After Stonewall

A Film By John Scagliotti, Janet Baus & Dan Hunt Featuring Dorothy Allison, Michael Bronski, Rita Mae Brown, Barney Frank, Barbara Gittings, Arnie Kantrowitz, Larry Kramer, Craig Lucas, Armistead Maupin, Leslea Newman, Barbara Smith, and many more! Narrated by Melissa Etheridge In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the Gay Liberation Movement had begun. After Stonewall, the sequel to Before Stonewall, chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life from the riots at Stonewall to the end of the century. It captures the hard work, struggles, tragic defeats and exciting victories experienced since them. It explores how AIDS literally changed the direction of the movement.

Bedrooms & Hallways

Directed by Rose Troche - Leo and Darren are two gay roommates living in London, each single and pursuing romantic happiness. While Darren strikes up a relationship with real estate agent and sex-fiend Jeremy, Leo joins a New Age men's therapy group and promptly develops a crush on fellow member Brendan - who is recently separated from his longtime girlfriend Sally! Director Rose Troche ("Go Fish", "The L Word") and a cast of actors including Kevin McKidd (Trainspotting), Simon Callow (Shakespeare In Love), Tony Award winner Jennifer Ehle (Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing), and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) have created a refreshing and thoroughly charming film that examines the trials and tribulations of lust and love. DVD Format

A Bigger Splash

A Film by Jack Hazan 1971: the artist David Hockney is well on his way to art world super-stardom. Filmmaker Jack Hazan, camera rolling, follows Hockney from London to New York to Los Angeles - capturing the artist as he struggles to create what would prove to be some of his most enduring works: those featuring Hockney's model and lover, Peter Schlesinger. Straddling the boundary between documentary and fiction, A BIGGER SPLASH tells the story of Hockney's breakup with Schlesinger and its effect on Hockney, his work, and his close circle of friends. Originally banned for a notorious scene of homosexual intimacy, this award-winning film, "at once precise and dreamlike," is a unique document of a time and place, a lifestyle, and the artistic process, unlike anything made before or since. “A unique, astonishing feat. Not quite like anything else in the cinema!” –THE LONDON TIMES (UK) color, DVD Format

Alley Cats, The

A Film by Radley Metzger The Swinging Sixties have never looked so sexy, fun and erotic as in Radley Metzger's second solo feature The Alley Cats! When Leslie, a member of Europe's wealthy swinging set, feels ignored by her fiancee Logan (who is in the midst of a tempestuous affair with Leslie's friend Agnes) she decides to do some swinging herself. Her first lover, the suave, debonair Christian, pleases her greatly, but is soon called away on business. Frustrated, Leslie responds to the advances of Irena, a beautiful lesbian socialite. Soon she must choose between her fiancee Logan and her awakened lesbian feelings. “A surreal cocktail of 60s eroti-kitsch!” -VIDEO WATCHDOG color DVD Format

Silent Waters

A film by Sabiha Sumar color, DVD Format Silent Waters is set in 1979 in Pakistan, when General Zia-ul-Haq took control of the country and stoked the fires of Islamic nationalism. Ayesha, a Muslim woman who gets by on her late husband’s pension and by teaching young girls the Koran, invests her hopes in her beloved son Saleem. But when Saleem takes up with a group of Islamic fundamentalists just as a group of Sikh pilgrims come to town, Ayesha’s haunted past turns her present life upside down. DVD Special Features Q&A with Human Rights Expert Smita Narula • Film Notes by Human Rights Watch • Director’s Statement • Director’s Biography • Trailer Gallery

Boyfriends

A Film by Neil Hunter & Tom Hunsinger Three gay male couples, each at varying stages of couplehood, converge on a beautiful English country house for a supposedly relaxing Easter weekend. What ensues is a witty exploration of gay relationships in the 90's. "A fabulous date movie! How refreshing to see a film about a group of gay men who are not coping with anything except one another!" Stonewall Journal With special bonus film Achilles From the Academy Award-nominated animator comes the bold tale of the erotic relationship between the great warrior Achilles and his young soldier lover, Patroclus. Narrated by Derek Jacobi and featuring Purves' strikingly beautiful animation. color, 1996 DVD Format

Butterfly Kiss

A Film by Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People) Eunice (Amanda Plummer) and Miriam (Saskia Reeves) are a pair of unlikely lovers on a lethal road trip through Britain. Eunice, an unpredictable social outcast, one day meets Miriam, a beautiful yet withdrawn gas station attendant, and before long the two are on the road and in love. Even when Eunice starts murdering horny truckers and pesky salesmen, Miriam believes she can save her friend. The question is, can Miriam make Eunice good before Eunice makes Miriam bad? "An Icily Comic Powerhouse Film!" -Cosmopolitan color, 1995 DVD Format

First Love and Other Pains & One of Them

Two Award-Winning Gay Short Films In First Love and Other Pains, a Hong Kong college student is smitten with his English professor, an older frustrated British playwright. Their common love of great literature leads both men into an erotic affair - the tenuous beginnings of a romance spanning two different worlds. From the co-directors of the camp hit Desperate Remedies comes One Of Them. Set in the 1960's, two gay teens grapping with their mixed-up emotions and emerging sexuality strike up a friendship fortified by frank talk about fashion design and ogling cute boys, all to make the taunts and boredom of small-town life almost bearable. color, DVD Format

Fluffer, The

A Film by Wash West & Richard Glatzer Johnny Rebel is the stuff dreams are made of: a chiseled Adonis and the biggest star in gay porn - even though he is straight. The fact that he's "gay-for-pay" matters little to Julie, his lap-dancer girlfriend who dreams of having his children. It matters even less to Johnny himself, who lives for the money, the drugs and the attention...from both women and men. But for Sean, a young filmmaker whose obsession with Johnny Rebel leads him to become his cameraman, and then his "fluffer," Johnny's slippery sexuality is a source of both frustration and intense desire. In Los Angeles, the city of dreams, you should watch what you wish for. "A provocative and witty view of obsession, submission and the sex industry." -Dallas Morning News "Buried treasure! One of the best movies this year!" -Premiere Magazine color DVD Format