Name: Out of the Closet and Into the Co-op: Early Queer Cinema
Start: 2026-06-16T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-16T20:20:00-04:00
Location: Brooklyn Academy of Music

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Out of the Closet and Into the Co-op: Early Queer Cinema 1

Drama Film

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Out of the Closet and Into the Co-op: Early Queer Cinema

Drama Film

Out of the Closet and Into the Co-op: Early Queer Cinema

June 16 at 7pm

At Brooklyn Academy of Music

Fort Greene

Website

🎬"hopeful documentary [and] vital cultural document" (Maya Simone Cade, Black Film Archive)

🎞️Includes Jean Genet's only film, once banned

⏱️80 minute total runtime, perfect weeknight length

Step into 1960s New York through rare experimental shorts that dared to show queer life before Stonewall. This Film-Makers' Cooperative retrospective spotlights banned films, drag performances, and trans narratives from a time when visibility meant risk.

Experimental film

LGBTQ+ history

Pride Month program

Countercultural archives

Brooklyn Academy of Music

30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA

+1 718-636-4100

film-makerscoop.com

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