Reel Q Film Festival: SALLY! at The Harris Theater

Name: Reel Q Film Festival: SALLY! at The Harris Theater
Start: 2024-10-12T17:45:00-04:00
Location: Harris Theater

Schedule

Sat Oct 12 2024 at 05:45 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Harris Theater | Pittsburgh, PA

Here come the Lesbians! 🎵 Join Reel Q 39 to revisit and explore the legacy of Sally Gearhart, through the eyes of the women who fought for justice by her side.

📅 Saturday, October 12
🕔 5:45 PM ET
📍 The Harris Theater
🎟️ $10

SALLY!
The feature documentary begins with Sally Gearhart at the height of her powers in the 1970s. She was one of second-wave feminism's most beloved icons, penned a cult classic fantasy novel about a female utopia and fought one of history's greatest battles for queer rights shoulder-to-shoulder with Harvey Milk. But fast forward to 2008 and Sally has been largely forgotten by history-not to mention erased from the Hollywood film "Milk." Yet rather than simply resurrecting her legacy and glorifying one woman's story, "Sally!" now takes a more collectivist turn. The film traces Sally's life trajectory through the eyes of the exceptional women who fought for justice by her side, revealing that Sally not only instigated the political movements that made her famous but was also deeply shaped by them. Finally, when we revisit Sally in 2014, she is living alone on Women's Land, without the community she helped create. What happened and what will become of her legacy?
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ABOUT REEL Q:
Reel Q began in 1982 as the a Pittsburgh Lesbian & Gay Film Series, a project of the Pittsburgh’s GLCC (Now the Pittsburgh Equality Center) and Pittsburgh Filmmakers. Our founder Rich Cummings launched the festival in current form in 1985 and we hosted the first Pittsburgh Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
Now called Reel Q, film festival in October is the sixth oldest LGBTQ+ film festival in the world and the longest running film festival in Pittsburgh.
We also organize year-round events including our Reel Stories international film series. We facilitate meet and greets, panel discussions, parties, and partnered community events.
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