This year, San Antonio’s CineFestival, the nation’s longest running Latino film festival, will include two feature films by lesbian filmmakers. CineFestival, which runs from February 24 to March 4 at the Guadalupe Theater, will present Brusing for Besos (2016), written and directed by Adelina Anthony, on February 25 and Go Fish (1994), directed by Rose…
Xicana Artist Adelina Anthony on the Evolution of Bruising for Besos
“Bringing all of your beautiful, complicated, queer self to the art is what will make your voice unique and refreshing.” In March 2007, I was introduced to the character Yoli Villamontes at a stage reading where queer Xicana powerhouse Adelina Anthony read an excerpt from Bruising for Besos. A few years later, I would have…