Pride Divide is a 1997 documentary film

Documentary film

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 directed by Paris Poirier. It examines the issues within the LGBT

LGBT

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 community relating to apparent divisions between lesbian

Lesbian

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s and gay

Gay

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 men.

Participants

• Joan Jett Blakk
  Joan Jett Blakk
  Joan Jett Blakk is the drag persona of performer Terence Smith. Smith is an African-American actor, writer and political candidate. Blakk first garnered a measure of national attention when he ran for President of the United States in 1992....
  
  
• Kate Clinton
  Kate Clinton
  Kate Clinton is a American comedian specializing in political commentary from a gay/lesbian point of view.-Early life:...
  
  
• Martin Duberman
  Martin Duberman
  Martin Bauml Duberman is an American historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist. He is Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York and was the founder of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate School...
  
  
• Lillian Faderman
  Lillian Faderman
  Lillian Faderman is a scholar whose books on lesbian relationships and romantic friendship in history have earned critical praise and awards. Faderman is a professor of English at California State University in Fresno, California.-Early life:...
  
  
• Barbara Gittings
  Barbara Gittings
  Barbara Gittings was a prominent American activist for gay equality. She organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis from 1958 to 1963, edited the national DOB magazine The Ladder from 1963 to 1966, and worked closely with Frank Kameny in the 1960s on the first picket lines that...
  
  
• Michael Goff
  Michael Goff
  Michael Goff is a publisher, executive and entrepreneur who founded Out magazine and was its first editor in chief and President. The child of diplomats, Goff himself was rejected by the State Department for being gay....
  
  
• Harry Hay
  Harry Hay
  Henry "Harry" Hay, Jr. was a labor advocate, teacher and early leader in the American LGBT rights movement. He is known for his roles in helping to found several gay organizations, including the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States.Hay was exposed early in...
  
  
• Simon LeVay
  Simon LeVay
  Simon LeVay is a British-American neuroscientist. He is known for his studies about brain structures and sexual orientation.-Personal life:LeVay was born on August 28, 1943 in Oxford, England...
  
  
• JoAnn Loulan
• Michael Musto
  Michael Musto
  Michael Musto is an American columnist for the The Village Voice, where he writes La Dolce Musto. Musto was born in Brooklyn to an Italian American family. He attended Columbia University graduating in 1976. During his studies, he was a theater critic for the Columbia Spectator...
  
  
• Joan Nestle
  Joan Nestle
  Joan Nestle is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor and the co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.-Life:Nestle's father died before she was born, and she was raised by her widowed mother Regina Nestle, a bookkeeper in New York City's garment district, whom she credits with inspiring her...
  
  
• Ann Northropp
• Camille Paglia
  Camille Paglia
  Camille Anna Paglia , is an American author, teacher, and social critic. Paglia, a self-described dissident feminist, has been a Professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since 1984...
  
  
• Sarah Pettit
• Catherine Saalfield
• Sarah Schulman
  Sarah Schulman
  Sarah Miriam Schulman is an American novelist, historian and playwright. An early chronicler of the AIDS crisis, she wrote on AIDS and social issues, publishing in The Village Voice in the early 1980s, and writing the first piece on AIDS and the homeless, which appeared in The Nation...
  
  
• Michelangelo Signorile
  Michelangelo Signorile
  Michelangelo Signorile is a gay American writer, a national talk radio host whose program is aired each weekday across the United States and Canada. He is a political liberal, and covers a wide variety of political and cultural issues...
  
  
• Rose Troche
  Rose Troche
  Rose Troche is a film and television director, television producer, and screenwriter. She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and attended film school, earning a degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago...
  
  

Reception

Pride Divide won the aGLIFF Award at the 1997 Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival. In 1999, it won the Gold Apple award from the National Educational Media Network. Writing for Variety

Variety (magazine)

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, Ken Eisner called the film brave and entertaining.

External links

• Official site