A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback Mountain". Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advancing timeline and with clips from two dozen films. The narrative groups the pictures around various firsts, movements, and triumphs: experimental films, indie films, sex on screen, outlaw culture and bad guys, lesbian lovers, films about AIDS and dying, emergence of romantic comedy, transgender films, films about diversity and various cultures, documentaries and then mainstream Hollywood drama. What might come next?

Disclosure
2020
7.8/10

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2024
7.5/10

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1996
7.2/10

Maidentrip
2014
7.1/10

Heart of a Dog
2015
6.5/10

This Changes Everything
2019
6.2/10

Howard
2018
6.8/10

Cameraperson
2016
6.7/10

Love, Marilyn
2013
6.5/10

American Teen
2008
6.4/10

Come See Me in the Good Light
2025
7.2/10

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2003
7.9/10

28 Up
1984
7.5/10

Frida
2024
6.8/10

Halftime
2022
6.8/10

The Red Pill
2016
7.5/10

Fuck
2006
6.4/10

Being James Bond
2021
7.8/10

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
5.9/10

I Am Ali
2014
6.7/10
On The Side
2015
5.8/10