"OUR MARRIAGES -- Lesbians Marry Gay Men" Chinese documentary film

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Q-WAVE, GAPIMNY, the Institute of Tongzhi Studies, and CLAGS present (back by popular demand):

"Our Marriages – Lesbians Marry Gay Men"
Directed by He Xiaopei and Yuan Yuan (China, 2013)

Fri Sept 19, 2014, 6:30-9:00PM
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
Segal Theater, First Floor
FREE, but please be prepared to show photo I.D.

Film Description
Our Marriage is an exploration of the lives of four lesbians who decided to marry gay men in order to secretly pursue their relationships with their girlfriends, while at the same time fulfilling their family’s deep-seated desire that their daughter get married and form a family with her husband. How do contract marriages work, how do people negotiate the terms of marriage and how do they live lives as lesbians in contemporary Chinese culture? These are the questions raised in the film, as the filmmakers followed four lesbians for two years in a North East city of China, watched their weddings with gay men, witnessed lives as lesbians and filial daughters. After screening a shorter cut of the film this summer to a packed house, ITS and the co-sponsoring organizations are proud to bring the full-length (80 minute) version to a bigger NYC audience.