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Director: Gordon, Caz
Year: 1993
Synopsis: How queer can TV be? Look no further than Camp Christmas, a holiday special broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 TV. "What rhymes with Como but is never seen on TV at Christmas?" asks the press notes. Aiming to be a genuinely sincere gather-round-the-fireplace sort of thing, Camp Christmas actually ends up being a unique summit of queer talent. Melissa Etheridge and Andy Bell are hosts to a lineup that includes Armistead Maupin, Quentin Crisp, Pierrre et Gilles, Col. Margrethe Cammermeyer, Sir Ian McKellen, and Lea DeLaria (who gets to say the word "pussy" on primetime TV). One interesting footnote: The British press were so upset by the idea of Camp Christmas that they called upon church leaders to organize an advertiser boycott!

Directors: Rogacki, Sarah
Levine, Jessica
Year: 1993
Synopsis: Silver Sadie, DJ Superhero, fights bio-electric badguys in post-apocalyptic Brooklyn.

Director: Vesterskov, Knud
Year: 1993
Synopsis: A road movie with David Wojnarowicz guiding the viewer through the images of a rough and disturbed America. “David Wojnarowicz has caught the age-old voice of the road, the voice of the traveler, the outcast, the theif, the whore, the same voice that was heard in Villon’s Paris and the Rome of Petronius.” --William S. Burroughs

Director: Davidson, Paul
Year: 1993
Synopsis: Boys from Brazil is an amazing, moving, and in-depth diary of a small group of Rio drag queens and "travesties."

Director: Kidel, Mark
Year: 1993
Synopsis: Mark Kidel's portrait of Boy George is a hypnotic story of narcissism and neediness, drugs and drag. Boy Next Door covers nine years, from Culture Club's sudden success through George's rebirth as a solo celeb. Along the way, there's tons of amazing archive footage, some very queer fashions, a gripping interview with B.G.'s ex, Jon Moss, and a sign of salvation. Looking back on it all, a candid George concludes, "Being gay is my only saving grace."

Director: Postman, Laurens
Year: 1993
Synopsis: An episode from a British series devoted to black issues, called Black Bag. This one—Gender Bender—is a short portrait of Winston, England's answer to Ru Paul and a dead ringer for Naomi Campbell. "I'm not a drag queen, I'm a gender illusionist," says Winston; we get to join him on a fabulous Mahogany-style photo shoot, as well as on-stage at London's hot club, Kinky Gerlinky.

Director: Boschman, Lorna
Year: 1993
Synopsis: Big Fat Slenderella is a humorous and fast-paced look at dieting from the fat person's point of view. Interviews with fat persons are juxtaposed with commercial spoofs that satirize the mainstream obsession with dieting.

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