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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Todrick Hall launches his most ambitious project yet: the full-scale original musical, Straight Outta Oz. From a small town in Texas to big-time show business, comes an inspiring documentary of grit, perseverance and the redemptive power of art. With limited time and budget the odds are against him, but Todrick's passion and his team of talented performers overcome all obstacles to bring this story to the world. From award-winning director, Katherine...
42) The Archivettes
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Founded in the 1970s in a New York City apartment, The Lesbian Herstory Archives is now the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians. For more than 40 years, the all-volunteer organization has striven to combat lesbian invisibility by literally rescuing history from the trash. Frustrated by misogyny and homophobia within academia, Deborah Edel and Joan Nestle co-founded the archives for those conducting research, both professional...
43) One Taxi Ride
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Erick has been the recluse in the family for the past decade. Nobody but him knows why. Ten years ago, on his 17th birthday, his life took a harrowing turn when he boarded a taxi. The driver and two accomplices sexually assaulted him. For the then-teenager, there would be no police reports. No medical attention. No support groups or counseling. No telling his family or closest friends. ONE TAXI RIDE is an observational documentary that tells the intimate...
44) Proper Pronouns
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
There are 30 transgender, ordained ministers in the United States. Six are in North Carolina. Dawn Flynn, Mykal Shannon, Liam Hooper, and Debra Hopkins fight intolerance and discrimination in the Bible Belt and battle narrow-mindedness within the religious community, fellow state natives, and their own families. In particular, the film follows Dawn, who at 61-years-old was publicly outed by a hairdresser. Being forced to reveal her double life sent...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Lopez and Rachel Handler, two disabled actors (both amputees), intend to restart their careers after a long hiatus. Rachel was a promising young actress before surviving a car accident two years ago. Anthony was born with his physical disability and has been taking a break from acting due to a persistent lack of confidence. Both meet each other at the Nicu's Spoon Theater - a company whose mission is to provide opportunities to both disabled...
47) Where Are We?
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman set out on the open road through unfamiliar lands - in their own country. Having spent most of their lives on America's coasts, they piled into a van and interviewed ordinary people they met along the way. At a time when the country was sharply divided over the Iraq War and LGBTQ+ issues, WHERE ARE WE? remains a timely document about trying to find common ground and a moving, funny, and important...
48) No Sad Songs
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
The first Canadian film on the subject of AIDS. In 1985-86 it was featured in festivals and theatres around the world. "NO SAD SONGS" attracted much critical attention for its sardonic dramatic performances which are interwoven throughout the documentary footage. The film centres on Jim Black, 37, and his views on the premature death in store for him. Catherine Hunt, who has a brother in the U.S. with the illness, speaks with remarkable emotion of...
49) Hockney
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the multifaceted artist weaved together from frank interviews with close friends and never before seen footage from his own personal archive. One of the great surviving icons of the 1960s, Hockney's career may have started with almost instant success but in private he has struggled with his art, relationships, and the tragedy of AIDS, making his optimism and sense of adventure truly uplifting. HOCKNEY is funny, inspiring, bold and visionary....
50) Coby
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In a small town deep in the American Midwest, Suzanna begins a gender transition and becomes a boy: Coby. Coby's transformation deeply impacts the lives the lives of all who love him - and each member of this tight-knit family must confront their own preconceived notions of gender and sexuality. Combining excerpts from Coby's video dairy with candid, heartfelt interviews from his closet friends and family - COBY is an intimate and sensitive look at...
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Born into a homophobic society, what are you willing to sacrifice to survive? THE ABOMINABLE CRIME explores the religious-based culture of homophobia in Jamaica through the eyes of gay Jamaicans forced to choose between their homeland and their lives. Maurice, Jamaica's leading human-rights activist, is outed after filing a lawsuit against Jamaica's anti-sodomy law. After receiving death threats, he escapes to Canada, and then risks everything to...
52) Kiki
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A captivating look into the daily lives of a group of LGBTQ youth who comprise the "Kiki" scene as they prepare for and perform at fierce and exuberant ballroom competitions in NYC.
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world. His provocative erotic drawings have had an enormous influence on gay identity, attitude and self-understanding. This ground-breaking work combines interviews with Tom (prior to his death in 1992) and his leather men acolytes with hundreds of his original drawings and steamy fantasy scenes inspired by his work. Winner of the Special Jussi Award for Best Documentary at the **Jussi Awards.**...
54) Hot to Trot
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The music...the spectacle...the costumes...the grace. Ballroom dance is enjoying a renaissance here in America, as well as abroad. Set in the swinging world of same-sex competitive ballroom dancing, this entertaining documentary goes inside that little-known world, following four men and women on and off the dance floor over four years. Not only an immersive character study, HOT TO TROT is also an idiosyncratic attack on bigotry against LGBTQ people....
55) Drag Becomes Him
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An intimate glimpse inside the life of internationally acclaimed drag performer Jinkx Monsoon. The film follows the passionate pursuits that transformed a working class boy in a struggling family to an illustrious performer on a global stage.
56) 575 Castro St
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Harvey Milk is resurrected in this poignant short, which sets an original audiotape he recorded-to be played in the event of his assassination- in a recreation of his Castro Street camera shop.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Pepsi plays, in this documentary, the role of a 21st Century transgender version of Joan d'Arc, putting her journey on a different scale, even beyond survival: standing for human rights, request and asylum of the most marginalized communities. She escaped the Muslim military camp she grew up in because of her homosexuality, worked as a nurse for over 10 years in Gaddafi's Libya. Because of gender discrimination, she was forced to join the flow of...
58) Queer Japan
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to shine in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan. From glossy pride parades to playfully perverse underground parties, QUEER JAPAN pictures people living brazenly unconventional lives in the sunlight, the shadows, and everywhere in between.
59) Word is Out
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1978, this documentary startled audiences across the country for presenting lesbian and gay identities through a genuinely queer lens. Oscar-winning filmmaker Rob Epstein joined with Nancy Adair and Andrew Brown to interview dozens of gay men and women about their lives, coming out, and living well in their time. In honor of its place in history, WORD IS OUT was selected for the Legacy Project for GLBT Film Preservation by Outfest and the UCLA...
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In early 2016, when a dark wave of anti-transgender "bathroom bills" began sweeping across the nation, The Human Rights Campaign published a report identifying 2016 as THE MOST DANGEROUS YEAR for transgender Americans. In Washington State, six such "bathroom bills" were introduced in the State Legislature. Documentary filmmaker Vlada Knowlton captured the ensuing civil rights battle from the perspective of a small group of embattled parents as they...
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