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Program A :
Butch Femme (1995/Channel 4, Dyke TV/40')
Linger (1995/Channel 4, Dyke TV 2/13')
Bragging about one's masculinity or femininity has become a
thing of the past. Today's style is
one where everyone is supposed to be more or less androgynous.
A wickedly humorous production,
*Butch Femme* reminds us how forceful concepts of butch and femme
remain in the lesbian world.
This work was the initial broadcast of Channel 4's Dyke TV, when
it began in 1995.
It will be shown with a Dyke TV 2 piece, *Linger*, where a happily
married woman remembers
an exciting lesbian relationship.
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Program B :
A Star Is Porn (1997/51')
A Night With Derek (1995/Channel 4/25')
Eight
years after it began, Channel 4's gay programming was in dire
need of a jump start.
Renamed *Queer Street*, the division made a fresh start in 1997,
producing *A Star Is Porn*,
a documentary that follows the processes
involved in the making of the first hard-core British
porn video *Butt Buddies*. This lightly erotic program takes
us through auditions, training,
filming, and premiere screenings, and provides a strangely educational
look at a relatively
unexplored genre. Also screening is *A Night With Derek*, a requiem
for the late,
celebrated artist and the perseverance of
his vision.
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Program C :
The Wrong Body Part II: Updates
(1997/53')
Hermaphrodite Bikini (1995/5')
Last
fall the world's first transgender film festival was held in
London. Here we show two entries
that were also broadcast on TV. *Hermaphrodite Bikini* is a unique
short that portrays
hermaphrodites' fantasies. *The Wrong Body Part 2: Updates* explores
the lives of three women
of different generations who believe they have been born in the
wrong bodies. The film follows
them for a year and a half, ending with their sex change operations
in the Netherlands. In this
truly moving piece, the 15 year-old Fredd's pain catches the
spectator in its slow, poignant grasp.
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Program D :
Age of Dissent (1994/51')
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
(1994/8')
In
1993, the UK parliament was rocked by debates over the Age of
Consent law, with calls to drop
the legal age for consensual homosexual sex from 21 to match
the legal age for heterosexuals of16 years.
*Age Of Dissent* tells the story of 24 year- old Will and his
boyfriend's involvement in this debate,
and includes many famous faces, such as Tony Blair (before he
became Prime Minister)
and actors Sir Ian McKellen and Stephen Fry. We are also screening
*Somewhere Over The Rainbow*,
a look at the 1994 New York Gay Parade and Gay Games that were
attended by over one million people.
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We
are still negotiating to bring you even more programs, such as
the high camp game show
*Sticky Moments*, the variety show *Euro Trash* with regular
Jean-Paul Gaultier, the BBC's
*Gay Time TV*, the big soap opera hit, *This Life* and many others.
Be prepared for some big surprises!
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