1304...Gay Films Seized At The Border

One would think in a town, Ottawa, that has John Baird in cabinet, Max Keeping on TV and Laurier Lapierre in the Senate having a gay positive film festival would be a piece of cake.

One would be wrong.

The Inside Out Film Festival currently being held at the National Gallery of Canada and the Ottawa Sun reports that three of films that are/were/will be featured at the fest were grabbed by Canadian Customs.

Agents Thursday confiscated Patrik 1,5, a Swedish film about a gay couple who want to adopt a child; I Can't Think Straight, a British film about two women who fall in love even though one of them is engaged to be married; and Clapham Junction, another British movie which chronicles 36 hours in the lives of eight gay Londoners. The films were to be shown as part of the Inside Out Film Festival being held this weekend at the National Gallery of Canada.

As best I can figure, the organizer, Jason St. Laurent, pulled an end run on Canada Border Services Agency and had the flicks sent to an alternative address. Nonetheless, it is pretty sh*tty that they were seized in the first place, especially Patrik 1, 5 which was rated PG by the Ontario Film Review Board.

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