Out of the Past (1998)

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 17thcentury Puritan cleric at the 30year love affair of Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Adams Fields at Henry Gerbers attempt after World War I to establish a gayrights organization at Bayard Rustins role in the civil rights movement and at Barbara Gittings taking on of the American Psychiatric Associations 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