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Out of the Past (1998)
R
97 min | Documentary

Out of the Past (1998)

97 min | Documentary

In 1995, Kelli Peterson started a gay and straight club at her Salt Lake City high school. The story of her ensuing battle with school authorities in interspersed with looks back at the diary of Michael Wigglesworth, a 17th-century Puritan...See moreIn 1995, Kelli Peterson started a gay and straight club at her Salt Lake City high school. The story of her ensuing battle with school authorities in interspersed with looks back at the diary of Michael Wigglesworth, a 17th-century Puritan cleric, at the 30-year love affair of Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Adams Fields, at Henry Gerber's attempt after World War I to establish a gay-rights organization, at Bayard Rustin's role in the civil rights movement, and at Barbara Gittings' taking on of the American Psychiatric Association's position that homosexuality is illness. One person comments, "To create a place for ourselves in the present, we have to find ourselves in the past." Written by See less

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12 cast members

Name	Known for
Stephen Spinella Michael Wigglesworth (voice) Michael Wigglesworth (voice) See fewer	Ravenous (1999)
Gwyneth Paltrow Sarah Orne Jewett (voice) Sarah Orne Jewett (voice) See fewer	Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Cherry Jones Annie Adams Fields (voice) Annie Adams Fields (voice) See fewer	The Village (2004)
Edward Norton Henry Gerber (voice) Henry Gerber (voice) See fewer	Fight Club (1999)
Leland Gantt Bayard Rustin (voice) Bayard Rustin (voice) See fewer	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
Annie Fields Self Self See fewer	Out of the Past (1998)
Barbara Gittings Self Self See fewer	Before Stonewall (1984)
Peter J. Gomes Self (as Rev. Peter J. Gomes) Self (as Rev. Peter J. Gomes) See fewer	Resurrecting Love: The Cemetery That Can Heal a Nation
Linda Hunt Narrator Narrator See fewer	The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Sarah Orne Jewett Self Self See fewer	Camera Three (1954)
Kelli Peterson Self Self See fewer	SexTV (1998)
Bayard Rustin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)