Forty-three years after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, filmmaker Stéphane Gérard travels to New York City in an attempt to find the activist community that was born out of this historical moment and to document how the LGBT movement continues today.

In conversation with Queer activists, organizers and archivists, Gérard touches upon the politics of sexual minorities and the fight against the AIDS epidemic, while documenting multiple community projects, perspectives, and ideals. Although there is much diversity among LGBT activists and groups, such as efforts to archive the movement's history and the creation of safe spaces, all activists share the same desire for justice, the same urgency to learn lessons from the past, and the same longing for utopia.

Winner of the Grand Prix Documentaires at the Paris Chéries-Chéris festival, HISTORY DOESN'T HAVE TO REPEAT ITSELF is an experimental documentary and it includes interviews with Perry Brass, Deborah Edel, Jim Hubbard, Sarah Schulman and others about The ACT UP Oral History Project, The Audre Lorde Project, BAAD!, Come Out!, MIX NYC, The Lesbian Herstory Archives and Queerocracy.