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Director: Parmar, Pratibha
Year: 1986
Synopsis: Emergence focuses on four black and Third World women artists whose work addresses the diasporan experience, including Audre Lorde and Palestinian performance artist Mona Hartoum.

Director: Tuft, Sarah
Year: 1986
Synopsis: Sarah Tuft's Don't Make Me Up is a snappy, musical request of Madison Avenue.

Director: Lewis, John
Year: 1986
Synopsis: What happens when the hot man you have invited over for dinner is making advances you are too afraid to respond to because you haven't dealt with AIDS panic yet. That is the sitcom beginning of this gay male erotic drama which shows that even New York guys still want to have fun and are doing it safely with condoms. Included is a guest appearance by Casey Donovan.

Director: Marshall, Stuart
Year: 1986
Synopsis: In this three-part tape made for Channel 4, Britain's showcase for innovative and experimental work, videographer Stuart Marshall thoughtfully examines the historical and social factors influencing current reactions to AIDS and homosexuality. The first of this impressive tape compares 19th-century British attitudes toward disease to present ones. Marshall focuses on a particularly sensational tabloid story about a person with AIDS in order to demonstrate how inbred bias against homosexuality in media coverage of AIDS ruthlessly obscures the medical aspects of the crisis. The tape argues against the misrepresentation of AIDS as a "gay disease," implicitly suggesting that AIDS be seen as a disease that affects human beings, some of whom are gay. The second part of Bright Eyes is a stylized comparison of the treatment of gays by the Nazis and others to police/governmental actions against homosexuals today. The poetic rhythms of the language of persecution underscore the pervasiveness of homophobia in contemporary society. Political activist and person with AIDS Michael Callen concludes the third part of Bright Eyes by recreating a dramatic speech he made in front of New York legislators. Callen vigorously asserts the need for more funding for research and care for those with AIDS.

Year: 1986
Description: It’s a big city love story. Well, actually, there are five stories in this program, and “love” is an awfully optimistic word. We start with a look at the New York club scene with some Sweaty Naked Male Flesh. Central Park and a Manhattan rooftop are the setting for gay romance in Spokes, and Smooch! is a very New York boy-finds-boy romance without words. In Miguel, Ma Belle, an HIV-positive queen cuts through the crap trying to find sex and happiness. Melvin Schmatzman Freudian Dentist starts with a dentist trying to rationalize his son’s sexuality and follows the dad’s quirky reasoning to its logical conclusion.

Director: Mimouni, Patrick
Year: 1986
Synopsis: In Paris, Bertrand, 12, runs away from home. While trying to steal something to eat in a supermarket, he meets Boris who saves him from getting into trouble and lets him stay at his home. Boris is an odd sort of man and Bertrand an odd sort of boy. They gradually become acquainted . . .Winner of the 1988 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Audience Award for Best Short Film.

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