Inside Out is doing something interesting with their shorts programs. This specific one is about icons in the LGBT+ community. And it has two shorts that precede a wonderful documentary that’s just short of a full length feature.

The program starts out with Dan Hunt’s Perfectly Frank. It wisely focuses on the relationship of what looks like a straight couple’s forty year marriage. It shows archive photos of them in comparison to present day, where both have relatively happily divorced each other. One half of the couple, Frank, comes out as a proud, 75-year-old, gay go go dancer.

Next up is Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Living Out Loud: LBTQI Movement Building and Feminism is Georgia. Obaid-Chinoy picks up on the details here, even closing up on the books that Georgian activist Eka Aghdgomelashvili owns. She also features Aghdgomelashvili’s narration. She discusses her struggles in helping her friends who are reluctant victims of domestic violence. They’re also victims homophobia and transphobia in a country where religion encroaches on a de jure secular country. The narration picks up the exhaustion in her voice. But that state doesn’t stop her from doing what she needs to do.

The main event here is Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn Copeland Story. Again, this mixes archive footage with interviews, as Copeland discusses his move from America to Montreal to study music. That’s one of the many legs in his journey towards becoming an indie music darling. It’s very cognizant of his history in relation to trans people in the 20th and 21st centuries. He grew up at a time when families institutionalized their loved ones who identify within the queer umbrella.

Copeland didn’t suffer from the same fate, and the film is alive in depicting his present day. For the past two years he has been collaborating with young musicians. The film sees them as he sees them and their generation, as hard workers and as teachers. They show him new ways of understanding music and gender identity. Half of the film shows his first intercontinental tour with this crew. It feels less like a stressful tour and more like several chill nights with friends. It’s always a treat to watch anyone of any age come into their own. And this film delivers that self-discovery beautifully.