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Contents:
- NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
- BLOCK 9 RELEAS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT GLASTONBURY’S FIRST GAY NIGHTCLUB, NYC DOWNLOW
- ELDORADO: EVERYTHG THE NAZIS HATE – HISTORY OF BERL GAY CLUB IS A TIMELY REMR
- UPG FILM ‘ART AND PEP’ TELLS DES-LONG LOVE STORY BEHD LGBTQ BAR SITRACK — AND THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS IN CHIGO
NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
Photographer Eric Dickson tak si gay strip club Johnsons, Wilton Manors, Florida. * gay nightclub documentary *
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. 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.
BLOCK 9 RELEAS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT GLASTONBURY’S FIRST GAY NIGHTCLUB, NYC DOWNLOW
Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg. * gay nightclub documentary *
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.
ELDORADO: EVERYTHG THE NAZIS HATE – HISTORY OF BERL GAY CLUB IS A TIMELY REMR
Upstairs Inferno: Directed by Robert L. Cama. Wh Christopher Rice, Rega Adams, Misti At, David Billgs. On June 24, 1973, a gay bar New Orleans lled the Up Stairs Lounge was liberately set on fire: an event that for over 40 years, was nsired the "Largt Gay Mass Murr U.S. History"." data-id="ma * gay nightclub documentary *
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. In 1973 at the Upstairs Lounge New Orleans, an arson fire took the liv of 32 people, mostly gay men. The btal murr of gay llege stunt Matthew Shepard 1998 was a hate crime that shocked the world.
Bowers says he fixed Kathare Hepburn up wh 150 women and that her supposed love affair wh Spencer Tracy was a ver for the gay tennci of both. Gay Chos Deep South.
The San Francis Gay Men's Chos went on a journey of renciliatn at a divisive time -- durg the 2016 printial mpaign -- tourg the Deep South, nsired hostile terrory by many LGBTQ+ people. Which didn’t stop burly Hler nfidante and head of the Nazi SA paraary wg Ernst Röhm, a not-terribly-closeted gay man, om equentg the tablishment.
UPG FILM ‘ART AND PEP’ TELLS DES-LONG LOVE STORY BEHD LGBTQ BAR SITRACK — AND THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS IN CHIGO
The new Netflix documentary Eldorado: Everythg The Nazis Hate (Netflix) is billed as beg about a gay nightclub pre-war Berl. It was gay every sense and was extremely popular, not least wh some gay Nazis. Over the door was wrten what we mt take to be the pany motto: Hier ist’s Richtig, or Here is Right. No wonr was by. * gay nightclub documentary *
As the film explas, the SA had a strong homoerotic element, a disgt wh women and femy they somehow ed to jtify homosexualy – for a time, anyway.
At a certa pot, Röhm’s iendship wh Hler uld only take him so far a Nazi regime creasgly set on eraditg homosexualy.
Röhm is but one player this ncise, ftly told doc that the Eldorado as a lnchg pad to a broar story about beg gay Nazi Germany. The film never out and yells , but is also a remr of the Fal Solutn tenor that still acpani much anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric and, creasgly, policy. He was also a bohemian spir who had a passnate homosexual relatnship wh Manasse Herbst, a Galician Jewish actor who fled Germany 1936.
* gay nightclub documentary *
Hirschfeld, a groundbreakg sexologist, both gay and Jewish and therefore a prime target of Nazi Germany, was thankfully not prent when his stute was ransacked by mardg Nazi youth (here aga, there are photos). Here we experience the nce that thrived before the fall, at a hiaway for those whose differenc would soon mark them for prison, exile, or, many s, ath ( is timated that between 5, 000 and 15, 000 gay people died the ncentratn mps for vlatg Paragraph 175). Explicly nceived as a haven for gay men, was known for s youthful clientele, celebry patrons, and notorly hedonistic vibe; beme even more of a draw wh the openg of “The Backlot, ” an adjacent performance venue that featured some of the biggt “A-list” acts of the era.