The risg ti of anti-gay propaganda, spearhead by Ana Bryant's Bible-thumpg csa, revalized the gay movement. The efforts of socially-nsc filmmakers rulted two landmark works, Gay USA and Word is Out: Stori of Some of Our Liv. Both films rely on the terview format, but their footage and method differ greatly.
Contents:
- DOCUMENTARY VIO SHOWS THE 1989 NYC GAY PRI PARA
- CHANNEL 4 LED THE GAY REVOLUTN TV
- 'A LICENCE TO BASH GAYS': 1980S CRIME WAVE REVISED NEW TV SERI
DOCUMENTARY VIO SHOWS THE 1989 NYC GAY PRI PARA
On July 17th 1980, the BBC broadst Comg Out - a documentary based around the Natnal Gay Pri March London the prev summer. It's an extraordary timepiece of 'the way we were' (and n be viewed here). As some 2-3,000 participants assemble, the mentator advis that is "the largt assembly of homosexual * 1980s gay documentary *
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.
Synopsis: Filmmaker Arthur Brsan missns filmmakers throughout the untry to rerd lbian and gay pri paras and march June 1977.... Crics Consens: The Celluloid Closet tak a thought-provokg look at the s of omissn and misreprentatn endured by the gay muny mastream cema. Synopsis: This documentary highlights the historil ntexts that gays, lbians, bisexuals and transgenrs have occupied cema history, and shows the...
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.
CHANNEL 4 LED THE GAY REVOLUTN TV
Friday I’m Love explor the role Numbers played Hoton’s gay rights movement the 1980s, the AIDS crisis of the 1990s, and more * 1980s gay documentary *
Synopsis: Osr-nomated documentarian Kirby Dick directs this shockg and passnate dictment of the clanste hypocrisy of many closeted homosexuals Washgton,...
Crics Consens: We Were Here reviss the cris facg the gay muny the early 1980s -- and offers a powerful tribute to the spirg rolve shown at a time of turmoil. When a feature film is ma about them seven years after their break-up, Benjie Nycum viss his ex-boyiend Michael Glatze and fally tri to get answers about his bewilrg shift om gay activist to ex-gay evangelil.
On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Gay Rights Movement, the film explor the drama, stggle and endurg legacy of the first-ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to...
'A LICENCE TO BASH GAYS': 1980S CRIME WAVE REVISED NEW TV SERI
Geni Pictur has optned Emmett Monterey’s memoir about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London for TV adaptatn. * 1980s gay documentary *
Documentary about the styl and works of Gay Porn Film Director, Toby Ross the 70's om Reflectns of Youth to The Last Surfer endg his magil era.
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. The Emmy-wng documentary Before Stonewall explor the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny prr to Stonewall, analyzg the begngs of an era of activism.
This documentary prents some lser-known moments om history while monstratg how Amerin attus towards homosexualy evolved leadg up to and after Stonewall.
* 1980s gay documentary *
While gay men have ma and featured a rich and easily accsible non of documentari, lbian, trans and other queer muni have been ls well reprented.
Portra of Jason (1967)Ingmar Bergman lled this timate documentary, which charismatic gay htler and sometime club performer Jason Holliday talks about his life to mera, “the most extraordary film I’ve seen my life. It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society Which He Liv (1971)If the tle alone don’t sell you, then the sheer dacy of s thought-provokg takedown of nservative prcipl and bland nformy may well.