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61) Codebreaker
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
British mathematician Alan Turing was inarguably one of the most influential gay figures of all time. Featuring interviews with those who knew him and contemprary influencers in computer science including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, this hybrid drama-documentary explores Turing’s impact.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world. His provocative erotic drawings have had an enormous influence on gay identity, attitude and self-understanding. This ground-breaking work combines interviews with Tom (prior to his death in 1992) and his leather men acolytes with hundreds of his original drawings and steamy fantasy scenes inspired by his work. Winner of the Special Jussi Award for Best Documentary at the **Jussi Awards.**...
63) Hot to Trot
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The music...the spectacle...the costumes...the grace. Ballroom dance is enjoying a renaissance here in America, as well as abroad. Set in the swinging world of same-sex competitive ballroom dancing, this entertaining documentary goes inside that little-known world, following four men and women on and off the dance floor over four years. Not only an immersive character study, HOT TO TROT is also an idiosyncratic attack on bigotry against LGBTQ people....
64) No Sad Songs
Publisher
Films We Like
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (62 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The first Canadian film on the subject of AIDS. In 1985-86 it was featured in festivals and theatres around the world. "NO SAD SONGS" attracted much critical attention for its sardonic dramatic performances which are interwoven throughout the documentary footage. The film centres on Jim Black, 37, and his views on the premature death in store for him. Catherine Hunt, who has a brother in the U.S. with the illness, speaks with remarkable emotion of...
65) Circus Boy
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In today's world, what is family? This question is explored in the documentary CIRCUS BOY, about a gay man named Thomas who seeks reconciliation with his mother after he and his husband adopt a boy he's training for circus school. When their adoptive son Ethan came into their lives, Thomas and Michael fell in love all over again. But now, Thomas is nervous about introducing Ethan to his visiting mother, who states she wants to meet Ethan’s 'bio-mom'...
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Orry-Kelly was a Hollywood legend, his costume designs adored by cinema’s greatest leading ladies – but in his home country of Australia his achievements remained unknown. Now acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong is bringing the legend home and celebrating the life of this extraordinary Aussie in her new film, WOMEN HE'S UNDRESSED. Official Selection at the **Frameline: San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival**.
67) Maria Luiza
Publisher
Twin Seas Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Portuguese
Description
MARIA LUIZA da Silva is the first transgender in the history of the Brazilian Armed Forces. After 22 years of work in the military, she retired due to disability. The film explores the complex barriers she faced and her path of affirmation as a trans, military and Catholic woman.
68) Odd Ones Out
Publisher
RAINLAKE
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Winner of a Fabulous Films for Young Adults honor from the American Library Association, ODD ONES OUT documents four years in the courageous lives of three transgender teens as they transition into adulthood and face life-altering events. Family intolerance, abuse, homelessness, sex work, violence and harassment in their schools and community are only the backdrop for a dramatic story of acceptance and rejection, identity and change. Through candid...
69) Wild Combination
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Director Matt Wolf's (*Teenage*) critically acclaimed documentary examines the life and work of Arthur Russell, an influential singer, songwriter, cello player and disco auteur who died tragically in 1992. Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"A tender, fascinating documentary by Matt Wolf, will delight the cult and instantly convert new members." - Nathan Lee, **The New York Times***
70) In the Turn
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This award-winning documentary follows Crystal, a 10-year-old transgender girl growing up in rural Canada, as she navigates the difficult and complicated world that surrounds her. Tormented at school by teachers and peers alike, she faces daily assaults in the form of insults and physical altercations. The pain she endures at school takes a toll on not only her self-esteem, but also on the emotional stability of her family. After being denied the...
71) The Pearl
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An intimate and cinematic profile of 4 transgender women that come out for the first time in their senior years. Set against the backdrop of logging towns in the Pacific Northwest, the visceral and observational story captures the indelible moment in time as they begin the long journey towards acceptances. Coming out as trans after decades of hiding from those closest to them, theirs is a story not of transitioning into womanhood, but rather explores...
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
“How many harvests do you have in you?” is the perennial echo that reverberates across the Masumoto Family farm. CHANGING SEASON: ON THE MASUMOTO FAMILY FARM chronicles a transitional year-in-the-life of famed farmer, slow food advocate, and sansei, David “Mas” Masumoto, and his compelling relationship with daughter Nikiko, who returns to the family farm with the intention of stepping into her father’s work boots. Mas’ hopes and hesitations...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
On December 2, 1966, director Shirley Clarke and a miniscule film crew gathered in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea. Bestowed for twelve hours with the one-and-only Jason Holliday, Clarke confronted the iconic performer about his good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler, on-and-off houseboy and aspiring cabaret performer. As the cameras rolled and Holliday spun tales, sang songs and donned costumes through the night, a mesmerizing portrait formed...
74) Visible Silence
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (42 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A rare glimpse into the unspoken lives of Thai toms, dees and lesbians striving for recognition, authenticity, and acceptance in a traditional Buddhist society. It is an intimate story of self and family, love and sexuality, and self-determination where conformity is prized. VISIBLE SILENCE highlights the experience of masculine women (toms) who visibly transgress gender norms, yet are bound to remain silent about who they really are. It gives voice...
75) Gameface
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The award-winning documentary “Game Face” tells the parallel story of Fallon Fox, MMAs first transgender pro fighter, and Terrence Clemens, a young, ambitious and talented college basketball player in Oklahoma, who happens to be gay. Both realize that coming out will be necessary for their own sense of integrity and peace of mind, but the lack of a clear roadmap and the unpredictable consequences instill understandable anxiety and caution. Both...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (21 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In NICE CHINESE GIRLS DON'T, Kitty Tsui recounts her emergence as a poet, artist, activist, writer, and bodybuilder in the early days of the Women’s Liberation Movement in San Francisco. She narrates her experience of arriving to the States as an immigrant from Hong Kong by way of her own original poetry and stories. Tsui wrote the groundbreaking Words of a Woman Who Breathes Fire, the first book written by an Asian American lesbian. She is considered...
77) Born This Way
Publisher
Kinonation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
With intimate access to the lives of two gay Cameroonians, BORN THIS WAY is a portrait of life in modern Africa. Lyrical imagery, devastating homophobia and a courtroom drama coalesce into a story of what is possible in the global fight for equality.
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Chilean-born performer and writer Iván Monalisa fully embraces his dual selves: scrappy, masculine Iván as well as diva, transvestite sex-worker Monalisa. A reunion with filmmaker Nicole Costa, Iván’s former college classmate, provides the opportunity for a journey through this undocumented transgender immigrant’s daily life of sex, drugs and poetry—as well as a quest for US legalization. Pragmatic and humorous, Iván Monalisa navigates the...
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Determined to shake up the status quo and bring positive change to his people, a Two-Spirit college professor begins a grassroots campaign to become the next president of the Navajo Nation.
80) I Hate New York
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
New York, 2007-2017. Over a decade, the director delves into the private world of Amanda Lepore, Chloe Dzubilo, Sophia Lamar and T De Long; four artists and transgender activists from the city's underground scene. Little by little, their testimonies reveal fragments of a past--sometimes dramatic, always fascinating and simply extraordinary--that formed their identities and transformed their lives. Their words, fears and hopes take the audience from...
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