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Frameline screens short films for National Coming Out Day
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          Oct 11, 2001
          
        
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       Frameline will screen six short films from the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival to benefit its youth outreach programs on Thursday, October 11, National Coming Out Day. The program will feature Coming to Terms, Billy Turner's Secret, 4 PM, Dear Emily, The Chosen Family, and Boychick. Tickets are $8, and the program will run at 7 p.m. and 9:20 p.m. at San Francisco's Castro Theatre, Castro and Market streets. For more information visit www.frameline.org.     

        
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