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- The story of American gay activist Harvey Milk, who fought for gay rights and was elected as California's first openly gay official.
- A chronicle of gay culture in New York during the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDs era.
- A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.
- The film follows a New York City gay man, in a monogamous relationship, becoming a "buddy" or volunteer bedside companion to another gay man dying of AIDS, and the friendship that develops. Restored in 2020.
- Gay-straight friendships are put under the microscope in this collection of four short films that delve into their complexities. The quartet includes films from France, the United States and the Bahamas. In "Float," a closeted man finds support in an artist; in "The Best Men," childhood friends must be honest about a difficult subject; "Cowboy Forever" examines the lives of Brazilian gauchos; and in "Katydid," siblings confront each other.
- A documentary about the experiences of black homosexual men living in the United States of America.
- Shot on one day by 25 different cameramen across the USA under the co-ordination of Arthur J. Bressan Jr. this film documents Gay Pride parades across the United States in the late 70s.
- During the final days of World War II, a simple French peasant rescues a wounded German soldier and nurses him back to health. As their playful camaraderie grows, two young men who should be enemies begin to bond in ways neither thought possible.
- The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement.
- Ron Peck talks about his experiences of growing up as a gay man, the attitudes to homosexuality in Britain, and his journey towards making his film Nighthawks (1978).
- Documentary about transgender women and drag queens who fought police harassment at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's Tenderloin in 1966, three years before the famous riot at Stonewall Inn bar in NYC.
- The psychological and emotional motivations of gay sexual fetish, especially relating to gay male teens maturing into men and their sexual exploits.
- Fun Down There follows a week in the life of Buddy, a naif who arrives in Manhattan ready to fall in love. The film's dry lends itself to a refreshingly casual quality about the sex scenes-plus there's a happy ending.
- Raw. Uncut. Video. chronicles the rise and fall of homegrown gay porn studio Palm Drive Video, and explores how a devoted couple helped battle a devastating health crisis by promoting kinky sex. Legendary leatherman Jack Fritscher met Mark Hemry in 1979 at Harvey Milk's birthday party - and the two fell head over heels in love. When the AIDS epidemic swept through San Francisco, the couple left the city to begin a new venture: turning a rural ranch in Sonoma County into a safe-sex porn studio that offered viewers new sexual possibilities in an age of plague. Casting rugged non-professional models to explore their unique erotic fantasies onscreen, the studio explored a wild array of queer kinks - and helped champion sex-positivity in the porn industry.
- Follows the story of a love sick teen who reunites her mother's dysfunctional band to win over a punk rock fan girl.
- The story of Vito Russo, founding father of the gay liberation movement, author of "The Celluloid Closet," and vociferous AIDS activist in the 1980s.
- A mystery man brings together a group of dead, gay artists to investigate a police response to the dilema of wash-room sex in Toronto. The artists have seven days in which to report on the ethics of police tactics. The artists infiltrate the police only to discover that they themselves are under surveillance as a political subversive group. The artists explore and report on the evolution of toilets and wash-room behavior.
- Suicide Kale is a dark comedy that finds Jasmine and Penn, a new couple with an uncertain future, struggling through a lunch party after they stumble upon an anonymous suicide note in the home of the hosts.
- A young woman discovers a seed that can make women act like men and men act like women. She decides to take one, then slips one to her maid and another to her fiancé. The fun begins.
- Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she wants him to be happy, but that seems far from his mind: he's waiting to die. Then, into his room, unannounced, rolls the voluble Victor Laprade, who draws out Philippe over the next few months. Victor gives Philippe the gift of experiencing the moment. In return, the well-heeled Philippe organizes field trips to dinner and to a botanical garden, and, unknown to Victor, becomes the man's benefactor when Victor's children get stingy. The openly-gay Victor also pushes Philippe to acknowledge feelings he's always kept suppressed.
- A look at the homo-erotic photography of Alan B Stone.
- A man obsessed with the sun exploding and a trouble-making Italian-Kiwi man meet and fall in love in Auckland.
