Policians wh anti-gay rerds are exposed new film
Contents:
- NEW DOC CHRONICL THE INSPIRG STORY OF GAY POLICIAN MALLM KENYATTA
- SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
- CONTROVERSIAL DOCUMENTARY OUTS CLOSETED ANTI-GAY POLICIANS
NEW DOC CHRONICL THE INSPIRG STORY OF GAY POLICIAN MALLM KENYATTA
A prevly anonymo IRS whistleblower ttifyg about an vtigatn to Hunter Bin me forward Wednday, intifyg as a gay Democrat. * documentary gay politicians *
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.
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.
SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
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.
CONTROVERSIAL DOCUMENTARY OUTS CLOSETED ANTI-GAY POLICIANS
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.