Here are some highlights:
LGBTQ film historian and archivist Jenni Olson discusses the significance of Queens at Heart (1967), a rare look at the lives of four trans women and drag ball culture in mid-1960s New York. Thanks to her discovery of this long-obscure film, Queens at Heart was restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2009 as part of the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project.
In her landmark 1992 Village Voice article, B. Ruby Rich declared the emergence of a “New Queer Cinema,” a wave of queer film and video works that were unified by their irreverence, innovation and activist energy, fueled by the AIDS crisis and Reagan-era politics. The UCLA Film & Television Archive staff looks back on this defiant and groundbreaking generation of film and video makers.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive staff highlights six films that affirm LGBTQ people of color and render their experiences and unique struggles with audacity, compassion and style.
Celebrated annually on March 31, International Transgender Day of Visibility is an opportunity to recognize the courage and contributions of transgender and gender-diverse people, and a chance to share their stories of struggle as they continue to face inadequate legal protections, stigma and violence. Identity-affirming representations on screen are critical to advancing awareness and acceptance.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is honored to be the caretaker of Pat Rocco’s prolific and historically important legacy. The Pat Rocco collection, which includes 840 holdings, has been with the Archive since the mid-1980s, and continues to be one of the most frequently utilized resources by historians and media scholars.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive celebrates the trailblazing legacy of In the Life, America's first and longest-running national television series devoted to LGBTQ issues, which was generously donated to the Archive by its producers in 2013.
Collections intern Jon Naveh shares his work on the Pat Rocco film materials, which are housed under the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project for LGBTQ Moving Image Preservation. Rocco’s vast collection is held on deposit at the Archive, and is one of the most utilized resources by scholars, researchers, historians and others interested in LGBTQ culture.
On October 13, 2012, the UCLA Film & Television Archive was pleased to present a “sneak peek” of the restoration of Different From the Others (1919) at Outfest’s Legacy Awards, an event at the historic Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles.