Angels in America

Angels in America   God has abandoned Heaven. It’s 1985: the Reagans are in the White House and Death swings the scythe of AIDS. In Manhattan, Prior Walter tells Lou, his lover of four years, he’s ill; Lou bolts. As disease and loneliness ravage Prior, guilt invades Lou. Joe Pitt, an attorney who is Mormon and Republican, is pushed by right-wing fixer Roy Cohn toward a job at the Justice Department. Both Pitt and Cohn are in the closet: Pitt out of shame and religious turmoil, Cohn to preserve his power and access. Pitt’s wife Harper is strung out on Valium, aching to escape a sexless marriage. An angel invites Prior to be a prophet in death. Pitt’s mother and Belize, a close friend, help Prior choose.

 

Boys Briefs 1

Boys Briefs 1   Reunion of six short films having homosexuality as theme: “The Absolution of Anthony”, by Dean Slotar, depicting a 16-year-old boy living with a Catholic grandfather in Bronx; “Smear”, by Sam Zalutsky, telling the story of a boy who is in love with a straight friend; “Front Room”, by Pierre Yves Clouin, an experimental short showing a gay physical relationship; “Fairy Tale”, by David Kittredge, when a man decides to introduce his boyfriend to his homophobic family; “Ferkel” or “Piglets”, by Luc Feit, showing an old lady who tries to ruin a sexual encounter; and “Stanley Beloved”, by Simon Chung, telling the story of a boy who, before going to study abroad, decides to spend a summer day with his best friend.

 

Boys Briefs 2

Boys Briefs 2   The long-awaited sequel to Boys Briefs, the successful compilation of six outstanding short films about gay first love.

 

The Center of the World

The Center of the World   A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he’s a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she’s a lap dancer at a club. He’s depressed, withdrawing from work, missing meetings with investors. He wants a connection, so he offers her $10,000 to spend three nights with him in Vegas, and she accepts with conditions: four hours per night of erotic play, and no penetration. During the days in Vegas, they get to know each other, have fun, meet a friend of hers; at night, at least after the first night, things seem to get complicated. Is mutual attraction stirring? Will they play by their rules? Can it be about more than money?

 

Citizen Ruth

Citizen Ruth   Ruth Stoops is a poor indigent drug-user (a huffer – inhaling glue and paint for a high) whose down and out existence is complicated once more by becoming pregnant (she has had and lost four children already). When a judge orders that she gets an abortion or face a felony charge, she is befriended by Gail Stoney, a pro-lifer whose husband is president of the local “Babysavers” group. Suddenly Ruth is thrust into the middle of the pro-choice/pro-life struggle, with each side wanting her to take their side as a “message” to others – and the situation escalates.

 

Cover

Cover   When someone is murdered on New Year’s Eve, the prime suspect is VALERIE MAAS, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of many years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith keep her going as the revelation of her husband’s betrayal threatens to destroy all that they have known.

 

Don’s Plum

Don’s Plum   A group of Los Angeles teenagers meet every day at their local diner hangout to discus their latest misadventures with their miserable lives.

 

Endgame

Endgame   Sex is currency. It commands power and can instil fear. Tom (Daniel Newman), a young man with a troubled past finds himself sucked into a seedy underworld by George Norris (Mark McGann), a now super villain with a sadistic streak. A helpless pawn in one of Norris’s narcotic scams with a bent cop, Dunston (John Benfield), Tom is dragged deeper into a vicious circle of blood money, vice and ruthless violence from which their seems no way out. Until fate gives Tom a glimmer of hope. When Norris is killed in his apartment, Tom seizes his chance to escape. Terrified and covered in Norris’s blood, Tom heads downstairs to his neighbours, Max (Corey Johnson) and Nikki (Toni Barry) his new friends in the city. With going to the police out of the question, Max and Nikki speed Tom to their desolate cottage deep in the Welsh countryside. With the luxury of space, Tom begins to realise a long-forgotten dream; a return to happier times before his innocence was shattered. Suppressed emotion flood back provoked by Tom’s attraction to Nikki, a beautiful women fascinated by Tom’s past. Yet how long can this last with Dunston desperate to hunt down Tom before he exposes the corruption ? It’s only a matter of time before his deadly past catches up with him again. But just how much is Tom willing to sacrifice.

 

Finn’s Girl

Finn’s Girl   Dr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover’s daughter Zelly. She also took over her lover’s abortion clinic that is being protested by increasingly violent “pro-lifer’s”. The movie covers, teenage angst, death threats, abortion issues and love. All in all, interesting drama.

 

Floored by Love

Floored by Love   A lesbian couple contemplating marriage and a family with a gay teen son taking in an unexpected visitor from the past find their lives not so far apart.

