The Faggots and Their Friends Between the Revolutions

🤩 The Faggots and Their Friends Between the Revolutions, dir. Paul Rice, 2026, USA, 40 min., no spoken dialogue
Saturday, June 20, 2026, 7:00 PM at the Festival Hub at Hamburger Mary’s, 531 Castro St.
🌐 World premiere

The Faggots and Their Friends
Between the Revolutions

Frameline blurb: A poetic cinematic envisioning of the legendary queer 1970s manifesto, The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions, this visual meditation constrasts nature’s quiet strength with the rigid architecture of power. In a world where the faggots and their friends are made of flowers, trees and softness, will they survive against the men of concrete and steel? A story of otherness not as weakness, but as enduring, blooming power.

Again, I can’t pretend any objectivity in relation to this film. The 1977 book The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions is revered in the Radical Faerie community. On many occasions, a faerie circle includes a reading from the book, customarily a newcomer selecting a page at random. Bottom line: it would have taken a lot to knock this film out of my “must see” category.

The film consists of quotes from the book scrolling in over images of nature, with atmospheric music as the only audio. My only caveat is, don’t watch this if you’re already half falling asleep, because a brief moment of inattention will break the continuity of the text. (Thankfully, I could back up 10 seconds whenever I had a “Wait, what was that?” moment.) It shouldn’t be a problem if you’re fully awake, though. The text is remarkably relevant, nearly 50 years after it was published — the same year as the first Frameline festival. If you have any interest in radical faeries, queer liberation, anti-capitalism, or mythology as inspiration, this film is a must see.

• IMDb: no listing found, multiple pages for “Paul Rice” with no indication of which (if any) are for the director • Official website • Filmmaker • Instagram • Facebook • preview • book •

Note: There is a YouTube video “The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions | Trailer | Philip Venables | Ted Huffman” that relates to a live theater production at the Park Avenue Armory, inspired by the same book, but with no other connection to this film.