But in a good way this time. Indiewire.com reports that Wash Westmoreland’s Gay Republicans picked up the documentary audience-favorite award at the AFI Festival here in Los Angeles. No wonder. The WOW doc is both controversial and terribly amusing, rife with arched eyebrows and archer politics.

“Rwanda,” from United Artists, won the narrative audience award at the festival, while Wash Westmoreland’s “Gay Republicans,” which clearly struck a chord with moviegoers, won the event’s doc audience prize. . . . In the wake of the recent presidential election, Westmoreland’s “Gay Republicans” is a look at a group of queer conservatives, stirred sentiments. Thursday’s showing was followed by a heated Q&A session that had to be tempered by fest staffers.