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Article: First run giving voice to an underrepresented community.(Gay & Lesbian)(First Run Features)
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- March 14, 2004
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First Run Features has been releasing gay- and lesbian-themed titles since long before it was chic to do so.
"That's been one of our strengths, almost as long as we've been around," said First Run Features president Marc Mauceri.
"We probably have 40 or 50 of those titles, and the idea has always been, first and foremost, giving voice to a community that is traditionally underrepresented."
He said gay and lesbian titles were a natural outgrowth of the company's philosophy of product distribution.
"Our company was founded on a sort of cooperative of documentary filmmakers," he said.
"We were doing that in the late '70s and ...