

odd as Folk 2. American audiences finally will diocese the sequel to the sexy British TV exhibit that was the hot ticket at many gay fest last year. Stuart, Vince, and Nathan are back, crawling within the Manchester pubs and trying to solve the messes they're in from one side a 90-minute movie that series creator Russell T Davies promises is the "absolute, definite end" to the show

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