Greetings from Out Here

Accompanied by her dog Sam and a video camera, filmmaker Ellen Spiro traveled from Virginia to Texas and back exploring openly gay culture in the Deep South. Highlighted by spontaneous encounters with local eccentrics and mechanics (her van breaks down frequently), Greetings from Out Here provides detailed portraits of small-town queer Southerners—from Rita, a retired military officer turned drag queen in New Orleans to Iris, a Black lesbian living in a bus in the Ozarks. Filmed on location at the Texas Gay Rodeo, Mardi Gras, Gay Pride in Atlanta, Dollywood, Miss Miller's Eternal Love and Care Pet Cemetery, and the Short Mountain Radical Faerie sanctuary, Spiro captures the richness, vitality and courage of "out" gay Southern life in the early 1990s.