The Celluloid Closet --both the book and the movie--is a menace. Totally perverts film history and gay aesthetics. I would recommend as one alternative the documentaries of Mark Rappaport (Rock Hudson's Home Movies, The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender).
Probably the greatest gay documentary of all time is Of Time and the City by Terence Davies.
Others that spring to mind:
Terminal Bar <--My review in Serpents and Doves referenced below
Sex Positive <--An alternative history of the early gay movement's response to AIDS
Chris and Don: A Love Story <--Not only a revelatory portrait of a gay relationship, it features within it a nugget, a hint of the Secret History of Cinema that the insidious The Celluloid Closet keeps in the closet.
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