Stand Up, Stand Out: The Making of a Comedy Movement

Stand Up, Stand Out: The Making of a Comedy Movement

2021 · 35 min

This short film tells the story of a unique brand of activism belonging only to San Francisco–where three gay teachers’ fight for equal rights during the burgeoning Gay Liberation Movement of the 1970s, led to the blossoming of the Valencia Rose Cabaret, Café, and Restaurant, believed to be the first and only gay-owned and operated comedy club in the USA. As AIDS ravaged San Francisco, a gay and lesbian comedy club flourished in, of all places, an old mortuary.

Directed by David Pavlosky

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