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Legendary Children Daniel Roth interviews director Rob Falconer

Due for international streaming TV release end of June 2025, Legendary Children [All Of Them Queer] follows many of the original Gay Liberation Front pioneers of LGBT+ Pride in 1972, arguably the first recognisable European Pride March.

The headline cast features genuinely influential figures in LGBTQIA+ rights activism and its history, there at the very start when Pride took its first steps over here and helped create a global phenomenon.

Journalist and presenter of AIR 107.2FM's Midweek Madness show DANIEL ROTH met director and producer ROB FALCONER when the award-wining Pride and LGBT+ rights film opened at the prestigious Lighthouse Centre cinema.

“Back then, most LGBT+ people were closeted. They believed that we should be ashamed. They felt guilty. They felt we didn’t deserve equal rights.” - PETER TATCHELL

"SO MOVING. I can't wait for everyone to see it. So vital and powerful." Nic Crosara, DIVA Magazine

8-min interview video with excerpts from the film.

Features the film's title song THE FACE by TALL HOUSES in an exclusive new remix by DJ/producer SRJ - SRJ's Children of Tomorrow Remix (releasing end Jun across streaming platforms).

The theme song was released across Apple Music Video and VEVO in a special partnership with UK LGBT+ History Month to promote the 22 LGBT+ History Months around the world, many now under attack from the Right.

