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.

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.

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

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