- A brilliant Cambridge Mathematician whose work "On Computable Numbers" forms the basis of today's programable computers. Perhaps affecting modern society more than any other individual to date. Turing was drafted into service during WWII to work at Bletchley Park and helped crack the Nazi Engima Code and turn the tide of WWII for the Allies. A hero many times over, he was later persecuted by the same country he fought to protect for being a homosexual. Later in life dying mysteriously after taking a bite out of an apple laced with cyanide. Poisoned? Suicide? Or just a tragic accident ending the life of a true genius much too soon.
- Felix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationship going by regular visits from Felix, but the curfew forces him to return every evening. When the East-German authorities become suspicious, Thomas decides to try and flee to the West.
- "Damned If You Don't is a real prize. Beautifully shot in black and white, it blends conventional narrative technique with impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voicovers to create an intimate study of sexual expression and repression. It begins with footage from a stylish old potboiler about an isolated convent, whose tale of passions leashed and unleashed provides the leitmotif for a young lesbian who watches it and the lonely nun she pursues and seduces. As the two women's lives come closer to joining, voiceovers from the biography of a 16th century lesbian nun and the reminiscences of a woman's closeted romances at a Catholic school flesh out the theme. When the two women finally meet and make love, the woman's careful unwrapping of the nun's complicated prison of clothing is both foreplay and liberating metaphor. The film is as hypnotic as a dream."
- Spoofs the wedding of President Nixon's daughter, Tricia. The high jinks start when Eartha Kitt adds LSD to the punch bowl.
- In the middle of the Spanish Golden Age, a Castilian convent is about to be closed and the nuns residing there dispersed. Then, one of the sisters comes up with a saving idea that could restore well-being to the community: to pretend that she has stigmata on her hands.
- This documentary explores the world of transgender bodybuilding, tracking the path of four hopefuls as they prepare for the Trans FitCon competition in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Gay Rights Movement, the film explores the drama, struggle and enduring legacy of the first-ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to successfully reach a mainstream audience. Beloved by some for breaking new ground, and condemned by others for reinforcing gay stereotypes, The Boys in the Band sparked heated controversy that still exists four decades later.
- "A Great Ride" is a 30-minute documentary about lesbians aging with dynamism and zest for life. Sally Gearhart, 80-plus retired women's studies professor and activist, lives in a rustic cabin nestled in the Northern California woods. Although surrounded by the beauty of nature, she also faces several challenges to her independence. Brenda Crawford is an African American political activist who was priced out of Oakland. She continues her feisty community engagement in wonderfully diverse Vallejo, California, where unfortunately homophobia is still "alive and well." Octogenarian Shirley Liberman and couples Nancy and Marjorie, and Sue and Patty make their homes in an LGBT-friendly, if fairly "white bread," Santa Rosa retirement community. They relish the company and support of older lesbians who have congregated informally at "Oakmont Village," where they are making new straight friends too. When they were young these women forged a social movement to come out as true to themselves. Now they face the next daunting challenge, growing old, which can come with frailty, loneliness, and the death of dear friends. Their response? Deep friendships, determination, engagement, and quirky death-defying humor. These women are now pioneers once again, on the journey that every human faces towards the end of life. In this group portrait, they are courageous role models for aging, which they do with an independent and irreverent spirit and a heartening delight in living.
- It's the 1990s. Toby, just out of college in Wisconsin, comes to Manhattan to spend the summer with his older cousin, Packard, a gay man whose lover John R. has just died of AIDS. Toby is shy, the openly-gay society around him makes him nervous. Packard gives Toby a pair of John R.'s shoes; when Toby puts them on, he has powerful visions of the pre-AIDS scene in the 1970s, as if he's there. He also takes on a different personality when he wears the shoes, more sure of himself, able to express his interest in men. Wearing the shoes, Toby goes to a bar, hooks up with Dick, and wakes up in Dick's bed. How will he handle it? And what will happen to the shoes?
- Visually structured around four couples making love, one couple at a time; narratively structured around four chapters in lesbian life: older women talking about what it was like in the 30s, 40s and 50s; a look at the hidden eroticism of movies; the repression of gays under the Third Reich; and, the work of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York City. The narrative voices and the couples making love share the film with photographs, movie outtakes, newsreel archives, and individuals relating events in their lives. The film calls lesbians to tell their stories; it also dramatizes the importance of telling the story of the loss of stories.
