AVANT-DRAG! (2024)
Ten drag artists in Greece are featured in director Fil Ieropoulos’ 2024 documentary AVANT-DRAG!
A Change of Sex (1979)
Julia Grant discusses her life as a transgender woman in 1979 in the BBC docuseries A CHANGE OF SEX. According to the BBC, this was the first mainstream series to document a person’s transition on British television.
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Cillian Murphy stars as Kitten, a young transgender woman seeking a place to call home while attempting to track down her birth mother, in Neil Jordan’s 2005 film BREAKFAST ON PLUTO.
CROSSING (2024)
Deniz Dumanlı is a trans activist and lawyer in acclaimed queer filmmaker Levan Akin’s 2024 drama CROSSING. Streaming now on MUBI!
Zdeněk Koubek Newsreel (1936)
Newsreel footage of transgender athlete Zdeněk Koubek, filmed during his trip to America, on August 12, 1936.
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.”
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.
GI Christine Returns Home (1953)
Christine Jorgensen talks to reporters in “G.I. CHRISTINE RETURNS HOME,” a 1953 British Pathé newsreel featuring the trans trailblazer when she returned to America after receiving her gender confirming surgery in Denmark.
Taking Woodstock (2009)
TAKING WOODSTOCK, Filmmaker Ang Lee’s 2009 adaptation of gay author Elliot Tiber’s 2007 memoir “Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life.”
All the Queen’s Men (2001)
Suzy Eddie Izzard stars as Tony Parker, a bisexual trans army Lieutenant, in the 2001 action-comedy war film ALL THE QUEEN’S MEN.
Saturday Church (2017)
Writer/director Damon Cardasis’ 2017 film SATURDAY CHURCH; a coming of age story, set in New York City, about a teenage boy who begins to build a new family of supportive queer and trans friends after facing rejection at home.
VEGAS IN SPACE (1991)
Phillip R. Ford and Doris Fish’s 1991 drag cult classic VEGAS IN SPACE.
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.