Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100
1999, NR, 59 min.
Directed by Yvonne Welbon, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

Having won the Best Documentary awards at most of this year’s major gay and lesbian film festivals (including aGLIFF), the inspirational Living With Pride returns to Austin as a memorial to its subject, Ruth Ellis, a 100-year-old, African-American, out-of-the-closet lesbian. Ellis died last month at the age of 101 in her hometown of Detroit, and the proceeds from this screening will benefit several of Ellis’ favorite charities: the Ruth Ellis Center (a youth drop-in center), Golden Threads (a social network for older lesbians), the Full Truth Fellowship of Christ Church in Detroit, and the Downtown Senior Citizens Center in Detroit.

This article appears in Rick Perry.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.