De film vertelt het verhaal van Harvey Milk (Sean Penn). Harvey Milk was het eerste homoseksuele gemeenteraadslid van San Francisco en was één van de allereerste activisten voor gelijke rechten. Milk leert in deze periode onder andere de activisten Cleve Jones (Emile Hirsch) en Scott Smith (James Franco) kennen waarmee hij verschillende mooie, maar ook dramatische momenten beleeft.
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.
Een homoseksueel congreslid trouwt met de dochter van de Mexicaanse president, maar heeft ondertussen een verhouding met een jonge man in een geheime club. En dan slaat het schandaal toe. Gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal.
De film vertelt het verhaal van de legendarische Russische balletdanser Rudolf Nureyev. Hij verlaat de balletcultuur door van Rusland naar het Westen uit te wijken. Hiervoor krijgt hij hulp van Clara Saint in 1961 in Parijs.
Touko Laaksonen, een geprezen officier, keert terug naar huis na een schrijnende en heroïsche ervaring in het leger tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Het leven in Finland tijdens vredestijd blijkt echter even schrijnend.
Decennia lang runde een aardig joods echtpaar Circus of Books, een pornowinkel en epicentrum voor homo LA. Hun regisseursdochter documenteert hun leven en tijd.
The Times of Harvey Milk is een documentaire van Robert Epstein over de eerste openlijke homoseksueel die in de VS een politieke functie bekleedde. Milk, gemeenteraadslid in San Francisco, werd door een tegenstander vermoord, wat hem tot een martelaar van de homobeweging maakte.
Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), a trans activist group based in the heart of NYC’s Greenwich Village. Her death in 1992 was declared a suicide by the NYPD, but friends never accepted that version of events. Structured as a whodunit, with activist Victoria Cruz cast as detective and audience surrogate, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson celebrates the lasting political legacy of Johnson, while seeking to finally solve the mystery of her unexplained death.
Het verhaal speelt zich af in 1969 rond de Stonewall-rellen, de gewelddadige confrontatie die het begin betekende van de homobeweging in New York City. Danny Winters, een jonge homo, vlucht naar New York en laat zijn zus achter. In New York ontdekt hij de homobar The Stonewall Inn waar hij kennismaakt met Trevor. Hij wordt er echter ook opgemerkt door Ed Murphy, de manager van The Stonewall Inn die samenspant met corrupte agenten en dakloze jongeren uitbuit.
A chronicle of gay culture in New York during the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDs era. Thirteen men and one woman look back at gay life and sex in Manhattan and Fire Island - from Stonewall (June, 1969) to the first reporting on AIDS (June, 1981). They describe the rapid move from repression to celebration, from the removal of shame to joy, the on-going search for "someone," the freedom before AIDS, the friendships, and brotherhood.
A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time.
Documentary celebrating the LGBTQ contribution to the arts in Britain in the 50 years since decriminalisation. It features interviews with leading figures from right across the arts in Britain, including Stephen Fry, David Hockney, Sir Antony Sher, Alan Cumming, Sandi Toksvig, Jeanette Winterson, Will Young and Alan Hollinghurst, and it explores the distinctive perspectives and voices that LGBT artists have brought to British cultural life.
The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): two friends, two geniuses who, while creating sublime works, were haunted by the ghosts of the past, the shadow of constant doubt, the demon of addictions and the blinding, deceptive glare of success.
A drama about the persecution of gay men during Fascism, which for the first time reconstructs cases of their confinement in prison camps.
"Race d’Ep!" (which literally translates to "Breed of Faggots") was made by the “father of queer theory,” Guy Hocquenghem, in collaboration with radical queer filmmaker and provocateur Lionel Soukaz. The film traces the history of modern homosexuality through the twentieth century, from early sexology and the nudes of Baron von Gloeden to gay liberation and cruising on the streets of Paris. Influenced by the groundbreaking work of Michel Foucault on the history of sexuality and reflecting the revolutionary queer activism of its day, "Race d’Ep!" is a shockingly frank, sex-filled experimental documentary about gay culture emerging from the shadows.
Documentary about the gay rights movement during the year of 1977, capturing the intersections of diversity in queer life; from vox pop style interviews with lesbian feminists, street drag queens, and straight allies to taking a look at the fight against Anita Bryant and her notorious "Save Our Children" campaign.
The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized, commerce-driven landscape that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus.
A love letter to early ’90s cruising in NYC.
The story is about Shinji Kubo, a famous porn actor, infiltrating gay spots in Kansai and getting into wet sex parties everywhere he goes. These gay spots are real gay bars, gay saunas, and hatten bars.
Documentary about the fight for LGBTQ-rights in Sweden during the 1970s.