Sunday, November 14 at 11:00 AM

Film Festival Community Bagel Breakfast
and a choice of movie at (either Topp Twins with Tools 4 Fools or Just Say Love w/If you Can Hear That, screening at 12:30 see below for descriptions) sponsored by Auntie M’s Helping Hands with a performance by the Gay Men’s Chorus. $15.00 in advance $20.00 at the door. 100% of the proceeds will benefit the Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Includes silent auction and raffle.

Sunday, November 14 at 12:30 PM

The Topp Twins:
Untouchable Girls
(Leanne Pooley New Zealand, 2010, 81min)  This is the first time that the irrepressible Kiwi entertainment double act, Jools and Lynda Topp's extraordinary personal story has been told. The film offers a revealing look into the lives of the World's only comedic, country singing, dancing, and yodeling lesbian twin sisters. 

With Tools for Fools ( Kate A Brandt, USA, 2009, 8 min) A wacky enthusiast hawks used dildos in the infomercial from hell

Sunday, November 14 at 12:30 PM

Just Say Love
(Bill Humphreys, USA, 2010) Is physical attraction the reason two people become a pair or is the bond something, more … something spiritual? Not only does it dare to say its name, this film has the audacity to claim that love in a higher form is the only lasting love of all, and that we can find our bliss through a simple mantra, Just Say Love. The story of Guy, a student of Plato, and Doug, a construction worker looking for more than a stroll in the park to blow off some energy...

with If You Could Hear That (Jeremy York, USA, 2010, 5 min) New Yorker takes his dog for a walk and after realizing how much he is used to miss out in life, he has an epiphany to change his attitude and has a big surprise.

Sunday, November 14 at 2:30 PM

Scream, Queens!
A Guided Tour of Gay Horror with CampBlood.org

Ever wonder what gays and horror movies have in common? Join entertainment writer Brian Juergens, the creator of gay horror website CampBlood.org, for a guided tour through the dark alleys and shadowy corners of cinema’s most dangerous genre. In this fun and frightfully informative forum, we’ll discuss gay genre filmmakers, gay characters (actual and coded) in horror films, body terror, beefcake and more in a multimedia presentation packed with surprises. We may even pull a skeleton or two out of the closet. Plus: Horror trivia, Giveaways, and more. Come prepared to scream!

Sunday, November 14 at 4:30 PM

Howl
(R. Epstein and J Friedman /USA /  2010   /90 min.)  James Franco leads an all-star cast as the young Allen Ginsberg—poet, counter-culture adventurer, and chronicler of the Beat Generation. In his famously confessional, leave-nothing-out style, Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless and electrifying work of his career: the poem HOWL. HOWL is simultaneously a portrait of a renegade artist breaking down barriers to find love and redemption, and an imaginative ride through a prophetic masterpiece that rocked a generation and was heard around the world.

with Billy & Aaron(Rodney Evans, USA, 2010 10 min)  African-American composer Billy Strayhorn and the personal and professional consequences of his decision to live as an openly gay man within the homophobic jazz milieu of the 1940’s.

Sunday, November 14 at 6:30 PM
(No one under 18 permitted)

An Evening With Joe Gage, Revolutionary Filmmaker
With Special Guest Bryan Slater, Adult Film Star.Interview with Q&A . The interview will be conducted by Dr. Jud Newborn, Special Projects Curator, Cinema Arts Centre  – Explicit Trailers & Clips – eception & DVD Signings – Special Screening. Curated by Dr. Jud Newborn.

Members $10 • Public $15
(includes Reception + LA Tool & Die)
Reception in the sky room sponsored by Tula Kitchen and Bens Kosher Deli

Joe Gage’s early films are über-potent dissections of American life and culture—unique and defiant works of virile, unabashed pornography raised to the level of art. Begun when he was 32, his“Working Man’s Trilogy” belongs to the genre of road trip/buddy films even as it subverts them. Gage presents “real men” who cross boundaries of race, class and ethnicity, sidestepping rigid sex roles and oppressive stereotypes of homosexuals as effeminate or deviant. The final ingredient is Gage’s trademark building of tension, as men, forced to convey their desire in unspoken looks and coded language, experience the risky thrill of approaching the forbidden. Sometimes disturbing, often exuberant, these are ultimately liberating works that proclaim the humanity of men determined to live their lives despite the hostility of a society that will not even let them breathe.

Sunday, November 14 at 7:30 PM

Joe Gage Reception
in the Sky Room sponsored by Tula Kitchen and Bens Kosher Deli

Sunday, November 14 at 8:30 PM

LA Tool & Die
No one under 18 permitted) Original uncut theatrical version When the El-Paso Wrecking Corp. shuts down, Hank—a lanky drifter (played with wry, laidback masculinity by Richard Locke)—has nearly had enough. Fate intervenes when he spots the younger Wylie (Will Seagers), an elusive veteran still haunted by his lover’s death in Vietnam. Despite their instant connection, Wylie sets off cross country for a welding job, with Hank in determined pursuit (but always ready for some thrills along the way). Hank, Wylie— and the “Working Man’s Trilogy”—finally come together in a denouement that is at once tender and exuberant, as the parched American landscape itself shudders in an unexpected gift of god-sent orgasmic release. (USA 1979, 88 min., b/w.)