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All Man: The International Male Story
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Bryan Darling, Jesse Finley Reed; Writer: Peter Jones; Stars: Matt Bomer, Carson Kressley)
A peek behind the pages and personalities of International Male, one of the most ubiquitous and sought-after US mail-order catalogues of the Eighties and Nineties.
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Laura Poitras; Stars: Nan Goldin)
The story of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty often blamed for the US opioid epidemic.
Black As U R
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Micheal Rice; Writer: Micheal Rice; Stars: Micheal Rice, Michael Roberson, Charlene Sinclair)
A kaleidoscopic journey through the fault lines of race, gender, history and sexuality in America, focuses on the intersectional lives of black queer people fighting for equality within their own community.
The Cockettes
(Country: US; Year: 2002; Director: Bill Weber, David Weissman; Writer: David Weissman)
The story of the uproarious, gender-subversive Hippy drag troupe that became one of the ultimate countercultural happenings of the San Francisco.
Esther Newton Made Me Gay
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Jean Carlomusto; Stars: Esther Newton)
Esther Newton was drawn to the drag scene as a student in the 1950s. Identifying as both butch lesbian and between genders, she felt a kinship with the queens; what the feminine clothing society expected her to wear felt like a form of drag.
Jimmy In Saigon
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Peter McDowell; Writer: Peter McDowell)
The director goes in search of the truth about his brother Jimmy, a Vietnam veteran, who died in Saigon at the age of 24 and whose parents never explained how it happened, rarely mentioning his name.
Keep The Cameras Rolling: The Pedro Zamora Way
(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: William T Horner, Stacey Woelfel; Writer: Colleen Andrae, Claire Colby, Ellen Goodrich; Stars: Judd Winick, Pam Ling, Cory Murphy, Mohammed Bilal, Rachjel Campos-Duffy, Bill Clinton)
The story of Pedro Zamora, the charming young activist who transformed the face of AIDS in America by allowing MTV's Real World to chronicle his joy, his influence, and his journey with a disease that would ultimately kill him.
Lotus Sports Club
(Country: Netherlands, Cambodia; Year: 2022; Director: Tommaso Colognese, Vanna Hem; Writer: Tommaso Colognese, Vanna Hem, Martina Serafin)
The story of Leak, a teenage trans man who plays football in the under-21s women's team of Kampong Chhnang, and Pa Vann, the coach and father-figure to Leak and other LGBTQ+ players on the team.
Mama's Boy
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Laurent Bouzereau; Writer: Dustin Lance Black; Stars: Dustin Lance Black)
A documentary about what happened after Dustin Lance Black came out as gay to his mother, a conservative Mormon woman from the American South, who drew on her experience of being crippled by polio to try to understand.
Mama Bears
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Daresha Kyi)
A documentary about two conservative, Christian mothers who have become fierce advocates for LGBTQ+ people—and a young lesbian whose struggle for self-acceptance exemplifies why the mama bears are so important.
Nelly & Nadine
(Country: Sweden, Belgium, Norway; Year: 2022; Director: Magnus Gertten; Writer: Magnus Gertten)
The story of two women who fell in love whilst imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Out In The Ring
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Ry Levey)
A documentary exploring the rise and history of LGBTQ+ professional wrestlers and representation in the sport.
The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlisle
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Kathlyn Horan; Writer: Kathlyn Horan; Stars: Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker)
Decades after Tanya Tucker slipped from the spotlight, music star Brandi Carlile takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya's extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history.
A Run For More
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Rsy Whitehouse; Stars: Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe, Jeff Wolfe)
Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe is running for City Council in San Antonio. With 23 years of political activism under her belt, a husband who served in Afghanistan, and a successful corporate track record, it’s hard to see why she might not be a popular choice. But Frankie is a proud, Latinx, trans woman, and in Texas, it makes an uphill political battle something vastly more personal
Tramps!
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Kevin Hegge; Stars: Judy Blame, Duggie Fields, Princess Julia)
Rising from the nihilistic ashes of the punk movement in the late 1970s, a fresh crowd of flamboyant fashionistas, who would later be christened the New Romantics, began to materialise on the streets of London.
Uýra - The Rising Forest (Uyra - The Rising Forest)
(Country: Brazil, US; Year: 2022; Director: Juliana Curi; Writer: Juliana Curi, Martina Sönksen; Stars: Uýra Sodoma, Zahy Guajajara)
Indigenous artist Uýra harnesses the interconnecting power of their native, queer, and trans identities to blaze a trail of ecological activism and LGBTQ+ pride through the villages and cities of the Amazon.
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