\u00bbSo I asked what was a lesbian, and everybody laughed. \u203aThat\u2018s a girl who likes other girls instead of boys\u2039, and I thought \u203auh-oh, that sounds like me.\u2039\u00ab
\n\u2013 Whitey Fladden<\/p>\n
Word Is Out<\/strong> was premiered in 1977 in San Francisco and was the first film to create a self image that countered the media image of homosexuals in the USA. In many interviews, told in parallel and assembled as a mosaic, 26 gays and lesbians talk about their experiences of love, the loss of love, their own coming out and the struggle against prejudice and discriminatory laws. Those interviewed are between 18 and 77-years old and come from all kinds of social milieus. Housewife, drag queen, poetess, political activist, inventor, civil rights activist and avant-garde film director \u2013 all have their say. Their stories are a piece of oral history and present a collective portrait of the gay-lesbian movement in the USA 30 years ago. Film Programme If You Don’t Fight Back<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21907,"template":"","movie_year":[666],"movie_genre":[85],"movie_cat":[513],"festival":[665],"class_list":["post-21908","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-666","movie_genre-documentary-en","movie_cat-focus-en-2011","festival-2011-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe making of the film was heavily influenced by a collective approach. Under the name of Mariposa Film Group<\/em>, Peter Adair, Veronica Selver, Andrew Brown, Lucy Massie Phenix, Nancy Adair and Rob Epstein conducted interviews that they subsequently evaluated, discussed and edited in a lengthy process. The simultaneous narrative style of individual plot strands was considered at the end of the 1970s to be a new and radical film aesthetic. The current 35mm copy was a result of the UCLAs Outfest Legacy Project<\/em>.<\/p>\n