Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

The story

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?

Cast

B B. Ruby RichSelf J John WatersSelf J Jane LynchSelf A Alan CummingSelf H Heather MatarazzoSelf T Todd HaynesSelf C Christine VachonSelf J John Cameron MitchellSelf R Rose TrocheSelf A Ang LeeSelf M Marga GómezSelf G Gus Van SantSelf

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G Guinevere TurnerSelf D Dan BucatinskySelf A Angela RobinsonSelf J Jonathan CaouetteSelf J Jennie LivingstonSelf A Ash ChristianSelf N Nina LandeySelf P Peter PaigeSelf J Jenni OlsonSelf B Billy PorterSelf A Alice WuSelf W Wilson CruzSelf D Donna DeitchSelf D Don RoosSelf P Patrik-Ian PolkSelf J James SchamusSelf A Alonso DuraldeSelf T Tommy O'HaverSelf R Randy BarbatoSelf A Arthur DongSelf M Marcus HuSelf M Michael MustoSelf S Stephen WinterSelf