Video Discription |
"Senior Prom" takes on a whole new meaning at Triangle Square, a haven for LGBTQ+ retirees in Hollywood, CA.
For so many high-schoolers, prom is a rite of passage in all of its love-filled, well-coiffed, abundantly photographed glory. But for generations of LGBTQ+ youth, prom has been emblematic of exclusion from a world they could not experience as their authentic selves.
Over a night of dancing, kissing, and crowning of prom queens at Triangle Square, these trailblazing seniors reflect back on how far they’ve come and their dreams for the next generation. “Senior Prom” celebrates our eldest LGBTQ+ generation who spent a lifetime fighting for the right to love openly and, via rich personal archives, retraces lives and legacies of resistance that helped change the course of civil rights.
Subscribe to PBS Voices so you never miss a new video: https://to.pbs.org/2XewHgX
Happy Pride, everyone! Let us know how you're celebrating (safely) this year in the comments below.
#Pride #Prom #LGBTQ
FOLLOW INDEPENDENT LENS:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/independentlens
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IndependentLens
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/independent...
Executive Producers
Sally Jo Fifer
Lois Vossen
Director & Producer
Luisa Conlon
Producer
Jessica Chermayeff
Co-Producers
Ana Veselic
Anne Alexander
Director of Photography
Luisa Conlon
Editors
Orian Barki
Alex Bohs
Ora DeKornfeld
Additional Cinematography
Maya Craig
Seth Hahn
Associate Producers
Cloe Young
Zoe Kase
Music Composer
William Ryan Fritch
Music Supervisor
Juliette Carter
Graphic Designer
Abigail Leuchter
Colorist
Elias Nousiopoulos
Sound Designer & Mixer
Calvin Pia
Vice President of Production
Royd Chung
Senior Manager, Short-Form Content
Pamela Torno
Supervising Producer
Clare Chambers
Associate Producer
Susan Cohen
Archival Materials by
Personal Archives provided by: Robert Clement, Andrea Segal, and Nancy Valverde
Photographer Ron Frehm / AP Photo by Ron Frehm
Footage supplied by CBS News
Prelinger Archives
NBC Archives via Getty Images
Imagery supplied by Fred W. McDarrah/Premium Archive via Getty Images
First New York Parade (Stonewall Year), Crawford Wayne Barton Papers, 1993-11 Courtesy of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
Footage Courtesy of; JOANI: Queen of the Paradiddle!
"Gay & Proud" by Lilli Vincenz, permission by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., Archival film and/or video materials from the collections of the Library of Congress
David of California, Courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
Stock media provided by DogPhonics/ Pond5
Footage made available from MKS Video, Inc., and Michael Stimler
Music
“Dancing Queen”
Written by Stig Erik Leopoldo Anderson, Benny Goran Bror Andersson, Bjoern K. Ulvaeus
Performed by Franck Pourcel
Courtesy of Parlophone Music France, a Warner Music Group Company
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
Published by Universal Songs of Polygram International Inc., Universal/Union Songs Musikforlag AB, and EMI Grove Park Music Inc.
"Ain't Nobody Straight In L.A.”
Written by William Griffin & Warren Moore
Performed by The Miracles
Courtesy of Motown Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Used by Permission of Grimora Publishing
“Boogie Wonderland"
Written by Jonathan Lind and Allee Willis
Performed by Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment
Published by EMI Blackwood Music Inc., Irving Music, EMI April Music Inc., and Big Mystique Music/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing
Special Thanks
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Ash Peters
Jazmin Romero
Independent Lens Short-Form for Voices Original Series Funding Provided By:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Acton Family Giving
Ford Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Wyncote Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
SENIOR PROM is a co-production of JESSICA CHERMAYEFF, LUISA CONLON, and ITVS, with funding provided by the CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (CPB), in association with COUSINS.
This program was produced by JPC FILMS LLC and LC Productions LLC, which is solely responsible for its content.
© 2021 JPC FILMS LLC and LC Productions LLC. All Rights Reserved. |