Research Guides: LGBTQ Studies: Videos

LGBT History

After Stonewall from the Riots to the millennium by John Scagliotti 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. Chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life from the riots at Stonewall to the end of the century. Captures the hard work, struggles, tragic defeats and exciting victories experienced since then. It explores how AIDS literally changed the direction of the movement.
Call Number: Video DVD 13911
Publication Date: 2005
Anders als die Andern by Richard Oswald A prosperous man encounters a sleazy blackmailer who discovers that he is gay. Released in 1919, this film is an amazingly frank depiction of a homosexual relationship. Banned at the time of its release, later burned by the Nazis, the film was believed lost for more than forty years. Silent with English subtitles.
Call Number: Video DVD 13180
Publication Date: 2004
Kinsey by PBS Home Video Kinsey was a scientist whose repressed childhood, personal struggles and obsessive nature would propel him to conduct the first full-scale study of sexual behavior, and break through America’s silence on human sexuality.
Call Number: Video DVD 13906
Publication Date: 2005
Proteus by First Run Features A fact-based interracial gay love story of two men incarcerated in the infamous South African Robin Island prison in the 18th century. Claas Blank, a Koi herder was unjustly imprisoned for stealing cattle. Rijkhaart Jacobsz, a withdrawn Dutch sailor, was imprisoned for the crime of homosexuality. The two were placed on trial for sodomy and the film is based partly on court transcripts from the time.
Publication Date: 2004
Stonewall by Christine Vachon This musical follows the story of Matty, a small-town hustler who finds himself in the middle of the gay liberation movement and the Stonewall Riots in New York City.
Call Number: Video DVD 13907
Publication Date: 2008

LGBT Rights

Anders als die Andern by Richard Oswald A prosperous man encounters a sleazy blackmailer who discovers that he is gay. Released in 1919, this film is an amazingly frank depiction of a homosexual relationship. Banned at the time of its release, later burned by the Nazis, the film was believed lost for more than forty years. Silent with English subtitles.
Call Number: Video DVD 13180
Publication Date: 2004
Before Stonewall the making of a gay and lesbian community by Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti, Greta Schiller A social history of homosexuals in America from the 1920s to 1969, showing how this group has moved from a secret shame to the status of a publicly viable minority group. Tells how a group consciousness coalesced after the 1969 police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, and the three-day riot that followed gained them national publicity and the birth of the gay movement.
Call Number: Videocassette 5892
Publication Date: 1986
For love and for life the 1987 march on Washington for lesbian and gay rights by Moonforce Media Documents the Oct. 11, 1987 march for freedom, justice and life by a half million lesbians and gay men.
Call Number: Videocassette 5896
Publication Date: 1989
Gay bashing or self-defense? Three marines on trial by Courtroom Television Network Trial of three marines accused of beating men at a gay bar in North Carolina.
Call Number: Videotape KF224.C68 H86 1993
Publication Date: 1993
The Laramie project by Moisés Kaufman In October 1998, 21 year-old Matthew Shepard was found savagely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming. This film is a dramatization of a town forced to confront itself in the reflective glare of the national spotlight, responding with love, anger, sympathy, support, and defiance.
Call Number: Video DVD 11727
Publication Date: 2002
Out at work a documentary by ami Gold, Kelly Anderson Documents the lives of three gay workers from 1991 to 1996. One is a lesbian who became politically active after being fired from Cracker Barrel restaurant in Georgia. One is a gay man who worked with his union to fight harassment in an auto factory in Detroit. One is a New York Public Library employee who sought health benefits for his partner.
Call Number: Videotape HD6285.5.U6 A5 1996
Publication Date: 2009
The question of equality by Isaac Julien Library has: pt.1-pt.4 Using archival footage and interviews, this video set documents the hard-fought gains and heartbreaking losses in the struggle for gay and lesbian equality.
Call Number: Videocassette 7305
Publication Date: c1995
SIS the Perry Watkins story : gays in the military by NewsCart Explores the issue of gays in the military, focusing on the story of Perry Watkins who served fifteen years in the U.S. Army as an openly gay man before being discharged under the provisions banning homosexuals from serving in the Armed Forces. After a long legal battle to get reinstated, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor.
Call Number: Videocassette 8744
Publication Date: 1994
Stonewall 25 global voices of pride and protest by In The Life and WNYC-TV A celebration of 25 years of gay and lesbian history including a visit to the sight of the Stonewall gay bar and footage from the Gay Games.
Call Number: Videocassette 6851
Publication Date: 1994
The times of Harvey Milk by Rovert Epstein and Richard Schmiechen Documentary about the life and career of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to political office in California. Through television news footage and interviews, follows him from his early days as a Castro Street businessman to his election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. One year later, Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were shot and killed by Dan White, a former San Francisco fireman. Relates these events to the ongoing movement for gay rights in the United States.
Call Number: Video DVD 15341
ISBN: 9781567303506
Publication Date: 2004

