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Criterion Channel
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8.2
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The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.
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67
21
6.8
/750/
67
/37/
66
/20/
3.5
/587/

Riot (2018)
A look at the 1970s Gay Rights Movement in Australia through the eyes of dedicated activist Lance Gowland. As Lance deals with his sexuality, he must also juggle work, family and relationships.
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64
16
7.2
/79/
73
/8/
39
/4/
3.7
/1367/

Drawn to You (2019)
Young Emily didn’t see anything wrong with her drawing of two girls holding hands, but her mother saw otherwise and tore both the paper and her child’s heart in two. Little did they know, the drawings had come alive and are determined to reunite with one another across the vast bedroom of pages, no matter what risk comes their way. An adventurous and heartwarming tale, “Drawn to You” shows audiences both the struggles and joy that comes with being true to your heart, and not letting others tell you who to be.
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60
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Tiffany Blues (2025)
When a clumsy scooter crash ruins her ube latte, a quirky trans woman and a charming stranger stumble into love, proving that sometimes the best things happen after a little mess.
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8.4
/13/

A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint (2025)
Drag Race star Peppermint takes center stage in this up close and personal documentary about her journey with fame, identity, and the art of drag. Sharing her story alongside a close network of trans individuals, one of the world’s favorite drag performers takes you inside her rise from humble beginnings to her current reign as outspoken trailblazer for the trans community.
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49
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5.3
/121/
50
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35
/2/
3.0
/317/

The Activist (2025)
A young man infiltrates a radical neo-Nazi group to find the killer of his LGBT+ activist boyfriend.
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60
/1/

Trans (1983)
Trans is a 1982 Venezuelan documentary short film that offers an intimate look into the lives of a group of trans women and drag performers in Caracas, exploring their experiences in a society marked by transphobia and homophobia. Through interviews and performances, the documentary highlights the resilience and dignity of these women in the face of widespread discrimination and violence. Premiering at the Venezuelan National Cinematheque in 1982, Trans is considered a pioneering work in the representation of the trans community in Latin American cinema.
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80
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Your Call Is Important To Us (2023)
The only thing colder than a Canadian winter is Canadian bureaucracy (probably). Based on five real life stories, Romy Boutin St-Pierre and Joe Nadeau pay homage to the nation-wide stress headache of phone calls with the government in this surprising short.
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75
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8.0
/6/
70
/1/
3.8
/230/

Family Album (2024)
Through archive footage and images as well as interviews, the movie paints the portrait of a legendary trans womens' rights activist in Argentina. Like a family album to flip through, the narrative charts the ties solidarity and mutual aid create between people of the LGBTQI+ community and the long road to make the personal political, during the brutal 1980s in latin America.
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7.7
/22/

Fairview Park (2024)
Declan Flynn, a man struggling for self-acceptance, is preyed upon by a gang of self-described ‘Queer-bashers’ in Dublin, 1982. Based on the true story seen as a major catalyst for Ireland’s LGBTQ Pride movement.
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90
/1/

How I Became a Woman (2024)
In the first person, a documentary that shows us the experience of Vida Rodriguez, formerly Inocente Duke, in situations that the Trans Law favors: what happens when entering a sauna, locker room, or a public service (even in the Congress of Deputies). An experience that, with respect and large doses of humor, brings us face to face with a law and its difficulties in its implementation.
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6.8
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Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur (2024)
Sexual minorities were oppressed, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 criminalized homosexual men during the Nazi era – but the Nazis also discriminated against lesbians and trans people. They should be excluded from the national community. More than 50,000 queer people have been proven to have been persecuted. The documentary highlights three poignant fates in the context of Nazi terror.
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100
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Stolen House (2023)
"Stolen House" is a documentary short film that follows the migration story of Mark, a Russian photographer, and Katya, a Ukrainian artist, to Argentina. Through narrations, staged scenes, and archival material, fragments of their lives, feelings, and motivations are explored.
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7.6
/20/
100
/1/

