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“Tons of people were in black cinema — toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies and bucks,”

— Cheryl Dunye

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“We’re losing these really vital stories from the queer canon and these representations of LGBTQ individuals are just disappearing throughout history,”

"I’m not saying that’s a negative thing or a positive thing, that’s just how it is.”

“That’s not all that we are. We’re a varied, beautiful ‘rainbow’ of identities.”

“I really do hope that 10 years from now, 20 years from now, people have the ability to see it in more and more communities, because everybody doesn’t get to a film festival.”

“It’s great to know that this is still alive and that there is a younger generation going back to the cinema to see and experience community in a dark room with a great story being told.”

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