Tickets On Sale for Frameline31!
Get your tickets now for Frameline31, San Francisco's International LGBT Film Festival taking place June 14-24, 2007!
As you remember, SLDN is a proud sponsor of Semper Fi: One Marine's Journey, one of many films being screened during the film festival.
Here's the blurb on Semper Fi from Frameline:
Lance Corporal Jeff Key is one of the most patriotic people you'll ever meet. A gay man from Alabama, he felt there was something missing in his life, so, at age 34, he joined the Marines. They bent the rules to accommodate his age, but he kept his homosexuality a secret. Then, four hijacked planes changed the course of history on September 11, 2001. Semper Fi blends documentary and interview footage with Key’s one-man theater performance about his tour of duty in Iraq as a closeted gay soldier. The story begins with him on a bare stage, wearing just white boxer shorts and his dog tags, waking up to news of the attacks. Key then leads us back in time to a conservative adolescence spent as a teen preacher with the burgeoning awareness of his sexuality. He eventually lands in the gay theater community of Los Angeles, where he shocks his friends by joining the Marines. Stationed in Iraq, Key is confident in his decision to fulfill his love of God and country. But after “Mission Accomplished,” he sees a situation going terribly wrong. At the same time, it becomes more and more difficult to keep his sexuality a secret (especially with so many hot Iraqi men around him). He realizes that the mission isn’t working, and neither is the policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Semper Fi paints a refreshing portrait of a gay man we rarely meet and proves that patriotism, like sexuality, comes in many different packages.And today (as long as you're a Frameline member), you can purchase your tickets for Semper Fi (to be screened on June 23rd at 1pm) and other great films! For non-Frameline members, general public ticket sales begin on Friday, June 1. You can purchase your tickets at Superstar Satellite video store located at 474 Castro Street (between Market and 18th Street in San Francisco), online at www.frameline.org/festival, and by fax at 415 522 5543. - Rebecca Sawyer
Labels: arts
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