General

A Conversation with Brian McNaught on being gay by TRB Productions Author, counselor, and lecturer Brian McNaught dispels myths about homosexuality. He talks about growing up gay in a straight world and discusses such topics as Bible-based bigotry, stereotypes, transvestism, transexualism, and AIDS.
Call Number: Videocassette 6126
Publication Date: 1986
Dealing with difference opening dialogue about lesbian, gay and straight issues Discusses life issues and concerns for gays and lesbians in school communities. Shows public debate around LGBT issues in school communities for all students.
Call Number: Videocassette 12208
The Female closet by Alice Austen, Hannah Höch, Nicole Eisenman Explores the life and works of three women artists: Alice Austen, a well-to-do American woman of the Victorian era, who took up photography; Hannah Ho¨ch, a German artist who was part of the Dada movement of the 1920's; and Nicole Eisenman, an American graphic artist of the 1990's. Explores their lesbianism and how each has or has not been able to deal with lesbian themes in their work.
Call Number: Video cassette 10743
Publication Date: 1998
Finding our way men talk about their sexuality Series of discussions at a weekend retreat among twelve men (heterosexual, gay & bisexual) about topics such as intimacy, homosexuality, AIDS, sex and aging, and anxiety about "sexual performance".
Call Number: Videocassette 6244
Gay Games IV from A to Q
Call Number: Video cassette 6807
It's elementary talking about gay issues in school An exploration of what happens when experienced teachers talk to their students about lesbians and gay men. Students at six elementary and middle schools are asked to consider issues related to homosexuality and anti-gay prejudice. Presents footage of classroom activities and discussions with students exploring questions and issues presented to them by teachers and guest lecturers who come into their classes. Discusses school-wide presentations, activity-days, and how these events affect faculty, parents and teachers.
Call Number: Videocassette 8501
Looking for a space lesbians & gay men in Cuba = Buscando un espacio: los homosexuales en Cuba Examines the treatment of lesbians and gay men in Cuba from the early years of the Castro Revolution to the present. Through interviews with several gay Cubans, this film gives the perspectives of current residents of Cuba on questions of political ideology and sexual identity.
Call Number: Videocassette 7983
Our brothers, our sons Documentary film about unsafe sex (called "barebacking"); including interviews.
Call Number: Videocassette 10547
Out! making schools safe for gay teens Shows how to combat homophobia through the sensitization of every member of a school community. The first part is intended for staff and features interviews with teachers and counselors as well as tips for forming a gay-straight alliance. The second is designed for students and presents candid interviews with gay teenagers who discuss the reactions of their friends and families and ways in which they have coped with harassment.
Call Number: Videocassette 9184
Out at work a documentary by ami Gold, Kelly Anderson Documents the lives of three gay workers from 1991 to 1996. One is a lesbian who became politically active after being fired from Cracker Barrel restaurant in Georgia. One is a gay man who worked with his union to fight harassment in an auto factory in Detroit. One is a New York Public Library employee who sought health benefits for his partner.
Call Number: Videotape HD6285.5.U6 A5 1996
Publication Date: 2009
Out of the past
Call Number: Video DVD 15135
The question of equality Using archival footage and interviews, this video set documents the hard-fought gains and heartbreaking losses in the struggle for gay and lesbian equality.
Call Number: Videocassette 7305

