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BOYS KEEP SWINGING!
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 11TH, 7:00PM to 9:00PM

SIGNAGE
USA, 13 MINUTES • DIRECTOR: RICK HAMMERLY
A chance encounter with a young deaf man forces a forty-one year old to face his ambiguous future in today's youth-obsessed gay world.

EAST SIDE STORY
USA, 88 MINUTES • DIRECTOR: CARLOS PORTUGAL
In East Los Angeles, handsome young Diego works at his family’s restaurant while secretly having an affair with a hunky but super-closeted real estate agent, Pedro. For the largely Latino neighborhood, the landscape is literally changing as white folks move in, including gay couple Wesley and Jonathan. Diego, increasingly frustrated with his hush-hush situation with Pedro (who, making matters worse, romantically pursues a female relative of Diego’s!), falls for Wesley. But racist and homophobic friends, relatives and, in Wesley’s case, an ex-boyfriend guarantee this affair will be no picnic. Director Carlos Portugal’s East Side Story employs a perfect blend of humor, drama and soap opera-worthy plot twists in telling this very timely tale of a neighborhood --and some of its residents’ lives --in flux.