Four masculine-presenting Nigerians challenge gender norms and share their profound journeys via animation and childhood memories.
Four masculine-presenting Nigerians challenge gender norms and share their profound journeys via animation and childhood memories.
2025-03-21
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Armenia's most beloved weightlifter becomes the country's biggest shame when he comes out as transgender. It cost Mel his fame, his fortune, his family, and even his homeland. Today, under asylum in the Netherlands, his dream of gender transition is finally within reach - but how much must he sacrifice for it?
Three intersex individuals overcame shame, secrecy and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods, choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly are.
In San Francisco, a city known for its queer community and bustling gay nightlife, there hasn't been a lesbian bar for almost a decade. Driven by nostalgia for a time when queer women had spaces, self-identified dyke Malia Spanyol sets out to build one for the next generation of women and femmes.
May 2, 2024. Amidst big names from São Paulo's drag scene, a young filmmaker dives into the experience of becoming a drag queen for one night.
The oldest known "out" African-American lesbian remembers ten colorful decades in this hour-long documentary, which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 1999. Born July 23, 1899, in Springfield, IL, Ruth Ellis spent most of her life in Detroit. A pioneering independent black businesswoman, she operated her own print shop until the age of 65. In the home she shared with Cecilene "Babe" Franklin, her partner of more than 30 years, she played host to innumerable gatherings of the city's African-American gays and lesbians in an age when segregation excluded them from white homosexual society. A participant in the civil rights movement and a witness of the riots that tore Detroit apart in the 1960s, Ellis later became an icon for, and active participant in, the city's multicultural lesbian and feminist community.
Bettie Spanks, a drag queen from Mexico City, guides us through a story about identity, drag, love, sexuality, and her duality.
A documentary about Tadashi Hase, a gay poet born in 1929, who spent much of his life closeted due to homosexuality being classified as a "mental illness." Despite these challenges, he became an award-winning poet and continues to work at 94. Only later in life, as societal attitudes shifted, did he come out. Through Hase’s journey, the film explores the history of homosexuality in Japan.
Kyoko is an aspiring writer whose artistic vision is yet to be formed. When her girlfriend Rie asks her to move in with her, Kyoko begins to wonder about their uncertain future as a lesbian couple in Tokyo.
Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.
A young photographer takes nature shots and selfies for an online dating profile. During a break, another young man seemingly appears by chance, but as the conversation unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing is accidental when your image is on the internet.
Four intersex people tell their stories with eloquence and candour. Roz Mortimer's film questions how medicine and society have treated intersex people, and breaks the codes of silence and secrecy that have surrounded their lives.
At a male brothel named "Hawaii," two trans sex workers—one younger and full of hope, the other older and disillusioned—share a tender, late-night conversation about love and the search for meaning in a world that barely acknowledges their existence. As tensions rise over the impending release of their shared pimp from prison, their fragile bond is tested. The younger believes he’ll finally be saved by love, dreaming of marriage and a better life. But the older warns him of the brutal truth: they are nothing more than commodities in a cruel system. When the pimp announces his engagement to the daughter of a rival crime boss, the younger sex worker is pushed to the edge. What follows is an unexpected act of violence that shatters their connection—and ends in a grotesque act of betrayal that turns his body into a macabre feast at the wedding dinner.
Marlena, a bisexual woman, is the victim of biphobia as she is outed by a gay man. Seeking support from her girlfriend, Diana, she musters the courage to confront the man who outed her in this exploration of biphobia within the LGBTQ+ community.
Love blossoms secretly between two old women at an elderly care home while the specter of patriarchy looms large overhead.
The film follows an old man who looks back on a fleeting love that illuminated his life, only for it to vanish without a trace.
Matt Mathews’ first-ever comedy special, When That Thang Get Ta’ Thangin, was filmed LIVE at the legendary Alabama Theatre in Birmingham, AL, and let’s just say… the networks couldn’t handle it! So instead of waiting around, we’re giving it directly to the people—uncensored, unfiltered, and unapologetically.
After accidentally coming out of the closet, Deena must undo her mistake through the only logical method: time travel.
New York City-based comedian Matteo Lane helps his audience members with their various problems in this live comedy special filmed at the Comedy Cellar.
Chaos ensues as a gay actor and his female costar fake being a couple as they try to save the press junket for their new television show.