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If you haven’t made it out to the planet’s first all-documentary Queer film festival, or even if you have, today is the last day to catch Qdoc. They’ve got a full slate of films scheduled, plus a closing night party at the neighboring Savoy. If you haven’t already made Sunday plans, you could do worse than to trudge down to the Clinton Street Theater (2522 SE Clinton) to peep one of these films:
Noon: Free screening! Freeheld. New Jersey police Lt. Laurel Hester has terminal lung cancer, and her dying wish is to provide for her domestic partner, Stacie Andree, but the county’s elected officials won’t let her transfer her pension. “As friends and neighbors rally around the couple, Hester and Andree set off on a powerful and heart-breaking race against time.” After the film is a panel discussion on marriage equality in Oregon, including Portland’s own Commissioner Sam Adams, who’s currently suing the state to split his pension with his former partner.
2pm: Juchitan Queer Paradise. Of all the films that have shown this weekend, this sounds like the most fun—or the least depressing. Juchitan is a small city in Southern Mexico, populated by the indigenous Zapotec culture. “According to local legend, God gave Vincente Ferrer, the patron Saint of Juchitan, a bag full of queers to distribute throughout the world. Everywhere Vincente traveled, hed leave behind a queer or two. When at Juchitan, however, the bag broke, spilling all the queers into this one town.” The film is an exploration of Queer life in the small town, which is probably more accepting than even Portland believes itself is.
4pm: Hot and Bothered. Two short-ish films are playing—Lesbian Sex and Sexuality: The Evolution of Erotica and Eye on the Guy: Alan B. Stone & The Age of Beefcake. The first tells the story of On Our Backs, the hottt San Francisco-based, lesbian-run porn mag. It’s brief and filled with self-congratulations, but entertaining. Eye on the Guy features a lot of photos of sculpted men, all photographed by Stone in the ’50s—it’s a slow moving, quiet story about a largely forgotten, marginalized-during-his-time artist.
7pm: Saving Marriage. The main event of the weekend, Saving Marriage follows the struggles around the country by activists to ensure that marriage laws be fair and equitable. After the screening is a paaaart-ay at the Q Center (69 SE Taylor), with stuff for your face from Caf Wonder and Pearl Bakery, a wedding cake from the Bakery Bar, and a hosted bar featuring Widmer Brews and New Deal Vodka. The catch: It’s only free if you’ve got a ticket stub from Saving Marriage.
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