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Adventures of Felix (Drole de Felix) (France, 2000)

Directors, Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau. Cast: Sami Bouajila, Patachou, Ariane Ascaride, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Charly Sergue, Maurice Benichou. This French comedy-drama features Felix, an unemployed, gay Frenchman of Arab descent, who has a series of adventures during a trek through the French countryside. The film examines the familiar theme of a man's search for his identity. Felix is forced toconfront the anger he feels toward his father forabandoning him, and the fear and shame he feels, living as an outsider in a predominantly straight, Caucasian world. 95 min. DVD 1706

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Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. (Australia, 1994)

Directed by Stephan Elliott. With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam, and Ralph each has his own reason for wanting to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered pink tour bus "Priscilla," the trio heads for the outback and into crazy adventures in even crazier outfits. 102 min. DVD 2204

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Aimée & Jaguar (Germany, 1999)

Directed by Max Faberbock. Cast: Maria Schrader, Juliane Kohler, Heike Makatsch, Johanna Wokalek, Elisabeth Degen, Detlev Buck. Based on true events during the Battle of Berlin in World War II, about two women who find each other. One is single, Aimee, the other, Jaguar, is unhappily married with 4 children. In war torn Germany it was not safe to be Jewish, it was just as unsafe to be a lesbian. When Jaguar's husband, who is a German soldier, finds out about the relationship of his wife to Aimee, nothing but trouble ensues. 125 min. DVD 3788

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All In The Family.

Producer, Norman Lear; director, John Rich. Cast: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers. Three episodes from one of the first sit-coms to take on controversial social issues. Judging Books by Covers: Archie ridicules Mike and Gloria's intellectual friend Roger for being gay, but he is straight as an arrow. Archie later discovers that his macho drinking buddy is gay and proud of it. (Also contains two other espisodes: Gloria discovers women's lib, and Gloria poses in the nude.) 1971. ca.75 min. Video/C 6897

Angels in America (TV, 2004)

Directed by Mike Nichols. Cast: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Justine Kirk, Ben Shenkman, Patrick Wilson, Brian Markinson, James Cromwell. Set in 1985, this made for television drama revolves around two very different men with AIDS. Roy Cohn, personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying lover, Louis. Louis moves on to a relationship with Joe Pitt, a Mormon lawyer whose closeted homosexuality drives his wife to delusions and brings his mother to New York. 352 min. DVD 2964

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[Anger, Kenneth] Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. I

Directed by Kenneth Anger. Contents: Fireworks (1947, 15 min.) -- Puce moment (1949, 6 min.) -- Rabbit's moon (La lune des lapins) (1950, 16 min.) / Puck Film Productions -- Eaux d'artifice (1953, 13 min.) -- Inauguration of the pleasure dome (1954, 38 min.). Music: Fireworks / Respighi ; Puce moment / Jonathan Halper ; Rabbit's moon (La lune des lapins) / the Flamingos ...[et al] ; Eaux d'artifice / Vivaldi ; Inauguration of the pleasure dome / Janacek. Fireworks: Kenneth Anger, Bill Selzer, Gordon Grey ; Puce moment: Yvonne Marquis ; Rabbit's moon (La lune des lapins): Andre Souberyan, Claude Revenant, Nadine Valence ; Eaux d'artifice: Carmillo Salvatorelli ; Inauguration of the pleasure dome: Samson De Brier, Cameron, Kathryn Kadell, Renata Loome, Anais Nin, Kenneth Anger, Peter Loome, Paul Mathison, Curtis Harrington, Joan Whitney. In Fireworks a dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a light and is drawn through the needle's eye to return less empty than before. Puce Moment reflects Anger's concerns with the myths and decline of Hollywood. Rabbit's moon, a fable of the unattainable (the Moon) combines elements of Commedia dell'Arte with Japanese myth. Eaux d'artifice portrays hide and seek in a night-time labyrinth of levels, cascades, balustrades, grottoes and fountains. In Inauguration of the pleasure dome, members of a cult masquerade as gods and goddesses. Special features: Screen specific audio commentaries for all films by Kenneth Anger; Rabbit's moon outtakes; 48 page full color book featuring: an introduction by Martin Scorsese; Kenneth Anger's hand drawn sketches for the unrealized Puce Women project; excerpts from Anais Nin's diaries about making of Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome; rare behind the scenes stills and more.

In Fireworks a dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a light and is drawn through the needle's eye to return less empty than before. Puce Moment reflects Anger's concerns with the myths and decline of Hollywood. Rabbitt's Moon is a fable of the unattainable (the Moon) combining elements of Commedia dell'Arte with Japanese myth. Eaux d'Artifice portrays hide and seek in a night-time labyrinth of levels, cascades, balustraces, grottoes and fountains. Kustom Kar Kommandos is a voyeuristic look at a tight-jeaned man polishing his car. Anger's short films represent a vision of "repressed homosexual desires, twarted in real life and painfully exorcized onscreen. Anger, a highschool student who had grown up on Hollywood's sanitized images, filled Fireworks with his hidden fantasies, complete with the bald sexuality inherent in the images of cowboys, test pilots and, in this case, sailors, images that dominated the dreams of millions." (Russo. The Celluloid Closet, p. 597-98) DVD 6870; vhs 999:1179

Cagle, Robert L. "Auto-Eroticism: Narcissism, Fetishism, and Consumer Culture." (Kustom Kar Kommandos) Cinema Journal, vol. 33 no. 4. 1994 Summer. pp: 23-33.

Cagle, Chris. "Rough Trade: Sexual Taxonomy in Postwar America." In: Representing Bisexualities: Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire / edited by Donald E. Hall and Maria Pramaggiore. pp: 234-52. New York: New York University Press, c1996. (Main Stack HQ74.R46 1996)

Meir, Chris. "Fireworks." Senses of Cinema

[Anger, Kenneth] Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 2

Scorpio rising (1964, 28 min.) -- Kustom kar kommandos (1965, 3 min.) -- Invocation of my demon brother (1969, 12 min.) -- Rabbit's moon (1979 version, 7 min.) -- Lucifer rising (1981, 29 min.) Scorpio rising: Bruce Byron, Johnny Sapienza, Frank Carifi, John Palone, Ernie Allo, Barry Rubin, Steve Crandell ; Kustom kar kommandos: Sandy Trent ; Invocation of my demon brother: Lenore Kandel and William, Kenneth Anger, Van Leuven, Harvey Bialy and Timotha, Anton Szandor LaVey, Bobby BeauSoleil ; Rabbit's moon: Andre Soubeyran, Claude Revenant, Nadine Valence ; Lucifer rising: Miriam Gabril, Donald Cammell, Haydn Couts, Kenneth Anger, Sir Francis Rose, Marianne Faithfull, Leslie Huggins. Scorpio rising: Brando, bikes and black leather. A high view of the myth of the American motorcyclist and the machine as totem from toy to terror. Kustom kar kommandos: A young man strokes his customized car with a powder puff. "Pygmalion and his machine mistress." Invocation of my demon brother: The Shadowing forth of Lord Lucifer, as the Powers gather at a midnight mass. Rabbit's moon: A fable of the unattainable (the Moon) combines elements of Commedia dell'Arte with Japanese myth. Lucifer rising: A film about the "love" generation, in which ceremonies are performed to make Lucifer rise. Lucifer is depicted as the bringer of light, God's beautiful but rebellious favorite, rather than the personification of evil. (In Special features) The man we want to hang: Kenneth Anger's film on the art of Aleister Crowley. Special features: Screen specific audio commentaries for all films by Kenneth Anger; 48 page full color book with written appreciations by renowned filmmakers Martin Scoresese, Gus Van Sant, Guy Maddin and others; extensive notes for each film, rare photos, and more. "The Man We Want To Hang" (2002, 12 min.), restored stereo soundtrack for Lucifer rising, alternate audio to Invocation of my demon brother, restoration demonstrations and more. DVD 8527

Cagle, Robert L. "Auto-Eroticism: Narcissism, Fetishism, and Consumer Culture." (Kustom Kar Kommandos) Cinema Journal, vol. 33 no. 4. 1994 Summer. pp: 23-33.

