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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
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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.
10 SENTIAL MOVI ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
Celebrate the bt gay movi wh our list of the 50 most sential LGBTQ+ films ever ma * gay activists movie *
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. 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.
WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI
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.
9 MOVI ABOUT GAY ACTIVISM TO HONOR STONEWALL (THAT AREN’T ‘STONEWALL’)
“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. 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.