Stan Behavior (2024)
A drag queen embarks on a quest for better workplace rights, but finds herself in a dicey situation when her new lawyer, a tone-deaf straight woman, is revealed to be a drag super fan.
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Kanopy
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6.3
/23/

Serving in Secret: Love, Country, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell (2023)
Tracing the U.S. military's long history of discrimination against the gay community and one couple's personal journey for acceptance.
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6.8
/13/
70
/1/

Conditional Desire (2023)
In a conformist society, Ahmed and Salma, marry for convenience to pursue their passions with secret lovers. "Conditional Desire" delves into identity, love, and authenticity amid societal constraints.
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Kanopy
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6.0
/16/

Beyond the Straight and Narrow (2023)
How did the rise of LGBTQ visibility, political progress, and digital technologies in the 2000s come together to offer the abundance of complex queer and transgender representations we see today? Media scholar Katherine Sender shows how LGBTQ visibility and political progress have combined with new digital media technologies and television platforms to produce an increasingly complex range of queer and transgender representations.
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6.8
/88/
63
/7/

Lesbians of Buenos Aires (2004)
This documentary tells the tale of Buenos Aires lesbians, focusing on three personal stories. A former militant woman who now devotes her time to feminine soccer; a young woman who is active so no girl has to go through what she went through and a lesbian mother who recounts how hostile the laws are regarding the rights of lesbian women. In spite of the difficulties their characters go through, the stories have a lot of humour, some soccer and a tour of the city.
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86
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7.7
/36/
100
/1/
100
/1/
3.5
/233/

Political Bodies (2022)
At a time when the far right is ascending to power around the world, the 2020 Brazilian municipal elections saw a surprising and unprecedented record of LGBT candidates. This film follows four young queer politicians during their electoral campaigns and reveals their struggle to affirm their rights to exist and be heard.
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Kanopy
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7.6
/64/
90
/1/
90
/1/

Art and Pep (2022)
Art Johnston and Pepe Peña are civil rights leaders whose life and love is a force behind LGBTQ+ equality in the heart of the country. Their iconic gay bar, Sidetrack, has helped fuel movements and create community for decades in Chicago's queer enclave. But, behind the business and their historic activism exists a love unlike any other.
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100
/1/

Sanwri - Love Beyond Gender (2022)
Bhanwar, a simpleton young man in the rural Rajasthan wants a bride for him but gets duped. Instead of a woman, he is married off to a transgender person – Sanwri. Having no resort Bhanwar and his uncle decide to keep Sanwri for their household work but fearing the social ostracization they also try to keep her actual identity a secret. Bhanwar and Sanwri eventually fall in love and fight to survive as a couple in a conservative, oppressive society where marriages are meant to take place only between a man and a woman, and traditional norms are more important than humanity.
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7.0
/81/
10
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Pursuit of Equality (2005)
By issuing marriage licenses to same gender couples, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom uproots the status quo and attempts to change the way the nation looks at life, love, and marriage.
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20
/1/

We're Here to Stay: The History of Hands Off Washington and the Politics of Hate in Washington State (1998)
In the 1990s, opponents of gay and lesbian rights put forward anti-gay initiatives patterned after Oregon's Measure 9. In response, supporters of gay and lesbian civil rights founded advocacy group Hands Off Washington. This documentary tells the story of Hands Off Washington, and of the struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights in Washington State.
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Hoopla
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9.5
/20/
100
/1/

Our Dad, Danielle (2024)
The extraordinary story of a world-renowned patent attorney in Sugar Land, Texas who, at 57, came out as a trans woman and is now navigating LGBTQ+ issues and fighting for trans rights in the vortex of Texas conservatism, as she and her family challenge the idea of what modern love looks like.
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78
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6.7
/78/
75
/2/
100
/1/
3.6
/211/

Voltrans (2014)
The documentary features the journey of the Voltrans initiative, a solidarity platform for trans men in Turkey.
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Kanopy
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6.5
/54/
60
/4/
52
/4/

