Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people Sat Vcent and the Grenad face bias-motivated vlence and discrimatn their daily life. The thori should repeal the untry’s lonial-era laws that crimalize nsensual same-sex nduct and pass prehensive civil legislatn prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty.
Contents:
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER ROURC
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
* lgbt history documentary *
Produced by Ilene Chaiken, -creator of the televisn seri The L Word, the film prents a personal look at many of the stggl faced by gay Amerins the 21st century, as vout relig lears and muny members prott the subjects’ marriag and unns. Films like Portra of Jason and Tongu Untied, for stance, tell ntemporary viewers as much about the dividual stori about gay Black men prented on screen as about the muni (real and imaged) that their rpective filmmakers brought to bear on their fished films.
Siarly, aptly-tled works like Before Stonewall: The Makg of a Gay and Lbian Communy and Forbidn Love: The Unashamed Stori of Lbian Liv offer not jt potent history lsons but snapshots of how Amerins were nceivg of their own muny-buildg the years followg the 1969 Stonewall rts.
Crics Consens: Outrage walks a difficult moral and ethil le -- and not always succsfully -- but spe s flaws, 's a fascatg, provotive look at homosexualy Amerin polics. But Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg’s Before Stonewall trac the history of the gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr muny back all the way to the Harlem clubs of the regnized by the Natnal Film Registry, this Emmy-award documentary sheds light on lser-known parts of history, and is a lovgly rearched tribute to our queer forebears who thrived the face of censorship and discrimatn. (2019)Circ of Books (2019)How To Survive A Plague (2012)We Were Here (2011)Before Stonewall: The Makg of a Gay and Lbian Communy (1984)The Death and Life of Marsha P.
GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER ROURC
The film begs the 1950s, chroniclg the liv of those who were gay but didn’t have a muny that would take re of them if they me out and their loved on turned away.
Of urse, the documentary also vers how the Stonewall rts and the foundg of the Gay Liberatn Front fluenced the queer activist London: after years of protts, the first Londoner Pri march took place the year 1972. It was a mon meetg spot and a popular datg statn: the place offered lots of books, where most of which had to do wh gayns and beg gay, as well as tons of pornography. Circ of Books chronicl the days before the closg of the last Book Circ lotn, featurg terviews wh many gay lols who equented the se, as well as wh the origal owners: Karen Mason and Barry Mason.
Even though seems like a topic om the past, ’s important to be aware of the historil signifince of AIDS, of how the whole world turned agast the gay muny s time of greatt need. This means that viewers n see the actual epimic unfold: how the media and the public reacted and how the LGBT associatns fought both agast the vis and the general opn of non-gay people.