Lewd and Lascivious
US
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Runtime: 51
Category: Faith
Screening: January 29, 2015
Who would have guessed that the dawn of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement in San Francisco was jump-started by straight ministers at a dance? This little-known, yet pivotal event happened the first day of 1965, and it was an occasion like never before. For the first time, all the fledgling "homophile" organizations came together as one to put on a costume ball to publicly reveal their community in a thoroughly respectable, yet overtly political, and queerly fabulous fashion! The twist was, they were rallied by progressive straight ministers who had witnessed, firsthand, the brutal police violence against this community and they were determined to do something about it. So when the SFPD showed up to try and shut the party down, the results were explosively historic!
Director: Dr. Jallen Rix
Executive Producer, Chris Sinton, is a former senior director at Cisco Systems. Associate Producer, Susan Stryker, won an Emmy® for her film Screaming Queens; and many others.
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