Films on LGBTQ History

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Introduction: Films About LGBTQ History

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Format: year, month, day: Sentence about what happened.

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Primary Sources: Films About LGBTQ History Listed Alphabetically by Title

Brother to Brother.

Cockettes. (?)

Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker. Distributor: Frameline. http://cart.frameline.org/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=T392

The Einstein of Sex [Magnus Hirschfeld]. Director: Rosa von Praunheim.

For Love and For Life: The 1987 March on Washington For Lesbian and Gay Rights. Distributor: Frameline. http://cart.frameline.org/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=T598

Looking for Langston.

No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon. Director: JEB (Joan E. Biren. Distributor: Frameline. http://cart.frameline.org/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=T578

Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria. Distributor: Frameline. http://cart.frameline.org/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=T636

Simple Matter of Justice, A: The 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. Distributor: Frameline. http://cart.frameline.org/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=T603

Stonewall.

Surving Friendly Fire. Distributor: Frameline. A group of homeless queer teens in Los Angeles make a tragi-comic musical about their lives. One teacher reports (July 9, 2008): "Students relate to it because it's about family, about broken ties and rebuilt ties, about surviving on the streets, about coming out, getting clean and sober, learning self-respect and having clear goals as an out gay person, learning how to deal with homophobia."

Times of Harvey Milk.

[Titles?] Distributor: Third World Newsreel. Special collection of 20 queer films: http://www.twn.org/catalog/specialcollect/specialcollect.aspx?sc=11

Tongues Untied. Dir. Marlon T. Riggs. Distributor: Frameline. http://cart.frameline.org/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=T234 Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2T0UdNaWlo http://cart.frameline.org/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=T234

Word is Out.

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Films That Are Important in LGBTQ History Listed Alphabetically by Title

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

It's not the homosexual who is perverse, but the society in which he lives. Director: Rosa von Praunheim.

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

To Wong Fu, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar.

"The Killing of Sister George,"

"Boys in the Band,"

"Cruising,"

"Desert Hearts,"

"Lianna,"

"Personal Best,"

"Sunday Bloody Sunday,"

"The Color Purple." "

"Watermelon Woman." 

"Dry Kisses Only" (Kaucyila Brooke and Jane Cottis, available through Women Make Movies), which is on lesbian viewing practice in relation to classical Hollywood cinema.

"Celluloid Closet"

John Cameron Mitchell's "Shortbus"

"XXY," about an intersex girl confronting puberty.

"Glue" (dir. Alexis dos Santos--another

Argentinian film) was phenomenal and may offer good opportunities for students to talk about the reconfiguration of sexual identity boundaries in the present.

"A Jihad for

Love"--about gay and lesbian Muslims,

Secondary Sources

Author/editor Last Name, First name. Title. Place of Publication. Publisher's name. Date of Publication.

Writing about films about LGBTQ history.

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The history of films about LGBTQ history. Usually it is better to write this after the above entries are filled in a bit.

Creators of this Entry Listed Alphabetically by Last Name (optional)

Katz, Jonathan Ned.

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