Uncover the hidden queer history of Old Hollywood with these streaming docs
Welcome to your weekend streaming recommendations, a.k.a. the Weekend Watch, a handy guide to the queerest film and TV content that’s just a click away!In select theaters this week is Studio One Forever, directed by Marc Saltarelli, is a fabulous new documentary about Studio One, a gay nightclub in West Hollywood that opened in 1974.
The critically acclaimed documentary tells the story of the legendary disco—housed in the same building where the cameras for The Wizard Of Oz were once made—where gays and some of the town’s biggest stars intermingled.The secret gay Hollywood is a fascinating subject; with mainstream queer films at the fore more than ever, it’s easy to forget there was a time where a movie studio wouldn’t touch a gay-themed film with a 10-foot pole (no pun intended).
But even during the Golden Age, a number of queer stars & stories managed to carve a path for themselves, even if their truths wouldn’t be told for many decades still.With that in mind, read on for documentaries about Hollywood’s queer history to stream this weekend.In this 2017 documentary by Matt Tyrnauer, viewers meet Scotty Bowers, a self-proclaimed unpaid pimp to the stars during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Scotty’s stories are wild, claiming that many, many supposedly straight Hollywood stars and starlets were up to all sorts of queer sexual shenanigans.
