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Tokyo international
lesbian & gay film festival
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Last Thursday I went to Aoyama Spiral Hall to
visit the reception of Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay
Film Festival. This reception is more like "Thank You Party"
but the place was filled with fine set of people from the DJ
of some famous radio station to the president of co-sponsoring
company. I saw Patrick, a DJ well known at clubs, and many drag
queens. There also were directors and performers of entry movies
from abroad and they were talking about Japan and their movies.
I heard the person who directed Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
in Brazil was extremely well known over there.
I'm not sure how many people were gay (homosexual) there but
I guess at least half of them should be. What I want to say
is, at the place named Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay
Film Festival Reception normal men of sponsoring company in
business suits and very womanly gay men were enjoying Champagne
together, and isn't is wonderful?
Of course it was mostly business for them, but there surely
was an open-minded atmosphere.
And I felt that boundary of a country, race, sex, and sexuality
should have nothing to do with things that were cool, beautiful
and of refined sense. Regardless of one's sexuality, to love
fine arts, movies, artists, delicious stuff, and energy for
all of them are natural and normal.
This Film Festival is to activate Japanese Lesbian & Gay
scene, global exchange of information, and to demonstrate against
heterosexual society. But I gave a glimpse of an ideal relationship
among people there based on the concept that what is good is
good regardless of sexuality.
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