Gay USA is an American documentary film released in 1978 and directed by Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. The documentary focuses on the gay rights movement. Composed of footage shot at a number of gay pride events around the United States in 1977,[2] the film captures a time just as the gay rights movement began facing the first organized backlash in the form of Anita Bryant and her campaign to repeal anti-discrimination protection in Dade County.

Gay USA
A screenshot captures "the optimistic homosexual of the seventies"[1]
Directed byArthur J. Bressan Jr.
Distributed byFrameline
Release date
  • 1978 (1978)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Notes edit

  1. ^ Morris, Gary (July 1997). "Gay U.S.A." Bright Lights Film Journal. Retrieved 2008-06-21.
  2. ^ Richard Meran Barsam Nonfiction Film: A Critical History, p. 369, at Google Books

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