Frameline is thrilled to partner with guest bloggers from the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire during this year's festival! We've invited students from the LGBTQA Studies: San Francisco Travel Seminar at UWEC to share their experiences of Frameline and their thoughts on San Francisco's queer community. As they attend Frameline and experience San Francisco, they will be creating LGBTQ-themed documentaries, as well as vetting films for their second Eau Queer Film Festival in the fall. For more information about the contributors, click here.
“I really enjoyed when she discussed the LGBT community, since that’s not something most comedians address- maybe because they are straight, which is not that case for Margaret Cho. I found it really empowering to hear her talk about gays, lesbians, and trans individuals because she wasn’t afraid to do so. Perhaps her attitude had something to do with it too, since she wasn’t about to apologize for making people uncomfortable or mad. LGBT individuals are here, and that’s a fact. Which is why I think it was an excellent idea to show it at the Castro theatre. Gives the LGBT community here a taste of something specifically for them.” -Katy Cobb
“Being in the theatre with hundreds of other people and listening to them laugh, giggle, and squirm in their seats because of this extreme humor was unlike anything I have experienced before. Although I was not personally in a laughing-type of mood, the crowd fueled Margaret’s work and helped me to laugh even more. I will admit, it was not her best work and I have seen better performers, but it was more of the experience of the theatre life.”- Bryton Fredrick
“Many people find ways to criticize comedy as hindering society; those people must be natural born pessimists. Comedy is an outlet that has the opportunity to discuss dreadful, ridiculous components of society, and twist it to see it in a new light. It allows people to lighten up and laugh at themselves.” -Lindsay Miklya