Reflecting on Queer Cinema's Golden Age: The Gay '90s

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        Reflecting on Queer Cinema's Golden Age: The Gay '90s
      A New York film festival reminds us how wide the celluloid closet busted open 20 years ago. The Advocate's editors look back at how these movies changed history and their own identities.
 
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          Oct 07, 2016
          
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Reflecting on Queer Cinema's Golden Age: The Gay '90s

A New York film festival reminds us how wide the celluloid closet busted open 20 years ago. The Advocate's editors look back at how these movies changed history and their own identities.

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Reflecting on Queer Cinema's Golden Age: The Gay '90s

A New York film festival reminds us how wide the celluloid closet busted open 20 years ago. The Advocate's editors look back at how these movies changed history and their own identities.

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