My Name Is Violeta (2019)
Violeta leads a normal life in a well-off family, with loving parents, surrounded by everything the heart of an eleven-year-old girl might wish for. But she hasn’t always been the pretty girl she is today; she was born a boy. At age 6, she baffled her parents (the famous adult movie stars Nacho Vidal and Franceska Jaimes) when she told them she wanted to be called and dress as a girl. After the initial shock, they decided to give her all their support on the long and tough road that will lead to her becoming a woman someday. Violeta faces many challenges, medical (such as deciding whether or not to take hormone-blockers to stop the development of masculine features as soon as puberty kicks in) and legal (obtaining an ID card with her new name and gender). Later, she may consider getting a sex reassignment procedure, or the possibility of becoming a mother through adoption.
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52
/2/

Polonia: ¿zona libre de LGTBI? (2021)
Jon Sistiaga takes an immersive trip to Poland, a country divided into two zones: on the one hand, the urban and pro-European, and on the other, the rural and ultra-Catholic, still anchored in the traumas of the war and the post-war period. Is Poland a homophobic country or does it have a homophobic government? How does the European Union allow this situation?
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6.9
/39/
40
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10
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AYOR (2021)
In 1970, during the annual Dutch national commemoration of those fallen in World War II, two men try to make a statement against gay discrimination. In the moments before and after the incident, their doubt, fear and firm belief becomes clear.
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6.3
/36/
40
/3/

Bodies of Desire (2021)
Using Varsha Panikar's poetry series by the same name, it follows the journey of a poet as they rediscover love, passion, and identity after encountering their muse.
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10
/2/

Belonging (2020)
A parallel story of two generations of gay activism, 'Belonging' explores the impact and legacy of LGBTQI+ campaigner Rodney Croome through the lens of a road trip across the state by young Tasmanian Sam Watson. With archival footage and interviews with Sam and Rodney's families and friends, 'Belonging' examines Tasmania's journey from a place of exclusion to inclusion, from prejudice to acceptance, from hatred to embrace.
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61
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7.7
/40/
75
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25
/2/
3.5
/204/

Sex and Revolution (2021)
In the early ‘70s, in Argentina, a group of homosexuals decided to confront the status quo. With testimonies from its survivors as its denouncement source, Sex and Revolution brings back the voices of those who thought in order to be recognized as political actors in a society that wasn’t prepared for them.
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77
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6.6
/114/
60
/6/
90
/1/
100
/8/

Being BeBe (2021)
The intimate journey and unpublished backstory of BeBe Zahara Benet – a charismatic drag performer originally from Cameroon, and the very first winner of the culture-changing phenomenon, RuPaul’s Drag Race. With over a decade of unprecedented access, we observe BeBe’s struggles with celebrity, authenticity, success, and failure.
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65
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7.5
/193/
73
/8/
36
/5/
3.5
/484/

