Conversations With Gay Elders

David Weissman’s documentary focuses on Kerby Lauderdale, a married man who came out later in life. Both interviewer and subject are rigorous, honest and thoughtful in exploring Kerby’s life as a pastor, husband, father, lover and gay activist preacher. Weissman (The Cockettes, We Were Here) carefully unpicks the mindset of a previous era and how his subject grew into his new life over decades. It’s a conversation that has much to teach later generations about the difficulties and joys of a complex life, but it is equally relevant to contemporaries who may have shared some of the trial...