gay history
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Re-writing Gay History
There was a time when gay cavemen discovered that having ‘samesies’ sex was limiting the number of people on earth so they try to enforce a new rule that they all have sex with ‘opposites’ for a while, which doesn’t go down too well at all. Watch this hilariously funny video from 2013 by writer/director…
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The Trial of Roger Casement
Roger Casement was once described as the “father of twentieth-century human rights investigations” after publishing his Casement Report on the Congo in 1905, and then for his important investigations of human rights abuses in Peru for which the British Government knighted him. Casement was a British diplomat of Irish extraction, humanitarian activist, Irish nationalist, and poet and when…
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Uncle Howard
Filmmaker Aaron Brookner set out to find the lost negatives of ‘Burroughs : The Movie’ a critically acclaimed film made by his uncle Howard Brookner who had died of AIDS in 1989 aged just 34 years old. Before his untimely demise Howard had made just two feature documentaries …..the other one was on Robert Wilson the…
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Reel in the Closet: from the days when being gay was illegal
Stu Maddux is a very determined gay activist and filmmaker whose passionate obsession with LGBT history has resulted in three excellent documentaries that deal with different aspects of gay communities in the past. This latest one ‘Reel in the Closet’ is a feature length movie that is comprised of a wealth of unseen footage of…
