Brilliant documentary organizes 70 breathless minutes of interviews, newsreels, home movies, and hundreds of photos for a virtual tour of Manhattan's streets, bars, baths, docks, trucks, parks, dance clubs, and Pride parades (with a beautiful side trip to Fire Island) during history's most promiscuous decade. Little effort is made to place the Gay Revolution within the context of other social upheavals of the time, but that's all right. There's a feeling of, "We're important. This one is for us." Underneath the imagery of rendezvous, raids, and rallies is the unstated theme that for the first time, America's excluded gay men felt that they belonged to a community – a community that we see organize against AIDS as the final footage of the movie edges into the 1980s. The scope of the story is summed up in two remarks: "It was like life was a pornographic film," but "Now you can't even smoke a cigarette in a bar."

Retailing: Superb documentary about, well, gay sex in the '70s in New York.