Gay cinema san francisco

“Guadagnino’s filmmaking has never been more vivid.” The San Francisco Chronicle, Michael Ordoña.

“…you won’t regret getting swept up in the journey.” Slashfilm, Jeremy Mathai.

”A stunning film about male loneliness, and the way a solitary life can so easily shade into a life sentence.” The Telegraph, Robbie Collin.

1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico Metropolis, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His meeting with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.

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Open Caption Screening on January 16

San Francisco Leather Week is the world’s first cultural festival focused on the art, history, and culture of the worldwide Leather and LGBTQ+ communities. Kicking off with the 31st Annual Leather Walk and San Francisco Leather PrideFest hosted by SF Eagle Bar, Leatherfolk and their supporters will come together to link, celebrate, and deepen their truth and appreciation of leather cultural.

Rest In Peace Wild Bill.

In the early months of 1980, William Friedkin’s incendiary crime thriller CRUISING opened across the nation to almost unanimously negative reviews. Friedkin’s film centered around the activities of a straight Modern York cop assigned to leave undercover as a gay male in the city’s underground S&M club scene in order to snare a serial killer operating in that world, now responsible for a growing list of brutal, grisly murders. The squeeze took the film severely to task at the time, excoriating it for sensationalizing the homophobic violence erupting in gay communities at the dawn of the AIDS epidemic and crowds stayed away in droves, especially in San Francisco where protestors formed human barricades to prevent patrons from entering theaters showing the film