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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1995)
■ UNIVERSITY Third Queer Film Festival draws record audience Sean M. Smith h* rhr Oregon OMy l nw.ef The third annual Queer Film Festival continues this weekend with explorations into same-gen der marriages, the AIDS epidem ic and the heterosexual agenda Opening weekend of the fes tival drew the larges! audience in the event's history, with more than too people filling the seats of Room 1 HO RtX; Friday and Sat urday night. Acc ording to Program Coordi nator Dubby Martin, the .150 seal i lasanxmi has only been half full in previous years. This weekend's turnout promises to lie equally mu l ess ful with showings of the Academy A ward-nominated doc umentary Chirks in W'lntr Satin and 17 narrative, expert mental and dee.umentary films. Martin said Chirks, hv filmmaker Flaine Holliman, examine* how an engaged female couple deal with the public and their families as the . plan tin-ii wedding. At i anting to Martin, it i-* ram that films with controversial sub* jet ts are nominated for main stream cinematic awards “IChicks| Is an example of a documentary that got goexi expo sure." she said It's neat that independent Film making is get ting nominated Holliman has been t outrac led by Disney Studios to write a fea ture-length comedy Iwsed on her <i'M umantary, and bar screenplay of Hu by Fruit /angle is in pro production with a maR»r studio, sho said More queer related films are being pun based by mainstream film distributors and exposed to a larger national audience, she van! Although it's ext ding that these films are reat lung more people, she said, it is urn loar wh.it effect that exposal* will have on the content of future Queer Film Festivals "It will he interesting to see which dm* lion the festivals go." she said "Grass roots (film m.-iL ing) will always bo around, and hi It to* . h !'.;>■ ills tt due to the greater act ess to video {equipment! ,** Award-winning Film and video maker Diane Bonder (f’oro/t*. Ikuigettnu Wlim IVVf) will scream five of her films and a work-in progress Friday in Room 100 Willamette at ft p m Bonder's Hamit' won the fury Prize at last year's festival. and festival orga nizers « onsidered her a "natural choice'' to be this year's featured speaker. Martin said Graduate loathing fellow Mervem l.rvi* will present a free retrospective of video and film tith'd "(jimp. Cult. kitsch A His lory of Queer Ext essQueer At i ess in Film and Video" Sat urday at 2 pm The presentation has been moved to Room 135 Elaine Holliman, director of Chicks in White Satin, sets up a camera shot tlnutes this weekend with Holliman's film and 17 others CourtMy Ptvoio The Queer Film Festival con Straub instead of Room 1HO I’l.C because of m hodulmg problems Showings of Chicks and the feature film Grief will begin Sat urday at H pm For the first time, the festival will present an afternoon of free films this Sunday All of the film* rei eiveil honorable men (ion awards from the four-person 1 diversity judging panel We w .mled to i>e able to show ail of the entries thal were worth s**rmg. ’ Martin said. "A lot of the entries were longer this year and it makes it more diffii uIt to schedule programming. "There are Rve hours of mate rial, and it's neat to have an open door so people can come in and see a few films." rickets for the evening events are $4 for students and $5 for non-students, and are available at Mother kali's Books. Baba Yaga's Dream and the KMl I Main Desk Sailor argues homosexual acts no basis for military discharae SEA ITI.K (A1‘) A Navy putty olfi< or raised the stakes Wednesday in tin* legal fight over gays m the military, arguing in federal i ourt that an admission of homo sexual at Is is not grounds for (jolting kn ked out of the servuu. Courts have previously ruled it is uni (in stitutional to discharge a service member who simply admits he or she is gay. Hut they have not overturned the military s position that |nirforniing homosexual ai ts is reason for dismissal When a hutwtwexunl couple tmiiouru os they are going ,0 get married, there is not a presumption ihai they will engage in oral sex." even if studies indicate many do, silil Jett VVhitiner, attorney for Mat hm ist s Mate 2nd Class Marl A Philips Hut, "if they soy. 1 am gay.' they assume the burden of proof that they do not per form certain acts." he said. "The core constitutional question is, do we treat Iht'in equally?" Philips is challenging his rw oinmend «*d discharge under the military's year-old "don't ask. don't toll" polity. Attorneys and a Pentagon spokesman said it is the first challenge to the new policy to he argued in court A second ease is ponding in New York Philips is asking U S Distric t Judge William Dwyer to throw out the policy, partly on the same grounds that courts ear !i<*r rejected discharges based on a (larson's admission that he or she was gay. Ilio old policy allowed military officers to ques lion service members about their sexual orientation and dismiss them if they said they were gay. I Inder the new policy, such questioning is banned, but service members still can bo discharged if they disc lose they are homosexual, as Philips did, unless they prove they will remain celibate offers you the LOWEST PRICES IN TOWN ON UNLIMITEDTANNING in time for Spring Break. ONLY sl/io Open 14 Hours 595 East 13th 342-1727 * Regular pn- c $ / l?;-nonih after remodeling ■ BRIEFS • Mom than BOO high w hool students will t»> talking up a storm at the Unviersitv's lf»sh annual High School Forensic* Tournament. t inlay through Saturday. Students from high schools in Oregon. Washington. Idaho arid California will compete in the tournament, which is tho largest in the Northwest University students will serve as judges I he public is welcome to watch For mom information call 34B-4198. • A conference sponsored by the University’s School of Law will tr\ to answer the question: How widespread is racism in the legal system? 1 his conference will be held in conjunction with the School's Minority Law Day Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Law Center, 1101 Kincaid St. The Race and Justice" conference seeks to fos ter a greater awareness about contemporary legal issues concerning race, racism and exclusion from the legal system Panel and caucuses will tackle some of the more significant contemporary legal issues for students who are concerned about racism's influence in the law The conference is free and open to the public Advance rifgistration is requested. 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