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see all genres ›After decades of invisibility and misrepresentation in mainstream cinema, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender filmmakers dove headlong into documentary territory, seeing it as a vehicle for activism, historical preservation and affirmation of the community's diverse identities.
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Genres / LGBT / Documentary
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The Advocate for Fagdom
At turns a transgressive artist, the spiritual son of Kenneth Anger and John Waters or leader of the Queercore movement, one thing is certain: Bruce LaBruce makes small budget movies full of hardcore sex and political messages in which he happily crushes any gay attitude clichés, mocks dramatic set ups and...Start your free trial to watch
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Aravani Girl
Sixteen-year-olds Palani and Karthik want to become "ladyboys." They’re bullied in school and beaten by their families. Their parents would like to see them grow up as normal boys but they’re falling deeper and deeper into the world of the "Aravanis." Loved as dance performers but hated as homosexuals, their stories emblazon...Start your free trial to watch
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Blue
In his final and most daring cinematic statement, Derek Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. Laying bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching blindness, BLUE is by turns poignant,...Start your free trial to watch
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Chris and Don: A Love Story
CHRIS AND DON: A LOVE STORY is 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 the much-beloved CABARET) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. From...Start your free trial to watch
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College Boys Live
In a quiet Orlando, Florida suburb three young men struggle to escape the wreckage of their pasts and create new lives for themselves. Their new home is CollegeBoysLive.com, a voyeur webcam house rigged with 32 cameras, where their every move is watched by thousands of paying members. The site's creator...Start your free trial to watch
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I Think We're Alone Now
I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW is a documentary that focuses on two individuals: Jeff and Kelly, who claim to be in love with the 1980s pop singer Tiffany. Jeff Turner, a 52-year-old man from Santa Cruz, California, has attended Tiffany concerts since 1988. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, Jeff lives alone off...Start your free trial to watch
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The Jaundiced Eye
This harrowing documentary chronicles the decade long trials and traumas incurred by a gay Michigan man, Stephen Matthews, and his straight father, Melvin Matthews, who were wrongfully accused by Stephen's ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend of molesting Stephen's son. Despite the fact that there was no...Start your free trial to watch
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Just Another Girl
With the single-minded attention to detail of a teenager preparing for the prom (or an actress preparing for an award) but augmented by the boisterous camaraderie of friends, a group of San Francisco men pluck, primp and transform themselves into women for a performance (or perhaps an evening on the town)....Start your free trial to watch
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Making the Boys
Crayton Robey's MAKING THE BOYS explores the 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 endures to...Start your free trial to watch
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The Man You Had in Mind
The story typically goes: you fall head over heels in love, have lots of sex, make a commitment, move in together, start sharing your dreams and goals, buy a house, maybe raise a child or two, care for each other when times are tough and eventually grow old together. This is the American dream and what...Start your free trial to watch
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Paradise of the Damned
Rock Ross' ironically titled, time-lapse record of a 1980s Gay Pride parade in San Francisco is hardly the celebration of a celebration one would expect. By stationing his camera at a jog in the route so that the floats and people head right at us and then veer off at the last minute (and speeding up their...Start your free trial to watch
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Paris Was a Woman
A film portrait of the creative community of women writers, artists, photographers and editors (including Colette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas) who flocked to the Left Bank of Paris in the early decades of the 20th century. Utilizing groundbreaking research and newly discovered home...Start your free trial to watch
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Paul Goodman Changed My Life
Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen’s ANNIE HALL. Author of legendary bestseller "Growing Up Absurd" in 1960, Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer (and family man), pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy and a moral compass...Start your free trial to watch
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Play in the Gray
PLAY IN THE GRAY is a penetrating, and at times vulnerably raw, portrait of the work, art and emotional lives of the members of All the Kings Men. All the Kings Men is a drag and cabaret inspired theater troupe based out of Boston. Behind the scenes, Katie, Maria, Julee, Karin, Jill and Leighsa, the...Start your free trial to watch
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Queer China, ‘Comrade’ China
China’s most prolific homosexual filmmaker presents a comprehensive historical account of the queer movement in modern China. QUEER CHINA, ‘COMRADE’ CHINA documents the changes and developments in Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender culture that have taken place in China over the last 80 years. Unlike any...Start your free trial to watch
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Rock Hudson's Home Movies
“It was all up there,” says Rock Hudson (Eric Farr) at the start of this rule-breaking, dizzying assortment of clips from Rock Hudson’s Hollywood career that make up Mark Rappaport’s feature film, ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES. Employing a narrative commentary from beyond the grave, the film invents an...Start your free trial to watch
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
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 efforts to launder American cinema of even...Start your free trial to watch