of approximately 2000 marchers and 15000 spectators. Centering the political act of marching as the subject of the short and individuating proponents of the gay rights cause from the crowd inspired Bressan to make his longer and more elaborate 1977 documentary Gay USA. Much of the footage from this short appears in Gay USA. Passing Strangers (1974) Two men, Tom (Robert Carnagey) and Robert (Robert Adams), meet through means of an advertisement, both wanting to engage in a long-term relationship. Bressan's debut feature is one of the first notable examples of his (at the time) unique tendency to integrate pornographic sequences into conventional queer narratives. Some have theorized that this habit stemmed from the active silencing of queer voices in the 1970s and 1980s, requiring pornography and queer narratives to be combined as the industries did not allow space for both as individual productions. Gay USA (documentary, 1977) Bressan's Gay USA, restored in 2019, was a technical and thematic elaboration upon his 1972 short documentary Coming Out. Shot in one day across five cities by twenty-five different camera operators (all under Bressan's technical supervision), the documentary mostly consists of a variety of aerial shots and close-up interviews of the participants of the various Pride celebrations across the country. The total budget for Gay USA was around the 8000 USD mark, which included the crew, equipment and the post-production phase that lasted approximately two months. Word of the film spread across various queer communities in the country, notably San Francisco, where it premiered in 1977. Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in the United States, helped spread awareness for the film by selling premiere tickets at his shop, Castro Camera. Bressan's intention for the film was to be non-threatening and educational whilst also demonstrating the stakes and risks related to being a member of the queer community. Bressan has noted the 1977 Dade County referendum vote to repeal anti-discrimination laws as his main inspiration for Gay USA. He cited that many of his friends felt ashamed of their homosexuality following the repeal of the laws, which he wised to combat by validating their existence and history. One of the main proponents of the anti-discrimination law repeal was pop singer and Save Our Children coalition president Anita Bryant, who is implicitly compared to Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Ku Klux Klan members in the film. Gay USA contains a historical