1. Hand in Hand
    Animated short
    Director: Lasse Persson
    Sweden | 1996 | 4 min

    Four graceful girls of different skin colors are about to perform a beautiful tightrope dance high above the ground in sisterhood. But they are stopped by their prejudice and have to take bitter consequences.

  2. Croquembouche
    Director: Matthew Chevlen
    Cast: Tania Nolan (Marion), Nathan Lucas (Dennis), Najarra Townsend (Bonnie), Kyle Steven Templin (Terrance)
    USA | 2012 | 17 min

    Set in 1948, Marion is stuck in a lifeless marriage and is hosting a private dinner for four with her husband, Dennis. As the guests arrive, she quickly finds out that a woman she had an affair with while working back in the mill factories during the Second World War, is one of those guests. As the night continues, Marion and her old flame begin to rekindle an old spark that was lost and now has resurfaced. The question is, will Marion leave Dennis for this woman?

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  3. projectqueer:

    Stonewall Uprising - Theatrical Trailer

    For theatrical playdates dates go here:
    http://firstrunfeatures.com/stonewalluprising.html

    “It was the Rosa Parks moment,” says one man. June 28, 1969: NYC police raid a Greenwich Village Mafia-run gay bar, The Stonewall Inn. For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a 3-day riot that launches the Gay Rights Movement. Told by Stonewall patrons, Village Voice reporters and the cop who led the raid, Stonewall Uprising compellingly recalls the bad old days when psychoanalysts equated homosexuality with mental illness and advised aversion therapy, and even lobotomies; public service announcements warned youngsters against predatory homosexuals; and police entrapment was rampant.

    A treasure-trove of archival footage gives life to this all-too-recent reality, a time when Mike Wallace announced on a 1966 CBS Reports: “The average homosexual, if there be such, is promiscuous. He is not interested in, nor capable of, a lasting relationship like that of a heterosexual marriage.” At the height of this oppression, the cops raid Stonewall, triggering nights of pandemonium with tear gas, billy clubs and a small army of tactical police. The rest is history.
    - Courtesy of Film Forum

    Stonewall Uprising
    Directors: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner
    Cast: Paul Bosche, Alfredo del Rio, John DiGiacomo
    USA | 2010 | 80 min

  4. Eating out 2, Sloppy Seconds
    Director: Phillip J. Bartell
    Cast: Jim Verraros (Kyle), Brett Chukerman (Marc), Marco Dapper (Troy), Emily Brooke Hands, Rebekah Kochan
    USA | 2006 | 79 min

    How far would you go to get the person of your dreams?
    Lovers Kyle and Marc have a silly lover’s quarrel and each go their separate ways. By chance both come upon superhot male model Troy and each is looking to nail him.
    For Kyle, he’s even willing to go so far as to pretend to join an ex-gay campus group headed by Jacob. Troy’s kind of unsure about his own sexuality. He seems one obliging dude, willing to share sex with just about anyone.
    This leads to a whole lot of trouble all around, but in the end all the boys and girls in the film seem to be nicely paired off.

  5. oseagallo asked: what movie is your avatar from??

    i’m happy to read that i have a movie kind of face

  6. Raising Hell
    Documentary
    Director: Ed Webb-Ingall
    UK | 2010 | 31 min

    This half hour documentary profiles the experiences of the children of Lesbian and Gay parents in the UK aged 12 to 35, exploring themes of School, Gender, Sexuality, Prejudice and what the word Family means. Set alongside an examination of the rich history of Lesbian and Gay parents from the late 1960s to the present day this film at once normalises and elaborates on the unshared and unheard experiences of the children of Lesbian and Gay parents.

  7. Lash
    Director: Elka Kerkhofs
    Cast: Elka Kerkhofs (Celina), Lorraine Jenkinson (Olisa)
    Australia | 2008 | 6 min

    ENG - Celina falls in the water. “What if you live your whole life in one day and that day is today?”. A cocoon grows around her and she is born inside an old wooden shack. She meditates and tries to reconnect with her memory. When her mind opens she sees a dead body washed up on the beach. She moves in and hears the body whispering a poetic language, which draws her closer. By her touch she travels on a journey through her green eye and sees into another lifetime where this woman was her lover, but they were persecuted on the cross and burnt at the stake for their love. By her second touch she sees into another lifetime where this woman was her lover again, but now time and place has changed. Again they get punished for their love. While Celina gets hung, Olisa gets stoned to death after which her body sinks away through the soil into the ocean, where she drifts to shore. The green eye drops a lash and tears run out of Celina’s hand on the beach. She embraces Olisa’s dead body and their energies merge. “One day, until then, ….my love”! They now have a chance to heal the past and find peace.

