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Contents:
- 10 SENTIAL MOVI ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
- WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
10 SENTIAL MOVI ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
Wh Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall g to theaters this fall, we look back at ten sential gay movi about LGBT rights, cludg documentari and dramas * movie about gay activist *
“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 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. 9, AP PhotoHarvey Milk, the subject of the Osr-wng film Milk, was the first openly gay polician to be elected California. Alice NkomEmbed om Getty ImagAlice Nkom is a human rights lawyer and LGBTQ activist om Cameroon, where homosexualy is still crimalized.
WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI
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 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. Arsham ParsiArsham Parsi is a gay man who first began secretly workg to support members of the LGBTQ muny his native Iran. But 2005, the queer activist was forced to flee his untry, where homosexual activy remas, 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.
3, LM Otero/APMichael Sam beme the first openly gay football player to be drafted by an NFL team 2014. About a year after he was first drafted, Sam retired om the NFL cg mental health 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. Jonathan Van Ns, Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Bobby Berk, and Karamo Brown om Queer 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 “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.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
The 1969 events that have sce bee the so-lled orig myth of the morn gay rights movement began not as a pri march but as an anti-police rt that lasted days. 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. Johnson, legendary fixture New York Cy’s gay ghetto, who along wh fellow trans in Sylvia Rivera, found Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (S. Its members, mostly gay, HIV-posive men, stormed dg pany and ernment offic “Silence=Death” T-shirts, facg down placent sus wh the urgency of their stggle for life.
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.
Growg up the ral South as an undocumented gay man, forbidn to live and love the untry he lls home, Serrano se only one optn — to fight for jtice and equaly. 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.