Cagle, Chris. "Rough Trade: Sexual Taxonomy in Postwar America." In: Representing Bisexualities: Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire / edited by Donald E. Hall and Maria Pramaggiore. pp: 234-52. New York: New York University Press, c1996. (Main Stack HQ74.R46 1996)

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Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) (1999)

Directed by Pedro Almodovar. Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Lluis Homar, Francisco Boira. Enrique gets a visit from his old school friend who has written a story about their traumatic childhood spent at Catholic school. In the story, a drag performer known as Zahara attempts to blackmail a predatory priest by exposing their scandalous past. But when the villainous priest from their school days arrives to tell his own version of events, the truth is wilder than anything they could have imagined. 105 min. DVD 3714

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Basic Instinct(1992)

Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Cast: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Ozundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn. A tough but vulnerable detective investigates a murder identical to one described in the latest novel of a cold, calculating and beautiful lebian novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. 123 min. DVD 886; VHS 999:2282

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Beautiful Boxer (Thailand, 2003)

Directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham. Cast: Asanee Suwan, Sorapong Chatree, Orn-anong Panyawong, Kyoko Inoue, Sitiporn Niyom. Based on the true story of Thailand's famed transvestite kickboxer, this action drama punches straight into the heart and mind of a boy who fights like a man so he can become a woman. Believing he's a girl trapped in a boy's body since childhood, Parinya Charoenphol (affectionately known as Nong Toom in Thailand) sets out to master the most masculine and lethal sport of Muay Thai (Thai boxing) to earn a living and to achieve his ultimate goal of a sex-change operation. Funny and packed with breathtaking Thai kickboxing sequences, the film traces Nong Toom's childhood, teenage life as a traveling monk, and grueling days in boxing camps. 118 min. DVD 1948

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Before Night Falls (2000)

Directed by Julian Schnabel. Cast: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, Michael Wincott. A dramatization of the life of the poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality got him in trouble with Castro's Cuba and he spent two years in prison before leaving for the United States. 134 min. DVD 1071

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Ben Hur. (1959)

Directed by William Wyler. Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd. Screenplay by Gore Vidal. The story of a Jewish nobleman, set in the time of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Christianity. In discussing the rivalry between Ben-Hur (Heston) and his boyhood friend Messala (Boyd), Vidal has commented: "I proposed the notion that the two had been adolescent lovers and now Messala has returned from Rome wanting to revive the love affair, but Ben-Hur does not. ...I told Wyler, this is what's going on underneath the scene--they seem to be talking about politics, but Messala is really trying to rekindle a love affair..." (Russo, Vito. The Celluloid Closet. NY: Harper, 1981. p.54) 999:233

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Devore, Gary. 'I'm Queer!' 'No! I'm Queer!': Hollywood Homosexuality and Roman Epic Films. Popular Culture Review. 10 (1): 127-38. 1999 Feb.

Petrikin, Chris. "Heston and Vidal Tell Conflicting Tales."(Charlton Heston, Gore Vidal autobiographies; the making of 'Ben Hur') Variety v360, n11 (Oct 16, 1995):8 (2 pages).

Bent (UK, 1997)

Director, Sean Mathias. Cast: Lothaire Bluteau, Clive Owen, Brian Webber, Ian McKellen, Mick Jagger. Pursued and captured by the Nazis because he is gay, Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish to avoid even worse persecution. There he meets another gay prisoner and learns a life-altering lesson about human love. 104 min. DVD 1719

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Better Than Chocolate (Canada, 1999)

Directed by Anne Wheeler. Cast: Wendy Crewson, Karyn Dwyer, Christina Cox, Ann-Marie McDonald, Marya Delver, Kevin Mundy, Peter Outerbridge. Maggie meets the woman of her dreams in Vancouver just hours before her mother and brother move in with her. Maggie believes she must keep her affair secret from her family but her clandestine romance is eventually revealed. 102 min. DVD 1875

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Beyond Therapy (1986)

Directed by Robert Altman. Cast: Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti, Christopher Guest, Genevieve Page, Cris Campion, Sandrine Dumas, Nicole Evans. A satire on modern psychotherapy about a confused, crazily neurotic couple and their not any saner analyst. Prudence is a conservative and slightly mixed-up young woman who thinks Bruce is crazy. Bruce is a bi-sexual who lives with his male lover and is crazy about Prudence. Based on the play by Christopher Durang. 93 min. DVD 2623

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Les Biches (France / Italy, 1968)

Directed by Claude Chabrol. Cast: Stephane Audran, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Serge Bento. A young female student is seduced by an elegant older woman who spirits her away to St. Tropez. Here a handsome young male guest comes between the two lovers. The older woman is beset by jealousy, madness and ultimately, murder. A study in bisexuality and upper-class decadence. 95 min. DVD 1728; vhs 999:685

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Bike Boy (1967)

Directed by Andy Warhol. Cast: Ed Hood; Brigid Polk (Berlin) ; Joe Spencer ; Ingrid Superstar ; Viva ; Anne Wehrer. "Sexploitation" feature film by American painter, printmaker and filmmaker Andy Warhol. Joe, a member of a motorcycle gang, encounters Andy Warhol's "superstars," who crack jokes at his expense in an attempt to deflate his machismo. In response he becomes more obscene and boasting, but ultimately, he cannot compete with the putdowns of the Warhol regulars. 96 min. DVD 4716

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The Birdcage(1996)

Directed by Mike Nichols. Cast: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest. The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down. Based on the stage play La cage aux folles by Jean Poiret. 119 min. DVD 1614

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Krimmer, Elisabeth. "Nobody Wants to Be A Man Anymore? Cross-Dressing in American Movies ofthe 90's." In: Subverting masculinity : hegemonic and alternative versions of masculinity in contemporary culture Edited by Russell West and Frank Lay. Amsterdam ; Atlanta : Rodopi, c 2000. (Anthropology HQ1090.S83 2000; Main Stack HQ1090.S83 2000)

A Bitter Song. (Australia, 1990)

Directed by Athina Tsoulis. Cast: Alexa Tsoulis Reay, Vicky Yiannoutsos, Lucy Lawless. In her first film role Lawless plays a kind nurse who helps a troubled young girl. 20 min. DVD 3615

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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant)(West Germany, 1974)

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Eva Mattes, Gisela Fackeldey, Irm Hermann. This haunting melodrama concerns a woman who divorces her husband when she realizes that she no long loves him and that she is sexually attracted to her secretary. It explores the lesbian relationship and finds that just as many of the games that exist in a heterosexual relationship (love/hate and jealousy) are present an homosexual one. 124 min. DVD 1651; vhs 999:553

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Black Sheep Boy (1995)

Directed by Michael Wallin. A voyeuristic self-reflective short centering on the pleasures and pitfalls of being attracted to much younger men. Fortyish Wallin films a series of young men (many of whom were enticed by Wallin from the streets) in erotic poses -- an alluring portrait of the fantasizer and the fantasized. 37 min. Video/C 9882

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Bollywood and Vine (2004)

Directed by Edward Jordon & Donald Farmer. Cast: Skye Aubrey, Jamey Schrick, J.R. Jones, Trish Dempsey. Bhuvan is a Hollywood bus driver obsessed with the idea of taking aging scream queen Delilah back home to Bollywood. When he finally meets her, he finds out that it is actually her son in drag. To help the romance, Delilah locks the two in the attic. 85 min. DVD 5349

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Born in Flames (1983)

Directed by Lizzie Borden. Cast: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jeanne Satterfield, Flo Kennedy, Ron Vawter, Eric Bogosian. A futuristic fable of feminist turmoil still brewing ten years after the Second American Revolution. When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman's Army, is mysteriously killed, a diverse coalition of women - across all lines of race, class, and sexual preference - emerges to blow the System apart. With their fury growing and all peaceful options exhausted, women overcome divisions of race, class, and sexual orientation to form a guerilla movement to take over control of the media. 80 min. DVD 6007; vhs 999:1837

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Bound (1996)

Directed by Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski. Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, John Ryan. This thriller tells the story of a gangster's moll and her tough lesbian, ex-con lover who steal $2 million in loot from the former's brutish lover and must then flee for their lives in the seedy, crime-filled city. -- Sandra Brennan [All Movie Guide] 108 min. 999:1908

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Boys Don't Cry (1970)

Directed by Kimberly Peirce. Cast: Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III. Based on a true story of a teenager, Teena Brandon, who altered her appearance to appear as a man and assumed the name Brandon Teena. She moved to a tiny Nebraska town and made new friends under her new identity. All went well until her new friends discovered her secret with shocking consequences. 118 min. DVD 4132; vhs 999:2731

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Boys in the Band. (1970)

Directed by William Friedkin. Cast: Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs, Cliff Gorman, Laurence Lukinbill, Keith Prentice, Peter White, Reuben Greene, Robert La Tourneaux, Leonard Frey. A heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual gathering at a birthday party, and tension builds as tempers fray. Based on the play of the same title by Mart Crowley. The first Hollywood film in which all the principal characters are gay. 119 min. 999:637

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Boys Shorts

Contents: Resonance -- R.S.V.P -- Anthem -- Relax -- Billy Turner's secret -- Dead boys club. Directors, Christopher Newby, Michael Mayson, Mark Christopher, Stephen Cummins, Laurie Lynd, Marlon Riggs.

