GLAAD announces
partnership with UCLA film preservation organization

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has announced a collaboration with the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation, a partnership between Outfest and the University of California, Los Angeles, Film and Television Archive, according to a GLAAD press release. Beginning this month GLAAD will donate the films and videos it accumulates to the Legacy Project, which aims to preserve and restore the materials. The announcement coincides with the 25th anniversary of Outfest, the Los Angeles LGBT film festival.

Previously, GLAAD donated film and television archives to One National Gay and Lesbian Archives, says the release. One donated its collection of 1,500 films and 3,000 videos, including those given by GLAAD, to the Outfest Legacy Project in March of this year, doubling the project's holdings. It already had the world's largest publicly accessible collection of LGBT films.

The Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation was launched in 2005. The first film it has restored, 1986's Parting Glances, will be shown at the Outfest Legacy Gala on July 16. (The Advocate)