Chicago Reader 11/11/93 13th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival -

Dykeumentary - A music-video-style documentary about lesbian bar life by Erin Cassidy.

Dyke TV - A sample of work from the activist cable-TV program in Manhattan.

Activism in Progress - A documentary video about "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" activists by Out and Out Media.

Teen Connection-Sexual Orientation - A call-in teenage show from Wisconsin Public Television.

Scared to Death  - A video examining the high incidence of suicides among gay and lesbian teenagers.

No Rewind - A 1992 sex-education video by Paula Mozen about preventing the spread of AIDS.

A Queer by Choice - A collectively made comic fantasy from Canada.

Because This Is About Love: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian Marriage - A 1992 documentary by Shulee Ong.

...And We Fall in Love - A documentary by Karen Gerbig.

Too Close to Home: Personal AIDS Stories - A video by Ava Ciliberti.

Threnody: A Wailing Song for Carl - A 1991 Canadian video by Ken Anderlini.

AIDS: The Second Decade - Two documentaries--Kermit Cole's Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness and Beth Wichterich's

Grid-lock! Women and the Politics of AIDS -and a short performance piece, Wendy Woodson's Trout

Changing - A Dutch documentary by Ireen van Ditshuyzen (1992) about a man who undergoes a sex change; the film follows him for three and a half years. On the same program, Andrew Ellis's Dance of a Totally Unified Person (1990) and Georgette De Roux Taylor's It's Totally Different if You Have Red Fingernails.

Army of Lovers - Five short films from the U.S.: Christopher Leo Daniels's Victor, Tom Kalin's Nomads, Bill Oliver's The Wrong Son, John Outcalt's Until the Cure, I Offer the Care (1992), and J. Keegan-Sommers's War Stories (Between Paper Soldiers).

She Thrills Me - Short films from the U.S. (by Ellen Seidler, Mary Kusmiss, Wendy Jo Carlton, Keli Meyer, Melissa Dopp, Anne Chamberlain, Kristine Marciniak, and Susan Walsh), from Great Britain (by Annette Kennerly), and from Canada (by Lorna Boschman, the Kiss n' Tell Collective, and Maureen Bradley.)

Love Me Tender, Love Me Queer - A dozen recent short films from the U.S. and Canada by Vic De La Rosa, Tom Kalin, Charles Henrich, Fred Soffa, Chris Cutrone, Denis Langlois, Billy Lux, John Eric Spitzer, Steve Grandell, Yanick Paquin, Daniel MacIvor, and Jimmy Caiola.

Glamor Assault - Seven short films: from the U.S., Eugene Salandra's Faeriefilm , Glenn Belverio's Glennda and Camille Do Downtown , James Raymond's Mavis Davis Safe Sex Video , Paula Gauthier's Which Is Scary? , and William Comstock's "Linda"--Drag Queen (Germany) , Stefan Hayn's Fontvella's Box ; Martin Allard's Madame Simone (Canada)