Film

Heritage Minutes: Jim Egan

20181m

Director: Stephen Dunn
Year: 2018

Pioneering gay activist Jim Egan publicly challenged a culture of rampant homophobia in the press starting in the late 1940s, when it was dangerous to speak out.

Top cast

Theodore Saunders

Jim Egan (young)

James Daly

Jack Nesbit (young)

Clyde Whitham

Jim Egan (old)

Brian Edward Thwaites

Jack Nesbit (old)

Chris O'Bray

Jim Egan (voice)

K.D. Lang

Narrator (voice)

Directed by

Stephen Dunn

Written by

Stephen Dunn, Davida Aronovitch

Produced by

Ryan Tremblay, Peter Lilly