    FRA - Ce puissant film expérimental témoigne du pouvoir de l’amour dans un monde rempli de persécution religieuse.

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  8. Que nadie vea
    Documentary
    Director: Jorge Sepulveda
    Chile | 2011 | 5 min

    ESP - Corto documental chileno, que refleja el pensar de algunos chilenos y la poca tolerancia que existe en cuanto al tema de la homosexualidad. ‘Cuando el amor tiene que esconderse para no incomodar al resto’.

    ENG - How do people in public places react to gays displaying affection?

  9. Jack and Joe
    Animation with paper cut, stop-motion
    Director: Damian Alexander
    USA | 2012 | 2 min

    Joe wants nothing more than to hold Jack’s hand and in the end he may get exactly what he’s hoping for.

    how to make stop-motion animation 

  10. Better Than Chocolate
    Director: Anne Wheeler
    Cast: Wendy Crewson (Lila), Karyn Dwyer (Maggie), Christina Cox (Kim), Ann-Marie MacDonald (Frances), Peter Outerbridge (Judy), Marya Delver (Carla), Kevin Mundy (Paul), Tony Nappo (Tony), Jay Brazeau (Mr. Marcus)
    Canada | 1999 | 101 min

    Walking home from an evening at the lesbian club ‘Cat’s Ass,’ Maggie is confronted by a gang of skinheads. Suddenly a minibus comes to a screeching halt and out jumps Kim. The skins move on, and Maggie thanks Kim, who watches her go. This is their first meeting. Maggie has recently dropped out of law school and now works in a women’s shop. To avoid a confrontation with her mother, she makes up a success story and tells her that she’s living in a beautiful apartment. As her mother is having her difficulties with her second husband, she decides to take her young son and come to live with Maggie for a while. Meanwhile, Maggie is housesitting the apartment of a female performer on tour. As fate might have it, she runs across Kim again and they find themselves at the new apartment making love in the shower — at which moment Maggie’s mother and little brother step in. (Rotten Tomatoes)

  11. Beautiful Thing
    Director: Hettie Macdonald
    Cast: Glen Berry (Jamie), Scott Neal (Ste), Linda Henry (Sandra)
    UK | 1996 | 90 min

    Jamie, a relatively unpopular lad who bunks off school to avoid football, lives next door to Ste, a more popular athletic lad but who is frequently beaten up by his father and older brother. Such an episode of violence brings Jamie and Ste together: Sandra (Jamie’s mum) offers refugee to Ste, who has to ‘top-and-tail’ with Jamie. Hence, the story tells of their growing attraction for one another, from initial lingering glances to their irrefutable love, which so magnificently illustrated at the end of the film. In deals with the tribulations of coming to terms with their sexuality and of others finding out, in light of Sandra’s unwavering loyalty and defence of Jamie and the fear of repercussion should Ste’s family find out.

  12. I Am A Woman Now
    Director: Michiel van Erp
    The Netherlands | 2011 | 86 min

    Five first-generation transsexual women paint a resonant picture of the successes they enjoyed and the obstacles they encountered in the fifty years since their surgical transformations, all performed in Casablanca, Morocco, by Dr. Georges Burou, who did not require psychological assessments as a precondition. Did their sex change operations change their lives as they had hoped? How did their families react? Using high production values, vintage photographs, and home videos, this respectful and sensitive documentary offers a fresh perspective on these women’s difficult choice to step into the unknown and the consequences that follow the realization of an unattainable dream.

    Nederlandse ondertitels 
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  13. XXY
    Director: Lucía Puenzo
    Cast: Inés Efron (Alex), Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Martín Piroyansky
    Argentina | 2007 | 87 min

    Alex is a 15-year-old intersex person, with both male and female genitals, who has been living as a girl and using medicines to suppress masculine features, such as a beard, and to attempt to have more feminine features. However, recently Alex has stopped taking her medication. Her family has to cope with her condition and the ultimate decision that she must eventually make as she finds her gender identity.

  14. cityswimming:

    such a good film

    commiepinkofag:

    Tongues Untied, 1989

  15. I Stand Corrected
    Director: Andrea Meyerson
    Cast: Todd Barkan, Ginger Berglund, Gary Chen
    USA | 2012 | 82 min

    Watch Jennifer Leitham perform and it’s obvious the striking redhead is an original. When this world-famous jazz bassist takes center-stage, her entire body dances with the bass as her long, fiery hair whips and bobs to the blistering pace set by her fingers. She’s a special talent made all the more unique because Jennifer Leitham began her life and career as John Leitham.

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