Pride Month – Film + Q&A: The Celluloid Closet (1996)

Kick off Pride Month with a 30th anniversary 4K restoration screening of The Celluloid Closet, featuring special guests Harvey Fierstein—7x Tony Award–winning actor, playwright, screenwriter, New York Times bestselling author, and lifelong LGBTQ+ activist—and Emmy, Grammy, and 2x Academy Award–winning director Rob Epstein. This exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Lily Tomlin narrates as Oscar-winning moviemaker Rob Epstein (The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt) and Jeffrey Friedman assemble fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein and Gore Vidal are just a few of the many actors, writers and commentators who provide funny and insightful anecdotes.