Available to stream on the Criterion Channel as part of Pride and Protest: The Films of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
In a special feature of the thirtieth-anniversary DVD of "Word Is Out", Rick Stokes discusses the impact of AIDS on the gay male community in San Francisco. Images of the film's interview subjects who died of AIDS appear on the screen as he speaks: Donald Hackett, Tede Mathews, Michael Mintz, and Stokes' own lover, David Clayton.
Deceased Cast & Crew: Pat Bond, John Burnside, Sally M. Gearhart, Elsa Gidlow, Donald Hackett, Harry Hay, Rick Stokes, George Mendenhall, Nadine Armijo, Tede Mathews, Michael Mintz, Peter Adair.
In 2022, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".