GAY HISTORY- 101

there are some amazing docos coming out about gay history, both local, national and international.
i reccomend everybody, gay or straight, to check them out. these will become a part of civil rights history.


directed by JOSH HOWARD.

THE LAVENDER SCARE is the first feature-length documentary film to tell the story of the U.S. government's ruthless campaign in the 1950s and '60s to hunt down and fire every Federal employee it suspected was gay.
While the McCarthy Era is remembered as the time of the Red Scare, the headline-grabbing hunt for Communists in the United States, it was the Lavender Scare, a vicious and vehement purge of homosexuals, which lasted longer and ruined many more lives.
Before it was over, more than 10,000 Federal employees lost their jobs. Based on the award-winning book by historian David K. Johnson, THE LAVENDER SCARE shines a light on a chapter of American history that has never received the attention it deserves.



directed by GLENNE MCELHINNEY
ON THESE SHOULDERS WE STAND- How California laws against "masking" or "impersonation" were used to discriminate against the LGBT community. LGBT pioneers talk about reaching out to the younger generation in this excerpt from "On These Shoulders We Stand."
Excerpted from "On These Shoulders We Stand," a new film about California LGBT history.



WE WERE HERE, produced and directed by David Weissman, with Bill Weber, editor and co-director.

We Were Here documents the coming of what was called the “Gay Plague” in the early 1980s.
It illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the AIDS epidemic as well as the broad political and social upheavals it unleashed. It offers a cathartic validation for the generation that suffered through, and responded to, the onset of AIDS. It opens a window of understanding to those who have only the vaguest notions of what transpired in those years.