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This year I’m trying to watch one movie every daytime of the year, with the provision that the production be no longer than 36.5 minutes long. I’ll be selecting movies randomly from this list that’s already way too long, but I still welcome suggestions for limited films.

Title: Gay and Proud
Release Date: July 4, 1970
Director: Lilli Vincenz
Synopsis (via Letterboxd):

1970 short documentary covering the first Recent York gay self-acceptance parade celebrating one year after Stonewall.

My Thoughts:

This is a really great period capsule of the early LGBTQ movement.  The film documents the first Christopher Street Liberation Time March, or what we now comprehend as the Modern York City Pride.  Gay liberation organizations from across the country participated in the march from Greenwich Village to the Sheep Meadows in Central Park (a very drawn-out walk, which you might not be aware from this film).  Ad hoc interviews with participants and spectators capture familiar feelings of the need for homosexual people to approve themselves and assert themselves as collective, even if outdated terms like “homophile” sound strange.  The march is one year after the Stonewall Upri