How to Survive a Plagueby David France How to Survive a Plague is the story of two grassroots coalitions — ACT UP and Treatment Action Group — made up of innovative activists, many of them HIV-positive, who fought to turn AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Independent Lens | |
Kumu Hinaby Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson Over the course of a momentous year, Kumu Hina, a native Hawaiian mahu (transgender) teacher, inspires a tomboyish young girl to claim her place as leader of an all-male hula troupe, as she herself searches for love and a fulfilling romantic relationship with an unpredictable young Tongan man. | |
Lance Loud! A Death in an American Familyby Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond Take an inside look at the eventful life and tragic death of this hero of the gay liberation movement who came out on national television in 1973. | |
A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lordeby Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson Audre Lorde was a fiercely passionate American visionary whose poetry and prose spoke to her deepest convictions — love and anger, civil rights and sexuality, family politics, and the glories of nature. POV | |
Love Free or Dieby Macky Alston and Sandra Itkoff Faith, love, marriage, homosexuality, and the Episcopal Church collide in the first openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. Independent Lens | |
The New Blackby Yoruba Richen Gay gospel singer Tonex and the head of the National Black Justice Coalition challenge homophobia in the black church and confront traditionally white gay organizations around issues of race. Independent Lens, Women and Girls Lead | |
Off and Running: A Very American Coming of Age Storyby Nicole Opper Avery is an African American teenager and the adopted daughter of two Jewish lesbian moms in Brooklyn. She is on a quest to meet her birth mother in Texas and begin to uncover the missing pieces of her identity. POV | |
Our House: A Very Real Documentary About Kids of Gay and Lesbian Parentsby Meema Spadola A look at what is means to grow up with two mothers or two fathers instead of a mother and a father, or to have your mother or father leave a heterosexual marriage for a same sex union. | |
Positive: Life with H.I.V.by Franklin Getchell, Janet Cole, and Juanita Anderson A frank, realistic look at real-life issues that impact those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. | |
Pride Divideby Paris Poirier and Karen Kiss A history of the forces that have brought lesbians and gay men together and sometimes wedged them apart. |
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