See an exclusive preview of the documentary covering 40 years of LGBT comic history.

A new documentary film looks at LGBT comics and demonstrates, as cartoonist Justin Hall says, that they “have provided a remarkable function for queer communities for the last several decades; they represent an underground and uncensored window into queer hopes, fears, and fantasies.”

Hall’s 2012 anthology No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics was a Lambda Literary Award-winning and Eisner Award-nominated collection on the history of LGBT comics since the 1970s. He calls the book “my attempt to catalogue the contributions of a huge number of LGBTQ cartoonists and put their work into a historical and cultural context.”

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