Now, having swapped coasts, the fest is taking on a city that has for decades not gotten the respect it’s due as a birthplace of the country’s queer civil rights movement. Three lesbian bars - Redz in Boyle Heights, Plush Pony in El Sereno and North Hollywood’s Moonshadow - will have their doors reopened as part of Dirty Looks, as will Jewel’s Catch One, one of the country’s very first black gay discos (now a nightclub called Union), and two previously infamous Silver Lake queer spots, Cuffs and Circus of Books.īegun in 2012, Dirty Looks: On Location initially brought film screenings and performances to the queer spaces of New York City. A mix of film screenings, performance art, photography programs and reactivations of some of L.A.’s infamous but since-shuttered queer bars, Dirty Looks takes place at Los Angeles venues including Moonlight Rollerway, Silver Platter, Bullet Bar, the Tom of Finland Foundation, The Black Cat, The Plaza and Los Feliz movie theater The Vista.Ī still from Greg Araki’s ‘Nowhere,’ screening as part of Dirty Looks
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