VillageVoice.com – By Melissa Anderson
The Films of Rosa von Praunheim – June 4 through 7 – Anthology Film Archives
Jump-starting Gay Pride Month, Anthology’s 12-film tribute to Rosa von Praunheim, Germany’s chief lavender menace, will render the pseudo-provocations of next month’s Brüno moot. Born in 1942 as Holger Mischwitzky, the director adopted “Rosa” for both gender ambiguity and as a reminder of the pink triangle (Rosa Winkel) that gays were forced to wear in concentration camps. Two years after the Stonewall riots, von Praunheim nearly ignited another queer intifada with his first feature, It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse But the Society in Which He Lives (1971)…