North America and Western Europe: Media Archive
Film and Television
- United States: Gay Identity Refracted in Multiple Voices (film)
- Canada: "Brown Like Me" short documentary captures the experiences of 6 queer South Asian youth (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
- United States: "Two Spirits" documentary examines the role of two spirit people in Navajo history andculture, focuses on the life and murder of two spirit teen Fred Martinez
- Denmark: Neo-Nazi gay romance wins at Rome film fest
- United States: "Youth Out Loud! II" Documentary addressing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Youth Issues in our schools
- Gran Canaria: 'La noria', de Telecinco, muestra escenas de sexo al aire libre en las dunas de Maspalom
- Serbia: Country's First Gay Film Fest Threatened, Canceled
- Canada: Vancouver Queer Film Festival features diverse films from Jordan, China, Russia and more
- France: New film looks at the ramifications of the homophobic murder of Francois Chenu
- United States: Films and Filmmakers at the Frameline SF International LGBT Film Festival
- United States: Sex Positive: New documentary explores tumultuous beginnings of HIV prevention activism for MSM in the US
- United States: New political documentary exposes closeted law makers who oppose LGBT rights
- United Kingdom: London's Gay Cinema Steps Into The Limelight
- United States: 'Pedro' tells story of Miami AIDS activist Pedro Zamora
- Germany: Cowboy wins Iris Prize 2008
- United States: DVD release for groundbreaking documentary about Jewish LGBT youth
- Nina's Heavenly Delights (UK, 2006, dir. Pratibha Parmar)
- Go West (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2005, dir. Ahmed Imamovic)
- Robin Griffiths—This anthology brings together a diverse range of innovative new essays that explore, for the first time, the provocative history of lesbian, gay and queer representation in British cinema. Through case studies of key films, performers, and issues, this timely collection maps the relationship between contemporary queer sexuality and its socio-historical, national and critical contexts.
- Queer Screen: A Screen Reader; Jackie Stacey & Sarah Street—Queer Screen: A Screen Reader brings together a selection of key articles on queer audio-visual cultures published over the past two decades in the internationally renowned journal, Screen, with a new introduction by Jackie Stacey and Sarah Street. This book considers a wide range of case studies including mainstream films as well as experimental audio-visual work.
- Inside Out: Expressions Of Gender And Sexuality (UK, dir. Flavia
Regaldo)
- The View From Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers
Edited by Matthew Hays—The history of gay and lesbian cinema is a storied one, and one that has become much larger in the post-Brokeback Mountain era. But the history of gay and lesbian filmmakers is a story all its own. In The View From Here, some of the world's leading queer film directors and screenwriters speak passionately and eloquently about the medium, and the challenges they face overcoming the demands of the Hollywood studio system and "the market" to create films that are entertaining, engaging, and truthful.
- The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas by Thomas Waugh— From pornography to autobiography, from the Cold War to the sexual revolution, from rural roots and mythologies to the queer meccas of Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal, The Romance of Transgression in Canada is a history of sexual representation on the large and small screen in English Canada and Quebec.
- Celluloid Gaze; Boze Hadleigh—Interviews with Sal Mineo, Rock Hudson, George Cukor, Luchino Visconti, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Cecil Beaton constitute this elucidating volume. All famous for working in the entertainment industry, these men also share common ground in the fact that they managed to, during their lifetimes, conceal their homosexuality from the public eye. Author Boze Hadleigh manages to pull frank and candid answers from his fascinating subjects.
- Now You See It; Richard Dyer—In this revised and updated new edition of Richad Dyer's groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, Dyer continues to spotlight both well-known and obscure films, as he discusses them in relation to to both film type and tradition and the sexual subculture in which it was made. Featuring an afterword by Julianne Pidduck, outlining developments in lesbian and gay cinema since 1990, including the rise of the "New Queer Cinema."
- He's All Man: Learning Masculinity, Gayness, and Love from American Movies; John M. Clun—Clum offers an energetic, intriguing, queer reading of both recent and past American movies.
- Criminal Desires: Jean Genet and Cinema; Jane Giles—Illustrated throughout, and featuring an introduction by acclaimed novelist and Genet biographer Edmund White, Criminal Desires is a compelling induction into Jean Genet's underworld of prisons, voyeurism and homosexual lust which starkly illuminates a fascinating zone of forbidden cinema.
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