his July, it will have been exactly three years since I took on the role of executive director of the 40-year-young organization we know as Outfest. As the first CEO of color, a local Angeleno, and as someone with limited experience working within the microcosm world of film festivals, I was giddy with what I might discover upon examining its history. Most of my personal memories with Outfest took place attending its namesake festival in the mid-to-late ’90s and early 2000s as a fresh-faced film school
