Sex & Sundance

Ewan McGregor and Jim Carrey in "I love you Phillip Morris"
Ewan McGregor and Jim Carrey in "I love you Phillip Morris"

For much of the winter, Park City, Utah, is a snowy ski wonderland. But come January, when the Sundance Film Festival arrives, local venues overflow with Indie film elite. Celebrity sightings–and snaring tickets for hot screenings–becomes a kind of sport.

The festival’s Queer Lounge is one of the hottest venues, and this year there’s much chatter about several queer-themed films, including the provocative “I Love You Phillip Morris,” in which Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor play the real-life lovers who met behind bars.

“Humpday” revolves around two straight buddies making gay porn on a dare in a sex commune. “La Mission,” starring Benjamin Bratt and directed by his brother, Peter, takes on same-sex love and homophobia in San Francisco’s heavily Latino Mission District.

GayCities ran into Marcus Hu, co-founder of Strand Releasing, which has contributed more than it’s share of great queer cinema over the years. A 20-year veteran of the festival, Hu said that when not not sleeping, skiing or screening, he can be found sipping cocktails at Stein Lodge.

Dylan Wilcox of NBC Universal told us that he enjoys the Queer Lounge, the hot tub of his rented condo and, of course, Grub Steak, where he fight what he calls a “losing battle” to eat healthy during his stay by raiding the salad bar.

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