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  • Out of the Past (1998)
  • R
    97 min | Documentary
Out of the Past (1998)
R
97 min | Documentary

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...See moreIn 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." Written by See less
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Director
Jeff Dupre (as Jeffrey Dupre)
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Jeff Dupre (as Jeffrey Dupre)
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Release date
Jul 31, 1998 (United States)

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12 cast members
Name Known for
Stephen Spinella
Michael Wigglesworth (voice) Michael Wigglesworth (voice)   See fewer
Gwyneth Paltrow
Sarah Orne Jewett (voice) Sarah Orne Jewett (voice)   See fewer
Cherry Jones
Annie Adams Fields (voice) Annie Adams Fields (voice)   See fewer
Edward Norton
Henry Gerber (voice) Henry Gerber (voice)   See fewer
Leland Gantt
Bayard Rustin (voice) Bayard Rustin (voice)   See fewer
Peter J. Gomes
Self (as Rev. Peter J. Gomes) Self (as Rev. Peter J. Gomes)   See fewer
Linda Hunt
Narrator Narrator   See fewer
Bayard Rustin
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
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