Biographies

Allen Ginsberg by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr "Allen Ginsberg, one of the most important poets of the Beat Generation ...[reads] from Collected poems:1947-1980, unpublished manuscripts, and songs ... accompanied by Donald Was ... at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California. Mr. Ginsberg was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams"--Container.
Call Number: Videocassette 8668
Publication Date: 1989
Assault on gay America the life and death of Billy Jack by Claudia Pryor Malis In the telling of the life and death of Billy Jack Gaither, explores the roots of homophobia in America and asks how these attitudes, beliefs and fears contribute to the recent rise in violence against gays.
Call Number: Videocassette 11254
Publication Date: 2000
A Conversation with Brian McNaught on being gay by TRB Productions Author, counselor, and lecturer Brian McNaught dispels myths about homosexuality. He talks about growing up gay in a straight world and discusses such topics as Bible-based bigotry, stereotypes, transvestism, transexualism, and AIDS.
Call Number: Videocassette 6126
Publication Date: 1986
The Female closet by Alice Austen, Hannah Höch, Nicole Eisenman Explores the life and works of three women artists: Alice Austen, a well-to-do American woman of the Victorian era, who took up photography; Hannah Ho¨ch, a German artist who was part of the Dada movement of the 1920's; and Nicole Eisenman, an American graphic artist of the 1990's. Explores their lesbianism and how each has or has not been able to deal with lesbian themes in their work.
Call Number: Video cassette 10743
Publication Date: 1998
Hope along the wind the life of Harry Hay by Eric Slade A biographical examination of the life of Harry Hay, labor organizer, Marxist teacher, and founding member of the Mattachine Society, one of the first gay rights organizations in the United States.
Call Number: Videocassette 11160
Publication Date: 2001
Kinsey by PBS Home Video Kinsey was a scientist whose repressed childhood, personal struggles and obsessive nature would propel him to conduct the first full-scale study of sexual behavior, and break through America’s silence on human sexuality.
Call Number: Video DVD 13906
Publication Date: 2005
Oscar Wilde spendthrift of genius by Radio Telefís Éireann A portrait of the multi-talented and self-destructive genius that is generously sprinkled with Wilde's infamous bon mots. Includes the only known recording by Wilde of "The Ballad of Reading Goal."
Call Number: Videocassette 8572
ISBN: Oscar Wilde spendthrift of genius
Publication Date: 1986
SIS the Perry Watkins story : gays in the military by NewsCart Explores the issue of gays in the military, focusing on the story of Perry Watkins who served fifteen years in the U.S. Army as an openly gay man before being discharged under the provisions banning homosexuals from serving in the Armed Forces. After a long legal battle to get reinstated, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor.
Call Number: Videocassette 8744
Publication Date: 1994
The times of Harvey Milk by Rovert Epstein and Richard Schmiechen Documentary about the life and career of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to political office in California. Through television news footage and interviews, follows him from his early days as a Castro Street businessman to his election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. One year later, Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were shot and killed by Dan White, a former San Francisco fireman. Relates these events to the ongoing movement for gay rights in the United States.
Call Number: Video DVD 15341
ISBN: 9781567303506
Publication Date: 2004
Wilde by Marc Samuelson, Peter Samuelson Notorious poet and playwright Oscar Wilde devours all that life has to offer, but there's only so much that late Victorian England will tolerate. As Wilde delves into a taboo world of unrealized homosexual desire, his life rapidly becomes a turbulent charade. He cannot escape the repercussions wrought by a "pure" society, nor will he hide in shame for being true to his nature.
Call Number: Video DVD 11009
Publication Date: 2002

