March 12, 2018 @ Civic Media Center

The Gentleman Bank Robber is a portrait of revolutionary Rita Bo Brown, a white working class butch from rural Oregon who became known as “The Gentleman Bank Robber” in the 1970s for combining her butch style of dress with a polite way of demanding funds from bank tellers. In her statement to the judge on Feb 7th 1977 before being sentenced to 25 years in prison she stated "I am an anti-authoritarian lesbian feminist anarcho-communist. I am an urban guerrilla committed to give my white life if necessary.”