Watch: 50 Years of LGBTQ History, as Seen Through The Advocate

Narrated by Laverne Cox with music by Melissa Etheridge, A Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years focuses on watershed moments in LGBTQ history through never-before-seen footage and engaging interviews with NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt, Caitlyn Jenner, Don Lemon, Gloria Allred, Gavin Newsom, Dustin Lance Black, Margaret Cho, Armistead Maupin, Bruce Vilanch, Greg Louganis, DeRay Mckesson, Candis Cayne, Guillermo Diaz, and many more. Starting with the Black Cat riots, this moving feature-length documentary covers Stonewall, the disco sexual revolution, the AIDS crisis, marriage equality, and the trans movement to present day.

The documentary will be screening Thursday in the Cinema Diverse LGBTQ Film Festival in Palm Springs, Calif. Find more information here. It will be released nationwide November 2.