Release Date
12 Feb, 2006
Runtime
01:22: (HH:MM)
Synopsis
Documents the history of gays and lesbians in Hollywood films.
A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback Mountain". Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advancing timeline and with clips from two dozen films. The narrative groups the pictures around various firsts, movements, and triumphs: experimental films, indie films, sex on screen, outlaw culture and bad guys, lesbian lovers, films about AIDS and dying, emergence of romantic comedy, transgender films, films about diversity and various cultures, documentaries and then mainstream Hollywood drama. What might come next?
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Actors
B. Ruby Rich
John Waters
Jane Lynch
Alan Cumming
Heather Matarazzo
Todd Haynes
Christine Vachon
John Cameron Mitchell
Rose Troche
李安
Marga Gómez
Gus Van Sant
Guinevere Turner
Dan Bucatinsky
Angela Robinson
Jonathan Caouette
Jennie Livingston
Ash Christian
Peter Paige
Jenni Olson
Crew
Ari Gold
Billy Porter
