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?

Welcome to Chechnya
2020
7.0/10

Disclosure
2020
7.8/10

The Last Repair Shop
2024
7.5/10

Cameraperson
2016
6.7/10

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
6.9/10

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
7.8/10

The Celluloid Closet
1996
7.3/10

She's Beautiful When She's Angry
2014
7.4/10

28 Up
1985
7.5/10

Shawn Mendes: In Wonder
2020
8.1/10

In the Realms of the Unreal
2004
7.2/10

This Changes Everything
2019
6.2/10

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
2018
7.5/10

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
2016
7.4/10

Frida
2024
6.8/10

Maidentrip
2014
7.1/10

Come See Me in the Good Light
2025
7.1/10

Halftime
2022
6.8/10

Miss Representation
2011
6.9/10

Heart of a Dog
2015
6.5/10
Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression
2007
0/10