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The brilliant documentary “Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives” now available on DVD – It is a must-see!
Really want to get the word out that Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives is now available on DVD. You must see this movie.
You must!
A restored version of this landmark documentary was screened at Outfest in LA in summer 2008 and was the most moving theatrical experience I had all year.
It features 26 people who opened up in front of the camera about their lives; their struggles, their quiet triumphs. What an eclectic group – wonderful group. All so different from each other.
Some of the stories were chilling: the man who was sent to an institution and given shock therapy after he confessed to his wife that he was gay; the woman who lost custody of her children because she was living with her lover; the woman who willingly spent four years as a teenager in a mental hospital in an effort to not be gay, and on and on.
These people break your heart at times then warm it with their resilience, their humor and their incredible perspective.
The movie was released in 1978 and has a positive feeling to it because the sense was that LGBT people had come quite a ways and it would only continue to get better. Then came AIDS.
It is impossible to watch Word Is Out and not reflect on your own journey. It may or may not have been as harrowing as some of the people in the film but I’m certain it was not an easy one. I’m excited for everyone to see this movie.
The version you will see is newly restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and its Outfest Legacy Project. One of the DVD bonuses is Word is Out, Then and Now: Thirty Years Later featuring the filmmakers and many of the film’s participants.
To order and to find out more, here is a LINK.
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Mark says:
I’ve always felt regret that I was far too young to participate in any of the post-Stonewall movement … and a bittersweet gratitude to have come of age after the dangers of AIDS were well known. “Word is Out” sounds like such a valuable time capsule of an era never to be recaptured.
Thanks for bringing “Word is Out” to my attention.