Alley of the Tranny Boys is a groundbreaking film directed by SF activist/director Christopher Lee, which re-imagines sexual liberation for today’s outlaws, claiming an erotic space for transmasculine individuals.

Andy is a portrait of Reinke’s upstairs neighbour, Andy, which combines elements of amateur pornography with documentary portraiture/profile. The images are of Andy masturbating in his apartment, while in voice-over he describes in detail his decorating choices and rationale.

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.

A middle-aged museum guard locks eyes with a sexy young visitor, igniting a series of fantastical tableaux that wittily riff on race, sexual power dynamics, art history, gold lamé briefs, and Tom of Finland.

One of cinema’s great experiments, this first installment of the Orphic Trilogy stretches the medium to its limits in an effort to capture the poet’s obsession with the struggle between the forces of life and death.

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.

A beautifully ambiguous study of the nude in light and movement, this short silent film focuses on the dimly lit bodies of two women shot from Child’s distinctly non-male perspective.

Transsexual, butch, lesbian, fag, hermaphrodite, woman, man, he, she, it: Labels and pronouns slide, collide, and become useless in this chilling account of the triple-murder of gender­ ambiguous young Nebraskan Brandon Teena and two acquaintances. Filmmakers Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir admirably...

Inspired by the first-person documentaries of Ross McElwee, Dear Jesse is gay filmmaker Tim Kirkman’s filmed “letter” to the notoriously anti-gay Senator Jesse Helms. Shot during the 1996 senatorial campaign, the film features interviews with opponents and supporters

From Fireworks, which Kenneth Anger described as "all the explosive pyrotechnics of a dream" to Easy Garden, Anie Stanley's lyrical silent montage of carnivals and girls, this program traces five decades of experimental depictions of sexuality.

Destroying Angel relates two stories of illness and weaves them into a tapestry of family history, memory, and loss.

Mixing stop-motion animation with live action, Dirty Baby Does Fire Island tells the story of a naive baby doll named Dirty Baby who washes onto the shores of the Fire Island Pines. Dirty Baby experiences the decadent lifestyles of the community's inhabitants, learning all about sex, drugs and working out.

A dance film that depicts Black lesbian desire, featuring contemporary dancers Matima Hadi and Debra Floyd as well as original music by multi-instrumentalist Vicki Randle.

The first lesbian lovemaking film made by a lesbian, Dyketactics reveals Hammer’s aesthetic connecting sight and touch. 110 images in 4 minutes make this sensate film a "lesbian commercial."

East Palace, West Palace is an unconventional yet touching love story, a sensual portrayal of one man's struggle with himself, and a disturbing indictment of the state-sanctioned oppression of homosexuals in China.

An inquiry into what is pornographic. This film features images form Jean Genet's masterpiece, Un chant d'amour, along with images from gay male sex films in order to question what is "pornographic."

Flashback: Sandusky, Ohio, 1984, a kinder, gentler middle America. What better setting for director David Moreton's charming and poignant coming out piece, Edge of Seventeen?

A landmark of both experimental and queer filmmaking, Kenneth Anger’s film is a bizarre, disturbing dreamscape of violation, rape, and homoerotic sadomasochism.

Gently Down the Stream is constructed from fourteen dreams taken from eight years' worth of my journals. The text is scratched directly on to the film so that you hear your own voice as you read. The accompanying images of women, water, animals, and saints were chosen for their indirect but potent correspondence to the text.

Filmmaker Catherine Gund’s intimate portrait of performance artist Ron Athey charts his early career from redefining “go-go dancing” at the legendary Club Fuck! in Los Angeles to an international tour featuring his first major ensemble pieces, Martyrs and Saints, Four Scenes in a Harsh Life, and Deliverance.

Chico wakes up on his 30th birthday to the sound of his girlfriend singing "Happy Birthday" to him on his answering machine. When sexy boy João wakes up in bed next to him, he realizes that this is not his typical birthday.

This 11 minute homage to the male member shows its subject in the various stages of erection. The voice-over poem by James Broughton includes the line "This is the secret that will not stay hidden."

A young female intern (Radha Mitchell) at a small magazine company and a drug-addicted lesbian photographer (Ally Sheedy) slowly fall in love while exploiting each other to advance their respective careers.

The short classical film of Chantal Akerman, describes two girls in Brussels who run away from home. They chain smoke and obsessively repeat the words: “I’m hungry, I’m cold”. What does fate have in store for two young penniless women in the big city?