From The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert to 52 Tuesdays, the features and documentaries that put LGBT stories on the big screen
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The birth of LGBT cinema in Australia came, in a sense, from an unlikely place. In 1969 a US director, Frank Brittain, shot The Set in Sydney, the first Australian feature film with homosexuality as a central theme.
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