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Best Documentary Picture | 1997 | Rob
1997
Best Documentary Film | 1996 | Jeffrey
Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft Directors | 1996 | Rob
1996 | Rob
Documentary | 1996 | Jeffrey
Best Documentary | 2016
1997 | Rob
Best VoiceOver Performance | 1997 | Lily
Outstanding Individual Achievement Informational Programming | 1996 | Lora
Outstanding Informational Special | 1996 | Bernie
Actor Michael Ontkean not only declined to be interviewed for the documentary but also attempted to prevent clips from his film Making Love (1982) from being shown in it. He was unsuccessful.
Jack Lemmon declined to be interviewed for this film.
The filmmakers originally planned a sequence discussing how gay historical figures were portrayed as heterosexual in films, including Cole Porter in Night and Day (1946) and Lorenz Hart in Words and Music (1948). The sequence was aborted when Richard Burton's estate denied the rights to Alexander the Great (1956), MGM denied use of Hans Christian Andersen (1952) (fearing that the filmmakers were trying to 'out' Danny Kaye) and Charlton Heston declined use of The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) (claiming that Michelangelo was heterosexual).
This documentary, which was based on the eponymous book by film scholar Vito Russo, was narrated and co-executive produced by Lily Tomlin. Russo, who died of AIDS in 1990, did not live to see the documentary. Russo and Tomlin were close friends; Russo wrote some material for her comedy shows, and, while Russo was writing the book, Tomlin let him stay rent-free in a house she was not using at the time.
Cher, Liza Minnelli, and Bette Midler were slated to be interviewed for this documentary, but each was forced to cancel due to scheduling conflicts.
"Quentin Crisp: Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them."
"Susan Sarandon: You wouldn't have to get drunk to bed Catherine Deneuve, I don't care what your sexual history to that point had been."