Showcases six short films with gay themes produced in the 1990s. Resonance: an exploration of gay-bashing in the back streets of Sydney. RSVP: A powerful portrait of loss punctuated by the haunting voice of Jessye Norman. Anthem: A collage of erotic images that celebrates the lives of African American men. Relax: An elegant film about one man's fears regarding HIV testing. Billy Turner's Secret: An upbeat comedy about a young Black man coming out to his roommate. The Dead boys' club: A steamy tribute to the '70's world of promiscuity and disco balls from the perspective of gay life in the '90's. 1993? 119 min. Video/C 6226

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Evans, Greg. "Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema." (movie reviews) Variety v352, n1 (August 16, 1993):40 (1 page).

Holden, Stephen. "Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema." (movie reviews) New York Times v142 (Wed, July 21, 1993):C17(L), col 1, 12 col in.

Breakfast on Pluto (Ireland / UK, 2002)

Directed by Neil Jordan. Cast: Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson, Liam Neeson. As foster kid Patrick 'Kitten' Braden grows up, he leaves behind his small-town life in Ireland for London, where he's reborn as a transvestite cabaret singer in the 1960s and 70s. 129 min. DVD 5445

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Brokeback Mountain (2002)

Directed by Ang Lee; screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana. Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid. It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through their proximity, loneliness and through a shared lack of tenderness and emotion in their lives and are emotionally, physically and psychically bonded to each other almost from the start. Based on the short story by Annie Proulx. 135 min. DVD 5386

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The Business of Fancydancing (2002)

Directed by Sherman Alexie. Cast: Kevin Phillip, Rebecca Carroll, Swil Kanim. Since their high school graduation, former Spokane Reservation best friends Seymour and Aristotle have taken different paths. Sixteen years later they are brought together following the sudden death of an old childhood buddy. 103 min. DVD 1675

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But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

Directed by Jamie Babbit. Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, RuPaul Charles, Cathy Moriarty, Melanie Linsky, Eddie Cibrian, Wesley Mann, Richard Moll, Douglas Spain, Katharine Towne, Mink Stole, Bud Cort. Megan's super normal suburban existence is filled with friends, pom-poms and rah-rah enthusiasm until her parents suspect that she may, in fact, be showing deviant tendencies. 86 min. DVD 556

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Butterfly Kiss (UK, 1995)

Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Cast: Amanda Plummer, Saskia Reeves, Paul Brown Freda Dowie, Des McAleer, Ricky Tomlinson. When unpredictable and dangerous Eunice falls for sad and solitary Miriam who is hard of hearing, they take to the roads of grimy England. When Eunice turns out to be a sociopathic killer, can Miriam save her before she herself is ruined? 90 min. DVD 3616

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By Hook or by Crook (2001)

Directed by Harry Dodge and Silas Howard. Cast: Silas Howard, Harry Dodge, Stanya Kahn, Carina Gia. Shy's a handsome small-town loner who dumps his diner job and thumbs to San Francisco in pursuit of a life of petty crime. Along the way, he stumbles into the off-kilter Valentine, who is on a quest to locate his birthmother. An unexpected friendship sparks as they steal and grift their way towards understanding themselves and the crazy world around them. 95 min. DVD 3063

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Cabaret. (1972)

Directed by Bob Fosse. Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey. Based on the musical play by Joe Masteroff, the play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten and Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories. An egocentric American girl, Sally Bowls (Liza Minnelli) dreams of becoming a star while working in a sleazy cabaret in Weimar-era Berlin. Michael York plays Sally's bisexual lover, Brian. 999:794

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Rodda, Arlene. "Cabaret: Utilizing the Film Medium to Create a Unique Adaptation." Literature/ Film Quarterly, vol. 22 no. 1. 1994. pp: 36-41.

La Cage Aux Folles. (France / Italy, 1978)

Directed by Edouard Molinaro. Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Claire Maurier, Remi Laurent, Carmen Scarpitti, Benny Luke, Luisa Maneri. A farce involving a flamboyant homosexual couple's attempt to appear to be conventional parents in front of the prospective in-laws of the son of one of the men. The first mainstream box office hit featuring gay central characters. DVD 782; VHS 999:976

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Sikov, Ed. "Homosexuals, Bandits, and Gangsters: Gay Images in La Cage aux Folles." Cineaste, vol. 11 no. 4. 1982. pp: 30-35.

Tavernier-Courbin, Jacqueline. "La Cage aux Folles as Comedy of Manners: From the Play to the Film." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor, vol. 7 no. 2. 1984 Fall-Winter. pp: 44-50.

La Cage aux Folles II (France / Italy, 1981)

Director, Marcello Danon. Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Marcel Bozzuffi, Paola Barboni, Giovanni Vettorazzo, Benny Luke. Continues the story of Albin and Renato, a gay couple who are proprieters of a transvestite nightclub. When Albin feels his attractiveness to Renato is waning, he sets out to make Renato jealous, with the disasterous yet hilarious result of embroiling them in a spy caper. 100 min. DVD 783

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El Calentito (Spain, 2005)

Directed by Chus Gutiérrez. Cast: Veronica Sanchez, Macarena Gomez, Juan Sanz, Ruth Diaz, Nuria Gonzalez. Sara gets involved in a political revolution in Spain when she joins an all-female, lesbian rock band at the underground Calentito nightclub. 89 min. DVD 8141

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La Captive (France / Belgium, 2000)

Directed by Chantal Akerman. Cast: Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovere, Aurore Clement. Simon is obsessed with Ariane and keeps her as his willing captive. She tolerates his elaborate desires,his endless interrogations and surveillance. Still Ariane is able to maintain her own reserve of privacy, her own mental and physical freedom. Although often affectionate to Simon, Ariane prefers women and so leads a double life. But this only magnifies Simon's pain until his obsessive desires culminate in devastation and tragedy. 118 min. DVD 2321

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Caravaggio. (UK, 1986)

Directed by Derek Jarman. Cast: Nigel Terry (Caravaggio) ; Sean Bean ; Garry Cooper ; Dexter Fletcher ; Spencer Leigh ; Tilda Swinton ; Nigel Davenport (Giustiniani) ; Robbie Coltrane (Scipione Borghese) ; Michael Gough (Cardinal del Monte). A film based on the life and art of Caravaggio, the greatest Italian post-Renaissance painter. Caravaggio was the 'enfant terrible' of Italian Art and his short life, marked with extremes of passion and moral and artistic radicalism, ended violently. 97 min. 999:2139

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The Celluloid Closet.

Footage from over 120 films shows the changing face of homosexuality (both male and female) in the movies from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Many noted actors, writers and commentators provide funny and insightful anecdotes regarding the history of the role of gay men and lesbians in the movies. Based on: Celluloid closet / Vito Russo (UCB Main PN1995.9.H55 R8 1987; UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H55 R8 1987) 102 min. DVD 706; Video/C 4717

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Chained Girls (1965)

Directed by Joseph P. Mawra. Who and what is a lesbian? Where can they be found? Are they happy with their lives? These are a few of the probing questions asked in this "expose" of NYC dykes and femmes. Special features: Lesbian-loving trailers; Sappho shorts: #1: Lash of the Lesbian, #2: Lesbian apartment party, #3: Lesbian neighbors, #4: She-man surprise, #5: Lesbian bikers, #6: Lesbian coffin sex, #7: Let's make Mary moan, #8: Outdoor lesbian love. 61 min. DVD 2536

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Un Chant d'Amour. (France, 1947)

Jean Genet's story of male prisoners and a prison guard expressing self love and love for each other. Male homosexual expression is shown together with masturbation, sadism, and fantasy. 28 min. DVD 5413; also on DVD 5797; vhs 999:1070

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Giles, Jane. The Cinema of Jean Genet: Un Chant d'amour / Jane Giles. London: BFI Publishing, 1991. (Main Stack PN1998.A3.G445 1991)

Adnum, Mark. "Un Chant d'amour." Senses of Cinema: An Online Film Journal Devoted to the Serious and Eclectic Discussion of Cinema. 27: (no pagination). 2003 July-Aug.

Barbaro, Fabrice. "Les idoles et la distance" (Un chant d'amour, Genet's only film) Cahiers du Cinema no435 Sept 1990. p. 74-5

Giles, Jane. "Un chant d'amour par Jean Genet" Artforum International v 26 Jan 1988. p. 102-6

Giles, Jane. The cinema of Jean Genet : Un chant d'amour / Jane Giles. London : BFI Publishing, 1991. (Main Stack PN1998.A3.G445 1991)

Oswald, Laura. "The Perversion of I/Eye in Un Chant d'amour." Enclitic, vol. 7 no. 2. 1983 Fall. pp: 106-115.

