Kick off Pride Month with a 30th anniversary 4K restoration screening of The Celluloid Closet featuring special guests Harvey Fierstein (7x Tony Award-Winning Actor, Playwright, and Screenwriter, a New York Times Best-Selling Author, and a lifelong activist for the LGBTQ+ community) and Emmy, Grammy and 2x Academy Award-winning director Rob Epstein.

Harvey Fierstein

Rob Epstein

What That’s Entertainment did for movie musicals, The Celluloid Closet does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Lily Tomlin narrates as Oscar-winning moviemaker Rob Epstein (The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt) and Jeffrey Friedman assemble fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein and Gore Vidal are just a few of the many actors, writers and commentators who provide funny and insightful anecdotes.