Support A Rural Film Tour

Removing barriers to Queer film

At the top of our goals is making connections and holding ground in rural areas to provide access.

Being able to connect in-person, on-location in places outside of Metropolitan areas is so important: not only to give space for folks to be themselves, but to foster connections between community members with hopes they cultivate them outside of our events.

Approximate funding needed: $15,000–$25,000*

Cost covers: Venue rentals, Film screening fees, Staff labor, *Panelists, Transportation, Lodging, and Accessibility Support.

Proposed Northern Route

• Ely, MN – Historic State Theater

• Grand Marais, MN – Grand Marais Playhouse

• Thief River Falls, MN – Falls Theater (close to Red Lake Reservation)

• Warren, MN – Sky-Vu Drive in

• Fargo, ND – Fargo Theatre (close to White Earth Reservation)

The time is now

With over 500 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced across the United States, nearly half of which explicitly target our trans community and drag performers, we are living in a time filled with uncertainty, anger and fear. The Queer community has, all too recently, been here before and we have a blueprint for how we resist and fight back.

With that in mind

We have selected P.S. Burn This Letter Please for our first rural film tour. This film shares for the first time the lives of former New York City drag queens, now in their 80s and 90s, who reveal how they survived and somehow flourished at a time when drag queens were both revered and reviled, even within the gay community.

Using original interviews, never-before-seen archival footage and photographs, and stylized recreations, P.S. Burn This Letter Please reconstructs this pre-Stonewall era. The government sought to destroy them, then history tried to erase them, now they get to tell their story for the first time. Watch the trailer now.