Through a campaign of satirical surprise attacks, an underground band of radical Black queer HIV+ activists and drag queens take to the streets of New York City to combat conservative politicians and government apathy towards AIDS.

A treasure of the 1990s New Queer Cinema, Ira Sachs’s incisive debut feature moodily evokes the wide space between dreams, desires, and fulfillment in post–Vietnam War America via the romance between Lincoln, an affluent white teenager, and Minh, the immigrant son of a poor Vietnamese woman and a Black GI.

Lilies, a stirring tale about tragic romance, jealousy and treachery, is an exuberant feast for the eyes, ears, heart and mind. Quebec, Spring 1952. Bishop Boilau has been called to jail to hear the confession of the sick Simon Doucet, who tells him of his first homosexual encounter in 1912.