The Children's Hour. (1961)

Directed by William Wyler. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Fay Bainter, Karen Balkin. When a vindictive little girl is disciplined in an exclusive girl's school, the child twists an overheard comment into slander. She accuses her teachers of lesbianism--and her gullible grandmother spreads the gossip. Outraged, Karen and Martha fight back in court, but a child's lie is hard to disprove. Wyler's earlier screen adaptation of Hellman's play (These Three, 1936) skirted the issue of lesbianism completely by making the central "problem" an adulterous heterosexual love triange in which one teacher is accused of being in love with her best friend's fiance. From the play by Lillian Hellman. (The Children's Hour: UCB Main PS3515.E343 C5 1961; UCB Grad Svcs XMAC.H477.C49 Modern Authors Collection; UCB Moffitt PS3515.E343 A6 1972; PS3515.E343 F6) 109 min. DVD 8954; vhs 999:958

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Chinese Chocolate (Luo niao) (Canada, 1998)

Director Yan Cui. Cast: Diana Peng, Chirley Cui, Bo Z. Wang. Following their dreams to the West, two young Chinese women journey to Canada on the same plane in 1986. The two women quickly embark on a series of heterosexual relationships before discovering belatedly that they'd be happier with each other. 99 min. DVD 1746

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Chutney Popcorn (1999)

Directed by Nisha Ganatra. Cast: Mahdur Jaffrey, Sakina Jaffrey, Nick Chinlund, Jill Hennessy, Cara Buono, Ajay Naidu, Alisa Mast, Pricilla Lopez. Lisa and Reena are in love, but when Reena agrees to become a surrogate mother for her childless sister, the cultural divide between Reena's Indian family and their lesbian lifestyle hits home. A heartfelt comedy about the cultural struggles between immigrant parents and their Americanized children and the strength of family ties. 92min. DVD 800

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Coming Out (Denk bloß nicht ich heule) (East Germany, 1989)

Directed by Heiner Carow. Cast: Matthias Freihof, Dagmar Manzel, Dirk Kummer, Michael Gwisdek, Axel Wandtke. Against the background of the East German society's prejudice against homosexual relationships, Philip, a high school teacher with a pregnant girl friend, discovers he loves Matthias. This production, first and last DEFA feature film about homosexuality, had its premiere on the evening of the fall of the Berlin Wall. the 108 min. DVD 3759; also VHS 999:2571

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Common Ground (2000)

Directed by Donna Deitch. Cast: Edward Asner, Beau Bridges, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin, Margot Kidder, Dan Lauria, James LeGros, Brittany Murphy, Jason Priestley, Mimi Rogers, Helen Shaver, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Steven Weber. Three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy's," (written by Paula Vogel) a woman joins the Navy during the 1950's and discovers lesbianism. In "M. Roberts," (written by Terrence McNally) a teacher in a 1970's classroom struggles with his closeted gay status. In "Andy and Amos", (written by Harvey Fierstein) a father wrestles with his own emotional acceptance of a present day wedding between his son and another man. 104 min. 999:2877

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Costa Brava: (Family Album) (Spain, 1995)

Directed by Marta Balletbo-Coll. Cast: Marta Balletbo-Coll, Desi del Valle, Montserrat Gausachs, Josef Maria Brugues, Ramon Mari, Sergi Schaaff. Anna lives in Barcelona where she works as a tour guide to pay the bills. Her dream is to perform her monologue, Love thy neighbor, on tour with Another Stage, a gay and lesbian theatre company based in San Francisco. On one of her tours she meets Montserrat, a Jewish seismic engineer, and their adventures and misadventures shape this romantic comedy. 92 min. 999:3766

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Cruising (1980)

Directed by William Friedkin. Cast: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox, Don Scardino. Based on a series of grisly slaying that occurred in the sadomasochistic-heavy leather gay scene of Manhattan's West Village in the early 70's. Pacino plays an undercover cop assigned to penetrate this male S&M subculture. Dressed in black leather, gestapo cap and chains, he hopes to draw an attack from the psychotic killer by posing as a victim. 102 min. DVD 8990; vhs 999:1430

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The Crying Game. (UK / Japan, 1992)

Writer/director, Neil Jordan. Cast: Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker. A haunting, humorous and shocking romantic thriller about Irish terrorists in the Irish Republican Army, their hostage and the hostage's exotic girlfriend. 112 min. DVD 1177; vhs 999:1484

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Dakan (Destiny) (Guinea / France, 1977)

Directed by Mohamed Camara. Dakan is the first feature film on homosexuality from sub-Saharan Africa. When Sori and Manga tell their parents they are in love they try to "cure" their sons by separating them. Manga is even subjected to a traditional purification ceremony in his ancestral village. The two sons dutifully try to live heterosexual lives. Sori marries a village woman and Manga becomes engaged to a white woman but Manga and Sori inevitably reunite to live out their "destiny". 1997. 87 min. 999:1840

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Damned if You Don't (1987)

Directed by Su Friedrich. A vivid drama of a young nun fighting a loosing battle with her sexual desires. Full of intrigue and suspense, the film explores lesbianism among nuns combining experimental elements, among them the trial of a 17th century nun accused of lesbian relations and the deconstruction of the classic nun film "Black Narcissus." 42 min. DVD 4706; also VHS 999:3343

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Daughters of Lesbos (1968)

Directed by Peter Woodcock. The man-haters club meets weekly for great food, fine wine and wild sexual escapades. When one of the members of the club is assaulted by a peeping Tom, the others, led by Dominique, take the law into their own hands. Special features: Lesbian-loving trailers; Sappho shorts: #1: Lash of the Lesbian, #2: Lesbian apartment party, #3: Lesbian neighbors, #4: She-man surprise, #5: Lesbian bikers, #6: Lesbian coffin sex, #7: Let's make Mary moan, #8: Outdoor lesbian love. 62 min. DVD 2536

Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia) (Italy / France, 1971)

Directed by Luchino Visconti. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci, Marisa Berenson, Carole Andre, Bjorn Andresen, Silvana Mangano. In Venice on holiday, composer Gustav Aschenbach encounters a young Polish boy and becomes obsessed with him, a secret passion that will lead to his doom. 130 min. DVD 2976; vhs 999:1001

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The Delta (1997)

Directed by Ira Sachs. Cast: Shayne Gray, Thang Chan, Rachel Zan Huss, Colonious Davis. Set in Memphis, Tennessee the film focuses on Lincoln Bloom, an affluent white 17-year-old youth, whose surface straightness is a mask for an interest in gay cruising and peep-show sex. At an all-night movie house, Lincoln meets Minh, a twenty-something poor Amerasian immigrant, the son of an Afro-American soldier and a Vietnamese woman. Minh is openly gay and in love with Lincoln. They take a spur-of-the-moment trip down the Mississippi on Lincoln's father's cabin cruiser. But their romance is doomed because of the different ages, races, cultures and classes involved. 85 min. DVD 1325

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Der bewegte Mann (The Most Desired Man) (Germany, 1996)

Director, Sonke Wortmann. Cast: Til Schweiger, Katja Reimann, Joachim Krol, Rufus Beck. A comedy in which heterosexual Axel, having been thrown out by his wife for one more sexual escapade, ends up being taken in by two homosexuals, Norbert and Walter, who promptly begin competing for his favors. This leads to a number of comical misunderstandings, which play with heterosexual and homosexual stereotypes. PAL format. 93 min. 999:3115

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Desert Hearts.(1985)

Directed by Donna Deitch. Cast: Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers. It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranchowner's daughter. The emotions released by their developing intimacy, and Vivian's insecurities about her feelings towards Cay, are played out against a backdrop of rocky landscapes and country and western songs. [from Internet Movie Database] DVD 7641; vhs 999:1632

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Días de voda (Spain, 2002)

Director, Juan Pinzás. Cast: Javier Gurruchaga, Asuncion Balaguer, Comba Campoy, Ernesto Chao, Miguel Insua, Rosa Alvarez, Pilar Saavedra, Belen Constenia, Alfonso Agra. An ambitious writer uses sex to advance professionally, and becomes engaged to the daughter of a well established editor to further his career. His fiancee is the perfect bride awaiting her marriage day that she has dreamt of all her life, only to find herself suddenly faced with her partner's dark secret for everyone to see. 104 min. DVD 8607

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Different From the Others (Anders als die Anderen) (Germany, 1919)

Directed by Richard Oswald. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Karl Giese, Fritz Schulz, Reinhold Schunzel. Different from the others: A prosperous man encounters a sleazy blackmailer who discovers that he is gay. For its day, this film is an amazingly frank depiction of a homosexual relationship. 50 min. DVD 3308; vhs 999:2252

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Dog Day Afternoon. (1975)

Directed by Sidney Lumet. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, James Broderick, Charles Durning. Based upon true events, a New York man and two accomplices are besieged in a bank with all the bank employees after his attempt to rob enough money to pay for his male lover's sex change operation goes awry. What results is a two day media circus in which his private life and the humiliation of the police is laid bare for the whole city. (from Internet Movie Database) 125 min. DVD 6355; vhs 999:965

