Lincoln Center Announces “Queer Films Before Stonewall” Festival Lineup

We were here before the revolution.
From: NewNowNext

Lincoln Center is set to debut “An Early Clue to the New Direction: Queer Cinema Before Stonewall,” a film festival celebrating LGBT films from the dawn of movie making to the late 1960s.

Running April 22 to May 1, the series includes 23 features and 24 shorts spanning 65 years, with the earliest film dating back to 1895. It incorporates silents, major Hollywood productions, foreign films and indie movies.

 “The subject of early queer cinema has long fascinated me; this survey has, in a sense, been in the works for over a decade,” says programmer at Large Thomas Beard, who hopes to demonstrate how the “the terrain [of queer cinema] is far vaster and more varied than received histories might suggest.”


Audiences will have a chance to revisit classics like Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope , and Vincente Minnelli’s Tea and Sympathy, indies including Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason and Andy Warhol’s My Hustler, and rare treasures like Jacqueline Audry’s lesbian drama Olivia from 1951 and Gregory Markopoulos’ experimental Twice a Man from 1964.