A short documentary about the First National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, which took place on Sunday, October 14th 1979.
Direction
Winer captures intimate interviews amid massive crowds with zero budget.
Production
Preserved 16mm footage of a march almost erased from history.
Acting
Audre Lorde's presence alone demands your full attention.
Director
Lucy Winer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This march predated the AIDS crisis that would reshape LGBTQ activism; participants couldn't know their movement was about to become literal survival.
Co-director Lucy Winer later made 'Kings Park' about psychiatric institutionalization, continuing her excavation of hidden American histories.
US
