CINEMAROSA: April screenings at Queens Museum

CINEMAROSA, the monthly Queer film series of New York City continues with its Spring 2015 screenings at the Queens Museum. On Sunday, April 19th, 3:00 PM CINEMAROSA presents the program "Consentual" featuring award wining independent films "Age of Consent" a collaboration project by local filmmakers Charles Lum & Todd Verow, and "Transvisible" by Peruvian West Coast based filmmaker Dante Alencastre. The program will premiere the short "Been Too Long at the FAIR" by Lum and Verow. About the films: AGE OF CONSENT Dirs. Charles Lum & Todd Verow USA, 2014, 88 min. The story of the HOIST, London's first and only Gay SEX Fetish Bar, coincides with the history of AIDS, gay gentrification, and the ongoing struggle to decriminalize homosexual activity in the United Kingdom. It includes interviews with barmen, patrons, trans-men, human rights activist Peter Tatchell and AIDS emeritus Dr. Joseph Sonnabend. It contains explicit sex, as it's subject insists. TRANSVISIBLE Dir. Dante Alencastre USA,2013, 60 min. The inspiring and intimate story of renowned Los Angeles­based. Transgender Latina activist Bamby Salcedo, who turns personal life challenges into the very basis of her social activism, giving voice and visibility to the multiple overlapping communities (transgender, immigrant, youth, HIV+ and LGBT communities) that her life has touched. BEEN TOO LONG AT THE FAIR Dirs. Charles Lum & Todd Verow USA, 2015, 7 min. The FAIR Theater in Jackson Heights, Queens is one of the oldest continuously running gay establishments in New York City. A loyal patron reveals the history of the FAIR and how it managed to stay open and serve it’s gay clientele while most other New York City porn theatres closed. His recounting of erotic encounters there over 35 years reminds us to keep our gay histories living. www.cinemarosa.org cinemarosa.blogspot.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/cinemarosa Twitter:@cinemarosa Contact: cinemarosa@gmail.com