Out of the Past

Documentary

1998, 1h 37min

In 1995, Kelli Peterson started a gay and straight club at her Salt Lake City high school. The story of her ensuing battle with school authorities in interspersed with looks back at the diary of Michael Wigglesworth, a 17th-century Puritan cleric, at the 30-year love affair of Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Adams Fields, at Henry Gerber's attempt after World War I to establish a gay-rights organization, at Bayard Rustin's role in the civil rights movement, and at Barbara Gittings' taking on of the American Psychiatric Association's position that homosexuality is illness. One person comments, "To create a place for ourselves in the present, we have to find ourselves in the past."

"Out of the Past" — documentary movie produced in USA and released in 1998. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.1 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 37min. "Out of the Past" is not currently available to stream in USA. Save it and we'll notify you when it's available! Make sure to turn on push notifications as well.

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