Frameline, the nation’s oldest and largest LGBTQ+ media arts organization, revealed the full lineup for the June 17-27 festival at a launch party at the former Hamburger Mary’s on Castro Street on Tuesday, May 12.
“I lived in San Francisco from 1991-2001 and went to Frameline every year to see films that told our stories,” Domingo, who will receive the Variety Creative Conscience Award, said in a statement. “I think I found a part of myself as I was becoming a man in the Bay Area. I am extremely honored to receive this award on its 50th anniversary.
“And Frameline … you look so good at 50.”
Domingo, who is 56 and can currently be seen in Season 3 of the HBO series “Euphoria” and as Jackson family patriarch Joe Jackson in the movie “Michael,” will be in conversation with Variety senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay at the Castro Theatre on June 19.
Other notables scheduled to appear in person include “The Matrix” co-director Lilly Wachowski, at a retro screening of the 1996 classic “Bound”; openly gay ice hockey defenseman Luke Prokop (“The Hockey Player”); iconic queer director Gregg Araki (“I Want Your Sex,” starring Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman); and San Francisco actress Joan Chen (“Montreal, My Beautiful”).
Venues besides the Castro, which reopened in February after a two-year, $41 million renovation, include the Roxie and Vogue theaters in San Francisco; the New Parkway Theater in Oakland and the Berkeley Art Museum’s Pacific Film Archive.
Frameline Executive Director Allegra Madsen said the 50th festival is ready to meet the moment as LGBTQ+ rights are being weakened during the second Trump administration.
“It is an unbelievable privilege to lead this organization during our landmark 50th festival,” Madsen said in a statement. “The lead up to this anniversary has happened alongside this looming, all-pervading sense that a revolution — both political and moral — is mounting.
“Now, the 50th is here. And so is the revolution. Our rights are being taken away now. Attacks on our bodies and identities are happening now. And it is precisely this moment that 50 years of queer cinema matters most.”
Frameline previously announced that San Francisco’s inaugural drag laureate D’Arcy Drollinger’s comedy “Lady Champagne” will open the festival on June 17, while “Barbara Forever,” Brydie O’Connor’s outstanding celebration of the late pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer, serves as the centerpiece presentation on June 25.
The closing night film will be announced Thursday, May 14.
Other highlights include documentaries about tennis great Billie Jean King (“Give Me the Ball!”) and WNBA star Brittney Griner (“The Brittney Griner Story”); Oscar-winning “Milk” screenwriter Dustin Lance Black’s documentary “Rock Out,” about the queer influence on heavy metal, punk and rock n’ roll; and retrospective screenings of lesbian groundbreaker “Desert Hearts” (1986, with director Donna Deitch in person) and William Friedkin’s Al Pacino-led gay-themed thriller “Cruising” (1981).