A naïve teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian. celebrate pride Month with But I’m A Cheerleader.
Join Bazaar Botanica for it's latest Film & Sketch Night featuring a queer classic!
Enjoy the true LGBTQ cult classic, But I'm A Cheerleader, a 1999 film at Joybird Books, 3018 Corrine Dr, Orlando.
Watch the film, while you get creative and sketch and draw with free art and drawing supplies at the crafting station, courtesy of Orlando Community Art Supply!
There will be delicious bites and empanadas available to purchase from Maya Rosa, Plus, explore your past, present, & future with Tarot readings by Bri.
Tickets to this fun night out are $10 presale or $14 at the door. Get details, and purchase your tickets now.
1999’s But I’m A Cheerleader is a film ahead of its time, the film used satire and comedy to explore the horrors of conversion therapy programs. Megan Bloomfield, a high school cheerleader, is sent to a conversion camp after her friends and family have an intervention to tell her she’s gay. It’s there that Megan embraces her sexuality, despite the therapy, and learns who she really is.
This film has a legendary cast including …. Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Cathy Moriarty, RuPaul, Joel Michaely, Douglas Spain, Michelle Williams, Melanie Lynsky, Eddie Cibrian, Kip Perdue, and even a cameo by Julie Delpy.
Directed Jamie Babbit and written by Brian Wayne Peterson, it’s no wonder that this 1999 uniquely-American comedy went on to become a true cult classic within the LGBTQ world and beyond. Its cast had the perfect mix of–both–established cult classic talent and some relatively fresh faces that went on to become huge stars not long after.
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