This tape is an exploration of my latent heterosexuality with porn star/performance artist Annie Sprinkle as instructor and sage. After assuaging my fears that I can have sex with a woman & still maintain my gay identity, Annie warms me up with some playful, sensual wrestling.

The narrator/filmmaker is Peter Adair (Word Is Out), and the disease is the HIV virus. Adair has asked 11 people — women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life — to share their stories.

From the roomy back seat of a vintage Cadillac, the captivating storyteller Jeffrey Strouth spontaneously recounts the adventures of his wild and creative life in his unique style, weaving a lurid tale filled with hilarious characters of every sort.

Marlon Riggs’ experimental music video politicizes the homoeroticism of African American men. With images — sensual, sexual, and defiant — and words intended to provoke, Anthem reasserts the “self-evident right” to life and liberty in an era of pervasive anti-gay, anti-Black backlash and hysterical cultural repression.

An early short film on the gay Black experience about young man figuring out just how to come out.

Half waking dream and half fiery polemic, The Garden was born of director Jarman’s rage over continued anti-gay discrimination and the sluggardly response to the AIDS crisis — he had been diagnosed HIV positive in 1988.

Max Taurus is a self-proclaimed detective. He roams the city in search of a murder case still to be solved or a crime to be prevented. An old, dilapidated house, over which the wrecking ball is hanging like a sword of Damocles, arouses his interest...

My Father Is Coming recounts the quirky assimilation of a German girl into New York's East Village culture. It's the story of Vicky, a waitress and frustrated actress, who despite a German accent, a series of disastrous auditions, and a checkered love life, still dreams of starring roles and a fulfilling sexual relationship.

Jim, a gay teacher in a London comprehensive school, lives the classic double life: straight days in school, gay nights in bars and discos. With each new pick-up the same tension and uncertainty arises: is there any­ thing more to gay life than the one night stand?

Bruce LaBruce, Toronto's underground homo film­maker extraordinaire, plays a punk hairdresser who picks up a cute young skinhead in the park and locks him up in his apartment in this cheap and dirty, sweet and charming, unabashedly erotic, and refreshingly unpretentious movie.

Banned for two years in France for its supposedly excessive attack on the Church, Jacques Rivette’s adaptation of Denis Diderot’s famous novel of eighteenth-century convent life became a cause célèbre.

An imaginative and intense short in which a young gay man explores his feelings leading up to the result of an HIV test.

The Salt Mines explores the intimate personal lives of Sara, Gigi, and Giovanna, three Latinx trans women who for years have lived on the streets of Manhattan supporting their drug addictions through sex work.

Wanda, a mysterious dominatrix, opens a gallery of S&M erotica. Being cruel is her profession while inventing traps is her specialty. Justine, the innocent American, has to learn that passion is just another illusion...

Strip Jack Naked starts out as an account of the making of Ron Peck's earlier Nighthawks, and ends as a compelling look back at growing up gay in London. It's a farewell note to England's last three decades — inked with humor, pol­itics, and a penchant for posing pouches.

Time Off is the first Israeli film to deal seriously with homosexuality in the military. Set at the outbreak of the 1982 Lebanese war, it is really the sentimental education of a young soldier who breaks away from the bravado of his comrades for an afternoon in Jerusalem.

Two men, Bryan and Brian, have a one-night stand. Afterwards instead of a quick exit, the two sit up all night and talk. Their epic conversation touches on sex, love, AIDS, abortion, bisexuality and other topics.

Frank is a German Luthansa steward who travels the world, taking photos of boys he has sex with — he's a collector. One hot night in his favorite city, Rio de Janeiro, Frank picks up Mario and takes him to his hotel. The morning after, Mario is gone, leaving only a chilling epitaph, written in lipstick, on the bathroom mirror, "Welcome to the AIDS club."

Voices from the Front, the first feature-length documentary on AIDS activism in America, makes clear the emotional and political effects of community activism using the voices of those directly engaged. It is a powerful distillation of pictures and words from events organized to change public consciousness