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1) Kiki
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Explores New York City's community Kiki community in which LGBTQ youths of color show off their dancing skills and elaborate costumes.
2) Defining us
Language
English
Formats
Description
Defining Us tells the up close and personal stories of children of color who are now the majority of America's youth.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
Español
Description
Peruvian leaders will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact. President Alan Garcia begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from untouched indigenous Amazonian land. He is quickly met with fierce opposition from the indigenous leader Alberto Pizango. Alberto's passionate speeches against Garcia prove a powerful rallying cry from those of his supporters. When Garcia continues to ignore their pleas, a war of words erupts...
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"In 1983, in the rural mountain region of Eastern Cuba, Andrés - a noncompliant gay writer - resides after being blacklisted by the govemment for having "ideological problems". After a major event occurs, the government decides someone reliable must be appointed to watch over him, to make sure he does not get out and make any public political statements. Santa a country girl who works on a farm - is assigned to the task. For three days in a row,...
6) Sweethurt
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Two interwoven stories of love and heartbreak play out in a small beachside town over the course of one weekend, bringing chaos and absurdity in this hilarious look at love as a young adult.
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It is a vivid and engaged docu-celebration of the LGBT rights movement from the partial victory of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act to Stonewall, the Gay Liberation Front, the AIDS crisis, Legal Marriage, and finally the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting. The film gives an extensive history of the course of LGBT rights campaigning, but, more importantly, also shows how much more work there is to be done. From legal victories to corporate rainbow colors, Ashley...
9) Homosaywhat
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Homophobia didn't just happen: orchestrated campaigns by cultural institutions and public figures have systemically instilled anti-LGBTQ prejudice into American culture by shaping public opinion. Although the LGBTQ+ community has witnessed progress with the Marriage Equality Act and award-winning LGBTQ+ shows and films, the psychic damage to gay people is deep and events like the tragedy that struck the Orlando PULSE nightclub is a reminder that hateful...
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Narrated by LGBTQ+ historian Lillian Faderman and illuminated through interviews with trailblazers like Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories), Dorothy Allison (Bastard Out of Carolina), and Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet), In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction charts a literary journey from post-war lesbian pulp to modern bestsellers. Highlighting the successful and controversial, directors Lisa Marie Evans and Marianne K. Martin skillfully delve...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The subjects in this are no ordinary senior citizens. They are go-go booted bar-hoppers, love struck activists, troublemaking baton twirlers, late night Internet cruisers, seasoned renegades and bold adventurers. They are also among the estimated 2.4 million lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans over the age of 55 in the United States. This is not a film about gloomy realities, it's a film about generational trailblazers who have surmounted prejudice...
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Swedish
Description
"Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture"--IMDb.
13) Who's on top?
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follows four members of the LGBTQ community as they summit Mt. Hood and explores how they challenge stereotypes about gender and sexuality and overcome physical, mental, and societal obstacles.
Publisher
Universal Television, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Season one: The Path follows a family at the center of a controversial cult movement as they struggle with relationships, faith, and power. Each episode takes an in-depth look at the gravitational pull of belief and what it means to choose between the life we live and the life we want. The series blends elements of mystery-thriller, romance, and mysticism. The Path Season one explores the unknown and mysterious world of the cult-like Meyerist Movement...
Publisher
Library Video Network
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Addresses the issues involved in providing quality library services to the growing Spanish speaking population in the United States. Features some successful outreach programs in Colorado libraries and offers practical suggestions and tips for making the library more inviting for Spanish speakers. Program includes pauses for discussion.
Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This documentary reveals how biologically determined politics has disenfranchised women and people of color, provided a rationale for state sanctioned crimes committed against America's most vulnerable citizens, and now gains new traction under the Trump administration. A radical reassessment of the meaning, use and misuse of gene science. Like no other film before it, this documentary brings to light how false scientific claims have rolled back long...
18) Tahara
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Carrie Lowstein (Madeline Grey DeFreece) and Hannah Rosen (Rachel Sennott) have been inseparable for as long as they can remember. When their former Hebrew school classmate, Samantha Goldstein, commits suicide, the two girls go to her funeral as well as the "Teen Talk-back" session designed to be an opportunity for them to understand grief through their faith. But, after an innocent kissing exercise turns Carrie's world inside out, the best friends...
Publisher
Azania Rizing Productions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"As cities around the world catapult themselves into 'world class city status', we have to ask ourselves, "at what cost"? Not in My Neighbourhood tells the intergenerational stories of spatial violence in three self-professed world-class cities: Cape Town, New York , and São Paulo. This film aims to build solidarity among active urban citizens by illuminating the tools and approaches used by urban activists to shape and navigate their cities that...
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A four-hour documentary series arguing that "health and longevity are correlated with socioeconomic status, people of color face an additional health burden, and our health and well-being are tied to policies that promote economic and social justice. Each of the half-hour program segments, set in different racial/ethnic communities, provides a deeper exploration of the ways in which social conditions affect population health and how some communities...