Toujours Gai: From the Land of Oz to the Valley of the Dolls, 100 Pre-Stonewall Films That Helped Make Gay Liberation Possible

Toujours Gai takes the reader on a yellow brick road spanning the decades in between the 1930s and the 1960s as it dissects classic films and television programs that were of special interest to gay men and lesbians, ranging from the serious (Now, Voyager, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) to the silly (The Incredible Mr. Limpet, The Munsters). In illustrating how these works provided messages that were at their root supportive of diversity and nonconformist self-actualization, Toujours Gai contends that, even while in many cases such messages were an unconscious result of the filmmaking process, they were a primary source of inspiration and support for LGBT people in their day and may be counted among the foremost contributing factors to the germinating pro-queer consciousness that made the rise of the gay rights movement possible.