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BEEFCAKE (1998)

Queer filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald’s 1998 docudrama BEEFCAKE looks at the life and work of pioneering gay photographer Bob Mizer.

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LEAVING METROPOLIS (2002)

Queer Canadian writer/director Brad Fraser’s 2002 drama LEAVING METROPOLIS is an adaptation of his 1994 hit play “Poor Super Man.”

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STONEWALL (1995)

The 1995 film STONEWALL blends fact and fiction in its exploration of the events leading up to June 28th, 1969. Screenwriter Rikki Beadle-Blair and the film’s director, Nigel Finch, used author/historian Martin Duberman’s 1994 book “Stonewall” as a guide when crafting their story.

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A Queer Romance (2020)

Historian Shane Brown’s 2020 documentary “A Queer Romance: Gay Characters and Male Bonding in Early Film (silent film and pre-code),” based on his book “Queer Sexualities in Early Film: Cinema and Male-Male Intimacy.”

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BEHIND EVERY GOOD MAN (1967)

In the 1967 short film BEHIND EVERY GOOD MAN, gay director Nikolai Ursin shows a day in the life of an unnamed Black transgender woman as she shops, walks the streets of Los Angeles, flirts with men, and later listens to pop music while getting ready for a date.

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