User:Shikeishu/Queer film festival

A queer film festival is a specialized film festival that has an LGBT focus in its selection of films. Queer film festivals are often activist spaces for awareness-raising around LGBT rights as well as for community building among queer communities.

The first queer film festivals were organized in the US as part of the awakening LGBT movement in the United States in the 1970s. The longest-running film festival with an LGBT focus is the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, which is held since 1977.

Different labels: gay and lesbian, queer, LGBTQ or no label attached to the name.

Among the motivations for organizing a queer film festival might be:


 * screening films that would struggle to find a mainstream audience