1990s Derek Le Beau 1990s Derek Le Beau

STONEWALL (1995)

The 1995 film STONEWALL blends fact and fiction in its exploration of the events leading up to June 28th, 1969. Screenwriter Rikki Beadle-Blair and the film’s director, Nigel Finch, used author/historian Martin Duberman’s 1994 book “Stonewall” as a guide when crafting their story.

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1950s Derek Le Beau 1950s Derek Le Beau

GI Christine Returns Home (1953)

Christine Jorgensen talks to reporters in “G.I. CHRISTINE RETURNS HOME,” a 1953 British Pathé newsreel featuring the trans trailblazer when she returned to America after receiving her gender confirming surgery in Denmark.

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2000s Derek Le Beau 2000s Derek Le Beau

Taking Woodstock (2009)

TAKING WOODSTOCK, Filmmaker Ang Lee’s 2009 adaptation of gay author Elliot Tiber’s 2007 memoir “Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life.”

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2010s Derek Le Beau 2010s Derek Le Beau

Saturday Church (2017)

Writer/director Damon Cardasis’ 2017 film SATURDAY CHURCH; a coming of age story, set in New York City, about a teenage boy who begins to build a new family of supportive queer and trans friends after facing rejection at home.

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1960s Derek Le Beau 1960s Derek Le Beau

BEHIND EVERY GOOD MAN (1967)

In the 1967 short film BEHIND EVERY GOOD MAN, gay director Nikolai Ursin shows a day in the life of an unnamed Black transgender woman as she shops, walks the streets of Los Angeles, flirts with men, and later listens to pop music while getting ready for a date.

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