ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights that the way a queer film festival creates a gender-diverse space and curates an inclusive GLBTIQ programme that is socially purposive and gives space to encounter each other's points of views via film, respectfully positioning lesbian equally beside gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer films. The conceptual issues surrounding equal representation on screen and a recognition that equality is a process requiring a continued commitment and an ideal which has social, political and moral dimensions, which implies equal moral worth equal respect and concern, were foundational assumptions upon which Queer Fruits Film Festival (QFFF) was established and which converge in the underlying meaning of equal in this context. Self-reflexivity, ethnography and autoethnography have been successfully used specifically as methodologies in regards to studying GLBTIQ activism and local community events. The queer film festival is a space in which intersecting representations of gender and sexuality across socio-economic and national borders are presented.
