But I’m a Cheerleader

Jaime Babbit / USA / 1999 / 85 min / English subtitles
Monday October 2 at 18.00, Sjöstadshallen, Skeppsmäklargatan 1

Cinema Queer is opening the festival with our favorite camp classic! Starring queer icons like Clea Duvall, Natasha Lyonne, and RuPaul, this 90s cult film brings out all the pompoms as we chant along “cheer because you’re queer!”

Directed by Jaime Babbit, the movie follows high school cheerleader Megan (Natasha Lyonne) who gets sent to a conversion therapy camp to cure her homosexuality. Lead by disciplinarian Mary Brown (Cathy Moriarty), Megan and her fellow campmates endure a five-step program to become straight again. What can go wrong? Well at the gayest conversion camp in the states everything is possible!