Sixteen year olds Palani and Karthik want to become "ladyboys." They're bullied in school and beaten by their families. Their parents would like to see them grow up as normal boys, but they're falling deeper and deeper into the world of the "Aravanis." Loved as dance performers but hated as homosexuals, their stories emblazon the inner conflicts of India's gender culture today.

Jugaad is a Hindi word that can be translated as "innovative or effective solution that bends the ru...
The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and p...

"Renee" tells the story of Renee Richards' battle to enter the 1977 U.S. Open as the first transgend...

Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt explores what it means to be a Black man in America. Traveling to...

A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation ...

In June 2003, the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire came under fire when it became the first to elec...

ANDRO DADIANI's political performances dissect the oppression by state and church in Georgia and con...

This spectacular showcase of vintage movie trailers offers a crash course in lesbian, gay, bi and tr...
This fantastic sequel to the original Homo Promo features original 35mm trailers from some of the mo...

After losing friends, Dany Turcotte began to wonder about the aging of members of the LGBTQ+ communi...

Check Your Body At The Door is a documentary film about some remarkable underground house dancers in...

A short documentary about the First National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, which t...

A baby is born, but does not cry. A body screams and is not heard. Paints that run in a promised fut...

The story of the life, loves and work of US writer Patricia Highsmith (1921-95), told through her un...

Chris & Don chronicles the lifelong relationship between author Christopher Isherwood and his much y...

Two young men are alone at a self-service laundry. They are sitting next to each other, waiting in s...

The River of Life and Death captures the slow time in the well-known Indian pilgrimage place of Bena...

Nic, Leo, Andrea and Raff determine their own gender identities. Each of their gender biographies is...

Ballroom voguing has fiercely swept across the world becoming a global phenomenon. Against the backd...

A land of sacred peaks and secret creatures, lost in the mists of time, somewhere between folklore a...