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?

Heart of a Dog
2015
6.5/10

The Celluloid Closet
1996
7.2/10

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
6.9/10

The Last Repair Shop
2024
7.5/10

Disclosure
2020
7.8/10

Cameraperson
2016
6.7/10

Love, Gilda
2018
7.2/10

Frida
2024
6.7/10

American Teen
2008
6.3/10

Welcome to Chechnya
2020
6.8/10

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
2016
6.9/10

In the Realms of the Unreal
2004
7.1/10

Maidentrip
2014
7.1/10

To Be Takei
2014
7.3/10

Love, Marilyn
2013
6.6/10

This Changes Everything
2019
6.2/10

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
6.0/10

Howard
2018
6.8/10

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
2018
7.5/10

Miss Representation
2011
6.9/10
God's Ways
2006
10/10