QFest 2017
‘Leather Lives’
D.C. EAGLE BOUND BY LEATHER with Director Jonathan Reed, Assistant Director Tina Harrison and special guest Bill Capello 

April 3, 2017- Ocean Grove, NJ – QFest New Jersey LGBT Film & Digital Media Festival will hold a special screening of D.C. EAGLE BOUND BY LEATHER on Saturday, April 8th at 6pm.  D.C. EAGLE BOUND BY LEATHER recalls the history of one of the nation’s first leather bars, a pillar of the leather community for over 4 decades, a period in which LGBT rights and freedoms were greatly challenged.  Q&A with Director Jonathan Reed, Assistant Director Tina Harrison and special guest Bill Capello (former owner of the D.C. Eagle) will follow the screening. For the full festival schedule and tickets, visit www.QFestNJ.org. 

D.C, EAGLE BOUND BY LEATHER – Sat, April 8th, 6pm
Don Bruce, a Leather/Levi man, opened the DC Eagle in 1971 as a haven to gay men of the Leather/Levi community, giving them a home, a brotherhood, and an active community to live and socialize in. The Eagle was a place for men from all walks of life including many military, business, and political men that needed anonymity while exploring their repressed desires. Don made sure that beyond a haven it was a home. No man needed to spend the holidays alone after rejection from his traditional family; no man needed to be on the streets subject to the cruelties of conventional bullishness.

ABOUT QFEST
QFest New Jersey LGBT Film and Digital Media Festival strives to support and promote LGBT film & digital media, the individuals who create it, and the people and stories they highlight. QFest, the only annual LGBT film & digital media festival in NJ, is produced by QSpot, one of New Jersey’s largest LGBT community centers.