A wonderful blend of camp, melodrama, and earnest coming-of-age fable, Wes Hurley's semi-autobiographical new film is the charmingly wild tale of young Potato, a sensitive closeted kid in the splintering Soviet Union whose only joy is watching pirated American movies. Desperate for escape, his mother Lena becomes a mail-order bride, and the two set sail for America to live with her eccentric new husband on a strange and beautiful adventure.

Jose Enrique Tiglao’s feature debut boldly carves a new space for an honest intersex coming-of-age story, one that is equal parts intimate nuances and explosive feeling. Fourteen-year-old Adam, an outcast who keeps to himself aside from the occasional fist fight at school, has identified as male up until the day he unexpectedly starts menstruating. Thus begins a journey of discovering he is intersex.

Alex Liu wants to talk about sex. A lot. Now a thirty-something gay man, his childhood in the Bay Area featured kindly parents who never broached the subject and meager sex ed in school — producing a young adult who was roiling with repression and shame. A Sexplanation is Liu’s highly amusing quest to break this cycle, probing the failures of our country’s sex education, the proliferation of pornography, and the stigma that is still attached to sex in America today.

The right to congregate (think: Pride and gay bars). Out LGBTQ+ politicians. The Imperial Courts. Some people may not know that these facets of an out-and-proud life have a common root in the inimitable José Sarria, but this sweeping documentary will leave you with no doubt about whose crown to kiss in thanks. Nelly Queen documents the public personas and private losses that shaped one of the most influential queens of our community.