Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.With Outfest 2021 kicking off this weekend, we think it time to revisit one of last year’s major winners, which also cleaned up on the rest of the festival circuit.
PS Burn This Letter Please chronicles life in the queer underground in the pre-Stonewall era. The film came about by total accident; a discovery of a box of letters belonging to Hollywood agent Edward Limato detailed his friendships with dozens of drag performers and gay men in the 1950s.
Limato had requested that his estate burn the correspondence upon his death for fear of uncovering–and outing–members of his social circle.