Date : Sunday, 31 August 2003

Time: 1:30 pm

Venue:
Juhu Jagruti Hall,
A.J. College Complex, Opp. Mithibai College or diagonally opposite Bhaidas Hall.
JVPD, Vile Parle (West), Mumbai 400 056.

CONTRIBUTION towards the costs: Rs.100/-
Discount for Students below the age of 22 : Rs.50/-

(this includes chai between the films)


The Films

1. The Opposite Of Sex - 100 min/ !998 / English
    Dir: Don Ross / Cast: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow

SYNOPSIS : Sixteen-year-old Deedee runs away from Louisiana to live with her half-brother Bill, an English teacher who happens to be gay. Lucia, Bill's sexually-repressed best friend, distrusts her. These suspicions are confirmed when Deedee lures Bill's boyfriend into bed and talks him into stealing $10,000 from Bill and running away with her to Los Angeles. To make matters worse for Bill, his bitter ex-lover frames him for sexual harassment, causing a scandal in their quiet town. This forces him and Lucia to go on a wild chase in search of Matt and Deedee in order to clear his name. They are joined by Sheriff Carl Tippett, a friend, who begins to fall in love with Lucia. A black comedy about what people must go through in order to find "the opposite of sex" - lasting, committed, and loving relationships.

Review of 'The Opposite of Sex'
Rating - 82% (Tomatometer)
 

2. Paragraph 175 - 81 min / 2000 / In English, German and French with Eng subtitles
    Directed by Oscar winners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

SYNOPSIS : "Paragraph 175" is a documentary about the 10 to 15,000 German men who were arrested because of their homosexuality between the years of 1933 and 1945 during World War II. Some of the men were sent to concentration camps to be killed. Others, an estimated 4,000 survived. PARAGRAPH 175, from directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (THE CELLULOID CLOSET), tells the tragic story and includes interviews with 7 of the only 9 living survivors.

It was Klaus Müller, curator of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, who convinced directors Epstein and Friedman of the urgent need to make the film PARAGRAPH 175. Despite their small number of survivors who remain to tell the tale, their accounts unearth a rich trove of anecdotal history. The stories of their treatment are both lyrical and horrific. These 20th Century gay Germans lived freely through the Weimar years. In the '30s, they were initially ignored by an indifferent Hitler. Then, with the implementation of an obscure legal statute (Paragraph 175) which aimed to exterminate homosexuals entirely, they became the victims of a brutal persecution.

Review of 'Paragraph 175'
Rating - 92%  (Tomatometer)

NOTE :

1. The films will are excellent original copies on DVD & VHS.
2. The films are NOT pornographic. Only good, clean gay films.
3. GB as a support group, has created this comfort space/event for gays, many of whom may be "newbies" (those still coming to terms with their sexuality and who have mustered courage to come for such a meeting for the first time). So we request you to be sensitive to the comfort levels of others attending this event and behave and dress accordingly.

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This is a GayBombay (gb) organized event
Rights of admission reserved.
You have to 18 years and above to participate in this event

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If you have any further queries/questions please email at: friend@gaybombay.org 
 
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