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BY PEGGY LUHRS

ohn Scagliotti has documented
our LGBT community’ from

 

Stonewall (1984) and Afier‘St0'n’e’-'
wall (1999) are classics of the state
of the movement pre- and post-

_, Stonewall Rebellion, the 1969 New

York riots sparked by police raids
on gay bars. Dangerous Living
(2003) expands to tell the stories
of coming out in the so-called de-
veloping world, and including the

 

the beginning. HisfilmsBefo're _ ..

backlash as gay and lesbian libera-
tion took off in the U._S... ’
Scagliotti_of.Guilford created
In The Life, the PBS gay maga-
zine program that has had a good
15-year run. His work has led him
to support more independent
media. He’s found that LOGO
and other outlets — while adding
to LGBT content on cable TV
- still don’t cover the hot topics of
politics, sex and religion. Ergo
'GoGayDVD.com, a movie rental

‘service he has set up to support

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the Independent GLBT Video and

Filmmakers Consortium (IGVFC).

Gogaydvd.com will use ten per-
cent of its revenues to support
the consortium, a loosely orga-
nized group of film producers.
Anxious to get away from cen-
sors and aware of the dangers of
foundation funding, John has set
up this network to make a wide
range of lesbian/gay/bisexuaV
transgender DVDS available.
Following is a conversation
we had about J ohn’s new project.

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PL: Why do we need a GLB'|'-
producing consortium?

J S: My work has been censored 
a little self-censorship here, a lit-
tle cutting there. Pulling punches
is safe. Iwas happy to see LOGO
open, but then I realized they
couldn’t do politics, sex and reli-
gion. They bought Queer as Folk
and then censored it. We need
independent gay media to really
see what LOGO and In the Life
won’t put on such as the politics,
sex and religion.

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PL: Why new GLBT producers?
JS: Because progressive, thought-
ful programs such as “why a
Republican Governor in Ver-
mont vetoes a Gender Identity
Bill” can’t be shown now. We
need these programs and these
dialogues. Big funders won’t do
this stuff. We need to involve the
grassroots in the policy discus-
sion. When Was the last time you
saw a national LGBT organization
with a field office? And we should
be showing the kind of panels

 

      
  
 

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