Nitrate Kisses will be screened as part of Les Ouvreurs and Le 109’s QUEER CALIFORNIA event.

Translated from the original French

In the collective unconscious and community memory, the United States holds a privileged place in the fight for the defense of the rights of LGBT people which was allegedly sparked by the Stonewall riots in 1969, in the New York district of Greenwich Village. . However, archives and the work of artists help us to go further and put historical legends into perspective. Thus California appears to be the other El Dorado of the LGBTQIA+ struggle whose history begins well before the events in New York. Land of cinema, the West Coast also offers a range of individual and collective stories which have partly shaped this common memory, as rich and diverse as the colors of the rainbow flag, the rainbow flag created in 1978 in San Francisco by Gilbert Baker, in reference to the legendary “Over the Rainbow” that Judy Garland sang. So let’s follow the famous “yellow brick road” to discover, beyond the rainbow, the very unique history of Queer California.

The Ouvreurs are offering a major exhibition in the hall of 109 – Pôle de cultures contemporains in the City of Nice , accompanied by numerous other events – screenings, conferences, workshops, DJ sets – to highlight the rich political, activist, intellectual and artistic of Californian LGBTQI+ communities in the 20th century.