Gay Liberation Movies

A reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of the crisis.

A documentary following three young nascent drag artists as they navigate a rising queer scene in Norwich City - a place wherein they express their qu...

Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe gay women and men in the 1950s, 1960...

The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped start the German gay liberation movement. Documenta...

A short film documenting street protests against the filming of William Friedkin's Cruising (1980)

Luiz is a high school student who, by neglecting his studies, gets a failing grade. To help him, the teacher gives Toni the mission to teach the stude...

Documentary about the fight for LGBTQ-rights in Sweden during the 1970s.

The first-ever Disney+ "This Is Me" Pride Celebration Spectacular, hosted by Nina West and directed by Ann Marie Pace, with incredible musical perform...

Perry J. Watkins was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1968 and served 15 years reaching the rank of sergeant. He was also openly gay, even to the point o...

The Rejected is a made-for-television documentary film about homosexuality, the first of its kind to be broadcast on American television. It was first...

A lonely gay man discovers friends, love and activism in this rediscovered educational film made by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality.

They were called "the 175s". These men were sometimes arrested while making love, often at work, or the police picked them up from home. A few hours l...

For Iraq's LGBTQ community, life is dangerous. Anna Foster meets three young LGBTQ people and hears about the abuses they've experienced and their hop...

The formation of the Gay Black Group was a landmark in gay black history. Meeting at Gay's the Word, a bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, it provided a s...