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Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Recipient of the Frameline30 Audience Award for Best Documentary and of a 2005 Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund grant, The Believers is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, gender, and religion. Built around the world's first transgender gospel choir, the film portrays the choir's dilemma: how to reconcile their gender identity with a widespread belief that changing one's gender goes against the word of...
182) Jasper Johns
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Jasper Johns had his first solo show in 1958 and, almost from that moment, he has been a sensation in the art world. His paintings now routinely change hands for tens of millions of dollars. Rick Tejada-Flores produced and directed this intriguing documentary on the work of Johns, which is built around interviews with many of his contemporaries as well as the artist himself. This film provides a rare look at his life, career and inspirations, and...
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Lucas travels to visit his sister, who lives in a remote town in Southern Chile. Beside the ocean shrouded in the wintry mist, he meets Antonio, a boatswain on a local fishing boat. When an intense romance blossoms between them, their strength, their independence, and their adulthood become immovable, just like the ebb and flow of the tide.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Discover how those who change the world do so with this thoughtful and timely book. Why do some changes occur, and others don't? What are the factors that drive successful social and environmental movements, while others falter? How Change Happens examines the leadership approaches, campaign strategies, and ground-level tactics employed in a range of modern social change campaigns. The book explores successful movements that have achieved phenomenal...
185) Reign of the fallen
Author
Series
Reign of the fallen volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A first entry in an LGBT fantasy duology follows the experiences of a talented young necromancer who confronts the deadly nemesis responsible for turning her magic into a weapon.
"Odessa is one of Karthia's master necromancers, catering to the kingdom's ruling Dead. Whenever a noble dies, it's Odessa's job to raise them by retrieving their souls from a dreamy and dangerous shadow world called the Deadlands. But there is a cost to being raised: the...
186) She's a Boy I Knew
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
They say that when someone comes out of the closet, they can't stop talking about it. Vancouver filmmaker Gwen Haworth not only talked she made a movie. Using archival family footage, interviews, phone messages, and hand-drawn animation, Haworth's documentary 'She's a Boy I knew' begins in 2000 with Steven Haworth's decision to come out to his family about his life-long female gender identity. The resulting auto-ethnography is not only an exploration...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A lively, intimate memoir from an icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism which opened the door for marriage equality. Edie Windsor became internationally famous when she sued the US government, seeking federal recognition for her marriage to Thea Spyer, her partner of more than four decades. The Supreme Court ruled in Edie's favor, a landmark victory that set the stage for full...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A film by Madsen Minax. Representing the whole lives of transgender and gender variant musicians, each story is one of a journey in progress through a first-hand perspective of the intersections between gender performance and stage performance. The feature documentary Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance will allow a venue for a particular niche of trans existence to be revealed and celebrated. The individuals and bands featured...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated and informative primer on the progressive social change movements of the last 60 years as told through the stories of 60 diverse female and non-binary leaders in those movements, from the Civil Rights Movement and Stonewall riots through today. Inspiring a radical and inclusive approach to history, Modern HERstory celebrates 60 modern women and non-binary people who have changed the world. From the the civil rights movement and the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story, the result of a remarkable pairing between fiction and non-fiction filmmakers, depicts an even more remarkable relationship. Erika and Klaus Mann, the brilliant eldest children of German author Thomas Mann, claimed to be identical twins, despite being born more than a year apart and of different genders. Living under the shadow of Hitler's rise, Erika and Klaus were intellectuals, homosexuals, and pacifists...
191) Chained (Agora II)
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After the euro and the refugee crises, the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic was the third crisis in a row, for the European continent. A single-celled organism had managed to expose not only the weaknesses of neoliberalism —a creed built on faith in free markets, deregulation, and small government that has dominated societies for the last 40 years, but also the failure of European values. ‘Chained’ narrates the five-year story of three successive...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Battle of amfAR presents the little-known story of how in the early days of the AIDS pandemic an unlikely alliance between a celebrity and a scientist helped changed the public perception of the disease and led to the search for a cure. Hollywood superstar Elizabeth Taylor and Sloan-Kettering research scientist Dr. Mathilde Krim joined forces to create greater AIDS awareness, fight government indifference and public stigma, and establish amFAR,...
193) Andy Warhol
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This comprehensive profile of Andy Warhol was produced and directed by Kim Evans in 1987, the same year that the artist died following complications from a gallbladder operation. Originally shown in The South Bank Show, introduced by Melvyn Bragg, the film is one of the first (and best) documentaries about the whole life and career of the 20th century's most recognisable artist. At the heart of the film are the interviews with many of Warhol's confidantes...
194) Before you know it
Publisher
[Unraval Pictures]
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
Examines the realities of growing old as a gay man. Profiles three older gay men.
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