Gay Pioneers (2001)
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Runtime : 27M
Director : Glenn Holsten
Synopsis
A look back at one of the first homosexual civil rights demonstrations in the US. July 4th 1965 in Philadelphia
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A night with a troubled stranger forces a young male sex worker to confront a haunting moment from his past that he thought he'd left behind.
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Yvette is having second thoughts on the eve of an operation that will change her forever. A heartfelt comedy about friendship, denial, and finding the deeper truth of ourselves beyond the one we tell.
A mystery man brings together a group of dead, gay artists to investigate a police response to the dilema of wash-room sex in Toronto. The artists have seven days in which to report on the ethics of police tactics. The artists infiltrate the police only to discover that they themselves are under surveillance as a political subversive group. The artists explore and report on the evolution of toilets and wash-room behavior.
Seth is a youth with artistic leanings, a fascination with Black pop culture, and a dead-end life in an Adirondack village. He's alternatively sensitive and brutal with Kristen, who wants a sexual relationship that he explosively rejects. Late one night, as he's closing the cafe where he works, a young Black man attempts to rob him at gun point but faints from illness. Seth takes the man, Knowledge, an escapee from a nearby prison, to a family cabin where he nurses him and they begin a tentative friendship. When the sheriff learns of Seth's harboring a fugitive, a confrontation looms. Relationships between fathers and their children dominate the subplots.
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