CONVERSATIONS WITH GAY ELDERS is one of a series of 6 in-depth interviews and conversational documentaries focused on gay men whose journeys of self-discovery precede the era of Stonewall and Gay Liberation. The conversations explore how these men navigated being “different” long before there was any social or political context for a positive LGBT self-image. CONVERSATIONS WITH GAY ELDERS was a cross-generational collaboration in which producer/ director David Weissman (then in his early 60s) worked in partnership with gay men in their 20s and 30s as editors to profile gay men in their 70s and 80s.