Twelve days, hundreds of films, millions of parties, and … Tanqueray! It must be the 2004 Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, the planet’s pre-eminent place to see the new boys and girls on the queer cinema block (not to mention the nude boys and girls, but really, don’t you think you should worry about that James Duval fixation after you brush up on your Cocteau? You scamp, you!) Angela Robinson‘s D.E.B.S. and Q. Allan Brocka‘s Eating Out are the first of many shorts, features, documentaries, and assorted ephemera that we personally guarantee will rock you like, um, a hurricane of motion picture excellence. Tickets and passes are available now, but as always, they’ll be in short supply if you don’t act on that uncontrollable urge (to attend, you fool, to attend!) this very second. Run don’t walk to www.agliff.org! And look for our extended aGLIFF preview in next week’s issue.
This article appears in August 20 • 2004.