Out of the Past

Out of the Past

1998
1h 37m
0.8

0.8/10

3 votes • View on IMDb
Documentary
Overview

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."

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Production Information

Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

lgbt

Quick Facts

Release Date July 31, 1998
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0141699
Website Visit Site

Cast

Stephen Spinella
Stephen Spinella

Michael Wigglesworth (voice)

Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow

Sarah Orne Jewett (voice)

Cherry Jones
Cherry Jones

Annie Adams Fields (voice)

Edward Norton
Edward Norton

Henry Gerber (voice)

Linda Hunt
Linda Hunt

Self - Narrator (voice)

Leland Gantt
Leland Gantt

Bayard Rustin (voice)

Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin

Self

Key Crew

Jeff Dupre
Director
Michelle Ferrari
Writer