Out of the Past

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Out of the Past (1998)

Directed by Jeff Dupre

Documentary · 1h 37m

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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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 Self - Narrator (voice) Leland Gantt Bayard Rustin (voice)
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Bayard Rustin Self

Crew

Director
Jeff Dupre
Writer
Michelle Ferrari
Original Music Composer
Matthias Gohl

Details

Release date
1998-07-31
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Box office
$8