Description: Manhattanites Bruce and Prudence are each looking for a meaningful romantic relationship and have been encouraged by their psychiatrists to find someone through the personal ads. Their first meeting is disastrous, but they begin to hit it off during…
Description: Joe (Tim Swain), a freshman art school student, befriends Jennifer (Julia Frey) and explores his darker side by pursuing a local hustler (Gil Bar-Sela). Director: Todd Verow Writer: Todd Verow (writer), Jim Dwyer (writer) Actors: Tim Swain, Robert Axel,…
Description: Michael’s (Michael Vega) lover, Chad, dies of cancer and then he reappears at Michael’s side as an angel to guide him through the next stages of life — which is a good thing, since Michael’s life soon becomes exceedingly…
Description: Two teenage Mexican-American loners in 1987 El Paso explore a new, unusual friendship and the difficult road to self-discovery. Director: Aitch Alberto Writer: Aitch Alberto (screenplay), Benjamin Alire Sáenz (novel) Actors: Max Pelayo, Reese Gonzales, Eugenio Derbez, Veronica Falcón,…
Description: The first date between Marcello and Herman turns into a game in which every action is dictated by rolling a mystical dice. A powerful feeling begins to arise between the two, but how long can a relationship entirely based…
Description: Jamie re-encounters his old school friend, Kevin, who has been suffering from depression, and must make a choice between following his heart or society. Director: Simon Chung Writer: Simon Chung (writer), Hiroshi Fukazawa (writer) Actors: Bryant Mak, Candy Cheung…
Description: Five interconnected stories set in modern-day Istanbul based on the fairytales Snow White, Cinderella, Pied Piper, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood. Director: Ümit Ünal, Selim Demirdelen, Kudret Sabancı, Ömür Atay, Yücel Yolcu Writer: Ümit Ünal (writer) Actors:…
Description: New York City’s Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. This documentary uses extensive archival film,…
Description: JJ is an aspiring MC exploding onto London’s exciting outlaw urban music scene. He’s got the skills, he’s got the rhymes, and he’s got the drive. But there’s a problem – not only is JJ a white boy from…
Description: Uber MMA fighter manager Ivy Reed (B-movie action star of the ’80s and ’90s Cynthia Rothrock) is unique as a woman in a male-dominated field, using a special formula to find her champion fighters. Though her trainer Jimmy doesn’t…
Description: Thaddeus Mackenzie, a wealthy lawyer, learns that he is dying and decides to sell all of his property and visit his old friend Allen Hayden. Allen is a struggling artist with a passion for life who once survived by…
Description: More interested in romance than sex, “Formula 17” swoons with youthful innocence. Naive country-boy Tien-Tsai travels to Taipei, where his quest to lose his virginity is impeded by his insistence on finding true love first. The film’s Chinese title…
Description: Bambi was born Jean-Pierre Pruvot in a tiny Algerian village in 1935. Even as a child, she refused to meet the expectations of her extended family, choosing instead to find a way to become the woman she always knew…
Description: In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he’s never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the…
Description: Openly gay banker Daniel debates whether to return to Australia or stay in Hong Kong when he meets Kafka, a straight swimming instructor. The young men fall in love, believing that their love can bridge anything, despite their difference…
Description: An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence…
Description: Benjamin Smoke is the highly acclaimed documentary by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen on legendary underground musician Benjamin Smoke. Benjamin Smoke follows the crooked path of this fringe-dweller, speed-freak, occasional drag-queen and all-around renegade living in the hidden…
Description: A gay man is about to be married. He thinks back to when he was a kissing virgin, waiting for the right person with whom to have that first kiss. Director: Steven Vasquez, Dave Padilla Writer: Jeremy Huntington (writer)…
Description: It tells a variety of stories about love that has gone wrong: a brother and sister in an illicit relationship, a married painter who falls in love with his young male life model, a dance school teacher who is…
Description: “The Dead Girl’s Feast” narrates the story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of the upper Amazonas state, after performing a “miracle” upon the suicide…
Description: ‘Apart’ follows several entangled lives in Los Angeles: Mario, a young man who feels rejected by an older man named Saleheddine; John, a jaded hustler and drug dealer who keeps happiness at bay, and who works closely with Christine,…
Description: A look behind the scenes of the Czech gay porn boom. Director: Markku Heikkinen Writer: Markku Heikkinen (writer) Actors: Mario Zieroth, Markku Heikkinen, Aaron Hawke, Michael Taubenheim, Alan Pelikán, John Smith, Dan Komar, Jaakob, Jirka, Josef, Lenka, Irena, Jani,…
Description: Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality). Director: Richard Oswald Writer:…
Description: Tough, but diva fabulous, Leo, an aspiring drag superstar, is stuck working in a fish cannery in Alaska. He and his twin sister are trapped in the monotony of fist fights and fish guts. Out of necessity, Leo learned…
Description: Sex is a background to examine intimacy and vulnerability. Looks at the complexity of modern day relationships told through eight separate couples. Through dialogue and compromising situations, the film takes us from the beginning of a relationship to the…
Description: James Rasin’s documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from…
Description: Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyone he meets, including his gay neighbor, Simon. After Simon is hospitalized, Melvin finds his life turned upside down when he has to look after Simon’s…
Description: Visions of a past relationship leave Matthew broken and isolated until an intimate encounter at a porn arcade opens a peephole to unexpected possibilities. Director: Michael J. Saul Writer: Heath Daniels (screenplay) Actors: Heath Daniels, Michael Wilkie, Manuel Sandoval,…
Description: A Very British Sex Scandal tells the story of Peter Wildeblood, a royal correspondent for the Daily Mail newspaper. He is a closet homosexual and like many gay men at that time, lives in secret as homosexuality is against…
Description: At the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some upsets by declaring his attraction to one of its members. Director: Rose Troche Writer: Robert Farrar (writer) Actors: Kevin McKidd, Hugo…