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The just-premiered, ironically titled “Welcome to Chechnya” is an on-the-ground documentary shot in 2017, when authorities in the Russian Federation republic waged war on its gay and lesbian population. HBO has put up a pair of documentaries that demonstrate in different ways the effects of homophobia. Autobiographical, philosophical and political at heart, “Visible” and its contributors are erudite, articulate and disinclined to simplify. Its view is less historical - though it supplies ample context, back to silent film - than it is concerned with the present and immediate future. “Visible” pairs well with (and overlaps) “Disclosure,” a Netflix documentary specifically about trans actors and images, directed by Sam Feder and narrated and featuring “Orange Is the New Black” superstar Laverne Cox.
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The five-part documentary “ Visible: Out on Television,” which premiered on Apple+ in March, reaches back to the earliest days of the medium and gives a pretty thorough account of how LGBTQ people have been portrayed and employed across the decades - from invisibility to subjects of (invariably misguided) analysis, to objects of censure and pity and low comedy, to fodder for for concerned social comment and big drama.
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Last year brought a same-sex marriage on the PBS cartoon “Arthur,” while the May series finale of Netflix’s “She-Ra and the Princess of Power” made explicit what fans already understood, that it was a long arc lesbian love story.
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TV has indeed made progress in the intervening years, if stumbling along the way. (It is still available to stream.) Offering songs and stories and testimonials, with a brief history of Stonewall from showrunner Steven Canals, the show makes a point of declaring that the “queer liberation movement was begun by black and brown trans women,” the very people at the heart of “Pose.” Mostly a party is the isolation-shot “Pose-a-Thon,” a fundraising special featuring the cast and creators from the FX ballroom drama “Pose” that dropped on the eve of the Stonewall anniversary weekend. One caveat: Not all that follows constitutes a party. But television goes on, and we would like to propose some recent relevant series to keep the party going. And as always, there are arguments about which way to go. As in other journeys toward recognition, equality and freedom to be, the world has come far, and not far enough. June was Pride month, commemorating the 1969 Stonewall riots that birthed the gay liberation movement.