Queer Essentials
Queer Essentials is a powerful survey of LGBTQIA+ experiences from award-winning directors in the United States and abroad and a must for educational media collections. Our ever-growing film catalog features more than 50 independent works from Richard Fung's influential Orientations (1985), to New Queer Cinema from the 90s, to documentary films about Black Lesbian writer Audre Lorde, and the work of prolific filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris. More recent films include portrayals of trans activists Mama Gloria from Chicago, Pauline Park from New York, and Hector Plascencia from California.
Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo
The story of Queer Filipnxs who, in the 1990s, against a racist, lesbophobic backdrop, came together to create a safe and loving community in New York City.
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To Build a Monument
Three Black queer individuals reflect on their connections to their ancestors. Inspired
by Sakia Gunn's legacy, the film meditates on grief, death, queerness and ancestorhood.
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A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde (90)
An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.
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Ọya: Something Happened On The Way To West Africa!
Media artist Seyi Adebanjo tells a tale not often heard about gender and indigenous Yorùbá spirituality.
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Unspoken
Through letter-writing, a community discussion, and a drag performance, six queer and trans Asian Americans grapple with their queerness and consider what family acceptance might look like.
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Mama Gloria
A 75-year-old Black trailblazing transgender activist who started a charm school for homeless trans youth and is now aging with joy and grace.
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Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992
With testimony from Lorde's colleagues, students and friends, this film documents Audre Lorde's lasting legacy in Germany.
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What is a Line?
Weaving a narrative of a jilted lover with footage of a train in motion, this video is a darkly comedic study of the physical, psychological and emotional traumas jilted lovers go through.
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Toc Storee
The first in a series by the artist addressing Asian/Pacific Islander Gay experiences, this multilevel narrative explores sexuality, identity, tradition and personal recollection through gay Asian storytelling.
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Three Queer Mice
This short youth-produced animation exposes homophobia to the tune of "Three Blind Mice".
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Re:Orientations
A fascinating look into the lives and thoughts of seven Queer Pan-Asian Canadians as they look back on the groundbreaking documentary ORIENTATIONS.
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Out: The Making of a Revolutionary
Convicted of the 1983 U.S. Capitol Bombing, and "conspiring to influence, change, and protest policies and practices of the United States government through violent and illegal means", Laura Whitehorn, an out lesbian and one of six defendants in the Resistance Conspiracy Case, spent 14 years in prison.
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Orientations
More than a dozen men and women of different Asian backgrounds speak frankly about their lives as members of a minority within a minority.
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Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing And The Fight For Fairness
A documentary that connects the Lesbian and Gay Marriage Equality movement with the Black Civil Rights Movement.
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Juggling Gender: Politics, Sex and Identity
A loving portrait of Jennifer Miller, a lesbian performer who lives her life with a full beard.
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History Doesn’t Have to Repeat Itself
In this experimental documentary, filmmaker Stéphane Gérard searches for the LGBT activist community that was born out of the Stonewall Uprising.
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High School Rising (Newsreel #38)
An analysis of how the schools by using the tracking system, exploit and oppress people in terms of class origins and how students can begin to organize.
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From Asia With Love
A critical look at the proliferation of the mail-order bride industry in Asia and its representations of Asian women in the West.
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El Culebrero, La Muerte de un Colombiano y el Acordeonista Que No Esta
This video presents the transient aspects of the gay Colombian experience in New York City.
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Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project
Exposes the little known story of Sakia Gunn, a 15 year old student who was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, NJ.
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Detour: Or How I Spent My Weekend
Two mismatched drifters, Jim and James, are on a voyage discovering the contours of homo/hetero, red/white, personal/political, textual/metatextual in an experimental narrative feast.
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Black Nations/Queer Nations?
A film about the 1995 groundbreaking conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora.
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black enuf*
A queer oddball seeks approval from Black peers despite a serious lack of hip-hop credentials. This short animated documentary takes you on a quest for belonging.
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A Ride Out (Una Vuelta)
After a one-night affair, a Latina’s examines her heritage in the context of passion and the erotic.
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A Litany For Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (52)
An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.
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A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality
In this humorous video, five women talk about menstruation, masturbation and ejaculation.
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Chasing the Moon
This fascinating film presents the meditations of a Black lesbian grappling with the memory of an attack that makes her wary about being out on the street.
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