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On April 15th the Athens International Film Festival will screen Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story (with Annie Sprinkle).

Are you out as an ecosexual yet? In West Virginia, big corporations are busy blowing the tops off mountains using a devastating technique known as mountain top removal, (MTR). Two San Francisco ecosexual, lesbian lovers Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, journey to Beth’s hometown in the backwoods of Gauley Mountain, where they join a determined group of hillbillies, tree-huggers, and ecosexuals to fight MTR’s destruction. This film documents the ways rural communities fight annihilation in the face of short-term corporate greed, it follows our ecosexual activists, who put thier bodies on the line to try to stop it. Featuring extreme treehugging, rock kissing, skinny-dipping, and a wedding (held at OU in 2010) to the Appalachian Mountains, it shows how the fight against environmental injustice can be sexy, fun and diverse.

http://www.athensfest.org

Apr 15Event time: all day
Location: University of Ohio, Athens
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