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Contents:
- 9 MOVI ABOUT GAY ACTIVISM TO HONOR STONEWALL (THAT AREN’T ‘STONEWALL’)
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
9 MOVI ABOUT GAY ACTIVISM TO HONOR STONEWALL (THAT AREN’T ‘STONEWALL’)
After beg oted om the U.S. ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. * gay activist movie *
The Tim of Harvey Milk (1984)Usg a batn of archive footage, talkg heads and narratn provid by Harvey Fierste, prolific queer documentarian Rob Epste retells the polil reer of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California. The lo-fi, jerry-rigged films were a llective riposte to Hollywood’s prejudiced moralism at the time, which largely – even after the ath of the inic Rock Hudson – ignored the plight of gay Amerins. The mafia-n gay bar the Wt Village New York Cy played backdrop to a heated and vlent nontatn between drag queens, genr non-nformg dividuals (many of them black and brown) and the NYPD when the place was raid by police officers.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Bee the fight for equaly needs to be an tersectnal one, equally attuned to homophobia as to racism, to transphobia as to sexism, takg on gentrifitn and immigratn, mental health and labor laws — issu the films tackle ways both didactic and entertag. Based on Cuban wrer Realdo Arenas’ tobgraphy of the same tle, the film tails the openly gay Arenas’ arrt for his sexualy, his eventual pe to New York, his life there wh his iend and partner, and his ath as a victim of the AIDS crisis. Luis Mola (William Hurt) and Valent Arregui (Raúl Julia) fd themselv together the same cell 1970s Buenos Air, the former for prumably rptg a mor (a phemism for those wh homosexual proclivi), the latter for his nnectns to a revolutnary group.