Video Review

Out of the Past

Details Movie Rated: Unrated; Genre: Documentary

''If I had known then that history was full of people just like me...things might have been different,'' says one gay activist in Out of the Past, the Sundance Audience Award-winning account of the personal and political struggles of some of America's most distinguished homosexuals, from Bayard Rustin, whose sexual orientation threatened his political partnership with Martin Luther King Jr., to Barbara Gittings, who delegitimized homosexuality as a psychiatric diagnosis. A moving testament to individual courage, as well as to the nation's cherished rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A

Originally posted Oct 16, 1998 Published in issue #454 Oct 16, 1998 Order article reprints

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