List Of LGBTQ Film Festivals
An LGBTQ film festival or queer film festival is a specialized film festival that has an LGBTQ focus in its selection of films. LGBT film festivals often screen films that would struggle to find a mainstream audience and are often activist spaces for awareness-raising around LGBT rights by country or territory, LGBT rights as well as for community building among LGBTQ community, queer communities. The first LGBTQ-focused film festivals were organized in the United States as part of the awakening LGBTQ rights in the United States, LGBTQ 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 was established in 1977. Until the 1990s, LGBTQ film festivals were mostly informal screenings in Western countries. In the 1990s, Non-governmental organization, NGOs were founded to create and promote queer-focused film festivals and festivals became more commercialized. Around this time, more queer ...
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