Today, motion pictures are omnipresent and available twenty-four-seven via mouse click, smartphone or HD screen. Audio-visual material strongly influences our public and private lives. Already in the Thirties important moments in private contexts were captured on film with a range of different cameras. This footage is now lying in attics or film boxes and in danger of being lost. In fact, these home movies could be historical documents of homosexual life styles, giving insight into previously unknown stories. Based on the documentary «Reel in the Closet» by Stu Maddox, who has dedicated his working life to exploring queer home movies (mainly from the US), Pink Apple has organised a discussion panel about this topic together with Gay Archives Switzerland (Schwulenarchiv Schweiz). Experts provide information about the situation in Swiss archives and institutions that take in private audio-visual material, and the possibilities of making these sociocultural treasures accessible for academic studies and the expansion of the historic picture of homosexuality in the Twentieth century.