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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Winnie Nash, who has been keeping her sexual orientation a secret, spends the summer with her grandma in New Jersey as she struggles with her family's expectations while yearning to embrace her true self and attend the Pride Parade in New York City.
2) Clarion call
Author
Series
Ravensong (Cayla Fay) volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Having failed to prevent her vengeful cousin from breaching the Veil, demi-god Neve attempts to prevent more havoc and destruction in the mortal world while she also grapples with old memories, a new family member's emergence, and the delicate balance between past, present, and an uncertain future.
3) Art and Pep
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Art Johnston and Pepe Peña are civil rights leaders whose life and love is a force behind LGBTQ+ equality in the heart of the country. Their iconic gay bar, Sidetrack, has helped fuel movements and create community for decades in Chicago's queer enclave. But, behind the business and their historic activism exists a love unlike any other. The documentary film ART AND PEP tells the inspiring story of the long struggle for equality and their fight to...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
What happens when religiously conservative Christian parents have children who have “become homosexual?” FAMILY FUNDAMENTALS is filmmaker Arthur Dong’s personal attempt to answer that explosive question. Armed with a digital camera, Dong takes viewers into the private and public lives of three families who have responded to gay offspring by actively opposing homosexuality. FAMILY FUNDAMENTALS goes to the heart of today’s debate over homosexuality,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Features nine gay and lesbian veterans who recount how they joined the patriotic war against fascism in the 1940s only to find themselves fighting two battles: one for their country and another for their right to serve. They first remember warm and entertaining stories of finding each other in a compulsory heterosexual environment and reminisce over tales of first love and deep friendships. Their good times were short-lived, however, as they became...
6) With Wonder
Publisher
Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Can you peacefully be both Christian and Queer? WITH WONDER attempts to answer this question by intimately following the stories of Queer people of colour from colonised histories around the globe. Their struggles reveal inspiring journeys of self-love through tears, laughter, awe, and wonder.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Korean
Description
Gyuri Byun's groundbreaking Korean documentary centers on two working class mothers, Nabi and Vivian. Like many in South Korea, where there is a distinct lack of legal protections for queer communities and gay marriage remains illegal, neither women gave much thought to LGBTQ+ rights or its growing advocacy among the country's younger generations. Therefore, their lives and perceptions were upended when their respective children come out to them...
Publisher
Automat Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, two young songwriters and romantic partners, find themselves caught in movie star Gloria Swanson’s web when she hires them to write a musical version of "Sunset Boulevard." Life imitates art when Gloria falls for Richard, and the men find themselves living a real-life version of the classic film.
Author
Series
Buried and the bound volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Aziza, Leo, and Tristan struggle to rebuild their lives amidst painful secrets, emotional and physical scars, and lingering mysteries, all while dealing with the arrival of the Summer Court, a group of Fair Folk who seek to reclaim something Leo is unwilling to part with, leading to a risky deal and a perilous journey, where winning against the Fair Folk comes at a cost.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A short, animated documentary that consists entirely of archival film, hand drawings, clip art, and the voices of children talking about family and parenting outside of the traditional binary. The film premiered at Outfest where it was voted “One of 10 Must-See Films” by Indiewire, played at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Mountainfilm in Telluride, Nantucket, the Hamptons, Mill Valley, and over fifty film festivals around the world....
11) Licensed to Kill
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Takes a riveting journey into the minds of men whose contempt for homosexuals led them to murder. Attacked in 1977 by gay bashers on the streets of San Francisco, filmmaker Arthur Dong confronts murderers of gay men face-to-face in his film. He asks them directly: “Why did you do it?”Probing on-camera interviews with seven convicted killers behind bars propel the narrative drive of LICENSED TO KILL. These inmates include a wide range of distinct...
13) Are You Proud?
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A docu-celebration of the LGBT rights movement featuring rare archive footage and interviews across a spectrum of historical campaigns while current activists in the United Kingdom celebrate the LGBTQ+ Pride movement's landmark achievements. From the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, Stonewall, AIDS crisis, Pulse night club shooting to today's treatment of Trans individuals. ARE YOU PROUD presents an extensive history that shows how more work needs to be...
14) Girl Like You
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Over six years, a couple battles to stay together as one of them transitions genders; confronting the effects of new body parts, changing gender roles as well as navigating their own evolving sexual identities.
15) The Ice King
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
John Curry transformed ice skating from a dated sport into an exalted art form. Coming out on the night of his Olympic win in 1976, he became the first openly gay Olympian in a time when homosexuality was not even fully legal. Toxic yet charming; rebellious yet elitist; emotionally aloof yet spectacularly needy; ferociously ambitious yet bent on self-destruction, this is a man forever on the run: from his father's ghost, his country, and even his...
16) I Am Skylar
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The emotionally compelling story of an articulate 14-year-old girl who is thoughtfully defining her future and the woman she is to become. Surrounded by a family and a community who show her unconditional love as she follows her personal path, Skylar faces the complexities of being a transgender girl on the cusp of puberty with refreshing honesty and unshakeable dignity.
17) Gooseberry
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Language
English
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Twelve-year-old nonbinary B forms a connection with an anxious stray dog, Gooseberry, prompting them to pursue their dream of becoming a dog trainer while navigating the complexities of trust and building a family in their newest foster home.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"CELEBRATE THE ABCs OF LGBTQIA+. An alphabet book that highlights and celebrates queer history in the United States from A to Z, presenting bold ideas for big thinkers in every letter! A is for abundant, always, ally, and alive. F is for family, friendship, fluid, and free. O is for optimists, opportunity, open, and outspoken"--
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Explores the life and times of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton. The film tells her story of awakening to gay life in the 1950’s, the women’s liberation movement and lesbian-feminism, drag culture, and forging a butch identity that for her is in conversation with trans-masculinity. Keenly attuned to the societal forces that shaped her life, Esther guides us through an anthropology of herself, a study influenced by her love for a sport –...
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Shot in six cities along the legendary Trans-Siberian railway, this documentary follows queer Irish filmmaker Paul Rice and his boyfriend Liam, as they go undercover to meet with members of the LGBTQ+ community in Russia. During their travels, they reveal deeply personal and moving accounts from Russian activists and non-activists alike, who risk everything to live authentically and survive under oppressive laws and harsh prejudices.
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