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Don't Tell Anyone (No se lo digas a nadie) (Spain / Peru, 1998)

Director, Francisco J. Lombaradi. Cast: Santiago Magill, Lucia Jimenez, Christian Meier, Carmen Elias, Hernan Romero, Giovanni Ciccia, Lita Baluarte. Based on the alleged autobiography of gay Peruvian talk show host Jaime Bayly, this is the story of Joaquin, a troubled youth from a well-to-do family in Peru, who must overcome the domineering influences of his macho, racist father and obsessively religious mother to discover his true sexual nature. 114 min. DVD 1358

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Doubt (Duda) (Philippines, 2003)

Directed by Crisaldo Pablo. Cast: Andoy Ranay, Paulo Gabriel, Raye Pumaloy, Jojo Nones, Larry Burns. Starring primarily nonprofessional actors and shot with a Sony VX camera, this is the first full length digital film produced in the Philippines. The story deals with the life of Chris, a young gay may who tries to settle down with one partner after a promiscuous sex life, but Chris' rather ironic jealousy and suspicions take a heavy toll on his life. 112 min. DVD 4357

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Drift (Canada, 2000)

Directed by Quentin Lee. Cast: R. T. Lee, Greyson Dayne, Desi del Valle, Sebastien Guy, T. Jerram Young, Jonathon Roessler. At his agent's party, Ryan, a young screenwriter and Joel, Ryan's boyfriend, meet Leo, an aspiring novelist and college student. When Ryan comes to believe that Leo is his soulmate he leaves Joel to get together with Leo and drifts into a love triangle filled with twists and surprises. 86 min. DVD 1261

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East Palace, West Palace (Dong gong xi gong) (China, 1997)

This film focuses on a young gay Chinese writer, A-Lan who, being attracted to a young policeman, manages to have himself interrogated for a whole night. His life-story which he tells during the interrogation reflects the general repression of the Chinese society. The policeman's attitude shifts from the initial revulsion to fascination and finally, to attraction. 90 min. DVD 8948; vhs 999:2202

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Edge of Seventeen

Director David Moreton. Cast: Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Andersen Gabrych, Stephanie McVay and Lea DeLaria. A gay teen finds out who he is and what he wants, who his friends are, and who loves him, in this tale set in middle America in the summer of 1984. Eric gets a summer job at an amusement park where he meets Rod. A puppy-love infatuation begins as Eric realizes that if he's falling in love with a male, he must be gay. 99 min. DVD 1377

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Edward II (UK, 1991)

Directed by Derek Jarman. Cast: Steve Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Kevin Collins, Jerome Flynn, John Lynch, Dudley Sutton, Annie Lennox. Edward II embraces the essential dramatic themes of passion, murder, and unrequited love. Steven Waddington plays the monarch as a man whose destiny hangs on his overpowering passion and lack of responsibility to the British throne. He rebuffs his wife, Isabella, lavishing affection on the handsome Gaveston -- a choice that ultimately seals his fate. Based on the play by Christopher Marlowe. 91 min. 999:671

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Ellen. The Complete Season Four

Cast: Ellen DeGeneres, Joely Fisher, David Anthony Higgins, Clea Lewis, Jeremy Piven. DeGeneres plays a thirty-something neurotic Los Angeles bookstore owner who manages to get through her daily follies with the help of her loyal friends. While confronting contemporary social issues, Ellen serves up laughs and offbeat goofiness. Season four includes the famous two-part episode in which Ellen comes out (The Puppy Episode). Vol. 1: Give me equity or give me death ; A deer head for Joe ; Splitsville, man ; The parent trap ; Looking out for number one ; The bubble gum incident ; Harold and Ellen ; Not so great expectations ; The pregnancy test -- v. 2: Kiss my bum ; Bowl, baby, bowl ; Fleas navidad ; Alone again...naturally ; Joe's kept secret ; Makin' whoopie ; Ellen unplugged ; Ellen's deaf comedy jam -- v. 3: Hello, Dalai ; Secrets & Ellen ; Reversal of misfortune ; The clip show patient ; The puppy episode (part 1) ; The puppy episode (Part 2) ; Hello muddah, hello faddah ; Moving on. Originally broadcast on television during the 1996-1997 season. DVD 6645

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Ethan Mao (Canada / USA, 2004)

Directed by Quentin Lee. Cast: un Hee Lee, Raymond Ma, Julia Nickson, Kevin Kleinberg, David Tran, Jerry Hernandez.takes him in. After being tipped off by his younger brother that his family is going on a day trip on Thanksgiving Day, Ethan asks Remigio for a ride to his family house to get some of his belongings. Ethan and Remigio break into Ethan's family house, but are caught in the act and have no choice other than to hold his parents hostage. In the following increasingly desperate hours, Ethan, his family and Remigio are forced to confront their unresolved conflicts between each other. As the tension between Ethan and his family escalates, their inner demons and family secrets unravel in this suspenseful drama. 87 min. DVD 5358

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Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

An overview of the history of gay and lesbian cinema, from Kenneth Anger's pioneering Fireworks (1947) to Ang Lee's Brokeback mountain (2005). Packed with interviews and an array of film clips from the genre, this documentary celebrates more than half a century of queer independent filmmaking. Special features: bonus interviews (Say your name and who you are, First gay film memories, Sex, Christine Vachon, Coming out). Produced and directed by Lisa Ades, Lesli Klainberg. c2005. 82 min. DVD 6633

Far From Heaven (2002)

Directed by Todd Haynes. Cast: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson, Viola Davis, James Rebhorn. Cathy (Julianne Moore) is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night she surprises her husband Frank (Dennis Quaid) kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond (Dennis Haysbert) - a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it. Despite Cathy and Frank's struggle to keep their marriage afloat, the reality of his homosexuality and her feelings for Raymond open a painful, if more honest, chapter in their lives. 107 min. DVD 1713

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Farewell My Concubine (Pa-wang pieh chi). (China / Hong Kong, 1993)

Directed by Chen Kaige. Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two gay male actors at the Peking Opera and of the woman who comes between them. Also an absorbing drama of the period in Chinese history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution. 157 min. DVD 191

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La Fate Ignoranti (His Secret Life, or, Ignorant Fairies) (Turkey, 2002)

Directed by Ferzan Ozpetek. Cast: Giorgio Gobbi, Cristiano Mancini, Marilena Paci, Stefano Accorsi. Antonia's husband is killed by a car and she learns he has been cheating on her with a man. Following her curiousity, she goes to see her husband's lover, Michele, and finds a huge apartment that he shares with gay and transgendered friends, leading her to a new world of love, friendship and sexuality. 106 min. DVD 2700

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Fearless Vampire Killers: Or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck. (USA / UK, 1967)

Directed by Roman Polanski. Cast: Jack MacGowran, Sharon Tate, Alfie Bass, Ferdy Mayne. Two academics on a trip to Transylvania to hunt vampires attempt to rescue a beautiful damsel in distress. Features a spectacularly campy flaming vampire ("...so viciously stereotyped that Polanski should have called his film Dracula's Hairdresser [Russo. The Celluloid Closet, p. 54) 999:1025

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Female Trouble (1974)

Directed by John Waters. Cast: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey. The story of Dawn Davenport - a headline-seeking criminal who grows from suburban brat into one of the most gruesome murderers of all time. Along the way this 325 pound transvestite checks out other jobs and ways of life. She becomes a mugger, prostitute and unwed mother before turning to murder. "Female Trouble" is a campy, bizarre, sadistic romp through society's outer fringe. 98 min. DDD 2222

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Fire (India / Canada, 1996)

Directed by Deepa Mehta. Cast: Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Kulbushan Kharbanda, Jaaved Jaaferi, Ranjit Chowdhry, Kushal Rekhi. A young woman accepts an arranged marriage into a traditional New Delhi family, but finds herself drawn to her sister-in-law. She falls in love for the first time and the fallout from their affair shakes everyone around her to the core. Banned in India, this film was the first to confront lesbianism in that country. 104 in. DVD 2052; vhs 999:2629

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First a Girl (UK, 1935)

Directed by Victor Saville. Cast: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Griffith Jones, Anna Lee, Alfred Drayton. A racy musical starring English songbird Jessie Matthews as a girl who leads a double life, pretending to be a boy who is a female impersonator at a famed Paris cabaret. She becomes an overnight sensation, but it also complicates her love life greatly. 93 min. 999:3144

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Flaming Creatures. (1963)

