Wasn’t the world waiting for the words, “And introducing Perez Hilton as himself”? Naah. Ah, to spoof, perchance to strike the funny boner. “Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild” is a crass, pointless, unfunny sketch comedy lorded over by RuPaul and Lady Bunny as host(esses) of reality show “Gays Gone Wild.” The original had some spunk; this effort from Todd Stephens (“Edge of Seventeen”) doesn’t, despite the presence of several name porn performers. 98m. (Ray Pride)
By Elise Biggers
After accommodating more than 400,000 people last summer, some speculate this week’s Pride Parade may very well top the half-million milestone. Given Chicago’s turbulent LGBT history that had, within the last eighty years, witnessed the transformation of lightly attended, sidewalk-confined Pride demonstrations into a highly acclaimed yearly celebration, a rich oral tradition had been awaiting documentation up until its translation onto film in 2007. Since filmmaker and Columbia College instructor Ron Pajak’s screening of his documentary “Quearborn & Perversion” last November, Chicago’s LGBT community has connected to stories that have seldom been told by earlier generations—stories that reveal the little-known history of the Chicago’s LGBT cultural identity that began just north of the river not too long ago.
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Chicago Filmmakers is throwing its own V-Day bash on Saturday with the Dyke Delicious film series special screening of seven romantic, raunchy and humorous lesbian shorts. Curator and veteran queer-film producer Sharon Zurek brings the film series into its fifth year with the intention of creating a safe space for lesbians to celebrate the holiday together and to promote new works by underground queer filmmakers. Gail Marlow, who has worked with Zurek and raises money and awareness for the Reeling Film Festival (which is co-presenting the event), is psyched for Dyke Delicious because it gives otherwise undistributed films a chance to be seen and has created a tremendous positive response from the lesbian community. “For me personally, this series is close to my heart,” Marlow says. “This is my opportunity in a non-profit organization to give back to my community.”
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Point-of-view documentaries are rife in the marketplace; Daniel Karslake’s “For the Bible Tells Me So” mixes media to examine the side of five Christian families in the U.S. who happen to be gay. What do their religions say? A lot of things that clash and conflict, as it turns out. The love of parents for their children is a constant, and the hypocrisy of church fathers is as well. Alternately jaunty and infuriating, Karslake’s accomplishment is making an invested perspective more than a one-sided slam at the doctrinaire and defensive who take another side of the issue. 97m. 35mm. (Ray Pride)
” For the Bible Tells Me So” opens Friday at the Music Box.
