MacDonald, Heather

1992

A warm and engaging portrait of nine gay men and lesbians in Kiev who tell their stories about growing up, coming out, and trying to create a community. In Russian with English voice-over.

Craig, Scott

1992

Enjoy the simple charms of the street-hustling hair-queens in the hilarious Judy's Do.

Olivier, Felix

1992

In New York, day after day, an old writer watches the tumultuous lives of his neighbors, Pierre and his bisexual Brazilian lover, Ulysses. Felix Olivier's In Plain View is a refreshingly—and furiously—serious film about loneliness and the passage of time.

Knight, Leone

1992

Takes on the taboo subjects of fetishism and sado-masochism.

Jones, Stephen

1992

I'll Show You is Stephen Jones's witty combating of stereotyping of gay men and lesbians; a comic skit about labels.

Jones, Stephen

1992

I'll Show You is Stephen Jones's witty combating of stereotyping of gay men and lesbians; a comic skit about labels.

Henriquez, Monica

A portrait of a transvestite culture set against a background of brutal murders and corrupt authorities that continue to this day in Chiapas State, Mexico.

Korras, Giorgas

1988

Christos in an intense, infatuated Athenian who follows army runaway Manolis to his small Greek hometown, hoping to entice him away from an oppressive circle of family and friends. It's probably a hopeless cause. Deserter is a downbeat, slow, and sad-eyed drama – the kind of film that divides audiences (as it has done already in Berlin and London). Sophisticated San Franciscans may have no sympathy for the story of a closeted middle-class man's doomed pursuit of a surly straight village lad, yet—in context—Deserter is a marvel. Simply put, Christos is the first compassionate gay portrayal in Greek cinema (remember the transvestite-hooker-killer-queer "hero" of Angel?). Double credit, then, to directorial duo Giorgas Korras and Christos Voupouras for not grabbing an off-the-rack coming out confessional. Instead, they've sewn up one of gay cinema's most difficult themes—loneliness and frustration. It's easy to think of homo melancholy as ugly, invented, and unwanted, and in the hand of Hollywood that might be true. But this is the gay version. Deserter takes time to dwell on the real details of infatuation (hours of waiting for looks and smiles), and effortlessly captures the other difficulties between men of different backgrounds. It's a classic: one of the first movies about gayness and alienation that is neither judgmental nor remote.

Hans Scheirl, Angela
Schipek, Dietmar

1992

1992