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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

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

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.

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ELDORADO: EVERYTHG THE NAZIS HATE – HISTORY OF BERL GAY CLUB IS A TIMELY REMR

Vo Rso was a pneer of the morn gay rights movement, a film enthiast wh encyclopedic knowledge, and a key player ACT UP.

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.

UPG FILM ‘ART AND PEP’ TELLS DES-LONG LOVE STORY BEHD LGBTQ BAR SITRACK — AND THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS IN CHIGO

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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.

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