Movies and TvShows featuring "queer-activism" theme.
You Me Her is a romantic comedy series that follows the story of a married couple who hires an escort to spice up their sex life. However, they end up falling in love with the escort, leading to a complicated polyamorous relationship between the three of them. The show explores themes of marriage, sexuality, and unconventional relationships.
Madonna celebrates her four-decade career in a special concert for over 1.6 million people at the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.
A Queer City is a documentary that takes an observational approach to explore the diverse and inclusive queer culture in a city in the United Kingdom. The film follows a group of friends who are involved in various aspects of the vibrant queer community, from drag performances to activism. It provides an intimate look into their lives and experiences, highlighting the importance of queer spaces and the struggles faced by the LGBTQ+ community. Through interviews and footage from gay pride events and other queer gatherings, the film showcases the resilience and creativity of the individuals who make up this vibrant subculture.
It's a hot summer day in June, 1969. Marsha throws herself a birthday party and dreams of performing at a club in town, but no one shows up. Sylvia, Marsha’s best friend, distraught from an unsuccessful introduction between her lover and her family, gets so stoned she forgets about the party. Marsha, Sylvia, and friends eventually meet at the Stonewall Inn to celebrate Marsha's birth. When the police arrive to raid the bar, Marsha and Sylvia are among the first to fight back.
The Beauty President is a documentary depicting the life and accomplishments of the first black LGBTQ+ president. Through interviews and archival footage, the film explores their journey as an activist and their groundbreaking role in politics. This thought-provoking documentary showcases their tireless efforts to fight for equality and justice.
Religious-based images and traditions permeate the lives of all the people who inhabit Seville. Historically, the city's mariquitas ("sissies") have also assimilated them in their childhood and, through them, have been creating their own encounter spaces and their own codes. Nowadays, new dissident identities continue to respond to them: they participate or distance themselves, they continue what exists or transform it. This film looks at these traditions from a perspective always relegated to the margins.
In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against the constant police operations that took place in São Paulo, which aimed to repress these groups. Based on Renan Quinalha's doctoral thesis, “Against morality and good customs: the sexual politics of the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1988)”, carried out by the Institute of International Relations, a series of four 5 minute videos about the birth of the LGBT movement during the Military Regime.
A story about the GLBTQ community at Gettysburg College: students and faculty, past and present. Enjoy a glimpse of their lives as they discuss everything from Coming Out to Dorm Drama to gBurg's RED HOT dating scene.
A documentary collage of sex worker activist interventions created from footage captured by HIV/AIDS activist at the Fifth International AIDS Conference in Montreal in 1989.
Nana (2015) is a biographical documentary that follows the life of a transgender woman as she navigates her identity and finds her true self. Through personal interviews and footage, the film highlights the challenges and triumphs she faces, providing an inspiring and thought-provoking exploration of queer activism and the transgender experience.
During the seventies, a mother becomes actively involved in the homosexual movement, fighting for LGBTQ+ rights and advocating for change.
Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to live unconventional lives in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan.
We Are Here is a thought-provoking documentary that delves into the intersection of religion, LGBTQ+ pride, and queer activism. Through compelling interviews and personal stories, the film highlights the experiences and struggles of individuals navigating their faith and sexual identity. It sheds light on the courageous efforts of those who challenge societal norms, promoting inclusivity and acceptance within religious communities.
This documentary discusses how LGBTIQA+ people experience the streets and nightlife of Istanbul in terms of a safe space through the unique, yet common experiences of queers from different backgrounds, and focuses especially on nightlife and the issue of safe space there, which is a very critical area for queers to exist as they are.
Biographical trans documentary film in which Iris Mozalar, a young artist, shares her diversity of being a bisexual transgender woman, the process of creating herself and her reflections against society.
Gay Positive is the story of one man trying to bring to attention the outdated ban on gay men donating blood in the United States of America. This documentary is meant to inform and educate people on this controversial issue. A woman who recently received her nursing degree presents facts that could suggest that in order to keep our blood supply clean and abundant, we must update our current screening process for potential donors. By taking the camera to the streets, Gay Positive captures the opinions of people from many walks of life regarding how they feel about the ban today. One of the questions posed was, "If you were in need of a blood transfusion and the donor was healthy, would it concern you if this generous individual was a gay male?" Recent history proves that when tragedy strikes, donor centers are often in short supply and struggle to meet demand. The ban forces organizations such as The Red Cross to reject willing, disease-free, healthy individuals.
A documentary about Néstor Perlongher. His life, his poems, and his activism in Argentina's Frente de Liberación Homosexual (homosexual liberation front).
Absolute pleasure as an identity. Alfonso de Sierra, Luis Escribano, Ramón Massa, Ces Martí and Enric Bents were “Els 5 QKs”, a group of amateur filmmakers who, in 1975, decided to get together and create a transgressive and courageous filmography breaking social, religious, and political boundaries; placing the faggot as leading role hero: proud of himself, shameless, beyond good and evil. In this documentary film, Luis Escribano and Ces Martí, only living members of the group, review, alongside some actors, their creative process and what those films, forgotten till now, meant to Barcelona during La Trancisión.
The documentary tells the story of Camille Cabral, Northeastern woman, transsexual, first Brazilian elected in France.
Baltimore-based drag queen Shaunda Leer (Scott Murdock) discusses why she's chosen to perform in drag for over ten years. She also recounts several stories about her family relationships and concerns about her physical safety as a member of the GLBTIQ community.