9 Films to Stream About Gay Activism for the Stonewall Anniversary

Contents:

• 5 FILMS YOU CAN STREAM NOW TO LEARN ABOUT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• 10 SENTIAL MOVI ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
• WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI
• 9 MOVI ABOUT GAY ACTIVISM TO HONOR STONEWALL (THAT AREN’T ‘STONEWALL’)

5 FILMS YOU CAN STREAM NOW TO LEARN ABOUT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

In-person Pri celebratns may be on pse this year, but that don’t mean we n’t spend time reflectg on the history of the gay rights movement and the progrs ma toward a more clive society. Through the epic dramas and historil documentari, I learned a great al about the history of the gay rights movement and the ntued stggle of LGBTQ people.

10 SENTIAL MOVI ABOUT GAY RIGHTS

Amerin Experience: “Stonewall Uprisg”Last summer marked the 50th anniversary of a turng pot the morn gay rights movement. In the 1960s, homosexualy was still wily nsired a mental illns by the medil muny an society at large.

Dpe public alienatn and shamg, the gay muny found ways to create safe spac. The mafia-owned bar was one of the few public plac where gay people uld show affectn and dance openly wh each other. That uprisg is now creded wh lnchg the first ever gay pri para New York, and generatns of social progrs.

Most battl over gay rights are still fought state legislatur, not Washgton, DC, where marriage, adoptn and discrimatn laws are created. zooms on one state to exame how gay rights are evolvg Ameri. “I thought marriage would be the harst obstacle to overe, but ’s now the first major victory, ” says Patricia Todd, the first openly gay Alabama state reprentative.

WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI

We’ll Meet Aga: “Comg Out”When 13-year-old Tom DiCcc realized he was gay, he knew he uldn’t tell his nservative parents. It was the 1960s, and homosexualy was still nsired a mental illns and a crime. He worked wh Wayne April to set up the universy’s first gay stunt anizatn.

Wayne April is now nsired one of the most signifint gay rights s Amerin history. Tosi realized he too was gay, and the se gave him “the permissn to be who I am” and bee a passnate gay rights advote. origally ran on the BBC to mark the 50th anniversary of the crimalizatn of homosexualy England.

9 MOVI ABOUT GAY ACTIVISM TO HONOR STONEWALL (THAT AREN’T ‘STONEWALL’)

Before that legislatn, gay people were btally treated and sent to prison, cludg men like Thomas, whom we meet the first half of this movie. In the style of The Notebook, the story flash forward 60 years to morn London and follows a gay man, played by Julian Morris, as he wrtl wh his own acceptance and inty and his sometim troubled relatnship wh his grandmother, played by Vansa Redgrave. In this bpic, Sean Penn stars as a Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and the very first openly gay man to be elected to public office.

While Turg is unverg German secrets, he’s hidg a few of his own—his homosexualy is chief among them. The 2019 bpic, starrg Taron Egerton as openly-gay sger-songwrer and mic in Elton John, tells the story of John's rise to fame and some of the setbacks he's experienced, cludg a stt rehab, throughout his s-long reer. " He acknowledg now that this is a le you n only e once a pch and explas that he went on to tell the story of mers the Dulais valley South Wal durg the 1984-5 strike – the longt Brish history – and a gay and lbian group om London that donated more money (£11, 000 by December 1984) to their e than any other fundraiser the UK, along wh a mib emblazoned wh the logo LGSM: Lbians and Gays Support the a when a gree of homophobia was the norm, LGSM drove a uple of mib om Hackney Communy Transport and a clapped-out VW mper van to a bleak mg town South Wal to prent their donatns, uncerta what sort of wele to expect.

"The story had bee a legend the gay muny. Three years later and the film, shot Banwen, Wal, and London, and directed by Tony-wng Matthew Warch (rponsible for Matilda the Mil, and soon to be artistic director of the Old Vic), is might assume a rom about strikg mers and 80s gays was unlikely to be big box-office, but the same was probably said of Billy Ellt. It is really illogil to say, 'I'm gay and I'm to fendg the gay muny but I don't re about anythg else…'.