Senior Prom: LGBTQ+ Seniors Get the Prom of Their Dreams | PBS Short Docs

"Senior Prom" takes on a whole new meaning at Triangle Square, a haven for LGBTQ+ retirees in Hollywood, CA.

For so many high-schoolers, prom is a rite of passage in all of its love-filled, well-coiffed, abundantly photographed glory. But for generations of LGBTQ+ youth, prom has been emblematic of exclusion from a world they could not experience as their authentic selves.

Over a night of dancing, kissing, and crowning of prom queens at Triangle Square, these trailblazing seniors reflect back on how far they’ve come and their dreams for the next generation. “Senior Prom” celebrates our eldest LGBTQ+ generation who spent a lifetime fighting for the right to love openly and, via rich personal archives, retraces lives and legacies of resistance that helped change the course of civil rights.

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Executive Producers
Sally Jo Fifer
Lois Vossen

Director & Producer
Luisa Conlon

Producer
Jessica Chermayeff

Co-Producers
Ana Veselic
Anne Alexander

Director of Photography
Luisa Conlon

Editors
Orian Barki
Alex Bohs
Ora DeKornfeld

Additional Cinematography
Maya Craig
Seth Hahn

Associate Producers
Cloe Young
Zoe Kase

Music Composer
William Ryan Fritch

Music Supervisor
Juliette Carter

Graphic Designer
Abigail Leuchter

Colorist
Elias Nousiopoulos

Sound Designer & Mixer
Calvin Pia

Vice President of Production
Royd Chung

Senior Manager, Short-Form Content
Pamela Torno

Supervising Producer
Clare Chambers

Associate Producer
Susan Cohen

Archival Materials by

Personal Archives provided by: Robert Clement, Andrea Segal, and Nancy Valverde

Photographer Ron Frehm / AP Photo by Ron Frehm

Footage supplied by CBS News

Prelinger Archives

NBC Archives via Getty Images

Imagery supplied by Fred W. McDarrah/Premium Archive via Getty Images

First New York Parade (Stonewall Year), Crawford Wayne Barton Papers, 1993-11 Courtesy of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.

Footage Courtesy of; JOANI: Queen of the Paradiddle!

"Gay & Proud" by Lilli Vincenz, permission by Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., Archival film and/or video materials from the collections of the Library of Congress

David of California, Courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries

Stock media provided by DogPhonics/ Pond5

Footage made available from MKS Video, Inc., and Michael Stimler

Music
“Dancing Queen”
Written by Stig Erik Leopoldo Anderson, Benny Goran Bror Andersson, Bjoern K. Ulvaeus
Performed by Franck Pourcel
Courtesy of Parlophone Music France, a Warner Music Group Company
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
Published by Universal Songs of Polygram International Inc., Universal/Union Songs Musikforlag AB, and EMI Grove Park Music Inc.

"Ain't Nobody Straight In L.A.”
Written by William Griffin & Warren Moore
Performed by The Miracles
Courtesy of Motown Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Used by Permission of Grimora Publishing

“Boogie Wonderland"
Written by Jonathan Lind and Allee Willis
Performed by Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment
Published by EMI Blackwood Music Inc., Irving Music, EMI April Music Inc., and Big Mystique Music/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing

Special Thanks
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Ash Peters
Jazmin Romero

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National Endowment for the Arts

SENIOR PROM is a co-production of JESSICA CHERMAYEFF, LUISA CONLON, and ITVS, with funding provided by the CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (CPB), in association with COUSINS.

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