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Boston-- It isn't 500 BC anymore. There are other places besides pottery on which gorgeous stories of gay love and sex can be projected. Like onto the silver screen, for instance. So how apt it is that Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, home to one of the world's best collections of ancient Greek vases (showing all manner of lubricious homosexual goings-on), should also be the venue for the 19th annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival. The dates are May 1st to 18th, 2003, and there are all manner of notable flicks and vids.

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Like Nine Dead Gay Guys, the feature of "Men's opening night" (Thursday, May 1st, 8pm), which-- lest the title put you off-- "takes place in a cartoonish, good-natured London" and tells of a murderer "identified only by the tiny size of his member." Be assured, the laughs are big.

Or settle down for a romp through the Canadian prairie with The Nature of Nicholas (Sunday, May 4th, 5:30pm), billed as "an evocative fable about one boy's torturous passage through puberty," a movie "about the purification of the individual, the self-consciousness of childhood sexuality, and the dignity of any sexual orientation"-- phraseology probably crafted to win it a fat grant from the Canadian Film Board. If you missed Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustinon American public broadcasting you can catch it Saturday, May 17th at 2pm-- though the movie isn't as honest as it pretends about the civil rights leader's gay life. And in case you thought the Israeli army was just about shooting up occupied Palestinians, Yossi & Jagger (Sunday, May 18th, 2:30 pm) presents a picture of "humor, sexual tension, joy, pain and capacity for self-deception of young people" on the Lebanese border. Tickets are $10-- more for opening nights. The MFA is at 465 Huntington Avenue, on the web at www.mfa.org, or call 617-267-9300.