Film fans will love ‘Hollywood Pride’
‘Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in FilmBy Alonso Duraldec.2024, Running Press$40/322 pages You plan to buy lots of Jujubes.
They’ll stick to your teeth, but whatever, you’ll be too busy watching to care. You like the director, you know most of the actors as first-rate, and word is that the newcomer couldn’t be more right for the role.
Yep, you’ve done your homework. You read Rotten Tomatoes, you’ve looked up IMDB, and you bought your ticket online. Now all you need is “Hollywood Pride” by Alonso Duralde, and your movie night is complete.
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson likely had no idea that what he’d done was monumental. Sometime in the very late 1800s, he set up a film camera and a wax cylinder to record a short dance between two men, hands around one another’s waists, as Dickson played the violin.