Cured (2020)
Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe gay women and men in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. And as long as they were “sick”, progress toward equality was impossible. This documentary chronicles the battle waged by a small group of activists who declared war against a formidable institution – and won a crucial victory in the modern movement for LGBTQIA+ equality.
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7.2
/61/
55
/2/
62
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The Spark: The Origins of Pride (2019)
A story of the LGBT struggle from the 1960s to the present, after the Stonewall riot sparked the militant action in New York that was to spread around the world. From San Francisco to Paris via Amsterdam, between the first Gay Pride, the election of Harvey Milk, the French "decriminalization", the AIDS epidemic and the first homosexual marriages, these few decades of struggle are embodied through numerous testimonies of actors and actresses of this revolution rainbow.
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Living Out Loud: Reflection of Trans Visibility (2024)
Facing the backlash on Transgender Day of Visibility, two transgender advocates, Josh and Riley, risk their safety to promote transgender visibility and welfare.
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Queer Egypt Under Attack (2023)
A BBC News investigation has revealed how violent criminal gangs are finding, abusing and extorting people from the LGBT community they meet online in Egypt. Using masking technology to hide the identities of the people he meets, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin navigates the complex online and real-life world of people who identify as queer and who have been repeatedly targeted by a gang with violent viral video humiliations and police arrests.
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Angustura
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The Sun Will Come Up, the Seasons Will Change (2025)
A political secretary visits their cousin in hopes to understand why certain policies threaten that family member's way of life.
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Out in the Middle of Nowhere (1994)
A short 1994 documentary that highlights the lives and experiences of a few LGBTQ+ residents of the Palouse. Filmed and narrated by Jeff Olson. Produced by the Latah/Nez Perce Voices for Human Rights. The film was digitized and provided by the Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.
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Underneath the Sequence, Rage: a History of Drag (2025)
The art of drag represents an artistic transformation where individuals create characters by amplifying gendered traits, challenging established social norms. This practice, known for its spectacular performances, has evolved through periods of repression and acceptance. Through humor and self-mockery, drag disrupts conventions and is deeply rooted in the history of LGBT+ movements. This documentary traces the history of Drag in France and around the world, from William Dorsey Swann—a young emancipated slave considered the first drag queen—to RuPaul, Nicky Doll, and Paloma. Featuring contributions from historians, anthropologists, and sociologists specialized in drag, as well as testimonies from drag artists who are shaping or have shaped this history.
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ALHIVE (2024)
One morning, Leonardo Galicia wakes up with a dull pain and an intense fever. After a pandemic experience that made him aware of his mortality, the last thing Leonardo expected was an HIV-reactive result.
 The illness caused by the virus takes hold of Leonardo's body and forces him to take an indefinite break while recovering in a hospital. There, he meets a mysterious young man, Augusto. By sharing common thoughts, hopes, and dreams, the two will find refuge in each other's arms.
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Ardenti Maleficis
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Entendidos (1982)
A documentary on the history of the gay magazine Entendidos, a pioneering publication on LGBTQ+ rights in Venezuela.
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KARAPATAN (2025)
In a school, a quiet one is always bullied student A classmate of his suddenly showed kindness, but because of this, he also started to be laughed at and judged by others, because of the wrong story that will destroy his classmate. Therefore his classmate was angry with him (bully).
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MEMORY-LIKE: An Oral History of QueerFest (2025)
The documentary focuses on the story of QueerFest, the first and only LGBTI+ film festival in Turkey, which has been organized in Ankara since 2011. Through interviews with the founders of QueerFest, volunteers and staff who have contributed to the festival, the 14-year journey of the festival and the culture and arts landscape shaped by Turkey's political climate are told. QueerFest's self-organizational connection with the Pink Life Association, its connection with the “lubunya” (queer community) of Ankara and the cultural capital it inherited from there, is transformed into a powerful political voice by developing the practice of mobilizing through art. Since 2017, the festival has continued its resistance against the bans and heavy censorship obstacles every year and opens a space for many queer people living in Turkey who are interested in the field of culture and art and want to produce in this sphere.
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Roze Bubbel (2024)
Two mothers lovingly raised Afra. Growing up felt like a safe pink bubble to her. But this bubble burst when she discovered the obstacles her parents had to overcome to have a child. For example, one mother did not exist legally for 12 years, and 30 years later this is still the reality for multi-parent families. When Afra heard this, she became determined to tell the story of these families. This documentary shows what happens to you when you fall outside the 'standard' picture of a family. In the film we follow Afra, and her two mothers, two multi-parent families, the experts Henny Bos (professor of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Youth), Sara Coster (board member Meer dan Gewenst and child wish coach) and former D66 member of parliament Lisa van Ginneken.
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Basquete das excluídas
Originating in Curitiba in 2013 and spreading to Portugal, Spain, Mexico and Brazil, “Basket das Excluídas” consists of an LGBTQIA+ group gathering to play basketball on a public court in the city. They vogue and resist with their bodies around the city, challenging norms and celebrating diversity while engaging in a game that expresses identity and a form of resistance.
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Trans & Pregnant (2024)
Two men undertake a thought-provoking journey to parenthood. Not by adoption or surrogacy, but by Frankie, a trans man, carrying their baby. Made with support from NZ on Air.


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