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New Orleans Film Society

Documentary Shorts, Program 3 - Overcoming Adversity

Claiming the Title: Gay Olympics on Trial

USA 29 min.

Director
Jonathan Joiner, Robert H. Martin

Synopsis

In 1982, a San Francisco athletic group tries to hold a “Gay Olympics,” instigating what will ultimately become a battle at the U.S. Supreme Court and a challenge over the place of gays and lesbians in American society.

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