The Amasong Chorus: Singing Outby Jay Rosenstein In a small Illinois college town, a music student creates a lesbian/feminist choral group, transforming the community as she builds an award-winning ensemble. Independent Lens | |
Ask Notby Johnny Symons As wars rage in the Middle East, the U.S. military is eager for more recruits — unless they happen to be openly gay. Independent Lens | |
Billy Strayhorn: Lush Lifeby Robert Levi The composer of "Take the A-Train" and other Duke Ellington hits, Billy Strayhorn struggled with obscurity and prejudice as a successful gay man in the tumultuous middle of the 20th century. Independent Lens | |
Brother to BrotherBy Rodney Evans, Jim McKay, and Aimee Schoof Bruce Nugent, the black gay writer who co-founded the journal Fire!! with Langston Hughes and others, inspires a gay teenager through memories of the Harlem Renaissance. Independent Lens | |
Daddy & Papaby Johnny Symons Exploring the growing phenomenon of gay fatherhood through the stories of four families, Daddy & Papa looks at gay fathers who face both the routine and revolutionary challenges of becoming parents. Independent Lens | |
The Great Pink Scareby Tug Yourgrau and Dan Miller The little-known 1960 felony conviction of three gay Smith College professors marked the peak of sexual McCarthyism, pitting an individual’s right to privacy against national security claims. Independent Lens | |
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 | |
Two Spiritsby Lydia Nibley Fred Martinez was a Navajo boy who was also a girl. In an earlier era, he would have been revered. Instead, he was murdered. Independent Lens | |
Water Flowing Togetherby Gwendolen Cates In 2005, the remarkable dancer Jock Soto retired from the New York City Ballet at age 40, after a 24-year career. His journey as an openly gay man of Navajo and Puerto Rican descent provides a rare glimpse into the life of a dancer and the disparate influences that shaped him. Independent Lens | |
We Were Hereby David Weissman When AIDS arrived in San Francisco in 1981, it decimated a community, but also brought people together in inspiring and moving ways to support and care for one another and to fight for dignity and a cure. Independent Lens |
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