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Tony award-winning actress Cherry Jones returns to special guest host, "Social Engineering," In the Life's 12th annual LGBT pride episode in June 2004. |
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Political ScienceIn "Political Science", ITL examines how homosexuality has been politicized, from 19th century sexologists coining the term "homosexuality" to today. Interviews with early activists including Barbara Gittings and Frank Kameny detail how they dramatically overturned the APA's listing of homosexuality as a mental disorder, thus forever changing the course of history. |
PFLAG EvolutionWhat began as a tiny support group for parents whose adult children had come out of the closet, PFLAG or (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) has now evolved into one of the LGBT's largest support organizations. In "PFLAG Evolution", ITL celebrates the 25th anniversary of an organization whose mere existence helps combat the homophobia that still surrounds their children. |
Real to Real: Bombay EunuchThis month's Real to Reel profiles "Bombay Eunuch", a film investigation into what has become of one of India's most secretive subcultures. Once considered spiritually divine in Indian communities, eunuchs have now become objects of mockery and have resorted to begging and prostitution for survival. The film's directors Alexandra Shiva and Sean MacDonald spoke to ITL about how the film they set out to create became something completely different by the end. |
Level PinkWhen Joseph McCarthy took on the communist menace of the 1950's he used a second identifier of un-Americanism, homosexuality. In "Level Pink" ITL looks at how the tradition of framing queerness as a threat to our national security continues, 50 years after McCarthyism. |