- A young gay Israeli man works in his grandmother's store while dreaming of becoming a film-maker.
- In late 1955 and early 1956, the citizens of Boise, Idaho believed there was a menace in their midst. On Halloween, investigators arrested three men on charges of having sex with teenage boys. The investigators claimed the arrests were just the tip of the iceberg-they said hundreds of boys were being abused as part of a child sex ring. There was no such ring, but the result was a widespread investigation which some people consider a witch hunt. By the time the investigation ended, 16 men were charged. Countless other lives were also touched.In some cases, men implicated fled the area. At least one actually left the country. The investigation attracted attention in newspapers across the nation, including Time Magazine. The "Morals Drive" left scars which remain to this day.
- Women wake up to find they have grown a penis.
- A contemporary coming out story about a boy named Hassan who explores his trans identity voguing as a girl named Hanna and the night her two worlds collide.
- Alexander's transgender identity means he is obliged to lead a life of secrecy in his home country.
- Beautifully composed landscape shots of San Francisco juxtaposed with voiceover detailing the emotional intricacies of the love affairs of a butch lesbian and the history of Golden Gate Bridge as the world's prime suicide location.
- How did Hollywood pitch movies about gays and lesbians between 1956 and 1977? Here are theatrical trailers for 27 mainstream and art-house films, presented chronologically from "Tea and Sympathy" to "Outrageous!" More than half are films released between 1968 and 1972. Half are dramas and half are comedies, with farce dominating the films released after 1971. At least three advertise X-rated films: "The Killing of Sister George," "Midnight Cowboy," and Visconti's "The Damned." There's no voice-over commentary for this compilation, but it does include advertisements for snacks and one warning against public displays of affection aimed at "her" to control "him."
- In a derelict house, an amateur detective stumbles upon lethargic people who seem strange and hostile to him. Context dissolves within dreamlike or nightmarish situations. Magic is in the air, and elsewhere.
- Directed by Oscar-winner Richard Schmiechen and narrated by Patrick Stewart, Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker portrays the life and work of the woman who undertook the groundbreaking research that led to the radical discovery that homosexuals were not, by definition, "sick," sending shock waves through the psychiatric community and culminating in a major victory for gay rights.
- A witty as well as fact-filled compilation of short films intended to convince lesbians of the need for and the fun of safe sex. It begins with facts about sexually transmitted disease, and it includes commercials for and dramatizations of the use of water-based lubricants, latex gloves, condoms, and dental dams. An excerpt from a panel discussion of British researchers and health professionals is balance by a send up of a television health report that takes the viewer playfully through ten favorite sexual activities, from kissing to bondage.
- Moments before his best friend's wedding, Peter gets one last chance to rekindle mutual feelings long suppressed, but not abandoned. Sometimes the perfect reminder of first love's passion is but a simple kiss from the best man. The Best Men explores a universal heartache that every individual has experienced - the feeling of having missed out on true love.
- No Secret Anymore shows Del and Phyllis creating coalitions that took on the prevailing belief that lesbians were illegal, immoral and sick. Phyllis and Del did the groundbreaking work on lesbian mothers, sex education, family violence, and more. Always working both from within and outside the institutions they sought to change, Del and Phyllis were able to advance the rights of women, lesbians, gay, bisexual, and transgender (lgbt) people. Today these unapologetic and unstoppable activists are educating both the lgbt and aging movements on the needs of old lesbians.
- Sometime in the distant future, several earthlings turn up on a strange planet ruled over by a despotic ruler with magic powers. A young earth-man initiates a successful uprising.
- Pier Paolo Pasolini takes up with a young man and journeys to Ostia, and his death.
- Documentary/Historical retrospective of the Gay Rights movement from the 1969 Stonewall riots to the present.
- Four lonely women decide to get together during a weekend to talk about their personal conflicts, to get away from men and have some fun, and the reunion turns into an entertaining display of the feminine perception of things, and how they feel about marriage and sex.
- A secret relationship between two Korean government employees is complicated by the difference in the men's ranks.
- A group of New Yorkers fight AIDS rights by any means necessary.