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We Were Here - The AIDS Years in San Francisco
We Were Here - The AIDS Years in San Francisco
David Weissman
An intimate, yet epic history of the AIDS years in San Francisco, as told through the stories of five longtime San Franciscans. The film documents the coming of what was called the "Gay Plague" in the early 1980s. It illuminates…
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart - The Life and Work of a Treasured American Playwright
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart - The Life and Work of a Treasured American Playwright
California Newsreel
This documentary sheds valuable light on all aspects of Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun , including the daunting challenge of securing investment and a venue for this production about a working class Black family, the casting process,…
Stonewall Uprising
Stonewall Uprising
Part of the Series: American Experience
PBS
In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. Such raids were not unusual in the late 1960s, an era when homosexual…
The Times of Harvey Milk
The Times of Harvey Milk
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.…
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP - The Grassroots Movement to End the AIDS Crisis
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP - The Grassroots Movement to End the AIDS Crisis
ACT UP Oral History Project
An inspiring documentary about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic. Utilizing oral histories of members of ACT UP, as well as rare archival footage, the…
Love, Cecil - The Life Of a Legendary Photographer and Designer
Love, Cecil - The Life Of a Legendary Photographer and Designer
Kino Lorber
Cecil Beaton was a dazzling chronicler of his time. A photographer, writer, painter, and Oscar-winning set and costume designer who captured both the front lines of war and the Queen's official portrait, Beaton embodied the cultural and political changes of…
Brother Outsider - The Life of Freedom Fighter Bayard Rustin
Brother Outsider - The Life of Freedom Fighter Bayard Rustin
California Newsreel
On November 20, 2013, Bayard Rustin was posthumously awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. Who was this man? He was there at most of the important events of the Civil Rights Movement - but always…
Political Animals - Pioneering Women Who Paved the Way for LGBT Equality
Political Animals - Pioneering Women Who Paved the Way for LGBT Equality
Political Animals
The winner of over ten awards including the American Library Associations Notable Video for Adults." POLITICAL ANIMALS tells the story of the civil rights struggle of this century - the gay rights movement - through the eyes of first four…
After Stonewall
After Stonewall
First Run Features
In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the Gay Liberation Movement had…
Remembering the Man - A True Story of Love and Loss
Remembering the Man - A True Story of Love and Loss
Waterbyrd Filmz
A story of love, loss and AIDS from a uniquely Australian perspective. In the 1970s, at a prestigious Catholic boys school in Melbourne, arty and flamboyant Tim Conigrave fell madly in love with the star of the school's football team...…
Screaming Queens - The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
Screaming Queens - The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker
EMMY Award-winning Screaming Queens tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States - a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years…
The Cockettes - The Original Gender Revolutionaries
The Cockettes - The Original Gender Revolutionaries
David Weissman
The Cockettes, a flamboyant ensemble of hippies decked out in outlandish gender-bending finery, created a series of legendary, LSD-fueled midnight musicals in early 1970s San Francisco. A diverse mix of genders and races, The Cockettes were an immediate sensation and…
Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine
Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine
Education Pictures
Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine explores the life and tragic death of Matthew Shepard, the gay student brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming in one of the most notorious hate crimes in U.S. history. Framed through the personal lens…
Chris & Don - A Love Story
Chris & Don - A Love Story
Zeitgeist Films
The true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose Berlin Stories was the basis for all incarnations of Cabaret ) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. From Isherwood's Kit-Kat-Club years in…
Sex In The Comix - The History of Erotic Content in Sequential Art.
Sex In The Comix - The History of Erotic Content in Sequential Art.
Music Box Films
A revealing journey into the heart of erotic comic strips, SEX IN THE COMIX examines the colorful history of a unique and risque art form. With New York comic artist and burlesque performer Molly Crabapple as our guide, this documentary…
Queer City - The Lives of LGBTQ New York Residents
Queer City - The Lives of LGBTQ New York Residents
GoDigital
Four decades after the Stonewall riots, life is dramatically different for LGBTQ people. The city that gave birth to the gay movement has changed, too. What are the untold stories of a culture that thrives in every borough and every…
Coming Out: A 50 Year History - The History of the Public Gay Identity
Coming Out: A 50 Year History - The History of the Public Gay Identity
The Pye Harris Legacy Project
Transgender teen, Jazz Jennings, narrates this documentary where young people interview a host of LGBTQ elders who came out in different historical eras from the 1950s through today. These inspiring talks give insight into the political and personal changes that…
Reel In The Closet - Restoring LGBTQ Home Movies
Reel In The Closet - Restoring LGBTQ Home Movies
Interrobang Productions / Stu Maddux Films
A film tech discovers the real lives of queer people in the past by restoring hundreds of never before seen home movies dating back to the 1930s. But time is running out to save what's left before the films are…
The Silver Screen - Color Me Lavender - Homosexual Overtones in Classic Cinema
The Silver Screen - Color Me Lavender - Homosexual Overtones in Classic Cinema
Mark Rappaport
From the ground-breaking director of ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES, Mark Rappaport takes us on a hilarious and provocative romp through the hidden and not-so-hidden gay undercurrents of Hollywood's Golden Years. Dan Butler acts as tour guide as he uncovers (despite…
Framing Lesbian Fashion
Framing Lesbian Fashion
Frameline
A landmark 1992 film, Framing Lesbian Fashion looks at the evolution of lesbian attire and identity -butch/femme, flannel, androgyny, cross-dressing and drag, queer fluorescent, S/M and leather, lipstick and more. Featuring interviews with Sally Gearhart, JoAnn Loulan, Arlene Stein, Kitty…