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Celebrate Pride In Film With Three Dollar Bill Cinema

c/o Three Dollar Bill Cinema

Are the noisy street festivals and sloppy, hedonistic bar crawls not your way of showing pride? Well, lucky for you, Three Dollar Bill Cinema has you covered.

Kick off Seattle Pride this year with the Gayzer Lazer Light Show at the Pacific Science Center LaserDome. The event features songs from LGBT films, as well as by “queer icons and artists.” Prepare yourselves for a bright pink Dorothy Gale running away from a tornado set to Cher’s “Believe” Or maybe a full scale re-enactment of Xanadu set to “True Colors?” Who knows, but expect this event to be suuuuuper gay. The show is $10 for adults and $8 for youth and seniors. Get tickets here. (Saturday, June 27 at 6:30 pm and Sunday, June 28 at 6:30 pm)

Schedule for the PrideFest Film Festival (c/o Three Dollar Bill Cinema)

Three Dollar Bill Cinema has also put together a special collection of films called the PrideFest Film Festival, a series of exhibitions of previously-released queer films. The festival runs through Saturday the 27^th. Highlights include a showing of the classic documentary Paris is Burning and a screening of John Waters’ original Hairspray.

Released in 1990, Paris is Burning greatly influenced many American drag artists. Some insist that Paris was a document Madonna used to steal from drag performers for her Vogue album. The film is absolutely brilliant and certainly one of the best documentary films ever made. If you’ve never seen it, make sure you catch the PrideFest showing at the Egyptian on Friday, June 26^th.

A full festival pass costs $30 and tickets for select films run from $5-$12. With some showings at midnight, this event is perfect for those who want to stay out late for pride, but don’t want to necessarily destroy their brain cells in the process. More information can be found here.

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About the Author: Jeff Coté

Jeffrey Alan Coté is a writer and director based in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle. He recently graduated from the film and video studies program at Central Washington University with a minor in Women's and Gender Studies. He has five years of experience in print and radio journalism, during which he has interviewed figures such as civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and Washington state governor Jay Inslee. His short film “Speak in Rounds” won numerous scholarly awards, including the SOURCE Award for Best Creative Presentation and the CWU Arts and Humanities Undergraduate Achievement Award. Coté is also regularly engaged in social justice issues, including being part of a research team that trained educators in the treatment of trans and gender queer students for the Ellensburg School District.