“OutStanding: A Comedy Revolution” is one of the most informative and certainly the most entertaining historical documentaries about LGBTQ history on offer this Pride Month.

Built around Netflix’s earlier 2022 “Stand Out:An LGBTQ+ Celebration,” featuring legions of “out” gay entertainers performing, writer-director Page Hurwitz adds scores of intereviews with journalists, a historian and generations of gay comedians to tell the story of gay comedy.

Who inspired Lily Tomlin, Wanda Sykes, Bruce Vilanch and Billy Eichner, and who stuck up for whom as gay comedy took to the barricades of the ’60s, ’70s, 80s and beyond Culture Wars?

The film remembers assorted “sea change in America” moments such as Madonna joining Sandra Bernhard to flirt and joke around on the set of David Letterman’s first late night show, Ellen DeGeneres coming out on her sitcom — but first to her friend and fellow “Lebanese” Rosie O’Donnell.

When Wanda Sykes recalls seeing Jackie “Moms” Mabley on TV as a child, and thinking “I could do that,” a historian is here to remind us that Moms came out “in her 20s, in the 1920s.”

Lily Tomlin is widely-accepted as a gay comic trailblazer, breaking out on “Laugh-in,” but turning that fame into one-woman shows, a stage act and character “bits” that took even on gay bashers like Anita Bryant. But Robin Tyler beat Tomlin to the punch, the first openly-lesbian comic to appear on TV, get her own show and coiner of the early gay rights rallying cry, “We are Everywhere.”

“I don’t mind them being ‘born again,'” Tyler famously joked of the wave of homophobes summoned to activism by Bryant and Rev. Jerry Falwell. “But why do they have to come back as themselves?”

Tomlin inspired Bernhard. And Margaret Cho roared into prominence on their heels.

Scott Thompson’s place in “The Kids in the Hall,” where drag was performed to hilarious effect, let confused and/or closeted teens feel “seen.” A generation of comics followed.

And as comedians and gay culture faced the twin threats of AIDS and official Reagan era indifference, comedians found themselves taking on activism as part of their portfolio, facing “the fierce urgency of the now.”

“OutStanding” brushes on recent history, too, tracking the “acceptable” 1960s homophobia of Mel Brooks through Eddie Murphy, Andrew Dice Clay, Sam Kinison and on to Dave Chapelle, Bill Maher and others.

“Every word is a bullet,“ Marsha Warfield reminds us, and them.

“There’s no such thing as ‘just kidding,’ elder stateswoman Robin Tyler declares. When somebody tells transphobic jokes, assume “they mean it.”

“Outstanding” isn’t on a par with the great queer film history docs about “The Celluloid Closet.” But it’s a bracing, quick and funny survey of queer comedy history, from Moms to Wanda, Scott to Billy Eichner, from Eddie Izzard before the on-stage dresses and heels to “Dress to Kill” Eddie to Suzy Eddie Izzard in all her present day, marathon-running, makeup loving glory.

This time, this “revolution” was “televised.” All we need to do is remember it and laugh.

Rating:TV-MA, profanity

Cast: Lily Tomlin, Wanda Sykes, Scott Thompson, Marsha Warfield, Rosie O’Donnell, Robin Tyler, Bruce Vilanch, Tig Notaro and Eddie Izzard.

Credits: Scripted and directed by Page Hurwitz. A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:39