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Contents:

• NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
• 10 GAY DOCUMENTARI ON NETFLIX STREAMG
• NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' IS A HUMANIZG LOOK AT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY SURVIVORS
• NETFLIX’S ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTARY WILL REMD YOU THAT GAY CONVERSN IS STILL GOG ON
• FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• TAB HUNTER’S TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS: 7 THGS WE LEARNED FROM THE LATE GAY HEARTTHROB’S NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
• ‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE
• ‘VOYR’ REVIEW: NETFLIX’S DEVIANT GAY TALE DOC CAN’T DECI WHAT WANTS TO LOOK AT

NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY

And if you want to stay rmed about everythg jog Netflix every week, subscribe to the Streamle Sub Jeong/HuffPostStreamle“All My Fay” (2019)Premise: The filmmaker Hao Wu is a gay, Che immigrant to the U. His fay Cha disapprov of gay parents adoptg children. Johnson, a genr-nonnformg gay liberatn activist who had a proment role the Stonewall uprisg of 1969, a semal moment the fight for LGBTQ rights.

10 GAY DOCUMENTARI ON NETFLIX STREAMG

But when the AIDS epimic veloped, the uple offered support to the gay muny and took on a more activist Mason, the dghter of the owners, wrote and directed the documentary. Which didn’t stop burly Hler nfidante and head of the Nazi SA paraary wg Ernst Röhm, a not-terribly-closeted gay man, om equentg the tablishment.

As the film explas, the SA had a strong homoerotic element, a disgt wh women and femy they somehow ed to jtify homosexualy – for a time, anyway. At a certa pot, Röhm’s iendship wh Hler uld only take him so far a Nazi regime creasgly set on eraditg homosexualy.

NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' IS A HUMANIZG LOOK AT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY SURVIVORS

Röhm is but one player this ncise, ftly told doc that the Eldorado as a lnchg pad to a broar story about beg gay Nazi Germany. The film never out and yells , but is also a remr of the Fal Solutn tenor that still acpani much anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric and, creasgly, policy. He was also a bohemian spir who had a passnate homosexual relatnship wh Manasse Herbst, a Galician Jewish actor who fled Germany 1936.

NETFLIX’S ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTARY WILL REMD YOU THAT GAY CONVERSN IS STILL GOG ON

Hirschfeld, a groundbreakg sexologist, both gay and Jewish and therefore a prime target of Nazi Germany, was thankfully not prent when his stute was ransacked by mardg Nazi youth (here aga, there are photos). Here we experience the nce that thrived before the fall, at a hiaway for those whose differenc would soon mark them for prison, exile, or, many s, ath ( is timated that between 5, 000 and 15, 000 gay people died the ncentratn mps for vlatg Paragraph 175). 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.... Synopsis: On the eve of 1987's Send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights, survivg fai and iends of...

FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY

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. Synopsis: Osr-nomated documentarian Kirby Dick directs this shockg and passnate dictment of the clanste hypocrisy of many closeted homosexuals Washgton,...

TAB HUNTER’S TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS: 7 THGS WE LEARNED FROM THE LATE GAY HEARTTHROB’S NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

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: Filmmaker Yoba Richen exam the reactn of the black muny to the bate over legalizg gay marriage....

‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE

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... In addn to the many, many queer scripted shows available to stream right now, there are a growg number of documentary films and seri re-examg the history, rights and visibily of the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny. HuluGay Chos Deep SouthNow streamg on Paramount+, the film follows the San Francis Gay Men's Chos, who are joed by the Oakland Interfah Gospel Choir, as they embark on a tour of the Amerin Deep South, which tak them on an unexpected emotnal journey as they perform  Mississippi, Tennsee, Alabama and the.

‘VOYR’ REVIEW: NETFLIX’S DEVIANT GAY TALE DOC CAN’T DECI WHAT WANTS TO LOOK AT

FXStty and the Secret History of Hollywood This licly sndalo and gossipy story about a former Mare who lands Hollywood after World War II and be a legendary rt and sexual procurer to closeted gay celebri is more fun than anythg Ryan Murphy uld dream up Hollywood -- even if Stty Bowers wasn't the direct spiratn for that seri. She was also a pneer of the gay liberatn movement, -founr of S.