Media, Race, & Ethnicity

Glitter & Queer by Dance Street Gmbh A DVD collection featuring queens and gay icons with their best music videos.
Call Number: Video DVD 12249
ISBN: Glitter & Queer
Publication Date: 2005
The history of gay & lesbian images on television
Call Number: Videocassette 11187
Publication Date: 2003
Jodie by Euphoria Films Discusses how actress Jodie Foster and her on-screen roles have been viewed as a lesbian role model.
Call Number: Videocassette 12310
Publication Date: 1996
Off the straight & narrow lesbians, gays, bisexuals & television by Katherine Sender Casts a critical eye over the growth of gay images on TV. Leading media scholars provide the historical and cultural context for exploring the social implications of these new representations. Challenges viewers to consider the value and limits of available gay images: who is represented, what they get to say, and how people respond to them.
Call Number: Videocassette 8312
Publication Date: 1998
Orientations lesbian & gay Asians by Richard Fung A dozen Canadian gay men and women of different Asian backgrounds speak frankly about their lives as members of a minority within a minority. They tell about coming out, racism, cultural identity and challenge the stereotype of Asians as quiet and passive.
Call Number: Video DVD 13124
Publication Date: 1990
Pink triangles by Cambridge Documentary Films A documentary designed to explore prejudice against lesbians and gay men. Provides a historical perspective for this prejudice and offers a discussion of why this prejudice is so strong.
Call Number: Videocassette 11342
Publication Date: 1982
Proteus by First Run Features A fact-based interracial gay love story of two men incarcerated in the infamous South African Robin Island prison in the 18th century. Claas Blank, a Koi herder was unjustly imprisoned for stealing cattle. Rijkhaart Jacobsz, a withdrawn Dutch sailor, was imprisoned for the crime of homosexuality. The two were placed on trial for sodomy and the film is based partly on court transcripts from the time.
Publication Date: 2004
Sea in the blood by Richard Fung A personal documentary about living close to illness. It traces the relationship of the artist to thalassemia in his sister Nan, and AIDS in his partner Tim. At the core of the piece are two trips. The first is in 1962 when Richard went with Nan from Trinidad to England to see a famous hematologist interested in her unusual case. The second is in 1977 when Richard and Tim made a counterculture pilgrimage from Europe to Asia. The relationship with Tim blossomed, but Nan died before their return.
Call Number: Video DVD 13064
Publication Date: 2000
Treyf by Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky A film by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover Seder.
Call Number: Video DVD 16709
Publication Date: 1998

Coming out/Family Issues

Daddy & papa Explores the personal, cultural, and political impact of gay men who are making a decision that is at once traditional and revolutionary: to raise children themselves. Taking us inside four gay male families, this documentary traces the critical issues that inevitably intersect their private lives the ambiguous place of interracial families in America, the wonder and precariousness of surrogacy and adoption, the complexities of marriage and divorce within the gay community, and the legality of their own parenthood.
Call Number: Video DVD 17108
From a secret place America's families cope with the coming out process of gay and lesbian youth. Young lesbians, gays, and their families describe their own "coming out" experiences clearly and poignantly.
Call Number: Videocassette 7354
Main Street growing up gay
Call Number: Videocassette 2626
Not all parents are straight Using casual at-home scenes, background family photographs, scenes from support group rap sessions, and interviews, examines the dynamics of the parent-child relationship within six different families where one or both parents is gay. Explores emotional conflicts within the families, legal custody problems, and the social discrimination which these families face.
Call Number: Videocassette 5707
We are family Looks at life in homosexual families, with the focus on the well being of children. Investigates three different family situations: one foster, one biological, and one adoptive. Questions are raised about the possible influences on the children, and health professionals discuss these issues.
Call Number: Videotape HQ75.53 .W42 1986
What if I'm gay? a search for understanding Explores the feelings of maturing adolescents and presents basic assumptions about sexuality and sexual orientation.
Call Number: Videocassette 2759

