32 LGBTQ+ Documentaries to Watch for LGBTQ+ History Month

Author: Trudy Ring

In an era when right-wingers are pushing “don’t say gay” policies in schools, this documentary from 1996 remains as timely as ever. It showed how addressing LGBTQ+ topics in age-appropriate ways, even for the youngest students, can fight bigotry — and it demonstrated that children welcome this information. It was directed by Debra Chasnoff and Helen Cohen.

Chasnoff, a longtime documentary filmmaker, had made history in 1992 when, accepting the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for her film Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Environment, she became the first woman to thank a same-sex partner from the Oscar stage. Chasnoff died in 2017; her final film, Prognosis: Notes on Living, chronicles her experience of cancer. It’s been on the film festival circuit since last year and will likely get a theatrical release soon.

Original Article on The Advocate
Author: Trudy Ring