The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

1997 · 100 min · ★ 5.3 · History, Documentary

A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.

Directed by Mark Rappaport · Written by Mark Rappaport

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