9 Films to Stream About Gay Activism for the Stonewall Anniversary

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’)

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.

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.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

She was black, queer, and trans — and fearlsly advoted for her rights and the rights of the LGBTQ muny at a time when dog so put her safety jeopardy.“As long as gay people don’t have their rights all across Ameri, there’s no reason for celebratn,” she once said.Johnson was a key figure of the 1960s gay rights movement the US and, as legend has , threw the brick that igned the famo Stonewall rts, which were the talyst for the movement and have spired many Pri march ever sce.In 1992, Johnson’s body was found the Hudson River. She was once arrted for attemptg to climb through a wdow ( a drs and heels) to a room where the New York Cy Council was batg a gay rights bill, NBC reported.“Sylvia’s role gay history was that she was one of the first people to highlight that our movement need to be more clive of people who did not f the mastream,” Carrie Davis, Chief Programs and Policy Officer at New York Cy’s LGBT Communy Center, told NBC News.3. In a untry where police officer entrap members of the LGBTQ muny through text msag and beat those they perceive to be gay, Nkom bravely fights for rights on behalf of the LGBTQ muny.Though Nkom intifi as heterosexual, she has dited her work to fightg for Cameroon’s LGBTQ muny and found the Associatn for the Defence of Homosexualy 2003.

But 2005, the queer activist was forced to flee his untry, where homosexual activy remas illegal.Today, Parsi liv exile Canada, where he has found the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refuge, which supports and provis guidance to LGBTQ asylum seekers om the Middle East.10. About a year after he was first drafted, Sam retired om the NFL cg mental health reasons.His stggle highlighted the discrimatn and homophobia still rampant the sports world, but Sam has gone on to share his story and ntu to champn change.11-15. ‘Queer Eye’s’ Fab FiveJonathan Van Ns, Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Bobby Berk, and Karamo Brown om Queer Eye.Jonathan Van Ns, Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Bobby Berk, and Karamo Brown om Queer Eye.Image: Courty of NetflixThe all-star st of Netflix’s new Queer Eye seri — a reboot of Bravo’s early 2000s seri Queer Eye for the Straight Guy — may be all fun when to makeovers, but they’re ser about makg a difference the world.The “Fab Five” — Tan France, Jonathan Van Ns, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, and Antoni Porowski — speak openly on Queer Eye about their personal stggl and experienc wh homophobia and discrimatn.