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Philly.com – By Tirdad Derakhshani – Inquirer Staff Writer

Once a regional event serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival is now the largest such event on the East Coast, organizers say.

The 13th annual edition, offered now through July 24, brings a deliciously varied program of 82 features and 72 shorts from a deliriously varied number of locales: Argentina and Brazil, Germany, France, Hungary and Romania, not to mention the Philippines, South Korea and Thailand.

Gender identity is at the center of Alexis Arquette: She’s My Brother, a documentary that follows Never Met Picasso actor Alexis Arquette – brother of actors Rosanna, Patricia and David – as he goes through the process of sex-reassignment surgery.