Queer Lounge, the hotspot for LGBT film gurus during the annual Sundance Festival in Park City, Utah, says it will return to the city and have a presence during the event.
“It’s more important for us to be in Utah. It’s more important for us because of the passage of Prop 8 in California,” said Ellen Huang, Queer Lounge founder and program director. “There were actually a number of organizations looking to us to take the lead.”
A boycott of the event would certainly create a noticeable absence. But being there, for the right reasons, represents good leadership. Instead of hiding, Huang and her colleagues will be out and proud. Perhaps that will do more for moving us forward.
Or, it could be that the gay Hollywood types just don’t want to give up a party.
Either way, being there says, “We aren’t defeated. We aren’t retreating. We are who we are and we will survive.”
December 9th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Being there says, “Feel free to continue to sh*t all over me. I don’t mind.”
Idiots.
December 9th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Well, that’s certainly one alternative view, lol.
December 9th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
why take it out on the whole town for what the Mormons did, I’m sure that there are many businesses who doesn’t care one way or another, I’m sure there are a few businesses that welcomes us each year without question. There could even been businesses that supports us in that town/city right out. So are we to hurt those business just because Utah is the Home state for the Mormons…
December 10th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
There is no possible way to support an event in the Hate State of Utah without financing the Mormon church’s heterosexist, misogynistic, and racist crusades.
I will be making a list of all the films shown at Sundance Festival, and I will boycott them all forever. Any filmmaker who participates in Sundance is deliberately promoting discrimination and violence against me as a gay man. I will not finance my own oppression.