Production Companies Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, Channel Four Films, Home Box Office (HBO), Sony Pictures Classics, Telling Pictures, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), arte
"We did the picture wrong."--SHIRLEY MACLAINE, about her 1961 film THE CHILDREN'S HOUR, which played down its lesbian theme.
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Harvey Fierstein: The hunger I felt as a kid looking for gay images was not to be alone.
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"I thought of Gene Kelly, my mother, and a little bit of Eve Arden."--Tony Curtis, discussing his inspiration for the character he played in the classic comedy SOME LIKE IT HOT
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"The sissy made everyone feel more manly or more womanly by filling the space in between."--Lily Tomlin, discussing one of Hollywood's recurring caricatures
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Narrator: Hollywood, that great maker of myths, taught straight people what to think about gays and gay people what to think about themselves.
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Susan Sarandon: You wouldn't have to get drunk to bed Catherine Deneuve, I don't care what your sexual history to that point had been.
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Tom Hanks: There is this constant desire on the part of the studios to make characters likable.
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Arthur Laurents: You must pay. You must suffer. If you're a woman who commits adultery, you're only put out in the storm. If you're a woman who has another woman you better go hang yourself. It's a question of degree and certainly if you're gay, you have to do real penance - die!
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