In 1990s Montana, teenager Cameron is sent to a conversion therapy center called God's Promise after getting caught with another girl. There, she bonds with fellow misfits and begins to question her own sexual identity.
Two Spirits is a documentary that delves into the life and brutal murder of Fred Martinez, a Navajo two-spirit person. It examines the complexities of gender identity and the challenges faced by Indigenous LGBTQ+ individuals in their communities.
"Before Homosexuals" is a prelude to the award-winning films, "Before Stonewall" and "After Stonewall", and together will form a trilogy. This trilogy will improve understanding and respect, while decreasing intolerance, discrimination, and violence towards gays and lesbians worldwide through proving the hypothesis that gays and lesbians have always existed in every culture throughout history and have made some of the most beautiful and powerful contributions to human history and art.
After finding an unusual website seeking funds to help reverse a sex change, the filmmaker sets out to explore the transgender community.
Actor, dancer, and choreographer, Chief-Moon is founder of the Coyote Arts Percussive Performance Association, and member of the Blackfoot Confederacy, member of the Blood Band. Through his art and his life, Chief-Moon's story is one of cultural survival. Themes of his dance creations begin with his people's traditional stories, his attachment to the land and his community, as well as the inner conflict he faces in existing within the Aboriginal culture and the wider community. The documentary also explores his identity as a First Nations two-spirited gay man and a father of three adopted children. His art and his life cross boundaries. Challenging the cultural construct is never easy; but Chief-Moon does.
Sherente Harris, a two-spirit genderqueer teenager from the Narragansett tribe in Rhode Island, boldly challenges the status quo of what it means to be a queer Indigenous person in a world bound by binary gender roles.
An unapologetic and realist exploration of sexual desire, the quest for financial stability, and the pursuit of agency over one's own body.
Standsinwater Sutherland is 2Spirit Cree living in Northern Ontario. Holding her eagle feather, she sits and tells her story: her quest to identity, how teachings learned along the way took her from the concrete jungle of Toronto back to her reservation and her commitment to help her community regain their culture and traditional ways.
When Muxe, a Two Spirit Indio, is invited to Europe to attend an ethnological exhibition he falls head over heels in love with Gonzo, a member of a provincial rock band. The two men become entangled in a turbulent adventure involving Cloud People and an ancient clay vase that is reputed to contain a secret message. But before they can overcome the barriers that their different cultures present and confess their love to each other they have a mystery to solve. A secret that once revealed has the power to change life on Earth forever.
A cross-section of Bay Area youth take viewers on a quest for the very history that has no name in their schools. Together, they open archival closets and talk with LGBTQ artists, activists, and pioneers. In a world where their queer history is still regularly erased, what will they discover?
Joey Criddle is a Two Spirit man fighting with other LGBTQ Native Americans to reclaim the place of honor that many two spirit people once held prior to colonization. The film follows Joey as he leads parallel lives—one as a co-director of the Two Spirit Society of Denver—and the other as a father attending the Mississippi wedding of his Pentecostal son. Joey’s words bridge the gap between the closeted person he was in Mississippi, and the Two Spirit activist he is today.
Pre-contact, a Two Spirit person named Woman Dress travels the Plains, gathering and sharing stories. Featuring archival images and dramatized re-enactments, this film shares a Cuthand family oral story, honouring and respecting Woman Dress without imposing colonial binaries on them.
A documentary film about one of Maryland's modern-day, non-reservation dwelling Indian tribes. The Piscataway people's ongoing struggle to retain and share their heritage frames the journey of Cryz - the two-spirit (LGBT) daughter of the Tribal Chairwoman - from rejection to acceptance of her leadership role in the tribe.
Follow a day in the life of a Christian lesbian couple, Rene Sugar and Kelly Smith and their children, to find out how they reconcile and live within a culture that is often prejudiced towards them. Through religious authorities, medical professionals, activists and others - we discover new truths about this ongoing debate from legal, historical, cultural, religious and mythological perspectives.
A management professor, about to turn 60, takes the plunge - a year in which Chris becomes Christa.
In 1850 deep in the western wilderness, women meet. Two-Spirit natures are revealed when worlds collide.
Dancer and fashion designer Tyler Jacobs asks us to tag along on his journey to reclaiming his two-spirit heritage and knowledge.
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