Comedy
All Man: The International Male Story
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FLA nostalgic and colorful peek behind the pages and personalities of International Male, one of the most ubiquitous and sought-after mail-order catalogs of the 80s and 90s.
Narrative Shorts Program
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FLAll The Awards I Never Gave You Caio Scot, 2021, Brazil, 17 min In the bathroom at an awards ceremony, an unexpected encounter between two young actors brings up unresolved…
The Sixth Reel
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FLWhen the death of a close friend unearths the long-thought-lost final reel of a classic film, Jimmy (drag legend Charles Busch) and his cohorts each concoct underhanded schemes involving false romances, drag personas and maybe even vampires to cash in on a big sale of the film.
Waking Up Dead
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FLGorgeous, hard partying Danny Maldonado was once about to conquer Hollywood. But at 35, his acting career has flatlined, his boyfriend has dumped him, and his long estranged drug-addict mother is dying.
No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FLNo Straight Lines chronicles the journeys of five scrappy queer artists from the margins of the underground comics scene to mainstream acceptance.
Chrissy Judy
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FLWhen his best friend and creative partner suddenly couples off and moves away, an ambitious New York drag queen determined for the limelight must reinvent himself or risk becoming an irrelevant solo act both onstage and off.
Maybe Someday
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FLJay, a non-binary 40-something photographer, attempts to move across the country to start her life over again in the midst of separating from her wife.
Unidentified Objects
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FLA curmudgeonly gay dwarf and his unstable, alien-obsessed neighbor are thrown together on an impossible road trip that will alter their strange friendship (and their sense of reality) forever.
AQRONYM: A Night of Queer Comedy
The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewery 1510 E 8th Avenue, Tampa, FLJoin our Master of Ceremony Shaine O'Laine as he leads you through an incredibly fun night of great humor and a good time with Melissa Nichols, featuring Kye Saunders, and headlining Jenn Snyder.
Evolution of Drag – Drag Through the Decades
Palladium Theater 253 5th Ave N, St Petersburg, FLGlamazon and drag performer/producer Daphne Ferraro brings her smash hit multi-media drag extravaganza to St. Pete
Evolution of Drag – Drag Through the Decades
Palladium Theater 253 5th Ave N, St Petersburg, FLGlamazon and drag performer/producer Daphne Ferraro brings her smash hit multi-media drag extravaganza to St. Pete
The Mattachine Family
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FLOscar (Juan Pablo di Pace, Mamma Mia) and Thomas (Nico Tortorella, Scream 4) meet cute, get married, have charming friends and burgeoning careers. Fate steps in and the two agree to be foster parents to a little boy, Arthur. When Arthur is reunited with his birth mother, Thomas realizes he loves being a dad.
Big Boys
AMC West Shore - Theatre 8 210 Westshore Plaza, Tampa, FLBig Boys is a sweet and humorous story about the awkwardness of growing up and feeling different from your peers. Jamie is an anxious and chubby, 14-year old. While he’s not the least bit interested in sports, he might just be a culinary master.
Afternoon Delights Shorts
AMC West Shore 210 Westshore Plaza, Tampa, FLA series of short films.
A Big Gay Hairy Hit! Where The Bears Are: The Documentary
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FLRick Copp, Ben Zook and Joe Dietl are friends and colleagues who have been in “the business” for decades. Between them they have worked on Golden Girls, Scooby Doo, The Brady Bunch Movie, Two and a Half Men, The Thin Pink Line, and Jack and Jill. As does happen in Hollywood, there came the inevitable lapse for all of them.
Lez Bomb
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FLA still closeted young woman brings her girlfriend home for Thanksgiving, only to have her coming out efforts thwarted by the unexpected arrival of her male roommate.
But I’m a Cheerleader
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FLMegan (Natasha Lyonne) considers herself a typical American girl. She excels in school and cheerleading, and she has a handsome football-playing boyfriend, even though she isn't that crazy about him. So she's stunned when her parents decide she's gay and send her to True Directions, a boot camp meant to alter her sexual orientation. While there, Megan meets a rebellious and unashamed teen lesbian, Graham (Clea DuVall). Though Megan still feels confused, she starts to have feelings for Graham.
To the Moon
AMC West Shore 210 Westshore Plaza, Tampa, FLCloseted single dad Sam (Jacob Sampson) finds his world upended when he meets a handsome stranger. Meanwhile, his daughter Ella (Phoebe Rex) struggles with the challenges of teenagerhood, and their writer’s block-suffering neighbor Claire (Amy Groening) tries to mine this offbeat father/daughter duo for source material. An ensemble comedy about love, choreographed dance, kitchen safety, stranger danger, planetary physics, and the idea that it’s never too late in life to figure out who you really are.
Kevin Hartford, 2024, Canada, 85 min
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The Space You Need
Sam Peter Jackson * UK * 21 Min