From the Stonewall riots to the discovery of AIDS, Joseph Lovett's documentary traces the years from gay liberation to gay plague, when, as one subject puts it, pornography lost its interest because "real life was a pornographic movie." The good old days of bathhouses and the piers are remembered with no small fondness; one man recalls stopping for a blowjob on the way to Wall Street. But Lovett acknowledges that, even pre-AIDS, the revolution had a dark side, and that younger generations are still struggling with its positive and negative legacies. —Sam Adams

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