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Queer festival lets community see rare films ■ This year s event features movies about drag queens, a lesbian model and wrestling By Lisa Toth Oregon Daily Emerald When Julia Query, the co-director of the first University Queer Film Fes tival, came to campus in 1992, anti gay state ballot measures were trying to define homosexuality as perverse, abnormal, immoral and unnatural. This was the atmosphere that led Query to the office of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Alliance, and her first encounter with queer films at the University. The LGBTA “was showing a les bian movie I had already seen, and it became apparent that we needed a film festival,” she said. Query said people were extremely excited by the idea of a queer film fes tival. The first year of the festival, she said they showed a lesbian film. “We were so starved for lesbian films,” Query said. “It was great to see our imagery on screen.” The film festival has become a tra dition on campus that continues nine years later. The University’s Queer Film Festival, presented by the Stu dent Activities Resource Office, be gins today and runs through Sunday. The festival will bring together a col lection of homosexual, bisexual and transgendered amateur films, includ ing short and full-length films, as well as documentaries. “We created an oasis — where straights and gays could show their support—and opposition to the rab id homophobia politics of the time, ” Query said. “It was a place for some thing urban to happen outside of Portland.” Query said the film festival, which is the second-largest gay event in the state, created a foundation for people to discuss their feelings and debate the imagery presented in the films. “It became bigger than pride in a way,” Query said. Starting the festival helped Query to eventually become a filmmaker herself. Her newest film, “Live Nude Girls UNITE! ” is a documentary about an organized stripper club in San Francisco. The film was recently bought by Cinemark Theatrer, and it will play at the Cinema 21 theater in Portland beginning Feb. 26. For this year’s festival, two-time event director Morgen Smith said she has a handful of non-mainstream films planned to attract a crowd. The event will culminate Sunday at the Hult Center with an evening with fea tured speaker John Waters, a writer and director renowned for his twist ed sense of humor. Debby Martin, a project coordina tor in the Cultural Forum, has helped to host the festival every year. She said the self-supporting event offers the queer community an opportunity to come together to watch the films. Smith brought a jury committee to gether fall term to pick the winning national and international flicks that will be shown during the festival. Hanna Perrson, a freshman and volunteer on the jury, said out of the eight short films, “kalin’s prayer,” di rected by DeSales, was her favorite. The film is set in Tulsa, Okla., where a crack-addicted lesbian model battles for the love of an attorney while facing the memories of sexual abuse. “I hadn’t seen anything like it,” Perrson said. “It was so abstract. ” Perrson said she wanted to be on this year’s selection committee be cause she felt she could relate to the content of many of the films. “It is issues that I have seen happen to me and my friends,” Perrson said. “It is something that expresses peo ple’s lives on different levels. ” Perrson also said that the rareness of queer festivals should be an incen tive for students, faculty and mem bers of the community to attend. “There are not very many queer fes tivals,” she said. “[The films are for] a collection of people who don’t get ex posed and who don’t cater to com mercial media.” Smith recommended festival par ticipants check out “Queens for a Night,” a short film directed by Christopher Gomersall that will be shown Friday. The film focuses on Southern drag queens in their 60s. “Below the Belt,” a short film di rected by Kaizzad Navrose, address es harassment and death caused by homophobia in the United States. The plot concentrates on a member of a college wrestling team who is injured because of the presence of homosexu al issues in the locker room. “It begins in the hospital with the kid who as been hurt because of ho mophobia,” Smith said. “But instead of being the kid who was the product of homophobia, he’s the one who started it who got hurt. ” Smith said the five-minute film, “Baking with Butch,” directed by Melissa Levin and Nina Levitt, is sure to be a hit because it pokes fun at Martha Stewart. “This year, it is so many documen taries,” Smith said. “Go to see what is out there — the short films, the com petition winners — to see what peo ple are doing that can be done pretty well on a low budget and aren’t main stream but could be eventually. ” Courtesy photo 9th Annua! University Queer Film Festival Feb. 15: Paragraph 175 Feb. 16: Short Film Competition Win ners Feb. 17: Divine Trash Feb. 18: An Evening with John Waters All events begin at 8 p.m. Ticket information: Individual Films {At the door): Room 180 PEC StudentswithiD;$4.00 General Public: $5.00 Campus film pass (All three films): Room 180 PLC Students with ID: $8.00 General Public: $10.00 The campus film pass does not guar antee a seat, please arrive early. An Evening with John Waters: Hult Center, Silva Hall (Reserved seats) Students with ID: $12.00 General Public: $18.00 For more information, call the Stu dent Activities Resource Office at 346 4000. Source: University Queer Film Festival Wanted: 3 suspects in series of local store robberies ■ EPD otters a $500 reward for leads resulting in arrests By Darren Freeman Oregon Daily Emerald Police believe three people may be responsible for a string of robberies of Eugene businesses in the past two months. Among the dozen stores hit, the closest to the University are Jabber wocky Cards and Gifts, at 1308 E. Hil yard St., and Tom’s Market, at 1490 E. 19th Ave. Police believe one woman robbed both Jabberwocky Cards and Gifts and Euphoria Chocolate Company, 199 E. 5th Ave., on Jan. 31. Witnesses de scribed the suspect as a white woman in her 20s, about 5 feet 6 inches tall and about 130 pounds. The woman used threatening notes to demand money. Another suspect, believed to have recently robbed at least three busi nesses, has been described as a white woman in her 30s, 5 feet 6 inches tall and 130 pounds. This suspect uses a knife to make her demands. Police believe she has robbed the Check into Cash, 48 W. 18th Ave., and Jasper’s Deli, 1504 Coburg Road. She is also believed to have robbed Ashley’s Bento, 2578 W. Willamette St., twice. The Eugene Police Department is offering a $500 reward for informa tion leading to the arrest of these two women. Police haven’t ruled out the possibility that all the above robberies were committed by the same woman. The third suspect in the recent string of robberies is a white male who is believe to have robbed Circle K, 296 E. 13th Ave.; Dari-Mart, 2429 E. Hilyard St.; and Tom’s Market. He is described as in his 20s or 30s, about 5 feet 7 inches tall and 160 pounds. He is said to use a fixed-bladed knife during robberies. “This amount of robberies is nor mal for this time of year,” EPD Sgt. Scott McKee said, adding that the busiest time of the year for robberies is typically the holiday season because increased spending makes businesses more tempting to would-be thieves. McKee advised anyone witnessing a robbery to comply with the robber’s demands and try to study the per son’s appearance to aid police. “Typically, a robber is a desperate kind of criminal, and we find out of ten that it’s motivated by addiction,” McKee said. “When somebody needs a fix and he has no money, they go out and get it. 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