Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012 Special Events (A)Sexual
Brattle Theatre
Details:
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012 Special Events (A)Sexual
at 1:30 PM
Tickets $10/$8 Students, Seniors, Brattle Members | No Brattle Passes
Directed by Angela Tucker. USA, 2011, 75 min
Hold the skepticism—the smart and funny group of people profiled in this fast-moving documentary have heard it all before. Meet Swank Ivy who makes YouTube videos debunking common beliefs about asexuals; or David Jay, the movement’s poster boy and a regular on television talk shows, including The View. (A)sexual documents the growth of this newly organized sexual minority while raising provocative questions about queer inclusiveness and the boundaries of “normal” sexual desire.
The community is powered by the internet and modeled on the gay rights movement. In 2002 Jay created a website, asexuality.org; today, there are some 26,000 members of AVEN (Asexual Visibility and Education Network). Members discuss coming out as an asexual, their struggles for acceptance, and the various subgroups within the community (to cuddle or not to cuddle?). Along with David Jay and other members of the asexual community, the film features academic researchers who speculate that there are over three million asexuals in the US. Sexperts Carol Queen and Dan Savage weigh in on the fledgling asexual movement and its place in queerdom. Is it possible that in today’s sexualized society, lack of desire is perversion’s final frontier? (Description courtesy of Monica Nolan, Frameline International LGBT Film Festival)
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