Out On The Dancefloor

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The fourth season of Frameline at the Center concludes with the heartfelt documentary Out On The Dance Floor (Frameline32).

“The dance floor is a microcosm of life,” declares one of the many enthusiastic country-western fans flocking to San Francisco’s Sundance Saloon in Anthony Palombit’s extremely personal look at the healing and celebratory power of gay “country culture” as practiced in one of the city’s favorite dance halls.

Palombit’s film started as a quest to understand “wounding in gay men’s lives, homophobia, internalized homophobia and how the closet can sometimes be a very lonely place.” But when he happened upon Sundance — and soon found himself addicted to country western dancing — he realized he would much rather make a film about how gay men heal. To explore the issue further, he asked eight of the club’s regulars to join him on a spiritual journey.

Between activities Palombit serves up some great scenes of two-steppers dancing their boots off at San Francisco’s Gay Pride celebration (including some very gay and extremely sexy “shadow dancing”) and reports from the Sundance Saloon on everything from the politics and the aesthetics of leading versus following, finding and losing spouses on the dance floor, and gay line dancing as a subversive act.

Kindly arrive early as seating is limited. Don’t miss this FREE screening of this dynamic film!

With generous support from Folsom Street Events, Frameline proudly presents admission-free screenings at the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center at 7:30pm on the second Thursday of every month throughout 2008.

Please join us for the fourth season of Frameline at The Center, a provocative series of films and discussions focusing on social issues of particular relevance to the LGBT community. For more info please visit: http://www.frameline.org

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