Directed by Jack Smith. Sensual underground classic film which pushed the limits of its day while surviving attempts to censor its content, including a series of police raids, arrests, and court battles. "It may seem tame by today's standards, but it stretched the limits of its day. Campy and lavishly designed in its experimentalism, [Smith's] best know film, includes characters which cavort in a setting reminiscent of the court of Ali Baba, with a mood suggestive of the paintings of Heironymous Bosch. The film is a quasi-documentary of Androgynes and Transvestites in which flaccid penises and bouncing breasts are so ambiguously equated as to disarm any distinction between male and female. In Flaming Creatures, Smith manages to combine the ornate imagination of his youth with the realities of his adult fantasy." (from distributor's catalog) Video/C 3258

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Flesh (aka Andy Warhol's Flesh) (1970)

Producer, Andy Warhol; writer/director, Paul Morrissey. Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Geraldine Smith, Patti D'Arbinville. Joe, a bisexual prostitute, takes to the streets and meets an artist with elaborate and hilarious theories of body worship, a couple of transvestites, a dumb ex-girlfriend, and a friend whose armpits have been burned by a flame thrower. 90 min. 999:975

The Fluffer (2001)

Directed by Richard Glatzer, Wash West. Cast: Scott Gurney, Michael Cunio, Roxanne Day, Taylor Negron, Richard Riehle, Deborah Harry. A young filmmaker's obsession with a "straight" gay porn star who is in it for the money, leads him to work with the actor as part of the film crew. 94 min. DVD 3760

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For a Lost Soldier (Voor een verloren soldaat) (Netherlands, 1992)

Directed by Roeland Kerbosch. Cast: Maarten Smit, Andrew Kelley, Jeroen Krabbe. A dramatization of the true story of a young boy (Dutch ballet star Rudi van Dantzig) who is passionately attracted to his handsome Canadian liberator during World War II. 92 min. DVD 7346

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Fox and His Friends (Faustrecht der Freiheit) (West Germany, 1975)

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karl-Heinz Bohm, Harry Baer. Fassbinder directs and stars as a gay lower-class carnival performer known as Fox the Talking Head, who strikes it rich by winning a lottery. His new found wealth attracts an upper-class lover, with whom he begins an ill-fated romance. German with English subtitles. 123 min. DVD 1195; vhs 999:1158

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Funeral Parade of Roses. (Bara no soretsu) (Japan, 1969)

Director: Toshio Matsumoto. Eddie and the transvestite Leda both have sexual designs on bar manager and drug dealer Gonda. Gonda fears Leda will expose him to the police if he does not give in to his advances. When Leda commits suicide, Eddie and Gonda are free to engage in their homosexual yearnings for each other. When Gonda discovers he is Eddie's father, he kills himself with a knife. A distraught Eddie uses the same knife to cut his own eyes. Special DVD features on DVD 8460: Full length audio commentary by the director Toshio Matsumoto ; video interview wih director Toshio Matsumoto ; promotional material gallery and original Japanese trailer ; 40-page book with new essays by Jim O'Rourke and Roland Domenig. 107 min. DVD 8460; DVD 3515

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Gasoline (Benzina) (Italy, 2001)

Directed by Monica Strambrini. Cast: Mariella Valentini, Chiara Conti, Marco Quaglia, Pietro Ragusa, Osvaldo Livio Alzari, Luigi Maria Burruano. Stella and Eleonora are from opposite ends of the social spectrum, but in love. When Eleonora's mom is killed by accident, the two must flee and dispose of the body in order to stay together. 90 min. DVD 4465

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Glen or Glenda? (1953)

Directed by Ed Wood. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Edward D. Wood, Jr., Dolores Fuller, Lyle Talbot, Timothy Farrell, Tommy Haynes. In his heart-felt cinematic debut, Edward D. Wood, Jr. himself stars under the pseudonym Daniel Davis as a young man with a dilemma: should he tell his lovely young fiancee (played by real-life girlfriend Dolores Fuller) about his burning desire to cross-dress? She has begun to notice articles of clothing missing from her closet; the suspense builds...what should he do? 68 min. DVD 7456

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Go Fish. (1994)

Directed by Rose Troche. Cast: V.S. Brodie, Guinevere Turner, T. Wendy McMillan, Migdalia Melendez. Kia, a professor, speculates with her students about who might be a lesbian in American society. She is involved with Evy and they would like Kia's roommate, Max, to meet a woman. Kia sets her up with Ely, an ex-student of hers who is in the process of terminating a long-distance relationship. They finally go out ona date and everyone insists on getting all the details. 999:1376

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Gods and Monsters (UK / USA, 1998)

Directed by Bill Condon. Cast: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave. It's 1957 and Hollywood horror director James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper Hannah hires handsome young gardener Clayton Boone, the openly gay director and the simple yardman develop an unlikely friendship. 106 min. 999:2598

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Goodbye Dragon Inn (Bu san) (Taiwan, 1989)

Director, Ming-liang Tsai. Cast: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Shih Chun, Tien Mao, Chao-jung Chen, Kuei-Mei Yang. A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a rainstorm inside a run-down movie theater that is screening a martial arts classic, King Hu's 1966 "Dragon Inn." Even with the rain bucketing down outside, it doesn't pull much of an audience -- and some of those who have turned up are less interested in the movie than in the possibility of meeting a stranger in the dark. 83 min. DVD 7348

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Greetings from Africa (1994)

Directed by Cheryl Dunye. In this short a lesbian, played by director Dunye, searches for someone to date. Then she meets L, a beautiful woman who leads her in and out of hot water. 8 min. 999:3345

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Grief (1993)

Directed by Richard Glatzer. Cast: Alexis Arquette, Jackie Beat, Craig Chester. A witty, gay-themed comedy about the infighting among staff members of an offbeat television show called "The Love Judge." 87 min. 999:217

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Haman: Il Bagno Turco (The Turkish Bath) (Italy / Turkey / Spain, 1995)

Directed and written by Ferzan Ozpetek. Francesco travels from Rome to Istanbul to claim his inheritance and discovers that it is a decaying turkish bath in the city's ancient quarters. He is so taken by life in the city that he decides to stay and restore the hamam, a decision which opens up his life to an array of powerful new emotions. 96 min. DVD 2698; PAL format VHS: 999:3046

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Happy Together (Cheun gwong tsa sit) (Hong Kong, 1997)

Directed by Wang Chia-wei. A film about a pair of Chinese gay lovers living out the waning days of their relationship as expatriates in Buenos Aires. Lusty tango bars, the salsa music of the La Boca sidewalks, and a hypnotic visit to the nearby Iguazu Falls gives further dimension to the tensions growing between the two men. 97 min. DVD 909; VHS 999:2159

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High Art (Canada / USA, 1998)

Director: Lisa Cholodenko. Cast: Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Gabriel Mann, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Sage. Lucy Berliner, a once-famous photographer, experiences a revitalized career when she meets Syd, a beautiful young assistant editor for a prestigious photography magazine. Withdrawn from the art world, Lucy is reawakened by Syd who offers her the hope of escaping her drug-filled world. Before Syd realizes it, she is drawn into Lucy's seductive and dangerous mix and is forced to make choices she never imagined. 103 min. DVD 3535

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Hold Me While I'm Naked (2000)

Director, George Kuchar. Cast: Donna Kerness, Hope Morris, Steve Packard, Andrea Lunin. Sad but funny look at sexual frustration and loneliness. A blending of Hollywood glamour and drama with all too real life. It goes beyond the erotic into the world of the hyper-neurotic. 15 min. 999:627

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I Don't Want to be a Man (Ich mochte kein Mann sein: A Comedy in Three Acts)(Germany, 1920)

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Ossi, a tomboy full of a fun-loving spirit, tired or being urged to behave like a "proper young lady," heads to a local men's store and has herself fitted for an evening suit. Soon she's out on the streets in top hat, white tie, and tails, her hair groomed like a boy's, she rides the street car, and goes to a ballroom where she's soon drinking champagne and smoking cigars, flirting with (and even kissing) her own guardian. 45 min. DVD 6815

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I Shot Andy Warhol. (1996)

Directed by Mary Harron. Starring Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Stephen Dorff, Lothaire Bluteau, Martha Plimpton, Anna Thompson. A docudrama of the cultural whirlwind of events surrounding Valerie Solanas' shooting of pop-art superstar Andy Warhol. Solanis arrived in mid- 60's New York City with a single-minded mission: to spread the word on female superiority. She became a fringe member of the psychedelic entourage surrounding Andy Warhol but when her feminist zeal grew too bizarre and violent, even for this avant-garde circle, the consequences were explosive. 104 min. DVD 8552; vhs 999:1600

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I, the Worst of All (Yo, la peor de todas) (Argentina, 1990)

Directed by Maria Luisa Bemberg. Cast: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Hector Alterio, Lautaro Murua, Alberto Segado, Franklin Caicedo. This historical drama tells the story of Juana Ines de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the local Vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to. 107 min. DVD 1718; vhs 999:1347

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Imagine Me and You (USA / UK / Germany, 2005)

