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Contents:
- REVIEW: DOCUMENTARY ‘THE FREEDOM TO MARRY’ CHRONICL THE LONG ROAD FOR GAY RIGHTS
- THE GAY MARRIAGE THG
- K PROFSOR FEATURED MORMON GAY MARRIAGE DOCUMENTARY
- MARCHG THE WAR ON GAY MARRIAGE
- A 'SM' OR JT UNPROFSNAL? INDIA GAY MATCHMAKG SERVICE UNR FIRE
REVIEW: DOCUMENTARY ‘THE FREEDOM TO MARRY’ CHRONICL THE LONG ROAD FOR GAY RIGHTS
‘The Freedom to Marry’ effectively zero on Evan Wolfson and his long, tirels work makg gay marriage a realy. * gay marriage documentary *
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. In an era when right-wgers are phg "don't say gay" polici schools, this documentary om 1996 remas as timely as ever.
THE GAY MARRIAGE THG
The Gay Marriage Thg streamg? Fd out where to watch onle. 45+ servic cludg Netflix, Hulu, Prime Vio. * gay marriage documentary *
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. 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. The San Francis Gay Men's Chos went on a journey of renciliatn at a divisive time -- durg the 2016 printial mpaign -- tourg the Deep South, nsired hostile terrory by many LGBTQ+ people.
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.
K PROFSOR FEATURED MORMON GAY MARRIAGE DOCUMENTARY
A K profsor has a featured role a documentary, premierg Sunday, about the improbable topplg of Utah’s gay marriage ban. * gay marriage documentary *
Synopsis: Filmmaker Arthur Brsan missns filmmakers throughout the untry to rerd lbian and gay pri paras and march June 1977.... Synopsis: On the eve of 1987's Send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights, survivg fai and iends of...
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.
MARCHG THE WAR ON GAY MARRIAGE
* gay marriage 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. Synopsis: Durg the 1970s, San Francis beme a safe haven for the gay and lbian muny, providg a place where one...
Synopsis: In Uganda, openly gay David Kato and his fellow activists work to feat new legislatn their untry that would... Synopsis: Observ the liv of four children -- G, Ebony, Matt and Graham -- whose parents are eher gay or lbian,...
Synopsis: In 1976 a uple take over an adult book store, and the store be the biggt distributor of gay porn...
A 'SM' OR JT UNPROFSNAL? INDIA GAY MATCHMAKG SERVICE UNR FIRE
“8: The Mormon Proposn,” about California’s gay marriage battle, is directed by Reed Cowan, who is gay and grew up a Mormon hoehold. * gay marriage documentary *
To mark the start of Pri Month, we’ve llected 14 of the most powerful documentari you should watch right now, om Netflix’s crilly-acclaimed look at trans reprentatn the dtry Disclosure to HBO Max’s -pth vtigatn about Chechnya’s ongog ‘gay purge’. Before Stonewall: The Makg of a Gay and Lbian Communy chronicl the plight of the LGBTQ+ muny prr to the Stonewall Uprisg of 1969.
Directed by Greta Schiller and Rosenberg, wh narratn om Ra Mae Brown, the documentary vtigat cultural perceptns of homosexualy before the event and looks back on queer life prev s, as well as the relatnship between the police and the LGBTQ+ muny. The documentary chronicl the life of the Ain-Amerin gay rights activist and civil rights mpaigner, who worked endlsly the fight towards equaly as he llaborated wh Mart Luther Kg and helped anise the historic march on Washgton. A foundg member of the Gay Liberatn Front, Marsha voted her life as an outspoken advote for trans people of lour, and tablished STAR (Street Transgenr Actn Revolutnari) alongsi fellow activist Sylvia Rivera to help homels transgenr youth New York Cy.