by Elliot Tiber. Before there was a Woodstock Concert, there was Elliot Tiber working to make a go of his parents’ upstate New York motel. The Jewish clientele who had frequented the Catskills had discovered Florida, and the upstate tourist business was dying. To save his family’s livelihood, Elliot put on plays and local festivals. In the process, he became the area’s issuer of event permits. He even used his own income from work as a Manhattan interior designer to support the family business.

In the summer of 1969, Elliot Tiber’s life changed in a way he never could have foreseen. Working in Greenwich Village, a mecca for gays in America, Elliot socialized with the likes of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and a young photographer named Robert Mapplethorpe, and yet managed to keep his gay life a secret from his family. Then on Friday, June 28, Elliot walked into the Stonewall Inn–and witnessed the riot that would galvanize the American gay movement. And on July 15, when Elliot read that the Woodstock Concert promoters were unable to stage the show in Wallkill, he offered them a new venue. Elliot soon found himself swept up in a vortex that would change his life forever.

TAKING WOODSTOCK is the funny, touching, and true story of the man who enabled Woodstock to take place. It is also the personal story of one man who took stock of his life, his lifestyle, and his future. In short, it is like no history of Woodstock you have ever read–(book dust jacket)

a writer, filmmaker, and photographer stuck in the gulag otherwise known as Toronto, Canada. He started out as a child, then quickly moved on to the production of homo punk fanzines and Super 8 movies. These productions helped launch the so-called Homocore or Queercore movement which corrupted a whole generation of homosexuals–(from Bruce LaBruce website)

directed and co-written by Chris Diani. In a small town in 1967, plucky young sissy Phillip is about to celebrate his birthday at the beach cottage owned by his best friend Stan. all of Phillip’s friends are gathered for the festivities, including Stan’s hunky-but impulsive boyfriend Billy, Billy’s shy, nerdy cousin Joseph, and Randall, the chain-smoking, bitter queen of the bunch. Meanwhile, a horde of libidinous gay men-turned into ravenous flesh-eating zombies by toxic mosquitoes at a cruisy highway rest stop-are making their way towards oblivious celebrants, eating every man in their path. With body parts washing up on shore and party guests disappearing, our heroes must find a way to stop the zombie onslaught. Will Stan keep the rotting corpses out of his spotless home? Will Joseph work up the courage to declare his love for Phillip? Can Billy keep it in his pants long enough to stay alive? And is Phillip’s cheating boyfriend coming to the party to save them, or to eat them? No one is safe in this campy mix of classic B horror flicks and pre-Stonewall gay melodramas.

a documentary by Roy Kirkland and Doug Sebastian. On the morning of Wednesday, July 21, 1993, an incident occurred in the small South Georgia town of Willacoochee. Two gay men were awakened to find a seven-foot charred cross in their front yard. Compounding the problem were comments made by a Willacoochee City Council member who said he was not surprised by the incident because the town is largely anti-gay. However the cross burning was just the beginning. A few weeks later their mailbox was destroyed followed by the death threats on their answering machine. Then the unthinkable occurred, their home burned to ruins. Roy Kirkland and Doug Sebastian had no idea that after all that happened, the worst was yet to come. This compelling documentary reveals how two men became victims of a hate crime and battled one of the largest insurance companies in the world. Fifteen years later, they tell their story about the time they lived through: “A Cross Burning in Willacoochee”.