We've gathered LGBTQ history, culture, and narrative films and movies available digitally through the UNCSA Library in honor of Pride Month and beyond!
This film gives voice to communities of Black gay men, presenting their cultures and perspectives on the world as they confront racism, homophobia, and marginalization. It has been embraced by Black gay audiences for its authentic representation of style, and culture, as well its fierce response to oppression.
This documentary centers around Cuba's El Mejunje de Silverio cultural center. El Mejunje is an LGBTQ friendly community center and rock music venue, creating a colorful melting pot of guests and artists!
An illuminating and compassionate look at the world of transgender identity, as seen through portraits of some of San Francisco's leading gender mixers.
Stonewall Uprising explores the dramatic events that launched a worldwide civil rights movement. When police raided a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn, on June 28, 1969, gay men and women did something they had not done before—they fought back. As the streets of New York erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations, the collective anger announced that the gay rights movement had arrived.
This critically acclaimed PBS documentary is an uplifting collection of unique, transformative stories and inspiring personal narratives told through the lens of the country's most prominent LGBT figures and pioneers, as well as many average, yet extraordinary, citizens from gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities.
This award-winning documentary boldly examines the controversial and challenging issues facing African American communities on gay civil rights, campaigns for/against marriage equality and in particular the role of faith institutions.
In the first part of Tony Kushner's epic, set in 1980's New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer's marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls. Other characters include the infamous McCarthy-ite lawyer Roy Cohn, Ethel Rosenberg, a former drag queen who works as a nurse, and an angel.
The second half of Angels in America, Perestroika, steers the characters introduced in Millennium Approaches from the opportunistic eighties to a new sense of community in the nineties.
On the eve of their graduation, two academic superstars and best friends realize they should've worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night.
Therese Belivet spots the beautiful, elegant Carol perusing the doll displays in a 1950s Manhattan department store. The two women develop a fast bond that becomes a love with complicated consequences.
A gender expansive punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover and band-mate who stole her songs.
A look at three defining chapters in the life of Chiron, a young black man growing up in Miami. His epic journey to manhood is guided by the kindness, support and love of the community that helps raise him.
A dark-haired woman is left amnesiac after a car crash. She wanders the streets of Los Angeles in a daze before taking refuge in an apartment. There she is discovered by Betty, a wholesome Midwestern blonde who has come to the City of Angels seeking fame as an actress. Together, the two attempt to solve the mystery of Rita's true identity.
Fearing it would compromise his career, lawyer Andrew Beckett hides his homosexuality and HIV status at a powerful Philadelphia law firm. But his secret is exposed when a colleague spots the illness's telltale lesions. Fired shortly afterwards, Beckett resolves to sue for discrimination, teaming up with Joe Miller, the only lawyer willing to help.