The Oxford Film Festival is excited to contribute to LGBTQ visibility, as well. So I decided that I would take on the project of telling the Up Stairs Lounge story.”Ĭamina is not alone in his hopes that the screening will spread visibility about the LBGTQ community’s history. “I asked around to all my friends and colleagues (to see) if they had heard of it, and no, they hadn’t. history, and I thought I knew my gay history,” the film’s director Robert Camina said. This was the largest gay massacre in U.S. “I had never heard of it, and I was shocked.
