Some of Your Best Friends (1972)
Produced on 16mm film in 1971, this film is a wonderful piece of LGBTQ history that chronicles some of the first pride parades and gatherings of queer groups at the forefront of the movement in the post-Stonewall ripple. Some of Your Best Friends starts with the Hollywood Gay Pride Parade of 1970 and ends with the Venice, CA Gay Liberation front in its protest and takeover of a meeting of psychologists at the Biltmore Hotel; there to see how to use aversion therapy to treat homosexuality. In between these two events, Some of Your Best Friends stretches to include two gay activist group meetings in New York City. There are interviews with a variety of activists and one extraordinary recreation of how police entrapped vulnerable gay men in Griffith Park.
Director: Ken Robinson
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John Platania as Self |
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Virginia Hoeffding as Self |
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Don Kilhefner as Self |
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Reverend Troy D. Perry as Self |
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Morris Kight as Self |
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H.L. Perry as Self |
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Cherie Matisse as Self |
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Ellen Broidy as Self |
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Albert Marston as Self |
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Doris Fendel as Narrator |
| Directing | Ken Robinson | Director |
| Editing | Barry Simon | Editor |
| Editing | Ken Robinson | Assistant Editor |
| Camera | Cliff Fenneman | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Bob Ebinger | Camera Operator |
| Camera | James Rascoe | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Jack English | Camera Operator |
| Camera | George Zebrowski | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Ken Robinson | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Andrew London | Sound |
| Sound | Kathy Dellar | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Robert Randles | Music |
| Art | Pamela Randles | Painter |
| Production | George Zebrowski | Associate Producer |
| Production | Aubrey Solomon | Production Assistant |
| Production | Les Rumsey | Production Assistant |
| Production | Ken Robinson | Producer |
