The seminal documentary on Black gay life, Emmy Award-winning director Marlon T. Riggs’ Tongues Untied uses poetry, personal testimony, rap, and performance (featuring poet Essex Hemphill and others), to describe the homophobia and racism that confront Black gay men.

Marlon Riggs’ experimental music video politicizes the homoeroticism of African American men.

An exploration of Black gay male desires and dreams, Affirmations starts with an affectionate, humorous confessional and moves on to a wish for empowerment and incorporation.

Marlon Riggs's final film debates Black identity, white critiques, sexism, patriarchy, homophobia, colorism, and cultural nationalism.

An unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender.

Literally marginalized as an Indigenous, queer, and trans person living on the outskirts of town, Uýra demands to be heard and seen, using exquisite transformations — often created from materials found in the nearby forest — to spread their message of environmental protection and promote LGTBQ+ rights.

Raw! Uncut! Video! chronicles the rise and fall of homegrown gay porn studio Palm Drive Video, and explores how a devoted couple helped battle a devastating health crisis by promoting kinky sex.

 A film about the extreme hardships, resilience, and beauty of Kashmir’s transgender community, and their growing movement for basic human rights.

Multi-talented performance artist Harriet “Harry” Dodge brings to life this innovative story of a butch dyke in San Francisco searching for love and self-discovery. This bold, lyrical film evolves from a lesbian lust story to an inventive documentary.

Through voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes, Jenni Olson’s classic short tells the melancholy story of a dyke pining over a one night stand with a straight girl.

Harvey Milk is resurrected in this poignant short, which sets an original audiotape he recorded — to be played in the event of his assassination — in a recreation of his Castro Street camera shop.

This cinematic essay offers up a primer on Junipero Serra’s Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, the pursuit of unavailable women, butch identity, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

This short documentary profiles the lives of three men of color who have undergone gender transition from female to male.

In this portrait of trans icon Kate Bornstein, the charming self-described “transdyke” takes the viewer on a journey into her life as a tattooed and pierced septuagenarian writer, actress, performance artist, cancer survivor, bon vivant.

Boy I Am profiles the journey of three trans men as they transition, uncovering their hopes and dreams in the process. This documentary opens up a dialogue between transgender communities and trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERF).

The majority of the victims of hate violence homicides in the United States are transgender women. Transgender people of color are six times more likely to experience physical violence from the police. Shelly “Treasure” Hillard, a young African American transwoman, died violently in 2011. She is one of many, and this is her story.

This experimental/performative short film celebrates the diversity of the Black diaspora in the Bay Area.

Beakman & Jok explores the complex and fascinating life of Bay Area artist, leather man, AIDS activist, and renowned children’s science educator Jok Church.

Unity Skateboarding, founded by Jeffrey Cheung and his partner Gabriel Ramirez in Oakland, seeks to create a safe space and visibility for queer skateboarders within the hetero-masculine mainstream skateboarding culture.

Ifé follows a day in the life of a black French lesbian in San Francisco. Ifé loves women but vows never to fall in love. As she extols the beauty of women in San Francisco, she slowly cruises the city's streets in her classic car.

Happy Birthday, Marsha! is a film about iconic transgender artist and activist, Marsha "Pay it No Mind" Johnson, and her life in the hours before she ignited the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City.

Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon were partners in love and political struggle for over fifty years, in this inspiring documentary which features incisive interviews, rare archival images, and warmhearted humor.

In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicized Vito Russo found his voice as a gay activist and critic of LGBTQ+ representation in the media.

A powerful documentation of the 1993 March on Washington with speeches by Rev. Jesse Jackson, RuPaul, Martina Navratilova, Eartha Kitt, and others.