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Out of the Past

Out of the Past

Documentary
1998, Movie, 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."
Country: United States
Director:
Jeff Dupre
Cast:
Gwyneth Paltrow,
Edward Norton,
Cherry Jones,
Linda Hunt
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Jeff Dupre
Director
Gwyneth Paltrow
As Sarah Orne Jewett (voice)
Edward Norton
As Henry Gerber (voice)
Cherry Jones
As Annie Adams Fields (voice)
Linda Hunt
As Narrator
Stephen Spinella
As Michael Wigglesworth (voice)
Leland Gantt
As Bayard Rustin (voice)
Bayard Rustin
As Self

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