The film's initial limited release began in San Francisco at the Castro Theatre on April 27, 1983.
Through 2009, the festival took place each January at the Castro Theater.
Pflueger was also the designer of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.
The film premiered at San Francisco's Castro Theater on April 29, 2007.
"The only film that played at the Castro Theater during this festival so controversial that all 66 of our sponsors passed on it."
The Castro Theatre originally opened at 479 Castro Street in 1910.
The new Castro Theater opened the following day to the general public.
It opened in San Francisco's Castro Theatre, with the release later expanded to 15 theaters.
It was aired at the Castro Theatre.
But you've officially arrived when you see the marquee of the Castro Theatre.