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We don't have to tell you that it's almost Thanksgiving. We can tell by that look of dread on your face that you're already anticipating a brawl with the in-laws or an endless evening of Uncle Jim-Bob recounting war stories while you battle indigestion and tryptophan-induced sluggishness.

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Pictures from this past weekend's events, all by Karen Cornell.

         

The William Way LGBT Community Center (1315 Spruce Street) held its 2008 Indigo Ball on Friday, October 10th at the Grand Ballroom at the Bellevue Park Hyatt in Philadelphia. The event was sponsored by Wachovia and included a cocktail reception, silent auction, dinner, and dancing. The William Way Community Center seeks to encourage, support, and advocate for the well-being and acceptance of sexual and gender minorities through service, recreational, educational, and cultural programming.

               

Here are some pics from last night's edition of Liberty Belle’s monthly Gay Roller Skating Party, held at the Cherry Hill Skating Center in Cherry Hill, NJ. Ten percent of the proceeds are being donated to the Mazzoni Center. Check out this website for more information: MySpace.com/PhilaGaySkating.

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Imagine a world where Catholic schoolboys just becoming aware of their sexuality and sexual identity choose to spend their off-hours reading and privately performing Shakespeare rather than playing sports or locking themselves in the bathroom with pornography. Improbable? Absolutely. But it's the world in which Shakespeare's R+J, playwright Joe Calarco's adaptation of what is possibly the world's most famous love story, is set.

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Philly has a new Mr. Gay Philadelphia. He was crowned—well, bannered—Friday night at the Mr. Gay Philadelphia 2008 contest held at the Gershman Y on the Avenue of the Arts. At the end of an evening that included star-studded celebrity judges, amazing entertainment, contestants in evening wear and swimwear, and a Q&A, John Caputo beat out all the others to take the title. He was then mugged on stage by family and friends.

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Films: black./womyn, The Secrets, Finding Me, Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band

If you haven't checked out the film festival yet, you still have one last chance tonight. Hosts Robert Drake and Michaela Majoun present the 14th Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival’s Audience and Jury Awards, and a showing of the lush, gender-bending festival closer Were the World Mine follows.

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Film: Otto; or, Up with Dead People

Film: The Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman

Films: Affinity, Out Late

We already put up a pretty extensive preview of the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival a couple of weeks ago, but we wanted to give the film fest another brief mention today, since it starts tonight! The opening night film is filmmaker Todd Stephens' follow-up to his PIGLFF 2006 hit Another Gay Movie—Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!. The screening tonight at the Prince Music Theater is sold out. Of course, if you already got your tickets, or an access badge, you're all good; otherwise, buy your tickets now for the Saturday screening.

The 2008 Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival... is quite a mouthful. So we'll be calling it PIGLFF from now on. Anyway, the festival's official website went online yesterday, and tickets went on sale, too, so it's past time to put your schedule together! You can check out a pdf of the festival program right here (the only difference between it and the Philadelphia Film Festival program is that this one spends a lot more time pointing out how hot all the guys are in each film). Some of the films that caught our eye include: closing night film Were the World Mine, in which our main character gets cast opposite his crush, a hot rugby player, in a boys' school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, causing quite a stir in the Christian fundamentalist town—and he plans to stir things up even more by concocting a potion to make people gay based on a recipe he finds in the script; a screening of a brand new print of Midnight Cowboy, director John Schlesinger's tale of a naive male prostitute's life on the streets of New York—somehow we've never gotten around to seeing this classic film, and this presentation sounds like a special treat, as it will also feature Jon Voight's original screen test, and special appearances from cast, crew, and Schlesinger's surviving domestic partner; Bangkok Love Story, an action thriller with a romance at its heart, about a cold-blooded assassin-for-hire who falls for the police informant he's been sent to kill; Boystown, a dark comedy about a real estate agent who's been murdering elderly women, disguising them as “suicides,” and then quickly flipping their apartments to upwardly-mobile gay couples; Otto; Or, Up With Dead People, a cheeky take on the zombie genre from Canadian provocateur Bruce LaBruce; NightDragon, a frenetic crime thriller in the style of Bound in which a young prosecutor is caught in the crossfire when she discovers that her lover is a hitwoman for the vicious thug she is about to try; On the Other Hand, Death, the latest chapter in the Donald Strachey series, adapted from Richard Stevenson’s classic gay private eye novels; Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman, a documentary about the noted science fiction author, Temple University creative writing professor, and relentless sex cruiser; Triple X Selects: The Best of Lesploitation, a collection of some of the most erotic and hard-to-find lesbian footage ever assembled, put together by director Michelle Johnson (L.A.-based musician and DJ Triple X), who will expound in person on her selection with a history lesson including some juicy facts about the genre and the actresses and filmmakers who worked in it; and the lesbian vampire film Vampire Diary. And those are just some of the enormous number of films being screened at PIGLFF this year. So take a look through the rest of the program and grab tickets to your favorites before they sell out!

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Oh, Gayborhood... how this Phillyist will miss you when she moves out of her old apartment this weekend!