Description by couchtuner for Gay Pioneers : “Gay Pioneers” is directed by award-winning PBS documentary filmmaker Glenn Holsten and produced by PBS affiliate WHYY and Equality Forum. The film braids archival footage from these seminal demonstrations; FBI investigative files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act; on-camera interviews with Gay Pioneers about the homophobia of the era, the protocol for the demonstrations and how those demonstrations affected the movement; and perspectives from Frank Kameny, Barbara Gittings and Lilli Vincenz.
Gay Pioneers is the story of the first organized annual “homosexual” civil rights demonstrations held in Philadelphia, New York and Washington, DC from 1965-69. When few would publicly identify themselves as gay, these brave pioneers challenged pervasive homophobia.
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