Critic's Choice 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.

The Gay Agenda - An antigay video distributed to members of Congress by Christian fundamentalists; a panel discussion will follow.

Choose Your Plague - A short video from Canada by Paul Lang and Zachery Longboy.

Hard to Swallow - A short video by Tony Coray and Jim Hankle

Song of the Open Road - A documentary by Victress Hitchcock (1992) about Paul Joe Vest's composition of a requiem inspired by Whitman's Leaves of Grass after Vest was diagnosed with AIDS; Allen Ginsberg reads some of Whitman's poems. (1:00)

Got Away in the Dying Moments - A short Canadian video by Dennis Day and Ian Middleton.

Homoteens: - Five teenagers talk about homophobia in a video by Joan Jubela and Michele Forsten.

Educate Your Attitude - Young adults talk about being gay and coming out in a video by Teresa Marshall and Craig Berggold.

Diamanda Galas: Judgement Day - A performance of blues and gospel songs by Diamanda Galas, documented by Chicago video artist Fred.

One Nation Under God - A feature-length documentary by Teodoro Maniaci and Francine Rzeznik--interesting and disturbing, though a bit sound-bitey--about efforts to "cure" homosexuality carried out over the years in the U.S. by psychologists and

Christian fundamentalists. Particular attention is given the ex-founders of the fundamentalist Exodus International, two men who wound up falling in love with each other and denouncing the movement.

Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers - See Critic's Choice.

No Saintly Girl - Three video shorts by Elaine Holliman, Claire Whitaker, and Ira Sachs.

Love Me, Leave Me - Short films by Felix Oliver, Brian Sloan, H.D. Motyl, and Bohdan Zachary.

Maybe I Can Give You Sex - A German-Filipino documentary by Jurgen Bruning and Rune Layumas (working with the

Fraternity of AIDS Cessation in Thailand) about "macho dancers," bar boys, and their customers in the Phillipines and Thailand. On the same program, Quentin Lee and Deeya Loram's To Ride a Cow (1992).