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"This film is dedicated to Louis Crompton (April 5, 1925-July 11, 2009) ...and the many other LGBT historians who have fought tirelessly to save same-sex history."--Opening frames.
"DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise stated, the people who appear in this film should not be presumed to be homosexual...or heterosexual."--Opening frames.
Editors, Christopher Dawes, David M. Hall ; cinematography, Michael Hanish, Arnaud Lalanne ; original music, Don DiNicola.
Featuring dialogue with: Gilbert Herdt, Ph.D. (Professor of Human Sexuality at San Francisco State University), Anna Leah Sarabia (human rights activist, Philippines), Aditya Bondyopadhyay (human rights activist, India), Charles Gueboguo (author of "La Question Homosexuelle en Afrique"), Bernadette Brooten, Ph.D. (author of "Love Between Women"), Audre Lorde (poet, c. 1984 CE), Ruth Vanita, Ph.D. (author of "Same-Sex Love in India"), James Saslow , Ph.D., (author of "Ganymede in the Renaissance"), Dean Hamer, Ph.D. (author of "The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior"), JoAnn Wypijewski (author of Carnal Knowledge column, The Nation), Janet Afary, Ph.D. (author of "Sexual Politics in Modern Iran"), Thorsten Opper (curator of Greek & Roman sculpture, The British Museum), Sophie Volpp, Ph.D. (Department of East Asian Languages, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley), Richard Parkinson (Professor of Egyptology, Oxford University), Louis Crompton, Ph.D. (author of "Homosexuality & Civilization"), Dimitris Plantzos (author of "Greek Art and Archaeology C. 1200-30 BC"), Maria Margaronis (journalist, The Nation, London Bureau), Tze-Lan Sang, Ph.D. (author of "The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China"), Akira Ohno (art historian, Koganei Hakenomori Art Museum, Japan), Seth Jacobowitz, Ph.D. (author and Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages, Yale University), Edward Maeder (historical fashion and textiles expert), Laxmi Narayan Tripathi (Hijra guru, transgender activist), Terence Kissack, Ph.D. (author of "Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States"), Max Dashu (founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives), Rodney Lutalo (human rights activist, Uganda), Michael Rocke (Director of the Biblioteca Berenson, Harvard University, Florence, Italy, author of "Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence"), Theo van der Meer, Ph.D. (author of "Sodoms zaad in Nederland"), Gert Hekma, Ph.D. (editor of "A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Modern Age"), Richter Norton, Ph.D. (author of "My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries"), Carl Brandon Strehlke (museum art curator), Jeffrey Weeks, (author & officer of the Order of thte British Empire), Neil McKenna (author of "The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde), Michael Lombardi-Nash (translator of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs), Sheila Rowbotham (author of "Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love"), Gary Schmidgall (author of "Walt Whitman. A Gay Life").
Disc characteristics: DVD-R.
English narration, with English subtitles.
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