ACE

Saturday 20th October – film screenings at A.C.E. 17
West Montgomery Place, Edinburgh. EH7 5HA.
£1 or donation entry fee.
7pm start time.

Before Stonewall (1985) (90 mins) dir. Greta Schiller
in 1969 the patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York
fought back against a routine police raid with
three
nights of rioting. This film examines historical
background to this burst of political energy. It
moves
from the early twenties on using a wealth of archive
material and interviews.

15 minute interval

Homotopia (2005, 35 mins) dir by Chris Vargas and Eric Stanley

love revolution not state delusion… set
in the near future-present Homotopia chronicles a
group of radical queers dedicated to exposing the
trouble with gay marriage, dismantling the State,
undoing Empire while looking totally fierce.

Shinjuku Boys (1995, 53 mins) dirs. Kim Longinotto & Jano Williams
This documentary follows some of the lives of three onnabe (women who live as men) who
work as hosts to women discontented with biologically born men at in a night club in Japan.

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Sunday 21st October 7-9pm at the Friends Meeting
House, Victoria Terrace (off George IV Bridge)
Free of Charge

The Forum presents a night of Queer History with
Guest speakers Kellan Farshea (defendant in the Spanner Trials and Act-Up organsiser) & Caz (founding organiser of Queeruption London)

Dealing the dirt, telling the truth- anecdotes and
accuracy from stonewall times onwards…