Frameline Film Fest—the world’s first and largest continually running LGBTQ+ movie festival—is celebrating 50 years, June 17-27, and we have 20 free tickets to give away, good for the fest’s dozens of eye-opening and celebratory films! We will be telling you how Monday-Wednesday in the 48 Hills Daily newsletter, but you must be subscribed to enter: New subscribers can sign up here.
Stay tuned for our exclusive coverage throughout Pride month, plus more giveaways and fun queer stuff—including how to win tickets to our presentation of local doc Hunky Jesus. Support the movies!
ABOUT FRAMELINE
Frameline, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, is the oldest queer film festival in the world. Its inaugural event, dubbed The Gay Film Festival of Super-8 Films, was organized in 1976 and held in 1977 at the Gay Community Center in San Francisco. Featuring largely experimental works, the Festival projected its films on a bedsheet pinned to a board.
In 1979, “Frameline” became the name of the group running the annual festival. Three years later, the group was incorporated under that same name. Led by Michael Lumpkin, the newly minted Frameline: San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival became a world-class, professional film festival. Over the years, the Festival’s name has continued to change — in 2005, it became the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, before adding a “Q” to the end of the acronym 10 years later. However, Frameline’s commitment to showcasing and celebrating films by and about LGBTQ people has remained steadfast.
