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AGLIFF Majestic Party at the Paramount Theatre
The Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival hit a rough patch during the past few months. The gay community’s longstanding cultural standard-bearer waved goodbye to one executive director, then to its interim director. One of its key fundraisers, an Oscar party, careened from one venue to another, then created division in the ranks of backers when crammed into a Driskill Hotel sideroom.
Wesley Shackelford and Adam Toguchi
Yet AGLIFF has bounced back, as evidenced by its merry Majestic Party at the Paramount Theatre on Friday. The overwhelmingly male audience cheered for two smart shorts, then dug into “Mangus,” a small, funny film which concerns a (straight) kid who feels destined to play Jesus in his small-town high school spectacular. It was equal parts “Napoleon Dynamite” and “Waiting for Guffman,” with a dash of John Waters thrown in for raunch appeal.
Michelle Randolph Faires and Dave Dunlap
Board president John Livingston and new executive director, Lindsay Muse, fresh from SXSW, seem to have put their house in order. And from the list of volunteers acknowledged from the Paramount stage, an army of folks still care deeply about the organization and its work.
John Livingston and Lindsay Muse
Didn’t stick around for the promised onstage dance party, but ran into many leaders of Austin’s gay community. The timing seemed right, too, since the primary Pride events were moved from June to this weekend in September.
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