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Contents:
- 10 SENTIAL MOVI ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
- 5 FILMS YOU CAN STREAM NOW TO LEARN ABOUT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- 10 INCREDIBLE MOVI & TV SHOWS ABOUT THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
- 19 MOVI ABOUT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT YOU CAN STREAM RIGHT NOW
10 SENTIAL MOVI ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
Wh Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall g to theaters this fall, we look back at ten sential gay movi about LGBT rights, cludg documentari and dramas * movie on gay rights *
In-person Pri celebratns may be on pse this year, but that don’t mean we n’t spend time reflectg on the history of the gay rights movement and the progrs ma toward a more clive society.
5 FILMS YOU CAN STREAM NOW TO LEARN ABOUT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
* movie on gay rights *
Through the epic dramas and historil documentari, I learned a great al about the history of the gay rights movement and the ntued stggle of LGBTQ people. Amerin Experience: “Stonewall Uprisg”Last summer marked the 50th anniversary of a turng pot the morn gay rights movement. In the 1960s, homosexualy was still wily nsired a mental illns by the medil muny an society at large.
Dpe public alienatn and shamg, the gay muny found ways to create safe spac. The mafia-owned bar was one of the few public plac where gay people uld show affectn and dance openly wh each other. That uprisg is now creded wh lnchg the first ever gay pri para New York, and generatns of social progrs.
10 INCREDIBLE MOVI & TV SHOWS ABOUT THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
10 movi and TV shows about the fight for LGBTQ rights and how gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr muni sought equaly. * movie on gay rights *
Most battl over gay rights are still fought state legislatur, not Washgton, DC, where marriage, adoptn and discrimatn laws are created. This Reel South documentary zooms on one state to exame how gay rights are evolvg Ameri.
19 MOVI ABOUT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT YOU CAN STREAM RIGHT NOW
There are plenty of films about gay rights and them you n stream on Netflix, HBO Go, Amazon and more. * movie on gay rights *
“I thought marriage would be the harst obstacle to overe, but ’s now the first major victory, ” says Patricia Todd, the first openly gay Alabama state reprentative. ”Watch ’ll Meet Aga: “Comg Out”When 13-year-old Tom DiCcc realized he was gay, he knew he uldn’t tell his nservative parents. It was the 1960s, and homosexualy was still nsired a mental illns and a crime.
He worked wh Wayne April to set up the universy’s first gay stunt anizatn. Wayne April is now nsired one of the most signifint gay rights s Amerin history. Tosi realized he too was gay, and the se gave him “the permissn to be who I am” and bee a passnate gay rights advote.
MASTERPIECE: “Man an Orange Shirt”MASTERPIECE’s betiful Man In An Orange Shirt origally ran on the BBC to mark the 50th anniversary of the crimalizatn of homosexualy England. Before that legislatn, gay people were btally treated and sent to prison, cludg men like Thomas, whom we meet the first half of this movie. In the style of The Notebook, the story flash forward 60 years to morn London and follows a gay man, played by Julian Morris, as he wrtl wh his own acceptance and inty and his sometim troubled relatnship wh his grandmother, played by Vansa Redgrave.