Directed by Ol Parker. Cast: Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Matthew Goode, Darren Boyd, Anthony Head. A blushing bride's nuptials take a surprising turn at the altar, when an innocent glance between her and a female guest sparks a love at first sight romance. She is soon forced to choose between her husband and the girl of her dreams. 93 min. DVD 6143

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In a Year of Thirteen Moons (In Einem Jahr Mit 13 Monden)(West Germany, 1978)

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Eva Mattes. Erwin Weishaupt gets a sex change operation to please the boyfriend who no longer loves him. Now, as Elvira, he/she resents the change. 119 min. DVD 2538; vhs 999:1675

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In & Out (1997)

Directed by Frank Oz. Cast: Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Debbie Reynolds, Wilford Brimley, Bob Newhart & Tom Selleck. When a former student, now a moviestar tells the world during the Ocars that a high school teacher is gay, the man tries hard to assert his manliness. 93 min. 999:2014

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The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love.(1995)

Directed by Maria Maggenti. Cast: Laurel Holloman, Nicole Parker. A story of two teenagers who unexpectedly experience the excitement, surprise and romantic fantasy of first love. 94 min. 999:1333

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The Iron Ladies (Satree-lex) (Thailand, 2000)

Directed by Youngyooth Thongkonthun. Cast: Jessadaporn Pholdee, Sahapap Virakamin, Eckachai Buranapanit, Giorgio Maiocchi, Chaicharn Nimpoonsawas, Gokgorn Benjathikul, Siridhana Hongsopon. The true story of a Thai male volleyball team that competes in the national championships in 1996 with a team consisting mostly of gays, transsexuals, and transvestites. Explores issues that arise, but the team gradually melds into an impressive unit, emerging triumphant in match after match. 104 min. DVD 9253

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Je, Tu, Il, Elle (I, you, he, she) (France / Belgium, 1974)

Directed by Chantal Akerman. Julie stays in a virtually bare room writing a long love letter, with which she becomes increasingly frustrated. She hitchhikes along the Brussels highway, where she is picked up by a truck driver. Arriving at the apartment of her former lesbian lover, Julie spends the night but silently leaves the apartment next morning. 90 min. DVD 513; VHS 999:926

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Jeffrey (1995)

Directed by Christopher Ashley. Cast: Steven Weber, Patrick Stewart, Michael T. Weiss, Bryan Batt, Sigourney Weaver, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Najimy, Robert Klein, Christine Baranski, Nathan Lane. Disenchanted with the not-so-romantic side of safe sex, single and obsessive Jeffrey vows to become completely celibate. No sooner has he sworn off sex than he meets hunky, sensitive Steve. But just as passion starts to ignite, Steve reveals some earth-shattering information, leaving Jeffrey to choose between losing the man of his dreams or taking a risk on what might be true love. 94 min. DVD 1665

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The Killing of Sister George. (1969)

Director, Robert Aldrich; Cast: Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne, Ronald Fraser, Patricia Medina. George lives with her lover, Childie and plays a cheerful nurse in a BBC soap opera. When she finds out that her character is about to be killed off, George realizes that the only other job she can get is the voice of a cow in a children's television program. Her life begins to fall apart when Childie has an affair with a predatory television producer. 140 min. 999:2427

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Kiss of the Spider Woman. (Brazil / USA, 1985)

Directed by Hector Babenco. Cast: William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia BragaA homosexual and a politically active journalist share a prison cell in an unnamed South American country. Though they initially have nothing in common, a strong relationship between the cellmates develops. 119 min. 999:224

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Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)

Directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld. Cast: Jennifer Westfeldt, Heather Juergensen, Scott Cohen, Jackie Hoffman, Tovah Feldshuh. Fed up with her fruitless search for "Mr. Right" and tired of blind dates from hell, attractive journalist Jessica Stein whimsically responds to a classified ad--from Helen! Making and breaking new rules of dating as they go, the two women muddle through an earnest but hilarious courtship that blurs the lines between friendship and romantic love. 97 min. DVD 2543

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The L Word. (TV series)

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Lan Yu (China, Hong Kong, 2001)

Directed by Stanley Kwan. Cast: Hu Jun, Liu Ye, Su Jin. Chronicles the turbulent gay relationship between a closeted middle-aged businessman and a young college student amid the violent uprising of Tiananmen Square. 86 min. DVD 4316; or PAL format DVD 2791

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The Laramie Project (2002)

Directed by Moises Kaufman. Cast: Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Laura Linney, Clea Duvall, Peter Fonda, Janeane Garofalo, Amy Madigan, Camryn Manheim. In October 1998 a gay man, 21 year-old Matthew Shepard was found savagely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming. Based on true events this docu-drama examines a town forced to confront itself in the reflective glare of the national spotlight, responding with love, anger, sympathy, support, and defiance. 96 min. DVD 1343

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Late Bloomers (1996)

Directed by Julia Dyer. Cast: Connie Nelson, Dee Hennigan, Gary Carter, Lisa Peterson, Esteban Powell, Joe Nemmers. A romantic comedy in which high school basketball coach Dinah Groshardt falls for school secretary Carly Lumpkin, creating uproar from classroom to locker room and from the principal's office to the PTA. 104 min. DVD 1909

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Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Film.

Featuring: Cheryl Dunye, Rose Troche, Jennie Livingston, Monika Treut, Maria Maggenti, Su Friedrich, Heather MacDonald. Intimate conversations with lesbian film directors, including clips from their works, in which they explore their sexual identity, growing up gay, inspirations and techniques of filmaking, Hollywood vs. Indie and love and sex, on screen and off. 1997. 57 min. DVD 3615; also VHS Video/C 5431

Law of Desire (La Ley del Deseo) (Spain, 1987)

Directed by Pedro Almodovar. Cast: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas. Satire about a gay porn director, his transsexual brother (now a woman living with her daughter) and their various liaisons, romantic double-crossings and sexual confusions. 105 min. 999:1466

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Leather Boys (UK, 1963)

Directed by Sidney J. Furie. Dot and Reg, a pair of British high school sweethearts marry and quickly learn about the follies and hardships of adulthood. When the couple splits, Reg finds solace in the company of his irresponsible pal Pete, but comes to discover that even this carefree friendship is not without its complications. 105 min. 999:2582

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Lieve jongens (Dear Boys) (Netherlands, 1980)

Directed by Paul de Lussanet. Cast: Hugo Metsers, Hans Dagelet, Bill Van Dijk, Albert Mol. An exploration of the problem older homosexuals have in holding on to their younger lovers, as exemplified by the sexual fantasies of a middle-aged writer and the young men who dominate his life. 90 min. Video/C 999:3797

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Like it Never Was Before (Pensionat oskar) (Sweden / Denmark, 1992)

Directed by Susanne Bier. Cast: Loa Falkman, Stina Ekblad, Simon Norrthon, Sif Ruud, Ghita Norby. The Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class Swedish family with a house in the suburbs, a car and three children. By vacationing in a rented house by the sea, the hope is that the tension and anxieties which exist between the husband Rune and his wife will disappear. However, instead of spending time with his family, Rune finds himself attracted to a young man. 108 min. DVD 2474

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Living End. (1992)

Directed by Gregg Araki. Cast: Craig Gilmore, Mike Dytri. Focuses on the relationship between a pair of young, HIV-positive outcasts. 85 min. 999:1637

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Lola und Bilidikid (Lola + Billy the Kid) (Germany, 1999)

Director, Kutlug Ataman. Cast: Gandi Mukli, Erdal Yildiz, Baki Davrak, Inge Keller, Celal Perk. Murat from Turkey, living in Berlin Germany, slowly discovers his homosexuality. His older brother Osman wants him to finally lose his virginity in a heterosexual manner thus causing Murat to run away. In a bar, Murat meets a tranvestite, Lola, and also Bilidikid, who thinks Murat is enamoured with Lola. Eventually Lola is revealed as Murat's actual brother disowned by Osman years ago. 93 min. DVD 722

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Longtime Companion. (1990)

Directed by Norman Ren?. Cast: Stephen Caffrey, Patrick Cassidy, Brian Cousins, Bruce Davison, John Dossett, Mark Lamos, Dermot Mulroney, Mary-Louise Parker, Michael Schoeffling, and Campbell Scott. Drama concerning the AIDS crisis which focuses on a small group of friends from the time they first read about AIDS in the New York Times through the 1980's as they face the impact of the disease on themselves and their friends. 100 min. 999:1075

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Love and Death on Long Island (UK / Canada, 1996)

Directed by Richard Kwietniowski. Cast: John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Fiona Loewi, Sheila Hancock, Harvey Atkin, Gavin Grainger, Elizabeth Quinn, Maury Chaykin. A chance encounter with struggling B-movie star Ronnie Bostock opens up a whole new world to buttoned-up British author Giles De'Ath. Focuses on the genteel obsession of an older man for a younger man. 94 min. DVD 4749

