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THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
The Eagle NYC is the last great outpost of New York's gay leather scene.
Once the harst, burlit, most cist members of the gay muny here and everywhere, Leathermen's ranks were h pecially hard by AIDS the 80s and 90s. Before Sean Penn played the charismatic, martyred gay polician a dramatized film, we got to see the real Harvey Milk this documentary om director Rob Epste. Director Marlon Riggs chronicled the experienc of Black gay men this 1989 documentary, wrten by Joseph Beam, Essex Hemphill, and Chris Harris.
GAYS PRISON
The team of Rob Epste and Jefey Friedman me up wh another important documentary 1996's The Celluloid Closet, based on the classic book by Vo Rso and explorg how Hollywood has portrayed homosexualy. "Hollywood, that great maker of myths, tght straight people what to thk about gays and gay people what to thk about themselv, " says narrator Lily Toml. It's Elementary: Talkg About Gay Issu School.
In an era when right-wgers are phg "don't say gay" polici schools, this documentary om 1996 remas as timely as ever. Rt, a Black gay man, was a key ai to Mart Luther Kg Jr.
But he was often margalized bee of his gayns. Vo Rso was a pneer of the morn gay rights movement, a film enthiast wh encyclopedic knowledge, and a key player ACT UP. He had strong opns on uture but was hard to p down about his sexual inty; he's been scribed as gay, bisexual, or fluid, but he exprsed disda for labels.