FILM

Movies

Holding The Man: Unrated

  • A 2015 Australian love story of two boys who meet in high school and endure fifteen years of ups and downs of their romance, until confronted by the effects of HIV/AIDS.
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Imagine Me & You: Rated R

  • A 2005 film where a straight, cisgender, newlywed bride develops a crush on a woman and questions her sexual orientation which causes conflict and tension amongst her family and friends.
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Milk: Rated R

  • Based on the true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person elected to major public office in America. Winner in 2008 of two Academy Awards for Best Actor (Sean Penn) and Best Writing/Original Screenplay (Dustin Lance Black).
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Moonlight: Rated R

  • 2017 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Mahershalala Ali).
  • This movie is the coming-of-age story of a gay black child, teen and young adult growing up poor in a rough and violent neighborhood of Miami.
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Pariah: Rated R

  • A Brooklyn lesbian teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
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The Kids Are Alright: Rated R

  • A 2010 Sundance Festival hit comedy-drama about a lesbian married couple living in San Francisco, CA. Their two children, who were conceived with a sperm donor, want to find and meet their sperm bank birth father.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Rated PG-13

  • Initially a novel by Stephen Chobsky, then made into a movie, this story chronicles the high school life of Charlie as he navigates the ins and outs of various high school experiences, is befriended by a quirky group of teens, and works through his own emotional and tragic life experiences.
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The Way He Looks: Unrated

  • A Brazilian coming-of-age romance movie, with subtitles. Leonardo is a blind teenager searching for independence. His everyday life, the relationship with his best friend, Giovana, and the way he sees the world change completely with the arrival of Gabriel.
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Transamerica: Rated R

  • A 2005 American comedy-drama movie, starring Felicity Huffman, about a transgender woman who finds out that she fathered a son nearly 20 years ago and their journey toward self-discovery together.
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Documentaries

Paris is Burning

  • A 1990 American Documentary of the ballroom dance culture in New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay and transgender community. Preserved in 2016 in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
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Put This On The {Map}

  • A 35 minute documentary by some of Seattle's eastside suburban queer youth, this multi-award winning documentary discusses their fears, social isolation, and violence; and ultimately, the courage and resilience in these LGBTQ+ youth.
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Straightlaced - How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up

  • An award winning, Groundspark documentary with frank interviews with teens about non-binary gender and sexuality. "From girls confronting popular messages about culture and body image to boys who are sexually active just to prove they aren't gay", this documentary highlights how cultural expectations around gender and sexuality can inhibit and restrict today's teens.
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The Out List

  • A documentary about being among the out LGBT community in modern society, told through interviews with LGBT celebrities and community leaders.
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The Year We Thought About Love

  • A 68 minute documentary, and winner of multiple awards, this film documents the power and struggles of love in a diverse theater group, True Colors, of Cambridge, MA.
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Film Suggestions & Lists

GLBT National Center

  • A list of suggested films and videos that may be helpful in understanding LGBTQ+ issues, including films about "coming out", religion & spirituality, and other information for parents, families, and allies.

Theater

Rent

  • A rock-musical in which straight and queer friends in Manhattan's East Village face hardship and struggles in the late 1980's/early 1990's and come to realize what is really important in life. Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner.
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