Dimas, Christos

1999

A Greek man comes to SF and tries to find his way towards the American dream.

1999

1999

Sequel to the Emmy award winning Before Stonewall chronicles the history of gay life since 1969. Narrated by Melissa Etheridge.

It’s been 30 years since the hot summer nights of June 1969 when queers fought back against the harassment and extortion of New York City police. Now this powerful new sequel to Before Stonewall proclaims that "everything changed after Stonewall. It lead us to a time when millions of homosexuals around the world would no longer hide their identity. It also marked the beginning of a seismic shift in society at large. How did this happen? How did a new openness among gay people transform virtually every area of life?" To document the many milestones in the struggle for lesbian and gay civil rights, the filmmakers have assembled remarkably rare archival photographs, ephemera and moving image footage (including clips of Stonewall itself, early demonstrations, performances by Bette Midler and Sylvester, Gay Games, Lesbian Avengers and much more). Narrated by Melissa Etheridge, the film features an amazing assortment of queer luminaries, principally from New York and San Francisco, offering their astute perspectives on the movement’s strides and setbacks including: Dorothy Allison, Rita Mae Brown, Jim Fouratt, Barbara Gittings, Jewelle Gomez, Karla Jay, Larry Kramer, Craig Lucas, Armistead Maupin, Rev. Troy Perry, among many others. The film, sensitive to complex issues of class, race and gender, is a wonderful achievement – a historical survey that is thrilling, poignant and informative.

O'Brien, Kelly

1999

Things the filmmaker forgot and learned about birth control on her trip to America.

Benning, Sadie
Hanna, Kathleen

1999

Davis, Laura

1999

Experimental documentary examines the evolution of HIV/AIDS activism in Paris, paying particular attention to the relationship between aesthetics and politics.

Drago, Carla

1999

An inner-city apartment, a seasoned hypochondriac, belligerent neighbours and vanishing underpants...the secret lies above the dust level.

Yeung, Raymond

1998

A delightful story of a gay Chinese man living in London who only dates white guys until the handsome Asian neighbor down the hall invites him over for dinner.

Oliver, Jorge

1998

A visual poem that is also a clever send up of fundamentalist homophobes that uses the Bible to contradict them.

Brooks, Phillip
Bocahut, Laurent

1998

Feature doc on Gay Africans, Dir. Philip Brooks

In one of the few films with gay subject matter to emerge from Africa, directors Brooks and Bocahut turn their documentary camera onto the Ivory Coast city of Abidjan and some of its queer citizens. The cast of characters is diverse and fascinating. Seductive, upper-class Barbara presides over the Association of Transvestites of the Ivory Coast (ATCI), a tough bunch of queens who fight the sensationalistic, derogatory treatment of transvestites and gays in the local media. Laurent is a small business owner who attracts the attentions of lay-about young men called "yossi.” Vincent is a shamanic individual who speaks of his relationship with society and the spiritual world. Ferdinand Doudou serves as a cultural interpreter for the conversations and interviews in this refreshingly anti-anthropological perspective on contemporary African sexuality. In spite of Africa's increasing identification with the international gay movement, Woubi, Cheri makes it clear that sexuality in the Ivory Coast still speaks a very unique language.