If you’re gay, in Utah and have even the slightest connection to the film industry, you were likely at this morning’s Queer Brunch. Known as the must attend event of the Sundance Film Festival, directors, writers, actors and producers converged at Park City’s Grub Steak House to pay tribute to the Outfest Legacy Project, honor the remarkable original programming on here! TV and—let’s be honest—eat, drink and be merry.
With photographers lining the red carpet, a who’s who of gay up and comers and a random smattering of friends of the LGBT community posed for photos, talked with reporters and echoed a similar sentiment: Supporting LGBT film is essential to forwarding the gay rights movement.
An early arrival,
Reichen Lehmkuhl took time away from the slopes to pop in and show his support for his friends at Outfest and here! TV. Since popping up on
Dante’s Cove this season, Reichen has already seen his potent star power rise another notch in the gay community… still, the hunk admitted, great as the film fest is, a pair of skis and a frosty slope are what really draw him to Park City each year.
Savage Grace director
Tom Kalin was close behind him on the red carpet. We’d screened his movie the morning before—truly a tough watch, but some superb acting and, after taking a while to digest, a truly profound film. Starring
Julianne Moore in her finest performance since
Far From Heaven,
Savage Grace tells the true story of socialite
Barbara Daly Baekelund, who was murdered by her twenty something son after years of forcing her brand of reparative therapy on him in an attempt to make him straight. To give much more detail would ruin the film—just know what you’ll see might not be pretty, but it’s film making at its finest.
Fat Girls director
Ash Christian dropped into Park City for three reasons: A) to promote his just released DVD
Fat Girls. B) To drum up interest in his forthcoming flick
Mangus. C) To drink with the gays.
The gorgeous star of
The Hottie & the Nottie, at first look,
Christine Lakin (
Georgia Rule,
Reefer Madness) is all hottie. Funny story though—
Paris Hilton is the hottie, and underneath gobs of fake hair, moles, buck teeth and rash marks is Christine as June Phigg, the nottie. A fan of the gays and an actress who has gone gay herself—on stage, ladies… don’t get any ideas—Christine is a bona fide talent on the cusp of really huge things.
Up next time? The GLAAD nominees, plus our report from Paris Hilton’s all night
Hottie bash.
