LGBT History Project of the LGBT Center of Central PA Located at Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections http://archives.dickinson.edu/ Documents Online Title: Gay Era (Lancaster, PA) Date: March 1976 Location: LGBT-001 Joseph W. Burns Collection Periodicals Collection Contact: LGBT History Project Archives & Special Collections Waidner-Spahr Library Dickinson College P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 717-245-1399
[email protected] “SNUFF” SNUFFED Philadelphia feminists, coordinated by I DYKETACTICS! - a radical feminist lesbian collective - shortened the run of the movie "Snuff’' from a scheduled three-week engagement to one and a half days. I "Snuff" is a commercialization of a type of underground pornographic film in which the actual murder and dismember ment of women takes place. According to straight press accounts which appeared in the New York Times last summer,the underground films were being made in Argentina and distributed in the U.S. for private showings at $200.00 each. The commercial venture was protested here because the film's advertising made it unclear whether actresses in the film are actually murdered. The ads are also racist, saying: "Filmed in South America where life is cheap !" When concerned women from the com munity in which the film was to be shown attempted to negotiate with the theatre's managemen they were refused a meet ing. DYKE a ACTICS! called their own meeting and twenty women attended. It was pointed out that when men at tempt to act out the violent fantasies this type of film inspires, lesbians become victims as do other women who are not escorted by men.