• Paris Is Burning
  • Paris Is Burning
  • Behind Every Good Man
  • Changes


Paris Is Burning

Jennie Livingston
United States, 1990
  • Introduction
    Allegra Madsen

    Allegra Madsen is the director of programming at Frameline San Francisco LGBTQ+ Film Festival, the largest and longest-running queer film festival in the world.

  • In Conversation
    Jenni Olson

    Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org—which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LGBTQ+ cinema. 

     

  • Susan Stryker

    Susan Stryker, Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, is the author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution, codirector of Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, and was founding executive editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.

featuring

Brooke Xtravaganza, André Christian, Dorian Corey, Paris Duprée, Pepper LaBeija,

For the queer and trans Black and Latinx subjects in Jennie Livingston’s documentary of New York’s Ballroom scene in the late 1980s, the community formed around the competitive world of drag was a matter of survival. Made over the course of seven years, the film ignited controversy upon its release. Yet Livingston’s nuanced and compassionate filmmaking enabled their subjects to speak at length, so that, as Essex Hemphill observed in 1991, “the authentic voice of this community emerges unfettered.”

Brendan Lucas
FILM DETAILS 
Cinematographer
  • Paul Gibson
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 78 mins
Source
  • Janus Films
Additional Info
  • Preserved by the Criterion Collection/Janus Films in conjunction with Outfest, Sundance Institute, and UCLA Film & Television Archive
Preceded By

Behind Every Good Man

Nikolai Ursin, United States, 1967

This gently activist short provides an illuminating glimpse into the life of an African American man who openly lives part of his life as a woman.

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 8 mins
source
  • UCLA Film & Television Archive
Additional Info
  • Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation on behalf of the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project

Changes

Pat Rocco, United States, 1970

An earnestly forthright and sensitive nonfiction interview with Jimmy Michaels, who is transgender.

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 17 mins
source
  • UCLA Film & Television Archive
Additional Info
  • Preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive on behalf of the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project