Marlon Riggs's final film debates Black identity, white critiques, sexism, patriarchy, homophobia, colorism, and cultural nationalism.

Ahead of its time in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be, By Hook or By Crook tells the story of two trans-butches, Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), who collide by chance in the San Francisco streets.

As the psychedelic San Francisco of the ’60s began evolving into the gay San Francisco of the ’70s, The Cockettes, a flamboyant ensemble of hippies (gay men, women, and babies) decked themselves out in gender-bending drag and tons of glitter for a series of legendary midnight musicals at the Palace Theater in North Beach.

Djamel is a twentysomething French youth man of Arab heritage looking for his father. When he finds him and comes forward as his son the man rebuffs him and to get his revenge Djamel involves his half brother. The man's closeted gay son.

In a “psuedo-instructional” videotape, director Nguyen Tan Hoang embraces the desires of full, unrepentant bottomhood, showing the independence and gratification of being the bottom, in this humorous take on one Asian bottom's insatiable appetite.

An all-star cast including Judy Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Juliette Lewis, Lili Taylor, and María Barranco populate Susan Seidelman's quirky Barcelona-set romp about an American translator entangled in a web full of gender-defiant fellow expatriots.

Gifts cap­tures the Christmas angst of a young man trapped with his relatives over the holidays, cut off from the one person he most needs to see.

With this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie as unclassifiable as its protagonist.

The Iron Ladies tells the true story of a Thai male volleyball team that competes in the national championships in 1996 with a team consisting mostly of gays, transvestites and transgender players.

Kiss of the Spider Woman opened in 1985 to rave reviews and an unprecedented run for an inde­pendent feature. However, after its Oscar-win­ning success, it virtually disappeared from theatres for over ten years. Until now.

This collage of found film footage, assembles porn movie, children's instructional film, sports coverage and '50s Hollywood musicals to construct an investigation of gay men's differing attitudes towards the female body.

A mesmerizing erotic poem, Pink Narcissus focuses on the daydreams of a beautiful prostitute who, from his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives a series of interlinked narcissistic fantasies populated by matadors, dancing boys, slaves and leather-clad bikers.

Starring a young Joel Edgerton, Saturn’s Return tells a journey of loss and redemption in which two young men discover that there is more to their fathers than they ever knew.

To be physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight — this is the Boy Scout pledge. Since 1910, millions of boys have joined. But today, if you are openly gay, you can't. Witness how a 12-year-old Boy Scout named Steven Cozza launches a campaign to overturn the Boy Scouts' anti-gay policy.

This acclaimed documentary follows the story of Robert Eads, a trans man dying of ovarian cancer. While indisputably a victim of systemic transphobia and medical malfeasance from the American healthcare system, Eads’ status as a trans elder among his chosen family shows him as the beating heart of an incredibly warm and life-affirming community.