SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 at 3:00 PM

DIRECTIONS

Celebrating pre-Stonewall activists, GAY PIONEERS profiles the group of brave men and women who organized the first gay civil rights demonstrations in the US from 1965 to 1969. Their stories are outlined using archival footage from demonstrations in New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. First-hand accounts are given by some of these pioneers, including Barbara Gittings, Frank Kameny, Rev. Robert Woods, Nancy Tucket and Jack Nichols.

This documentary focuses his lens on the unbridled sexual passion and exploration that marked the twelve years from Stonewall (1969) to the first reported cases of AIDS (1981). With access to a filmic and photographic treasure trove of erotic life on New York's West Side Piers, trucks, bars, dance clubs, baths and beaches, Lovett's cast of storytellers takes us from the remarkably repressed pre-Stonewall period to an era of sexual excess unparalleled since ancient Rome.