Harvey Milk

Retraçant fidèlement le climat politique et social de San Francisco dans les années 70, The Times of Harvey Milk constitue un portrait réussi et passionnant de ce qui fut vraiment perdu lorsque Harvey Milk, conseiller municipal de San Francisco, et le maire George Moscone furent brutalement assassinés en novembre 1978 par un autre conseiller municipal : Dan White. Fascinant du début à la fin, The Times of Harvey Milk reste toujours autant d'actualité qu'en 1984 lorsqu'il remporta l'Oscar.

This entertaining and enlightening documentary sheds a light on a pioneering moment in film history and the gay rights movement, as it revisits the break-through 1960s gay films of Pat Rocco. Rocco was responsible for the very first gay films that were shown openly to the paying public in the late 1960s. Situated before hardcore porn became the norm, and in marked contrast to the somewhat darker gay porn that was coming out of New York at the time. Pat Rocco’s film were more sun-dappled, featuring tanned and happy-looking naked men on sail boats and on beaches, celebrating their identities and the beauty of the male body. The filmmakers got to talk to the generous, rather humble and open-minded Rocco just before his death. It took a team of dedicated Canadian filmmakers to capture a fairly obscure moment of indie film history that deserves to be remembered.

Never before seen home movies made by queer people dating back to the 1930s and the struggle to save them before they are lost forever.

Le film retrace les 8 dernières années de la vie d'Harvey Milk. Dans les années 70, il fut le premier homme politique américain ouvertement gay à être élu à des fonctions officielles, à San Francisco en Californie. Son combat pour la tolérance et l'intégration des communautés homosexuelles lui coûta la vie. Son action a changé les mentalités, et son engagement a changé l'histoire.

KPIX's Emmy Award winning People's 5 report with Don Knapp from November 24th 1979, on the lifestyle and and political ambitions of the gay community in San Francisco.

Ce documentaire passionnant pénètre dans le monde du stand-up queer et examine la puissante influence culturelle qu'il a exercée sur le changement social en Amérique. Le film combine des documents d'archives rares, des spectacles de stand-up et des interviews avec une équipe de choc pour présenter une histoire complète de la comédie queer.

Images set to a tape recording that slain San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk made in November 1977 to be played in case he was killed.

A kaleidoscopic snapshot of urban gay life during the gay liberation era — or at least how it looked in the movies.

Documentary that explores the lives of 14 female U.S. senators and the uniquely feminine challenges they face, including the sometimes difficult balance between their roles as public servants and wives and mothers.