 

Gaudi Afternoon

Gaudi Afternoon   Cassandra, a solitary writer in Barcelona (a US ex-pat) gets a call for help from a stranger – a stylish woman named Frankie – who wants Cassandra to find her husband, so he can sign some important papers. Nothing Frankie says is true: the husband turns out to be a woman, the issue isn’t legal papers but a child’s custody, and even Frankie’s most obvious identity, in red cape and red pumps, is a false front. But Cassandra keeps at it, at first to earn her promised fee, and then to help Frankie, then Frankie’s ex, then the child. Along the way, this solitary and somewhat disconnected and bewildered writer frees herself to finish a novel and re-establish a broken relationship.

 

Getting of Wisdom

Getting Of Wisdom   In the early 1900s, Laura Tweedle Ramsbotham (Susannah Fowle) arrives at an exclusive Melbourne ladies college to jeers of country bumpkin and tweedle-dumb, rams bum. Spirited and talented though she is, the pressure to fit in almost defeats her, until she learns to be as ruthless as the other girls. She invents an illicit liaison with the handsome new minister (John Waters), but becomes a pariah when this is revealed as a fantasy. An older girl, the elegant and kindly Evelyn Suitor (Hilary Ryan) takes her under her wing. Laura falls madly in love with her, but Evelyn leaves the school early in order to escape her ardour. Laura completes the ordeal of her schooling by winning a music scholarship she will spend two years studying piano in Leipzig, Germany. She remains as defiant as ever.

 

Gray Matters

Gray Matters   They finish each other’s sentences, dance like Fred and Ginger, and share the same downtown loft–the perfect couple? Not exactly. Gray and Sam, are a sister and brother so compatible and inseparable that people actually assume they are dating. Mortified, they both agree they must branch out and start searching for love. He’ll look for a guy for her and she’ll look for a gal for him.

 

History Boys

History Boys   In 1980s Britain, a group of young men at Cutlers’ Grammar School all have the brains, and the will to earn the chance of getting accepted in the finest universities in the nation, Oxford and Cambridge. Despite the fine teaching by excellent professionals like Mrs Lintott in history and the intellectually enthusiastic Hector in General Studies, the Headmaster is not satisfied. He signs on the young Irwin to polish the students’ style to give them the best chance. In this mix of intellectualism and creative spirit that guides a rigorous preparation regime for that ultimate educational brass ring, the lives of the randy students and the ostensibly restrained faculty intertwine that would change their lives forever.

 

Intentions

Intentions   A coming of age piece: an exploration of love, relationships, and sexuality. The story revolves around a married college Professor who unexpectedly falls in love with one of her female students. They awaken things in each other that they had been trying to suppress creatively and emotionally. Through their love, they are forced to examine these passions and find the strength and courage to pursue their dreams. Intentions is a character driven, actors showcase that takes the audience on an emotional journey of sacrifice, love, heartbreak, desire, and eventual resolve.

 

La Repetition

La Repetitiion   Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the male friends she has she breaks up the friendship, followed by a suicide attempt. Later, Louise marries, but finds time to see the, by now quite accomplished actress, Nathalie. They fight through the years, La Repetition following them as their friendship comes together and breaks up frequently, while never actually reaching anything that can be called a climax.

 

Love and Other Disasters

Love and Other Disasters   Emily Jackson lives a fast-paced life. Always on the go, able to talk around the clock, with a sensitive soul she loves playing matchmaker for her friends. It’s Emily’s gay roommate and frequent companion Peter, who becomes again the subject matchmaking skills when handsome new photographer assistant Paolo arrives at the Vogue offices, where Emily works. She makes it her mission to bring the two men together. Unfortunately for her, she is so busy arranging a love connection between Peter and Paolo that she remains completely blind to the one suitor who longs to provide her with the loving companionship that she so cheerfully arranges for others. And so it does make sense that Peter, a screenwriter in the making, starts telling the story from his own point of view.

 

Maggie and Annie

Maggie And Annie   Annie, a happily married woman with a loving husband and daughter, joins her company’s softball team and becomes good friends with her teammate, the openly gay Maggie. Much to Annie’s surprise, her friendship with Maggie gradually develops into a strong attraction.

 

Make a Wish

Make a Wish   Make A Wish In the tradition of Friday the 13th and other classic horror films, Make A Wish tells the story of a group of women who get together once again for an annual birthday camping trip. The common denominator in this group of gay and straight girls is Susan: all of the campers are exes of hers. All except Andrea, who is Monica’s new girlfriend, and not very pleased to be dragged along on this ridiculous outing.

