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Don’t Miss “Before Homosexuals” in Seattle Oct. 14th @ 1:15PM

Don’t miss the latest screening of “Before Homosexuals” this Saturday at TWIST: The 22nd Annual Seattle Queer Film Festival. The screening is Oct. 14th @ 1:15PM at Gay City: Seattle’s LGBTQ Center.

Visit www.3dollarbillcinema.org for more details.

Do you need directions to this event? Click Here to be taken to the location on Google Maps.

Join Director John Scagliotti at Cinema Diverse! on Sept. 24th at 1PM

We are thrilled to be screening “Before Homosexuals” at this year’s Cinema Diverse! The Palm Springs LGBTQ Film Festival.

Join director John Scagliotti for the screening on September 24th @ 1PM

WHERE: Camelot Theatres, 2300 E Baristo Rd, Palm Springs, CA 92262

Tickets are now available online.

See you there!

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Official Selection – TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival

We are thrilled to announce that “Before Homosexuals” has just been selected to screen at this year’s TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival.

The  festival is being held October 12th to 22nd in Seattle, WA.

More details will come as they become available.

Thank you to all of our supporters, who continue to make this film a success.

Update – Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ Film Festival

We are very excited that “Before Homosexuals” will be screening at this year’s Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ Film Festival. We now have the official screening date:

“Before Homosexuals” will be screening Sunday, September 24th @ 1PM in the Camelot Theatre.

Tickets are now available at www.cinemadiverse.org

Our director, John Scagliotti, is planning to attend the event to present his latest film. Please join us!

Thank you to all of our supporters, who continue to make this film a success.

“Before Homosexuals” in the News – CTNOW.com

“Before Homosexuals” was recently mentioned on CTNOW.com, highlighting it’s closing night screening on June 10th at 4:00PM in Hartcord, CT. You can read the article here.

Can’t make it to the Hartford screening on June 10? No worries, “Before Homosexuals” will be screening on July 22 in Brattleboro, VT at the Latchis Theatre. Tickets are now available online.

What? You live in the midwest and can’t make it to either of those screenings? Well you should come see the film in Kansas City, MO on June 23rd at the OUT HERE NOW LGBT Film Festival.

Vermont Premiere Screening of “Before Homosexuals” July 22 in Brattleboro, VT

The “Before Homosexuals” crew while re-enacting the Sapphic plays of Natalie Clifford Barney at the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro. In this photo: Liz LaVorgna, Mel Motel, Ariel Nelson, Gemma Symour, Anne Jedrzejewski, Krystie Curtiss, Nicole LoPresti, HB Lozito, John Scagliotti, and Remi Anderson.

“Before Homosexuals: The Prequel to Before Stonewall” couldn’t have been possible without the help of so many people: our donors, experts, crew, and our local Vermont community. Since so many of our local friends and neighbors assisted in the creation of this film, we have organized a Vermont Premiere screening of “Before Homosexuals” at the Latchis Theatre, presented by The Brattleboro Film Festival.

The screening, presented by the Brattleboro Film Festival, will be held on July 22, 2017 @ 4 PM at the Latchis Theatre in downtown Brattleboro, VT, and will benefit Kopkind’s CineSLAM LGBT Short Film Festival.

We will keep you updated with new details as they become available.

Need directions to this event? Click here to see the screening address on Google Maps.

Sneak Peak Scagliotti vs. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

While John Scagliotti was news director at WBCN in 1975 he was arrested by the Boston Police vice squad and charged with “soliciting to commit unnatural and lascivious acts.” A jury dressed in festive St. Patrick’s Day attire quickly brought a verdict: guilty as charged. Scagliotti fought that conviction all the way to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and with the help of the ACLU, the initial ruling was overturned.

It was a landmark decision for gays and lesbians, and for personal freedom.

Representative Barney Frank at the time told Gay Community News: “This is binding. In effect, it has amended the state’s laws against unnatural acts.… Private consensual, homosexual sex is not convictable.”

Now, more than 40 years later, Scagliotti returns to the scene of the crime April 8th, 2017 at 2PM at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to present the world premiere screening of “Before Homosexuals: The Prequel to Before Stonewall” as part of the 33rd Annual Wicked Queer LGBT Film Festival. He will be joined by members of the crew and cast for a lively Q&A session after the screening.

Tickets go on sale March 23rd at 10:00AM at http://www.mfa.org/programs/film/before-homosexuals

Sneak Peak of the Salacious Reputation of Renaissance Florence

As the late Louis Crompton says in “Before Homosexuals” about the Italian Renaissance, “A number of the artists themselves were undoubtedly homosexual.” Florentines had the most notorious reputations about their sexual proclivities. After interviewing Michael Rocke (Author and Senior Research Associate at Villa I Tatti the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) and Dr. James Saslow (author of Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society) the evidence is clear. We offer this sneak peak of our section on Renaissance Florence from “Before Homosexuals”.
Tickets will be available March 23rd, 2017 for the world premiere screening event of “Before Homosexuals: The Prequel to Before Stonewall” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as part of the 33rd annual Wicked Queer LGBT Film Festival. Join director John Scagliotti and Dr. Bernadette Brooten at 2PM on April 8, 2017 and stay after the screening for a lively Q&A session.
 
Tickets go on sale March 23rd at 10:00AM at http://www.mfa.org/programs/film/before-homosexuals