Greetings from Washington D.C.; Altered Habits; Witches & Faggots, Dykes & Poofters; and After the Game

Greetings from Washington D.C.
A color documentary on the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, held on October 14, 1979. “The film allows the people to speak for themselves, both...during the march and rally...and within a ‘postcard' setting: in front of the national monuments of Washington D.C., Lesbians and Gay men come before the camera to make their statements to the world, to their parents, to their friends at home.” --Iris Films
• Produced by Robert Epstein, Frances Reid, Greta Schiller, Lucy Winer. (1981, 30 mins, color, Print from Iris Films)

Altered Habits
This satirical short “about nuns” features San Francisco's own Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
• Directed by Marjorie Newman. (1981, 5 mins, Print from Iris Films)

Witches & Faggots, Dykes & Poofters
An Australian documentary on the history of social and individual oppression of Lesbians and Gay men, which focuses on the situation in New South Wales, and recent Gay activities in Sydney, where a June 1978 Mardi Gras parade of Lesbians and Gay men and their supporters was attacked by state police. “A powerful combination of historical and contemporary issues....”--Michael Lumpkin, San Francisco Gay Film Festival.
• Directed by One in Seven Collective. Produced by Digby Duncan. (1979, 45 mins, color, Print from Iris Films)

After the Game
“Donna Gray's short fiction film portrays the beginnings of a relationship between two women whose friendship subtly changes, and with it their sexual orientation. It is a non-rhetorical treatment of ‘coming out' that will effectively reach a general audience.” --Gregory Finnegan, Choice
• Directed by Donna Gray. (1979, 19 mins, Print from Iris Films)

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