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SUPPORT GLBT FILM IN OKC! GO SEE
ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER & BOYS DON'T CRY

Editorial by Rob Abiera - OKC's GLBT Community will have a unique opportunity this weekend when 2 movies open here, the likes of which almost never grace local theater screens. Both films are independent, both feature unusual and challenging subject matter, one is foreign, and, perhaps most important to this market, both feature strong GLBT themes. Pedro Almodovar's newest, All About My Mother, is coming to OKC's Brixton Square Theater from Spain, via Sony Classics and some determined local independent film fans (visit filmheads.tripod.com for the full story!), starting this Friday. It is the story of a woman's search for the father of her son, who has been killed in a car accident, a father she never told her son about because, though her son was named Esteban after his father, his father's name is now Lola. Boys Don't Cry, the intense dramatization of the story of Brandon Teena, starts at the AMC Quail Springs 24 on Friday. Both films are vying for Oscars (Best Foreign Film for All About My Mother, Best Actress - Hilary Swank - and Best Supporting Actress - Chloe Sevigny - for Boys Don't Cry), which surely accounts for at least part of the reason for them being in OKC at all. All About My Mother was NOT originally scheduled to come to OKC. Before this week's developments at Brixton, the closest All About My Mother was supposed to get was Norman, where it is scheduled to open next week.
GO SEE THESE MOVIES! Tell all your friends, gay, straight, or whatever, to see these movies! The more local theater managers see that we will support these movies with our ticket and concession stand money, and the more they see that movies like this are not going to draw unwanted attention in the form of protests by the Religious Right, and are not going to chase the straight audience away from local theaters, the more open they will be to bringing GLBT-themed movies to OKC the next time an opportunity comes along!
Events like
OUTART 99, which brought several GLBT-themed movies here last year, are important. But our local theater managers need to see that GLBT movies can stand on their own, outside of any special occasion. OUTART was great but it's only one step toward the goal of getting GLBT movies accepted year-round in mainstream commercial theaters here in OKC. We

need to support movies like these here in OKC whenever the opportunity presents itself.

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NATIONAL CONDOM WEEK
Feb 14-21. For info call Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma at 528-0221.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA COUNTY DEMOCRAT CHILI SUPPER
Thurs, Feb 17, 6:30PM, Midwest City Community Center, corner of Midwest Boulevard and Reno, Midwest City. Free chili supper open to all interested citizens. Party officers and volunteers, and elected Democrat officials will attend the supper and conduct a rally to energize Democrats for the coming election season. For info, call Oklahoma County Democratic Party Chair Jeff Hamilton at 732-6416.

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