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Love Ltd. (2000)

Directed by Jennifer Phang. Cast: Lynne Bolen, Deondray Gossett, Keisuke Hoashi, Michelle Ingkavet, Dennis Lau, Emil Lin. Dinner at the Lee household becomes heart-wrenching when a gay sister and brother each try to come out to their mother. A story about coming to terms with one's sexuality...a family's inability to communicate and its inevitable consequences. 24 min. Video/C MM1125

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Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)

Directed by Joe Mantello. Cast: John Glover, Stephen Spinella, Stephen Bogardus, John Benjamin Hickey, Justin Kirk, Randy Becker, Jason Alexander. Eight friends leave the city behind for three simple weekends of relaxation in the country. The host is a gay man and so are his seven guests. They love and hate, play and wrangle, kiss an carry on, are connubially devoted or brazenly promiscuous in this comic treatment of gay relationships. 120 min. 999:2016

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M Butterfly. (1993)

Director, David Cronenberg. Cast: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson. Inspired by a true story a French diplomat and a Beijing Opera star carry on a love affair over 20 years until the diplomat discovers he cannot believe anything about the beguiling singer. He learns she is a spy and that is not the only secret she hides. Based on the play by David Henry Hwang 101 min. 999:1115

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Macho Dancer (Philippines, 1988)

Director, Lino Brocka. Cast: Jacklyn Jose, Daniel Fernando, Princess Punzalan, Alan Paule. Abandoned by his American lover, a handsome filipino teenager from the mountains journeys to Manila in an effort to support his family. With a popular call boy as his mentor, Paul enters the glittering world of the "macho dancer" -- a world of male strippers, prostitution, drugs, sexual slavery, police corruption and murder. 136 min. 999:3520

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Mädchen in Uniform. (Germany, 1931)

Directed by Leontine Sagan. A girl at a strict boarding school for the daughters of Prussian army officers falls in love with one of the teachers. She is isolated from the rest of the students by the headmistress and is driven from her unhappiness to attempt suicide. A plot with strong lesbian subtexts--the infatuation of a sensitive young student for her sympathetic teacher. "One of the few films to have an inherently gay sensibility, it is also one of the few to be written, produced, and directed by women. Thus the film shows an understanding--missing from most films that touch on lesbian feelings--of the dynamic of women relating to women on their own terms." (Russo. The Celluloid Closet, pp. 56-59). The film was heavily censored upon its release in the US. 89 min. 999:350

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Mala Noche (Bad Night) (1983)

Directed by Gus Van Sant. Cast: Tim Streeter, Doug Cooeyate, Ray Monge. A romantic gay deadbeat finds he has a crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant. Unfortunately, the man speaks no English and finds him to be undesirable. Special features: New video interview with the Van Sant; Walt Curtis: "The peckerneck poet", a documentary about the author of the book "Mala Noche",directed by animator and Curtis friend Bill Plympton; storyboard gallery; original trailer, edited by Van Sant; plus, a new essay by film critic Dennis Lim. 78 min. DVD 9108

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Ein Mann wie Eva (A Man Like Eva) (West Germany, 1983)

Directed by Radu Gabrea. Cast: Eva Mattes, Lisa Kreuzer, Charles Regnier, Werner Stocker. Loosely based on the colorful, combustible life and career of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, this film stars actress Eva Mattes in male drag as an obsessive, sadomasochistic movie director. Eva is currently working on a filmization of Dumas' Lady of the Camelias, and in so doing mercilessly uses and abuses everyone in "his" cast and crew and succeeds in driving everyone crazy -- and at least one person to suicide. 92 min. 999:2988

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Maurice (UK, 1987)

Directed by James Ivory. Cast: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, Billie Whitelaw, Barry Foster, Judy Parfitt, Phoebe Nicholls, Patrick Godfrey, Mark Tandy, and Ben Kingsley. Set in pre-World War I England this film, based on the semi-aubiographical novel by Forster, concerns the coming of age of two young men who meet at Cambridge and fall in love. Maurice and Clive struggle with the desires of their hearts and the rigid constraints of British society. 100 min. DVD 9143; vhs 999:3486

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Mi Querida Señorita (Spain, 1972)

Directed by Jaime de Armiñán. In this romantic drama Lopez Vazquez plays the double role of a man and a woman (Juan/Adela). Adela, an old maid who spends all her time doing works of charity becomes engaged to a local businessman, but is disgusted by his advances. Disturbed by this, she seeks psychiatric help and the doctor tells her that she is, in fact, a man. Adela, horrified, cannot bear to return to her village so takes up life in Madrid as Juan. Her identification papers list her as a woman, and she must improvise in order to survive. In Spanish without titles. PAL format. 60 min. 999:1939

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Michael (Mikaël) (Germany, 1924)

Directed by Carl Th. Dreyer. Writers, Thea v. Harbou, Carl Th. Dreyer. Starring Walter Slezak (Michael), Benjamin Christensen, Nora Gregor. A great, aging artist succumbs to despair when the young model and pupil he adores leaves him for a woman. Although the story is discreetly played at a father/adopted son level on the surface, the homosexual subtext is quite clear in this early Dreyer film made in Germany. 92 min. DVD 3307; vhs 999:3466

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Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Directed by John Schlesinger. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Ruth White, Sylvia Miles, Barnard Hughes. A Texas "cowboy" takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services, but instead spends a hard winter looking after a dying derelict. Vito Russo has commented: When buddy films returned in the late Sixties, the presence onscreen of homosexual characters was a perfect way of saying, 'Oh, no, /this isn't what we mean at all.' Homosexuals drew suspicion away from the buddies--it was yardstick time again." (The Celluloid Closet, p. 80-83) DVD 5254; vhs 999:986

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Midnight Dancers (Sibak)(Philippines, 1994)

Director: Mel Chionglo. Cast: Alex Del Rosario, Gandong Cervantes, Lawrence David, Luis Cortes, Richard Cassity, Danny Ramos, John Mendoza, Leonard Manalansan. Banned in its native Philippines, explores the complicated lives of three brothers all working as exotic dancers and prostitutes in a Manila gay club. 118 min. DVD 3758

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The Most Desired Man (Der bewegte Mann) (Germany, 1996)

Director, Sonke Wortmann. Cast: Til Schweiger, Katja Reimann, Joachim Krol, Rufus Beck. A comedy in which heterosexual Axel, having been thrown out by his wife for one more sexual escapade, ends up being taken in by two homosexuals, Norbert and Walter, who promptly begin competing for his favors. This leads to a number of comical misunderstandings, which play with heterosexual and homosexual stereotypes PAL format. 93 min. 999:3115

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Murder and Murder(1996)

Directed by Yvonne Rainer. Cast: Joanna Merlin, Kathleen Chalfant, Catherine Kellner, Isa Thomas, Novella Nelson. Film begins with a 63-year-old woman, who, after being married, having a daughter and now a granddaughter, then living alone for 15 years (and seeming to like enters into a lesbian relationship with another woman. Other lesbian relationships are portrayed as well, some of which, as the title implies, deteriorate into murder. 113 min. DVD 4235; vhs 999:1978

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My Beautiful Laundrette (UK, 1986)

Directed by Stephen Frears. Cast: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day Lewis, Gordon Warnecke. Set in the Pakistani community in south London, the film focuses on two youths--Johnny, a working-class white, and Omar, a Pakistani. Together they operate a laundrette, which Omar inherits from his uncle. While Johnny looks upon the laundrette as a life line on which to salvage his self-respect, Omar sees it as just the beginning step on the road to riches. Based on Hanif's Kureishi novel (UCB Main PR6061.U68 M9 1996; PN1997 .M8871 1986) DVD 1635; vhs 999:431

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My Father Is Coming (Germany, 1990)

Directed by Monika Treut. Cast: Alfred Edel, Shelley Kastner, Annie Sprinkle, Mary Lou Graulau, Dominique Gaspar, Flora Gaspar, David Bronstein, Michael Massee, Fakir Musafar, Mario de Colombia. Vicky, an out of work German actress in New York City, finds out she is about to receive a visit from her Bavarian father who mistakenly believes that she is happy, successful and married. Vicky attempts to fool her father by persuading her gay male roommate to pose as her husband. Vicky's world quickly collapses when her father inadvertently lands a role in a prime-time television commercial, and begins to have his own sexual adventures. In the wake of her father's new-found pleasures, Vicky also begins new experiences, slipping into a lesbian affair and a relationship with a female-to-male transsexual. 81 min. 999:2890

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My Hustler (1965)

Directed by Andy Warhol. Cast: Paul America, Ed Hood, John MacDermott, Joseph Campbell, Genevieve Charbon, Dorothy Dean. Experimental film in which an aging "queen" on Fire Island has rented a weekend companion from "Dial-A-Hustler", only to compe