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Out of the Past

07/31/1998

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1hr 37min

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Documentary

STORY

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."

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Stephen Spinella
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Cherry Jones
  • Edward Norton
  • Linda Hunt

    Director

  • Jeff Dupre

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

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LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Stephen Spinella

Michael Wigglesworth (voice)

Gwyneth Paltrow

Sarah Orne Jewett (voice)

Cherry Jones

Annie Adams Fields (voice)

Edward Norton

Henry Gerber (voice)

Linda Hunt

Narrator

Leland Gantt

Bayard Rustin (voice)

Bayard Rustin

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