 

Marie and Jack

Marie and Jack   Marie Silva and Jack Bravo are a married couple who also happen to make porn films for a living. This documentary examines what a marriage involving a couple whose jobs it is to have sex with other people is like, what the pressures are and the differences between their professional lives and their personal lives.

 

Torchsong Trilogy

Torchsong Trilogy   Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker’s search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him. From Arnold’s hilarious steps toward domestic bliss with a reluctant school teacher, to his first truly promising love affair with a young fashion model, Arnold’s greatest challenge remains his complicated relationship with his mother. But armed with a keenly developed sense of humor and oftentimes piercing wit, Arnold continues to test the commonly accepted terms of endearment–and endurance–in a universally affecting story that confirms that happiness is well worth carrying a torch for.

 

Matrimonium

Matrimonium   Confusion ensues when, in order to win the million dollar payoff from a reality based TV show, straight Malcolm Caulfield must convince his friends and family that he is going to marry openly gay man Spencer Finch.

 

Flag Wars

Flag Wars   “Flag Wars” is a cinema verite documentary that follows the conflicts that arise when gay white professionals move into a black working-class neighborhood. Filmed over a four years in Columbus, Ohio, “Flag Wars” leads viewers on an eye-opening journey into a divided community.

 

Boyfriends

Boyfriends   Paul, Matt, and Will (in their 30s) have been friends for years. They converge at the seaside for the weekend, each with a boyfriend in tow. Paul is with Ben, his companion of five years: their relationship is on the rocks after months of Paul’s moodiness since his brother Mark died. Matt brings Owen, whom he’s dated for three months and wants to live with; to everyone else, they seem singularly incompatible. Will brings Adam, a 20-year old one-night stand, to meet “happy, well-adjusted homosexuals.” As the six men, joined by Mark’s lover, James, sort through their own relationships as well as new ones begun during the weekend, happiness and being well adjusted prove elusive.

 

The Man You Had in Mind

The Man You Had In Mind   The story typically goes: you fall head over heels in love, have lots of sex, make a commitment, move in together, start sharing your dreams and goals, buy a house, maybe raise a child or two, care for each other when times are tough and eventually grow old together. This is the American dream and what most of us strive for – to share our lives with someone special. It is one of the most natural things in the world. Why is it that some people have such a problem with the scenario when it involves two men? We live in a time when gay relationships are a divisive issue. Consequently, the notion that a gay couple could establish a stable and loving relationship worthy of equal civil recognition is sometimes threatening, sparking intense emotional debate. But, falling in love is a universal human experience, regardless of one’s sexual orientation. Gay men form stable relationships for the same reasons that heterosexual couples do, but the ties that bind these couples are in some ways different. The Man You Had in Mind explores the intimate lives of five Oregon gay male couples; the forces that bring them together, the journeys they face, and the culture in which they survive and thrive.

 

Head On

Head On   The nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition; Ari is obsessed with gay sex, though he does make a unenthusiastic attempt to satisfy the sister of one of his best friends. At the same time, he’s facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual activities.

 

Straight Jacket

Straight Jacket   In 1950’s Hollywood, movie star Guy Stone must marry a studio secretary in order to conceal his homosexuality. Sally has no idea her marriage is a sham, though, and turns Guy’s life upside-down. Then he falls in love

 

A Village Affair

A Village Affair   Alice has married the rich but boring Martin. When they move to a small village Martin starts flirting with Clodagh, but she is more interested in his wife Alice.

 

Gay Power

Gay Power: An American Revolution by David Eisenbach   Gay Power, chronicles the tumultuous first wave of the modern gay rights movement. From the first-ever gay student group launched at Columbia University in 1965 to the Gay Liberation Front, the Gay Activist Alliance, and other vanguard organizations that emerged from the Stonewall riots, David Eisenbach draws on archival material and numerous firsthand accounts from the individuals who built the movement.

 

Almost Normal

Almost Normal   A gay man approaching a mid-life crisis is tired of being different because he is gay. He wants to be normal. Suddenly he is yanked back in time to when he was in high school. But this time, the world is gay and to be straight is considered deviant behavior. Then something else happens. He meets a girl. And suddenly normal becomes …well almost normal.

 

Visions of Sugarplums

Visions of Sugarplums   A confused young man, just out of the proverbial gay closet, must choose between his lover of nine months and his ultra-religious parents on Christmas Eve.

 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig and the Angry Inch   Hedwig, born a boy named Hansel in East Berlin, fell in love with an American G.I. and underwent a sex-change operation in order to marry him and flee to the West. Unfortunately, nothing worked out quite as it was supposed to – years later, Hedwig is leading her rock band on a tour of the U.S., telling her life story through a series of concerts at Bilgewater Inn seafood restaurants. Her tour dates coincide with those of arena-rock star Tommy Gnosis, a wide-eyed boy who once loved Hedwig… but then left with all her songs.

