Reid, Frances

1991

In 1975 Cris Williamson recorded The Changer and the Changed for Olivia Records, the first national women's recording company. The Changer went on to become one of the all-time best-selling albums on an independent label.  Whether you lived through the sisterhood of the ‘70s or were merely a gleam in your mother's partner's eye, this documentary video is heartwarming and highly entertaining. Color footage from a 1990 Williamson concert in Berkeley is interspersed with clips and stills from the ‘70s and ‘80s. The cast reads like a who's who of women's music: Cris Williamson, Margie Adam, Meg Christian, Holly Near, Vicki Randle, and Bonnie Raitt.The black-and-white footage of early recording sessions is priceless: flannel shirts and overalls never looked so good! Holly Near, looking back at the early days of Olivia and women's music says, "It felt like summer camp, but it also felt courageous and brave." So, to you venerable women of the ‘70s and ‘80s, and to you lipsticky gals of the ‘90s, here's a chance to enjoy a retrospective of Williamson's throaty voice and the early years of women's music.

Lamble, David

1991

America's Most Wanted: Bashing is a powerful, angry-making collage of antigay hate crimes.

di Chiera, Franco

1991

Segal, Jonathan

1991

Jennings, Pamela

1991

Dakota, Reno

1991

[From IMDB ]"Jeffrey Strouth spontaneously recounts the true adventures of his wild and creative life, weaving an often lurid tale filled with hilarious characters, run-ins with the law, and his unapologetic provocations of society in general. "

Dakota, Reno

1991

Adding to a hearty tradition of ascerbic gay folklore, American Fabulous is the very oral biography of Jeffrey Strouth, a wild, storytelling homosexual whose unglamorously picaresque life makes for compulsively addictive narratives that are unbelievable, hilarious, and movingly tragic. From a thronelike position in the backseat of a 1957 Cadillac, Strouth indulges in an autobiographical yakfest while the uninspiring landscape of Columbus, Ohio, provides a moving backdrop. He recounts a life so relentlessly melodramatic that, as he says, “nobody could make this up, and if they did, why would they want to?” Between cigarettes Strouth tells us about his first gay friend, the toothless “Myth Earl”; his psychopathic, abusive father; being kept, at 14, by a kindly 400-pound drag queen with a closet full of faux denim leisure suits; his passion for sex and drugs; and just about all the poop on the East Village club scene. Like a queeny, white-trash Kerouac, Strouth's most poignant moments take place on the road. To hear his epic of hitchhiking from Ohio to Hollywood with a mincing, Tallulah Bankhead groupie boyfriend, a tiny yapping dog, and a finch in a cage is classic Americana, alone worth entering this tragicomic universe. As indulgent as its subject, the tape's two-hour length may send you out screaming, but if you can stick with it—and I suggest you do—Strouth emerges as an admirably uncompromising "free spirit" who has more than earned his endearing bitchiness.  Winner of the 1991 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Audience Award for Best Video.

Goralsky, Michal
Ginsburg, Lisa

1991

Montgomery, Jennifer

1991

An experimental narrative that looks at the relationship between adolescent sexual experiences and the formation of lesbian identity.

Muller, Klaus

1991

While many historians have written about the Dutch Underground, the participation of gay and lesbian heroes has been virtually ignored. In this fascinating and emotional film, director Klaus Muller acknowledges these heroic contributions.