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Director: Moreira, Rita
Year: 1992
Synopsis: The Hunting Season shows the deadly truth of what lies behind homophobic language: Brazil's lesbian and gay population—"deers"—are being keenly slaughtered in a ghastly series of hate crimes. Intercutting images from Hollywood movies (The Deer Hunter and Cruising) director Rita Moreira stops people on the streets of Saõ Paulo for a quick health check on the state of the nation—"They should be killed" is the most common reply. The Hunting Season then goes behind the scenes to illustrate both the bureaucratic incapacity and individual acts of courage that the spate of violence has exposed.

Director: Juhasz, Alexandra
Year: 1988
Synopsis: AIDS education and political action on behalf of heterosexual women and lesbians, with an emphasis on women of color.

Director: Dougherty, Cecilia
Year: 1988
Synopsis: Cecilia bakes a pie while someone's in the bedroom with Susie.With Susie Bright and Honey Lee Cottrell

Director: Wilhite, Ingrid
Year: 1988
Synopsis: It's a Lezzie Life is a sitcom set in a certain freewheelin' West Coast city.

Synopsis: With Liz Williams, Pat Branch, Dr. Brian Miller. Topic: Relationships and friendships between gay men and heterosexual women

Director: Gaffney, Cynthia
Year: 1988
Synopsis: Cynthia Gaffney irreligiously traces the evolution of her sex life, from its baptism all the way to . . . the Revelation.

Director: Thornhill, Michael
Year: 1988
Synopsis: This provocative and daring new work from Australia employs an excellent cast, Arthur Dignam and Mark Lee (Gallipoli), to tell the story of a secret homosexual society. A wealthy senator, Dignam, is chaffeured to a private boy's school to select his next lover. Having surveyed the crop of handsome youths, he picks a blond, Mark Lee. Several encounters are arranged between the two, and eventually, Lee is inducted into a private group of older homosexual men in high places and their young lovers. To further his career, the senator marries and has a son. Lee stays around and works as a companion for the senator's son. Lee becomes concerned about his fading youth and seeks the assistance of a doctor who succeeds in keeping him forever young. As the senator's son comes into his manhood, he too falls in love with Lee and is also inducted into the secret family. Lee now has both, father and son. An original and oddly surreal film which could well become the next gay cult classic.

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