Scala!!! or, The Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits (2023)

Vic Roberts : I think of the Scala not as a building or something that's inanimate, I think of it as a sister and everybody in it were my family. I was brought up by the people there. I really knew nothing when I came to the Scala but the content of the films and the staff that were working there helped me figure out life - also figure out my place, that it was acceptable to be queer, that it was acceptable to struggle with my own gender, and my own gender identity. Because it was never questioned, whatever I was or whatever clothes I turned up in or whatever mood I was in, it was okay. So it became a holding place. And I think for a lot of queers and a lot of weirdos generally this cinema was somewhere to go where we were with our own people.

Vic Roberts: Self