The Wire Season 1 – Police investigate a drug organization in the slums of Baltimore. There are too many characters to count, each multifaceted. Black and white, cop and criminal, gay and straight, each and all is put in a different perspective.
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Milk – The story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected politician in America. Milk was active in the 70s in San Francisco. The film tells his great story, and also gives a history lesson about gay rights in the United States.
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Boys Don’t Cry – A 1999 film depicting the real story of Brandon Teena, a transman who was beaten to death.
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A Single Man – Follows an English professor living and teaching in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Years have passed since his lover died, and he has resolved to live one last day before taking his life.
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Sommersturm (Sommer Storm) – A German coming of age film, which follows a rowing team. They travel to compete against a girls team from Berlin, but discover they have cancelled, to be replaced by an openly gay rowing team. This raises the tension for one closeted rower on the “straight” team.
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Philadelphia – An iconic film from the early 90s, it boldly handled HIV/AIDS and homosexuality in a time in which both remained taboo.
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Transamerica – A film following a transgender man, who receives a call and learns he has a son, the result of a freak occurrence during college. He travels to New York, and the two drive back across the country together.
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Rent – A beloved play following young people loving, messing up, working, succeeding, making it, and living in New York.
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