The Celluloid Closet
Adult Audiovisual DVD - 791.43 Rus

This one-time definitive 1996 documentary, on the 100 year history of the role of gay men and women of the silver screen, shows examples of 'coded' gay characters and numerous cruel stereotypes, while also highlighting historical pushes against censorship and the rising activism for better representation in the 1990s. Based on the Vito Russo book of the same name (whose name has been given to the GLAAD Vito Russo Test).


Pride Pictures

  • My Own Private Idaho


  • Una Mujer Fantastica


  • Edward II


  • The Celluloid Closet


  • Moonlight


  • The Children's Hour


  • Young Soul Rebels


  • Fox and his Friends


  • The Watermelon Woman


  • Brokeback Mountain


  • Stonewall Uprising


  • Paris is Burning


  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch


  • BPM (Beats Per Minute)


  • Tea and Sympathy


  • The Boys in the Band


  • Advise & Consent


  • Laurence Anyways


  • Philadelphia [Motion picture : 1993]


  • And the Band Played On


  • Morocco


  • Angels in America


  • Bent


  • Fabulous!: The Story of Queer Cinema


  • Carol (2015)


  • Man's Favorite Sport?


  • Michael


  • Desert Hearts