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It's a wrap! The closing ceremonies for the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, including the dish on the party

It's a wrap! The closing ceremonies for the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, including the dish on the party
By Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid - SGN A&E Writer 10th Annual Lesbian and Gay Film Festival October 14th-23 Various venues Closing night (Cinerama) At the party after the closing night film, my date for the evening, a certain lovely lass I'd met merely a couple of night earlier, and I missed the fact that the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Trans community still has yet to realize that fraternizing with corporate big wigs isn't necessarily a good thing. I mean, can you say, disenfranchisement of the poorer citizens of this city, particularly the homeless, is directly tied, in some cases to an attitude of elitism and privilege that often comes with money? Yes indeed. Still, after we ranted, we also, being two high-spirited grrrlz, partied our butts off, and danced like maniacs until I could barely walk. Oh yes, and the food was pretty good too, and after two gruelling weeks of work, it felt good to pretty much cut loose. The film, 'TransAmerica', directed by returning filmmaker Duncan Tucker (who brought his first film, 'Mountain King' to the festival in 2000), was definitely the best of the festival in my eyes. Starring 'Desperate Housewives' Felicity Huffman and executive produced by Huffman's hubby, William H. Macy, 'TransAmerica' follows Huffman's journey as a man on his way to becoming a woman, only a week away from the final surgery, who is contacted by his son (Kevin Zegers), who is looking for his father. Unfortunately Toby (Zegers) doesn't know that the prim woman he meets, and who bails him out of jail, is really his father, preoperative. With humor and dignity the story winds itself through small towns and a series of heartbreaking moments and funny ones as the two slowly reveal themselves to each other. My personal favorite scene was the one where Toby's grandmother, (played by a really 'dolled up' Fionula Flannagan) has a hissy fit in the restaurant they all go to, supposedly to try and make amends with each other. Certainly the crowning moment of a kick-ass festival that had many grand moments, in film and one very high moment, me, dancing with the best choreographer in town, Wade Madsen, to a medley of pop favorites. Look for the interview with Duncan Tucker in the next couple of weeks, and 'TransAmerica' opens in Seattle in December.

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