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Meet Anne-
christine d'Adesky, award winning journalist, AIDS activist and
producer/director of the film PILLS PROFITS PROTEST...
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Meet Phyllis
Christopher, the amazing photographer who is featured
in the film WOMEN IN LOVE...
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SEX IN AN EPIDEMIC is a pioneering documentary about the history of “safer sex” in the United States. This ground-breaking film places the history of safer sex education on a trajectory with current HIV prevention while exploring the personal, political and structural challenges that have continually hampered the best efforts of HIV educators and community groups to curb HIV infection rates in the United States. |
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Cultural amnesia leads to revisionist history and so to remedy the rewriting of the history of the AIDS epidemic and the activist movement ACT UP, directors Jim Hubbard, Sarah Schulman and James Wentzy have committed themselves to exhaustively gathering, preserving and promoting the truth of what happened in the 1980s and 1990s in the form of the ACT UP Oral History project, volume 1.
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Signs that everything wasn’t quite right came early and often for fAe. Though he was “born with girl parts,” a trip to the girls’ room on the first day of school was met with terrified screams. Years of introspection led to the undeniable conclusion that fAe was a man mistakenly endowed with a woman’s body. His caring —but somewhat careless — brother notes that these biological errors simply occur sometimes, likening fAe’s condition to that of a boy from a recent magazine article he read—a boy born with fins for feet. |
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“With wit, intelligence, and emotional grace, She's a Boy I Once Knew traces the journey of film-maker Gwen Haworth as she comes out to her family as transgender and transitions from loving husband and only son Steven into Gwen. Haworth joins autobiographical narrative and home movies from childhood to interviews with friends and family. These creative juxtapositions open the film up beyond an individual story of change. One of the real strengths of She's a Boy I Once Knew is its ability not to judge any of its interview subjects. Another is its richly layered depiction of the social matrix within which gendered being unfolds, changes, becomes.”
- Ann Pellegrini, Director, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University |
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"This moving and
thoughtful documentary raises awareness about the abuse, isolation
and poor medical care faced by transgender prisoners. We hope
that the film's insight will be a springboard for new policies
that adequately protect this vulnerable community."
-Elizabeth
Alexander, Executive Director, ACLU NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT
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Seven gay men describe
their experiences with crystal meth, one of the most addictive
of drugs, in this powerful documentary. Director Jay Corcoran
shows, in unflinching detail, how meth has ravaged the gay community
and destroyed lives. This honest portrayal of drug use also
shows how methamphetamine fits into a complex web of public
health issues and private demons, including homophobia, low
self-esteem, sexual dysfunction and HIV. |
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SEEING
RED is the latest work from veteran avant-garde filmmaker
Su Friedrich. In this, one of her most deeply personal films
to date, Friedrich takes a look back at her evolution both as
a woman and as an artist, tackling her own insecurities via
several on-camera diary entries. While Seeing Red is a film
about the existential crises of the individual, it is also a
film about what unites all humanity and what unites humanity
with all the matter surrounding us. |
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Since the
1970's, Friedrich' skillful mix of experimental narrative and
documentary forms, filled with provocative feminist and lesbian
themes, has made her a groundbreaking member of the avant-garde
film community and a pivotal force in the establishment of Queer
Cinema. This collection of DVDs includes the filmmaker's classic
works such as SINK OR SWIM,
HIDE AND SEEK, THE
TIES THAT BIND, DAMNED IF
YOU DON'T, and THE ODDS
OF RECOVERY, as well as EIGHT
BONUS FILMS. |
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PILLS
PROFITS PROTEST: CHRONICLE OF THE GLOBAL AIDS MOVEMENT is
a passionate and timely documentary about AIDS treatment activism.
The movement for access to AIDS treatment is, at heart, a highly
personal battle being led by individuals who are motivated by
a desire to stay alive and save their communities and, in the
process, change the world. Weaving together the perspectives
and experiences of activists from Durban to Delhi, from Botswana
to Bahia, from Philadelphia to Port-Au-Prince, a collective
voice, rooted in local struggles, emerges. |
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"A lot of people
have heard about a lesbian sex revolution in San Francisco,
but not a lot have seen it. Karen Everett gives a candid, sexy,
heart- breaking view of women's sexual and romantic obsession,
with all the misadventures and illuminations that come with
it."
Susie Bright, Author of “The Sexual State of
the Union” |
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Three years in the making,
this powerful documentary on same-sex marriage provides a much
needed historical and legal perspective to the political war
being waged in the nation today. By using archival footage,
news clips, and heartfelt interviews, TYING
THE KNOT examines the institution of marriage today and
how it has changed through history: from an historical trip
to the middle ages to gay hippies storming the Manhattan marriage
bureau in 1971. |
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