STONEWALL x MOVIES THAT MATTER
Paris is Burning & Rebel Dykes
Sunday 8 November 2026
NOTE: ticket required, no free entry with a Stonewall Festival wristband
Rights aren’t given, they’re taken! On the Sunday of Stonewall Festival, 8 November, we’re teaming up with Movies That Matter to dive into the history of queer resistance, screening two films in GR8 about communities who fought for their own space when no one else cared to give it to them. In a world where queer rights are once again under attack, these stories are more urgent than ever. The afternoon will be moderated by Jesse Evers (with a guest still TBA!). There will be a break between the two screenings.
This screening is a collaboration between Stonewall Festival and Movies That Matter, The Hague’s platform for films about human rights and social justice.
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Paris is Burning
Jennie Livingston, 1990
Paris is Burning is the definitive classic about the ballroom scene in 1980s New York. Black and Latinx queer and trans people built their own families, the houses, and their own stage. Voguing, shade and reading began here, long before the mainstream ran off with them. The film is a love letter to a community that survived in a world that shut it out, and a reminder of who laid the foundation.
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REBEL DYKES
2021
A rabble-rousing documentary set in 1980s post-punk London, REBEL DYKES reveals the explosion that happened when punk met feminism. The film follows a tight-knit group of friends who met at Greenham Common peace camp and went on to become artists, performers, musicians, and activists in London. A heady mash-up of animation, archive footage and interviews tells the story of a radical scene: squatters, BDSM nightclubs, anti-Thatcher rallies, protests demanding action around AIDS and the fierce ties of chosen families. This is an extraordinarily privileged glimpse into a bygone world by those who not only lived out their politics with heartfelt conviction but lived to tell the tale.
