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Out Of The Past

1998, Movie, NR, 65 mins

Out Of The Past: Review

OUT OF THE PAST
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It may be just a small drop in a big bucket, but when it comes to rewriting the history books to include the lives and achievements of gay men and women, Jeff Dupre's hourlong documentary is still a great start. The film tells the almost unbelievable story of Kelli Peterson, a 17-year-old Utah high-school student who, in 1996, found herself the center of a heated imbroglio when she tried to establish a Gay-Straight Alliance in her school. School-board protests landed the case in the lap of the Utah State Legislature, and Kelli was suddenly national front-page news. It's a fascinating, infuriating and ultimately enlightening story, but Dupre takes it a step further by finding historical precedents for aspects of Kelli's life and brave struggle against fear and ignorance. As Kelli talks about her years as a miserable, closeted teenager, Dupre intercuts the story of Michael Wigglesworth, the gay, 17th-century Puritan cleric and poet who lived a life of tormented repression. Kelli's relationship with her longtime girlfriend is echoed in the life of 19th-century New England novelist Sarah Orne Jewett, whose love for prominent society matron Annie Fields, was well-documented in letters. When Kelli finds herself on the march, Dupre adds the lives of Henry Gerber, who founded America's first gay rights organization in 1924, and Martin Luther King's right-hand man Bayard Rustin, who also happened to be gay. It's a history few have bothered to record, and Dupre -- aided by the voices of Gwyneth Paltrow, Edward Norton and Cherry Jones, among others -- brings it to life in an intelligently made and important little film. leave a comment --Ken Fox
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