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UCLA To Establish Gay Film Archive
UCLA is teaming up with Outfest, the gay and lesbian film festival, to create an archive of gay movies. It will be housed at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and include films dating back to the 1970s. Many of the films will be restored to their original quality using funds from the UCLA Center for Community Partnerships. "Having a centralized location for the study of these films at UCLA will foster the critical and historical study of LGBT [lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender] struggles at a time when they have assumed an ever-larger role in American culture," said UCLA Film and Television Archive Director Timothy Kittleson.