GayFest: A Philly Celebration of LGBTQ Theatre and Performance

Rich Rubin, the producer of GayFest, Philadelphia’s LGBTQ theatre festival, promises a celebration of the performing arts that has something for everyone.

An Unlikely Pairing: The Battle of amfAR

This tightly-knit documentary explores the collaboration and friendship between AIDS researcher Dr. Mathilde Krim and Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor, both who are credited with the founding of amfAR, the country’s first AIDS research foundation.

Fall to Grace: The Possibilities of Redemption

There’s a lot more to former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey than just being a “gay American.” This insightful documentary shows that one’s past afflictions can, at times, be divine interventions.

I Am Divine: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Leave everything you know about Divine at the door: this well-crafted documentary presents the drag superstar, also known as Glenn Milstead, as an actor with a lot of heart, soul, and desire.

First Period: “The Vagina Monologues” For the Rest of Us

If there’s one thing to expect from Charlie Vaughn’s “totally rocking superstar extraordinaire” comedy, it is to expect the absolute unexpected.

Coke for Dummies: Lose Your Head

About the only reaction you will have after watching this Berlin-based, hallucinogenically-driven thriller can be summed up in two words: quit trippin’!

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Goes With Any Outfit!

Birthday Cake: Bitter Crumbs of a Family Circus

The highlight of this darkly humorous mocumentary about a gay couple’s nightmarish birthday party for their adopted daughter is, surprisingly, an astonishing dramatic performance from Helen Shaver.

Gore Vidal: the United States of Amnesia

The Real Most Interesting Man In The World

Valentine Road: A Heartbroken Path of Injustice

The horrific murder of 15-year-old Larry King by his 14-year-old classmate Brandon McInerney is heart-wrenchingly examined in this Philadelphia premiere of Martha Cunningham’s documentary at QFest.