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21) Shinjuku Boys
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
SHINJUKU BOYS introduces three onnabes who work as hosts at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo. Onnabes are women who live as men and have girlfriends, although they don't usually identify as lesbians. As the film follows them at home and on the job, all three talk frankly to the camera about their gender-bending lives, revealing their views about women, sex, transvestitism and lesbianism. Alternating with these illuminating interviews are fabulous sequences...
22) Eating Out
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Caleb is a hunky political-science major with a fondness for aggressive girls. Gwen is an aggressive girl who falls for gay acting boys. It's a match made in therapy. In a plan hatched by his crafty gay roommate Kyle, Caleb finds himself pretending to be gay to woo Gwen, but their scheme is thwarted when Gwen decides that Caleb would be the perfect catch for her own gay roommate, Marc--the object of Kyle's affection.. Caleb is faced with a confusing...
23) Finding Kim
Publisher
Random Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Kim was uncomfortable in his own skin when he was young. Raised a girl, his childhood was full of traumatic experiences. Later in life, he thought he might be gay, but the lesbian community didn't feel right. After diving headfirst into all sorts of queer reading material, Kim came to the ultimate decision that he was meant to be a man, and began the transformation process.. Interweaving insightful interviews with LGBTQ activists like Carmen Carrera...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Agatha is an international lawyer, Jo a filmmaker. The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road showing her films, Agatha discovers and reads her diaries. Problems ensue as Agatha’s transgressions lead to jealousy and a spiraling cycle of sexual obsession.
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Endlessly curious, passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. This beautifully constructed documentary tracks Sontag’s life through evocative experimental images, archival materials, accounts from friends,...
26) My Whole Self
Publisher
Diamond Law
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A documentary film about microaggressions and gender featuring six unique voices from the Pacific Northwest at various intersections of age, race, gender, ethnicity, and social class.. MY WHOLE SELF shows how friendship and dialogue, humor and intelligence, allow women to succeed despite the implicit bias against them even in a “socially progressive” place like Portland, Oregon.
27) Big Eden
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
From out gay writer-director Thomas Bezucha (The Family Stone) comes this funny, heart-warming romantic tale of a thirty-something gay guy, Henry Hart (Arye Gross, Ellen, Six Feet Under) who returns to his childhood Montana home when his beloved Grandfather becomes ill. Once there, Henry confronts his unrequited passion for his high school best friend Dean (TimDeKay) and his feelings about being gay in a small town.. But Big Eden residents defy the...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
People around the world face violence and inequality because of who they love or who they are. In 78 countries there are laws that forbid same sex contact, often with severe punishment.. These 7 short videos from Human Rights Watch highlight escalating cultures of violence and repression against LGBT individuals in several countries - South Africa, Russia, Cameroon, Jamaica, and Kyrgyzstan. Abuse survivors share their stories of human rights violations...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Imagine: beauty makeovers for butch lesbians; tackle football for gay men: electroshock orgasmic reorientation... these and other funny, bizarre, and often terrifying methods have been used for decades to "cure" gays and lesbians of their homosexuality. ONE NATION UNDER GOD takes us into the strange world of "ex-gay" ministries and "conversion" therapies, revealing shocking techniques used to "straighten" out all those "twisted" souls. At the center...
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon were partners in love and political struggle for over fifty years. With incisive interviews, rare archival images and warmhearted humor, No Secret Anymore reveals their inspiring public work, as well as their charming private relationship. It is a delightful way to meet these legendary lesbians, known as the founders of the modern lesbian civil rights movement. When they courageously launched the Daughters of Bilitis in...
31) Rag Tag
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Raymond (Danny Parsons) and Tagbo (Damola Adelaja), “Rag” and “Tag”, were inseparable childhood friends until Social Services tore them apart, removing Rag from his neglectful mother in London.. At twenty-three, Rag returns a school dropout and jobless, while Tag has just graduated from law-school and is now applying to top-ranking London firms. But after all these years, they realize they are still connected on some deeper level and are oblivious...
32) Jeffery
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
This romantic comedy centers on the chaotic love life of Jeffrey, a gay man who swears off sex only to fall in love with his ideal man. Jeffrey's vow of chastity is inspired by a fear of AIDS, a prospect which has started to terrify him so much that he decides he'd be better off never making love again. He is happy and relieved for a time, until he meets Steve, a handsome, charming dreamboat who also happens to be HIV-positive. Jeffrey wants nothing...
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
What is a drag king? What is the Drag King Conference? Simply speaking, a drag king is a woman who dresses in a male persona for theatrical purposes. A Drag King Extravaganza, however, reveals that being a drag king is not so simple. This performance art has exploded into a complex and fascinating movement which centralizes around an annual drag king conference called the International Drag King Community Extravaganza (IDKE). Within this conference,...
Publisher
Michelle Ehlen
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Unable to make progress with her ex-lesbian conversion path, a neurotic "All American" Jill tracks down her butch ex-girlfriend Jamie to prove to herself that she is no longer attracted to her. Strung along by guilt and desire, Jamie agrees to the preposterous plan of "dating" Jill so that Jill can close this chapter of her life and move forward with men. Meanwhile, David and Lola compete for the affections of Jose , a sexually ambiguous and seductive...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The Best of Boys in Loveis a wildly diverse collection of films that mixes styles, settings, and stories ranging from "elegant gay romance" (Frontiers), to a musical send-up of Hollywood, to an "exquisite period piece" (Village Voice) set in New Zealand.
Publisher
Moving Train Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An important exploration of issues rarely touched upon by most films portraying female-to-male (FTM) transgender experiences, this feature-length documentary sets itself apart from other recent films on this topic. Tackling the resistance of some women in feminists and lesbian communities who view FTM transitioning as at best a "trend" or at worst an anti-feminist act that taps into male privilege, this groundbreaking film opens up a dialog between...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Chance To Dress explores the complexity of gender expression through the story of MIT Professor Emeritus and open cross dresser Dr. John "Tephra" Southard.. The film follows the difficulties in coming out to his friends, neighbors and colleagues, but also his sense of liberation after a lifetime of secrecy.. 76 year old Professor Emeritus John Southard recently came out to his family, friends and M.I.T colleagues as a cross-dresser after nearly...
39) All About E
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Elmira, known as E, seems to have it all. She’s one hot sexy DJ at Sydney’s top gay nightclub and has her pick of the girls. But behind the scenes, she's not out to her family, she’s abandoned her beloved music and she’s lost Trish, the one relationship that matters to her.. When she stumbles on a stash of cash, she and her gay best friend Matt are forced to run. Desperate, they go to outback Australia and the arms of the ex-girlfriend who...
Publisher
Mark Rappaport
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
A documentary about the career and eventual death from AIDS of actor Rock Hudson.. Rock Hudson’s Home Movies is a compilation of privileged moments from various Hudson vehicles that, in one way or another, confirm or deny (and thus serve to reconfirm) the actor’s necessarily concealed homosexuality.. “It was all up there,” says Rock Hudson (Eric Farr) at the start of this rule-breaking, dizzying assortment of Filmclips from Rock Hudson’s...
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