--- title: FX's 'Pride' Brings 60 Years of LGBTQ Activism to Life description: The docuseries traces the movement from the 1950s-2000s, recruiting a different notable queer, trans or nonbinary director for each episode. canonical: https://time.com/6048348/pride-review-fx/ author: Judy Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2021-05-14T12:30:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T09:57:10.588Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: FX's 'Pride' Brings 60 Years of LGBTQ Activism to Life og:description: The inspired docuseries does justice to all of the many letters, colors and identities that make up the LGBTQ rainbow og:url: https://time.com/6048348/pride-review-fx/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e8986fd7acac7d5/698a19988fd2eeaef4362907/PRIDE_101_.01_33_36_05.Still023.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: PRIDE_101_.01_33_36_05.Still023 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: FX's 'Pride' Brings 60 Years of LGBTQ Activism to Life twitter:description: The inspired docuseries does justice to all of the many letters, colors and identities that make up the LGBTQ rainbow twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e8986fd7acac7d5/698a19988fd2eeaef4362907/PRIDE_101_.01_33_36_05.Still023.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # FX's _Pride_ Nails the Difficult Task of Condensing 60 Years of LGBTQ Activism Into One Compelling Docuseries > Sponsored content. 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Well-meaning TV shows and movies can nonetheless [make spectacles of Black pain](https://time.com/5954572/them-amazon-controversy/) or [paint feminists as unhinged](https://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/10/tvs-strongest-female-characters-share-one-stupid-flaw/). For decades, it was rare to see LGBTQ characters who didn’t conform to broad stereotypes or meet with tragic ends; trans people tended to fare worst of all. Even in the 21st century, as sympathetic depictions from _The L Word_ and Bravo’s _Queer_ Eye _for the Straight Guy_ to [_The L Word: Generation Q_](https://time.com/5744710/the-l-word-generation-q-review/) and [Netflix’s _Queer Eye_](https://time.com/5311979/queer-eye-season-two/) have coincided with real political progress, pop culture has struggled to expand its narrow view of queer and trans life. The problem with making art that aims to represent any community of millions is that it means doing justice to that community’s vast diversity. More than anything else I’ve seen on TV, FX’s excellent _Pride_ nails it. The six-episode docuseries, airing in two parts on May 14 and 21, traces the history of [LGBTQ civil rights](https://time.com/5694518/lgbtq-supreme-court-cases/) from the 1950s through the 2000s, with an hour devoted to each decade. But instead of entrusting the entire project to the same director, producers from VICE Studios and Killer Films—a venerable independent production company that was pivotal in the [New Queer Cinema](https://www.indiewire.com/2013/06/read-the-first-chapter-of-b-ruby-richs-new-queer-cinema-the-directors-cut-a-must-read-for-anyone-even-remotely-interested-in-lgbt-cinema-37457/) movement of the ’90s—recruited a different notable queer, trans or nonbinary filmmaker to make each episode. The decision to let those smartly chosen contributors tell stories that resonate with them, in styles that reflect each director’s unique voice, yields a history that is artful, complex and vital without being monolithic. Conventional wisdom holds that progress toward equality for LGBTQ people in the U.S. has moved in a straight line from the total repression of the postwar period to the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015, a trajectory disrupted only by the trauma of the [AIDS crisis](https://time.com/5465128/world-aids-day-history-myths/). _Pride_ complicates that notion. Andrew Ahn (_Driveways_) takes a revisionist look at a ’60s rebellion entwined with the other liberation movements of the day, that was well underway before [Stonewall](https://time.com/5598363/stonewall-beginnings-history/). A trove of downtown nightlife footage captured by late videographer [Nelson Sullivan](http://nelsonsullivan.com/index.html) reveals an ’80s New York that partied as a means of psychic survival. In a poignant first-person episode that covers the ’70s, _The Watermelon Woman_ director [Cheryl Dunye](https://time.com/5874175/black-cinema-essential-movies/) filters the fraught relationship between queer and straight feminists through her heroes [Audre Lorde](https://alp.org/about/audre) and pioneering lesbian filmmaker [Barbara Hammer](https://barbarahammer.com/). Not every unorthodox approach works. The multimedia artist Tom Kalin (_Swoon,_ [_Savage Grace_](https://time.com/3707966/julianne-moore-eddie-redmayne-savage-grace/)) largely succeeds in presenting a vision of the ’50s in which it was possible to find love and friendship within a queer community that remained almost entirely underground. But narrative vignettes like the one that has [Alia Shawkat](https://time.com/5952213/alia-shawkat-jessica-walter-remembrance/), playing [Lavender Scare](https://time.com/5922679/lavender-scare-history/) survivor Madeleine Tress, speak directly to viewers about a character’s life might work better in a museum setting. For the final episode, Ro Haber (_Braddock, PA_) elegantly acknowledges growing resistance to white, gay, cisgender supremacy within LGBTQ politics by profiling activists, from trans lawyer [Dean Spade](https://time.com/2848822/womens-colleges-transgender-women/) to writer and musician Brontez Purnell, who don’t fit that description. It’s just a bit confusing that later segments blur the aughts with the present. (An episode on the 2010s would’ve been welcome.) One pitfall of mainstream entertainment about the LGBTQ community is the way nervous creators and studio executives often take pains to make it palatable to straight, relatively conservative audiences—whitewashing casts, erasing trans characters and indulging in friendly stereotypes like the sexy bi woman or the gay best friend. But _Pride_ has no interest in pandering. It takes activism seriously, pushing past the idea that same-sex marriage was its final destination and leaning into radicalism. _Pride_ isn’t remedial, either. It doesn’t regurgitate old conversations about disco or _Will & Grace_. And it favors undersung icons like gender-nonconforming author [Leslie Feinberg](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/11/the-importance-of-leslie-feinberg/382852/) and drag trailblazer [Flawless Sabrina](https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/11/remembering-the-queer-mentorship-of-flawless-sabrina-jack-doroshow.html) over celebrities. The masses embraced [ballroom](https://time.com/5941822/ballroom-voguing-queer-black-culture-renaissance/) long ago, yet in the ’90s episode, Yance Ford (_Strong Island_) broadens our grasp of the culture through a generous interview with a participant who is a trans man, actor Marquise Vilson Balenciaga. There’s plenty here for straight viewers to learn, certainly. 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