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“And it turns out that those things are actually what's important because nobody cared about them, and they would have been otherwise lost.” “The funny thing is that to me my instinct about what was important was kind of the things that everybody else thought were not important,” Olson laughs.
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This, and many other works Olson has created and archived, have been recently acquired by the Harvard Film Archive and will soon be ready for others to explore as part of the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection. Olson curated the ephemeral bits into a feature-length program called “Camp for Boys & Girls” that played at LGBTQ film festivals and arthouses around the country in the early ‘90s. “Well, at least it's a fruit pie,” Bryant bemoans. She paired the clip with dozens of others - a vintage homoerotic beefcake short, footage of Anita Bryant getting pied in the face by a gay rights activist while on her national tour of homophobia in 1977. “I’m not used to, you know, speaking to fruit but I’ve got to find the secret of your just-picked taste,” he says in the short.īut nonfiction filmmaker, archivist and historian Jenni Olson spied a delicious double-entendre. You might not think that a short vintage Jell-O commercial of gay actor Charles Nelson Reilly, a campy fixture of game shows like “Match Game” throughout the 1970s and ‘80s, speaking to a table of fruit is an especially important bit of LGBTQ cinema. A still from the 1968 film "The Killing of Sister George," included in Jenni Olson's documentary "Homo Promo." (Courtesy Jenni Olson) This article is more than 1 year old.