Three Award-winning Shorts about the LGBTQ+ Experience Presented by the Filmmaker

Lavender Hill, A Love Story – In 1973, a motley group of young writers, artists, political activists, and recent college graduates purchased land in West Danby, New York to build, with their own hands a two story home that became Lavender Hill – one of the few gay and lesbian communes in the Back to the Land movement. Lavender Hill was a remarkable experiment in collaboration, gender exploration, and social and political integration between young gays and lesbians in the post-Stonewall era

In the Hollow – In 1988, Claudia Brenner and Rebecca Wight, a lesbian couple hiking the Appalachian Trail, were attacked by a homophobic mountain man. Years later, Claudia returns to the trail for the first time to remember the events.

Campfire – features a story about a married dairy farmer who travels to a gay campground in rural northeastern Pennsylvania to search for the man he fell in love with 30 years before and discovers the past is not done with him yet.

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Presenter: Austin Bunn

Austin Bunn is the author of The Brink: stories. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Zoetrope, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Pushcart Prize, and elsewhere. He cowrote the screenplay to Kill Your Darlings, starring Daniel Radcliffe, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Currently, he teaches at Cornell.