Out of the Past (1998)
Synopsis
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."
Release Date: 1998-07-31
Runtime: 97 minutes
Director: Jeff Dupre
Revenue: $8 USD
Top Cast
- Stephen Spinella as Michael Wigglesworth (voice)
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Sarah Orne Jewett (voice)
- Cherry Jones as Annie Adams Fields (voice)
- Edward Norton as Henry Gerber (voice)
- Linda Hunt as Narrator
- Leland Gantt as Bayard Rustin (voice)
- Bayard Rustin as Self
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