Spiro, Ellen

1993

Videomaker Ellen Spiro captures the people, places, politics, and queer roadside signs of the South. In a series of vivid moving picture postcards, Spiro visits landmarks, events, and just plain characters, including the Gay Rodeo, Mardi Gras, Gay Pride in Atlanta, Rhythmfest women's music festival, the Short Mountain Radical Faerie sanctuary, Dollywood, and Miss Miller's Eternal Love and Care Pet Cemetery. Interviews with gay men and lesbians along the way convey the range of Southern lives—from Iris, a black lesbian living in a bus in the Ozarks to Rita, a retired military officer, now a drag queen in New Orleans. With strength and insight, the interviews in Greetings from Out Here addresses the politics of being out in the South, the impact of AIDS in the rural South, and the relation between the gay and civil rights movements.

Bushala, Dean

1993

An important documentary about antigay violence in America, Green on Thursdays also has a snappy, modern, no-voice-over style.

Maytorena-Taylor, Jennifer

1993

Dutch girls lip synch to a Disney ditty and visit the Folsom St. Fair.

Smith, Jo

1993

Drawn from Christina Rossetti's notoriously lesbo-erotic poem, this is a lush and sexy period piece.

Reeder, Andre

1993

Made for Dutch TV, and clearly influenced by the style of British TV's OUT, Glad To Be Gay, Right? shows the difference of having a black director; three out of these five gripping coming-out stories are told by people of color.

Deming, Heidi

1993

A drag king date where they skip dinner and a movie. Released in the U.S. as part of She’s Safe, a feature-length package of lesbian safe-sex videos.

Kalin, Tom

1993

Gilerman, Svetlana

1993

Genderfuck argues for the need for people to accept both their masculinty and femininity. If you have ever felt that you don't fit into the societal expectations of male or female, you might consider yourself transgendered.

1993

Reiter, Jill

1993

An excerpt from the soon to be finished first feature film from Jill Reiter starring Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill in a new wave/punk rock kitchy queer girl love story.