Tonight we pay tribute to ground-breaking films of the seventies that helped bring lesbian issues out of the closet and into the movie theater. The humor, pride, and vulnerability evidenced in these films are a telling reminder of the ground gained and lost in the last two decades. Their spirit and energy is due in part to their historical moment-post-sexual revolution but pre-backlash. A vocabulary was just developing to bring varied gay experience into public discourse. Now public institutions are once again silencing these voices. Jan Oxenberg's parody A Comedy In Six Unnatural Acts (1975, 26 mins, B&W) is a romp through lesbian cliches from a girl scout child molester to a seduction over photos of a camping trip. Home Movies (1972, 12 mins, Color) is a poignant reflection on coming out in the seventies and I'm Not One of 'Em (1974, 3 mins, B&W) is a tragic-comic sketch.-Kathy Geritz Jan Oxenberg has worked as a stand-up comic, a fortune-cookie writer, and writer of short films for Saturday Night Live. Plus Getting Ready (Janey Meyers, 16mm),

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