Religion, Stereotypes, & Transgender

Crimes of hate a video in three segments by ADL Film Library Reveals the twisted thinking of perpetrators of bias crimes, the anguish of the victims, and the strategies used by law enforcement officials, community organizations, and individuals to address these crimes.
Call Number: Videocassette 6609
Publication Date: 1990.
For the Bible tells me so by Daniel Karslake; co-producers, Helen Mendoza, Nancy Kennedy; For the Bible Tells Me So, LLC Discusses homosexuality and Biblical scripture, how the religious anti-gay bias is almost entirely based on a misinterpretation of the Bible, and more. Features interviews and stories of very normal, very Christian familes who have a gay family member.
Call Number: Video DVD 13241
Publication Date: 2007
Trans generation [four college students switching more than their majors] by Sundance Channel Original Follows four American college students as they prepare for gender reassignment. The students discuss their lives, their hopes, and setbacks, and deal with varying reactions from family and friends.
Call Number: Video DVD 12888
ISBN: DVD12888
Publication Date: 2006
Trembling before G-d by Simcha Leib Productions and Turbulent Arts in association with Keshet Broadcasting Library has: pt.1-pt.2 "An unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality, and religious fundamentalism. Built around intimately told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, the film portrays people who face a profound dilemma"--Container.
Call Number: Video DVD 11032
Publication Date: 2003
Unlearning homophobia series by WomanVision Each of the documentaries tackles the emotional issue of discrimination based on sexual orientation and how it affects American families, communities, and churches. Straight from the heart explores parents' journey to understanding and love of their gay and lesbian children. All God's children explores homophobia in the African-American community. De colores a bilingual short documentary presents lesbian and gay Latinos, their stories of strength, family and love, and breaking down cultural prejudice through deep-rooted love.
Call Number: Video DVD 12275
Publication Date: 2004

HIV/AIDS

"Non, je ne regrette rien" Fear of disclosure In the 1st work (38 min.), five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double social stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality. In the 2nd work (7 min.), the negative reaction of a potential lover to a man when he discloses his HIV-positive status is described.
Call Number: Videocassette 6483
Bright Eyes This production explores attitudes toward homosexuality in three parts: one, the early scientific view of homosexuality as a disease; two, the pre-World War II view (especially in Germany) of homosexuality as a crime.
Call Number: Videocassette 12300
Fast Trip Long Drop Autobiographical documentary by Gregg Bordowitz chronicles his day to day life after testing positive for the HIV virus in 1988.
Call Number: Video DVD 11858
Habit: a Documentary Footage of the videomaker’s daily life with HIV/AIDS, made possible by his drug regimen, is interspersed with footage of treatment access activism around the world, particularly Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa, where people struggle against the laws and pharmaceutical companies that make AIDS drugs unaffordable to those who need them.
Call Number: Video DVD 11859
The Other crisis AIDS and mental health Presents interviews with mental health professionals who deal with AIDS patients. Discusses psychological issues which have to date been ignored. Discusses clients at risk, clients and drugs, dealing with gay clients, clients and the test, dealing with clients with AIDS, and the fears of practitioners.
Call Number: Videocassette 5392
Pandemic facing AIDS This theatrical version of the HBO series takes us around the globe to reveal stories of people who have been touched by AIDS: James (Uganda), a seven-year-old orphan who is taking care of his little sister Jessica; Sergei and Lena (Russia), young parents whose previous drug use has left them HIV-positive; Nagaraj and Bhanu (India), a young family facing life with AIDS in a small village, Alex (Brazil), a 27-year-old gay man who is trying to rebuild his health and get back to living a full and productive life; and Lek (Thailand), a former sex worker.
Call Number: Video DVD 11878
Silverlake Life Presents the story of Tom Joslin and Mark Massi, a gay couple who both have AIDS. Documents their life together and the process of living with AIDS.
Call Number: Bird-Videocassette 10258
Zero Patience "John Greyson has woven a tall tale of love and loss, sex and science, history and hysteria in the age of AIDS. Greyson revives renowned Victorian Sir Richard Burton who constructs a sensationalist multimedia museum display focusing on Patient Zero, the gay French-Canadian flight attendant accused of bringing AIDS to North America"--Container.
Call Number: Videocassette 11904