Word Is Out (1977) is a documentary film directed by a collective of six people known as the Mariposa Film Group: Peter Adair, Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein, Lucy Massie Phenix, and Veronica Selver. Peter Adair also produced the film. The film premiered in November 1977 at the Castro Theater in San Francisco and was released in 1978.
The film intercuts interviews with 26 very diverse people—ranging in age from 18 to 77, in locales from San Francisco to New Mexico to Boston, in type from a bee-hived housewife to a sultry drag queen—who speak of their experiences as gay men and lesbians. Writer Elsa Gidlow, professor Sally Gearhart, and inventor John Burnside are among the interviewees
In 1977, Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives startled audiences across the country when it appeared in movie theaters and on television. Considered the first feature-length documentary about lesbian and gay identity made by gay filmmakers, this film had a huge impact when it was released and became an icon of the emerging gay rights movement of the 1970s (en.wikipedia.org)
The film intercuts interviews with 26 very diverse people—ranging in age from 18 to 77, in locales from San Francisco to New Mexico to Boston, in type from a bee-hived housewife to a sultry drag queen—who speak of their experiences as gay men and lesbians. Writer Elsa Gidlow, professor Sally Gearhart, and inventor John Burnside are among the interviewees
In 1977, Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives startled audiences across the country when it appeared in movie theaters and on television. Considered the first feature-length documentary about lesbian and gay identity made by gay filmmakers, this film had a huge impact when it was released and became an icon of the emerging gay rights movement of the 1970s (en.wikipedia.org)
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