  • Rob Falconer
    Director
    Director and producer ROB FALCONER's films in a 25-year career include Legendary Children [All of Them Queer] seen so far in India, USA (Audience Award winner Palm Springs LGBT+ Film Festival), Curzon Bloomsbury, Cinema Museum, Bourne Free Pride, and UK arthouse circuit at the prestigious SW UK Lighthouse Cinema. Director/producer 27000 with CRUSAID (to 160,000 on Clapham Common for Pride), director/producer Gay Man’s Guide to Safer Sex ‘97, (BFI South Bank London, Europe, USA and Australia theatrical, UK/USA commercial release, Virgin retail No.1), Speaking In Riddles (BFI South Bank, Italy, Frameline San Franciso, Netherlands arthouse tour, UK retail release), 27000@25: When We Were Boys with Jimmy Somerville and Erasure, worldwide for World AIDS Day 2021, contributor to Freedom: 50 Years of Pride (BBC Studios/C4), The Gilded Vectors Of Disease (8-part radio factual series and retail CD release on the history and work of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), producer of radio drama The Tailor-Made Man with Hollywood and Broadway star Judd Hirsch and BAFTA Award winning director Chris Bould, Sleeping Dragon (Barbican Cinema main house, KASHISH India, Lighthouse Cinema - with music by David Sylvian). A new 2024 Director's Cut of Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex 97 debuted to a capacity main house theatre at Barbican Cinema in April 2024. The Gay Man's Guide Director's Cut returned to the USA at Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival, winning a Festival Favourites Audience Award. Legendary Children finally arrived where the 1972 Pride march started, in London's West End, playing the Curzon Bloomsbury cinema on March 2025 as the official finale for the 20th UK LGBT History Month, with the surviving headline cast all appearing for a remarkable ScreenTalk/ Q&A. In production: Bob: Man of the Angels (Netherlands/UK)
  • Rob Falconer
    Producer
    27000@25: When We Were Boys, Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex (sequel, 7 countries, Virgin Retail Number 1), #ReclaimPride, Speaking In Riddles, The Gilded Vectors Of Disease (radio factual series and retail CD release), The Tailor-Made Man (radio drama with Hollywood and Broadway star Judd Hirsch). Bob: Man of The Angels shooting summer 2025 in The Netherlands.
  • Daniel Roth
    Key Cast
    "self"
    Journalist and radio presenter Daniel Roth hosts the Midweek Mayhem show every Wed on Dorset's AIR 107.2FM station. As Lorcian Daniel is also a fully fledged Furry and both share a love of Electronic Dance Music.
  • Rob Falconer
    Key Cast
    "self"
  • Peter Tatchell
    Key Cast
    "self"
    Hating Peter Tatchell (Netflix), international human rights activist and campaigner
  • Tom Robinson
    Key Cast
    "self"
    Internationally acclaimed rock musician and broadcaster, Worldwide hits include War Baby, Glad To Be Gay
  • Angela Mason CBE
    Key Cast
    "self"
    Former director of Stonewall, politician and activist, Freedom: 50 Years of Pride (BBC/C4).
  • Roz Kaveney
    Key Cast
    "self"
    Pioneering trans activist, author, critic and award-winning poet.
  • Ted Brown
    Key Cast
    "self"
    Award winning international human rights, BAME and LGBTQIA+ rights campaigner, Freedom: 50 Years of Pride (BBC/C4), Ted and Noel (IRIS PRIze winner, Happenstance Films).
  • Stuart Milk
    Key Cast
    "self"
    US and international political activist and speaker, the co-founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation, nephew of the late Harvey Milk.
  • Neil Barlett OBE
    Key Cast
    "self"
    Acclaimed theatre maker, director, actor, novelist. Work includes A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep, Sarrasine. Latest production Orlando, Garrick Theatre, London West End.
  • Andrew Lumsden
    Key Cast
    "self"
    The late Andrew Lumsden was an early GLF member, 1972 Pride pioneer and created the gay press in the Uk by founding Gay news.
  • Stuart Feather
    Key Cast
    "self"
    Actor and company member of the former Bloolips Theatre, author of Blowing The Lid, GLF activist.
  • Nathaniel J Hall
    Key Cast
    "self"
    Actor and award-winning playwright of First Time and Toxic. Donald Bassett in TV hit It's A Sin. HIV rights activist. It's A Sin (Donald Bassett).
  • Nettie Pollard
    Key Cast
    "self"
    National Council For Civil Liberties (now Liberty), the former Greater London Council, GLF activist.
  • Rainer Schulze
    Key Cast
    "self"
    Professor Emeritus Modern European History University of Essex. Member of the International Experts’ Commission for the Redevelopment of the Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen. Founder of UK and international youth human rights and Holocaust education initiative The Dora Love Prize.
  • Bruce Bayley
    Key Cast
    "self"
    Dr Bruce Bayley is a dramatherapist. 1972 Pride pioneer. Camden GLF and Come Together magazine.
  • John Lloyd
    Key Cast
    "self"
    Lifelong LGBQTIA+ and GLF activist, key figure in Brixton’s groundbreaking LGBT+ Railton Road housing and community collective, and continues to inspire young LGBTQIA+ people.
  • Bette Bourne
    Key Cast
    "self"
    The late Bette Bourne was for over 60 years an acclaimed stage and TV actor (Sarrasine, Edward II, The Avengers and more), radical drag legend and the creator of groundbreaking international radical drag theatre company Bloolips. A veteran, unique activist and GLF original.
  • Julian Hows
    Key Cast
    "self"
    Longstanding LGBT activist, D.R.A.G: Development Research Advocacy Governance, famously challenged London Underground's gender/uniform policies.
  • George Hodson
    Key Cast
    "self"
    The late George Hodson was a writer, collage artist, photographer and the UK’s second longest HIV survivor, George lived and worked in the UK, San Francisco and SE Asia. George won the prestigious PD James New Writer’s Bursary at age 74. His book And The Sissy Lives will be published in 2024. A huge supporter of Legendary Children. George did not quite live to see the film open in his beloved India. 1949-2023. Extracts from his book were adapted into the film Sleeping Dragon, produced and directed by Rob Falconer, which opened to a sold-out main house at Barbican Cinema and is now playing arthouse shows.
  • Phyll Opoku-Gyimah
    Key Cast
    "self"
    Familiarly known as Lady Phyll, Phyll co-founded the UK's powerful BLACK PRIDE movement, has been a Grand Marshall of New York's Pride. Independent on Sunday Pink List and nominated on the 100 Great Black Britons list.
  • Tom Robinson
    Key Cast
    "Music"
    14 albums. Notable worldwide hits include War Baby, Glad To Be Gay, 2-4-6-8 Motorway.
  • Tall Houses
    Key Cast
    "Music"
    Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex '97 2024 Director's Cut (Barbican London and TLA Releasing), Bob; Man ofThe Angels (netherlands, in production). The Face The Face [LGBT+ History Month Legendary Mix] (Official Music Video) in partnership with UK LGBT+ History Month (Apple Music Video, VEVO).
  • SRJ
    Key Cast
    "Music"
    Dorset-based DJ, composer and producer.
  • Matt Mahmood-Ogston
    Key Cast
    "Colorist"
    Prolific film/tv colourist with his company CG, IRIS Prize alumni as writer/director My God, I'm Queer!, founder Naz and Matt Foundation.
  • Rainer Schulze
    Key Cast
    "Historical Consultant"
  • Rob Falconer
    Key Cast
    "Editor"
  • Mark Galvin
    Key Cast
    "Associate Producer"
    Highly experience member of the duty editor team at Channel 4, Mark was also associate producer on 27000: When We Were Boys for World AIDS Day 2021 with the music of Jimmy Somerville and Erasure.
  • Rob Falconer
    Writer
    27000@25: When We Were Boys (World AIDS Day worldwide with Erasure and Jimmy Somerville), Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex, #ReclaimPride, Gilded Vectors Of Disease (radio series)
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    48 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 9, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:35
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • UK LGBT+ History Month 2025, Curzon Bloomsbury
    London West End
    United Kingdom
    March 5, 2025
    London
    Official closing film LGBT+ History Month 2025
  • Cinema Diverse: 16th Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival
    Palm Springs, California
    United States
    September 17, 2023
    North American premiere
    Official Selection / Festival Favourites Audience award winner
  • 14th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival 2023
    Mumbai
    India
    June 23, 2023
    World
    Official selection
  • Winter Pride 2023, Spain
    Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria
    Spain
    November 10, 2023
    mainland Europe first screening
    Main Stage and live PA
  • Lighthouse Cinema, Lighthouse Arts Centre
    Poole, Dorset
    United Kingdom
    June 7, 2024
    UK premiere
    UK arthouse debut at one of the UK's four nationally important Arts Council regional venues (Picturehouse)
  • Bourne Free Pride 2024
    Bournemouth, Dorset
    United Kingdom
    July 6, 2024
    Festival promo and live PA
Distribution Information
  • Revelation Films
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: Internet, Video on Demand, Pay Per View, Paid TV
  • BOB The FIlm Ltd
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: Theatrical
Director Biography - Rob Falconer

Director and producer ROB FALCONER's films in a 25-year career include Legendary Children [All of Them Queer] seen so far in India, USA (Audience Award winner Palm Springs LGBT+ Film Festival), Curzon Bloomsbury, Cinema Museum, Bourne Free Pride, and UK arthouse circuit at the prestigious SW UK Lighthouse Cinema. Director/producer 27000 with CRUSAID (to 160,000 on Clapham Common for Pride), director/producer Gay Man’s Guide to Safer Sex ‘97, (BFI South Bank London, Europe, USA and Australia theatrical, UK/USA commercial release, Virgin retail No.1), Speaking In Riddles (BFI South Bank, Italy, Frameline San Franciso, Netherlands arthouse tour, UK retail release), 27000@25: When We Were Boys with Jimmy Somerville and Erasure, worldwide for World AIDS Day 2021, contributor to Freedom: 50 Years of Pride (BBC Studios/C4), The Gilded Vectors Of Disease (8-part radio factual series and retail CD release on the history and work of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), producer of radio drama The Tailor-Made Man with Hollywood and Broadway star Judd Hirsch and BAFTA Award winning director Chris Bould, Sleeping Dragon (Barbican Cinema main house, KASHISH India, Lighthouse Cinema - with music by David Sylvian). A new 2024 Director's Cut of Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex 97 debuted to a capacity main house theatre at Barbican Cinema in April 2024. The Gay Man's Guide Director's Cut returned to the USA at Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival, winning a Festival Favourites Audience Award. Legendary Children finally arrived where the 1972 Pride march started, in London's West End, playing the Curzon Bloomsbury cinema on March 2025 as the official finale for the 20th UK LGBT History Month, with the surviving headline cast all appearing for a remarkable ScreenTalk/ Q&A. In production: Bob: Man of the Angels (Netherlands/UK). Legendary Children is released on worldwide streaming to Apple TV, Amazon Prime and Google Play Movies for late June 2025.

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Director Statement

Legendary Children [All of Them Queer] demonstrates exactly how the collective power of ordinary people, in number and shared objectives, can bring about global change. But for me, these legendary individuals will never be "ordinary" - collectively they helped create the Pride legacy still changing LGBTQIA+ lives worldwide 50 years on. It was a huge honour to get to know and work closely with them all on this unique story.

It shows what can be achieved in truly independent filmmaking, with no funding or financial backing whatsoever, just that same collective will by all involved, both in the GLF and in the wider LGBTQIA+ community, to put these stories up on the screen.

We were proud to be take Legendary Children on a four and half thousand mile journey to the 14th KASHISH Mumbai International Film Festival - South Asia’s biggest LGBTQIA+ film festival, and one of the biggest Pride events in India - just as India awaited a landmark ruling on equal marriage. After its North American premiere on the huge Camelot Theaters Cinema One main house screen an official selection at the Palm Springs Cinema Diverse Film Festival, the film won an audience-voted Festival Favourites award. Mainland European debut was at one of Spain's biggest Prides, Winter Pride Gran Canaria on the Main Stage, a special moment since Spain's own Pride history stretches back to 1977/1978 and the establishment of Orgullo Gay.

Just why a film like this is important to make couldn't be any more painfully demonstrated by the deaths of cast members and Pride pioneers Andrew Lumsden, Bette Bourne and George Hodson since Legendary Children began its journey. They were unique and genuinely significant individuals who leave their indelible impact on our history. I consider it a privilege to have worked with them and to have ever got to know them. We will miss them all.