 

Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss

Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss   Billy, a struggling young gay photographer (who likes Polaroids), tired of being the “other man”, falls in love with Gabriel, a waiter and aspiring musician who is probably straight but possibly gay or at least curious. Billy tries to get Gabriel to model for his latest project, a series of remakes of famous Hollywood screen kisses, featuring male couples, while also trying to win his affections.

 

In the Blood

In the Blood   Cassidy is a senior at a NYC college and he’s trying to balance the demands of school, his role as big brother to Jessica, a freshman at the same school and his role as best buddy to horn-dog Mike with his emerging feelings of attraction to men. This is further complicated by a string of co-ed murders on campus for which his sister fits the victim profile. Topping off the mix are vivid dreams of Jessica covered in blood and Mike making a play for his sister.

 

Best of Boys In Love

Best of Boys In Love First Run Features has put the best of “Boys in Love” and “Boys in Love 2″ onto one DVD. Featuring seven sexy and charming shorts, including: “Achilles,” “Boot Camp,” “Death in Venice, CA,” “Twilight of the Gods,” “Dirty Baby Does Fire Island,” and “Karen Black Loves Me.” “Achilles” is one of the most original animated films made, and its pairing with the achingly sad “Death in Venice, CA” makes a great collection.

 

The Child I Never Was

The Child I Never Was   Fictionalized account of Jürgen Bartsch, a German boy who became notorious in the 1960’s after his conviction for the serial killings and sexual molestation of a number of young German boys. Told partly as recreation and partly as taped confession.

 

Kiss Me Deadly

Kiss Me Deadly   Ex-spy Jacob Keane is drawn back into the shadowy world of international espionage when his former partner Marta reappears after 17 years, her memory erased, on the run from a pair of deadly, psychopathic assassins.

 

Priest

Priest   Father Greg Pilkington (Linus Roache) is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.

 

Total Eclipse

Total Eclipse   In 1871, Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), an established poet, invites boy genius Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) to live with Paul and his young pregnant wife, Mathiltde, in her father’s home in Paris. Rimbaud’s uncouth behavior disrupts the household as well as the insular society of French poets, but Verlaine finds the youth invigorating. Stewed in absinthe and resentment, Verlaine abuses Mathiltde; he and Rimbaud become lovers and abandon her. There are reconciliations and partings with Mathiltde and partings and reconciliations with Rimbaud, until an 1873 incident with a pistol sends one of them to prison. Codas dramatize the poets’ final meeting and last illnesses.

 

Boys Love

Boys Love   Just doing his job, magazine editor Taishin Mamiya (Yoshikazu Kotani) interviews high school model Noeru Kisaragi (Takumi Saito). Despite Noeru’s bad attitude, an enchanting picture of the ocean he draws leads Mamiya to invite him out for dinner after wards. They connect at the restaurant, but while in the bathroom there Noeru solicits Mamiya sexually. The next morning, Noeru’s office calls the magazine office where Mamiya works. “Your editor was rude. Have him come and apologize.” When Mamiya goes to Noeru’s house to deliver the apology, he sees Noeru with a dirty-looking man. Mamiya is shocked to discover at that moment that his interest in Noeru goes beyond article research–he truly wants to know more about him.

 

Walk on Water

Walk On Water   Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister Pia. The two men set out on a tour of the country during which, Axel challenges Eyal’s values.

 

Ashley and Kisha

Ashley and Kisha   When they first met, Ashley was a lady-killer and proud of it; Kisha was sexually conservative and straight. But Ashley’s doggy ways turned to dogged determination as she watched one after another of her surefire moves fail to get her into Kisha’s pants. Finally, after weeks of failed seduction, Ashley’s determination paid off: Kisha’s ambivalence gave way to curiosity, her curiosity gave way to desire, and ultimately desire blossomed into love.

 

Love on the Side

Love on the Side   mall town waitress Eve Stuckley is stuck. She has spent years pining for testosterone saturate local hunk Jeff Sweeney and yearns to escape from the Hog-Chow Diner she runs. Just when Eve finally decides to pursue her man, drop dead gorgeous Linda Avery blows into town on the hottest day of the year. The heat wave is nothing in comparison with the heat that’s on as Jeff and Eve’s dimwitted brother Chuck decide to face off for Linda’s affections. It’s a priceless contest: Linda wants Eve. Eve’s confidante Alma Kerns is a sexpert trained by mortician beau Red Bishop. She encourages Eve to use Linda’s interest in her to win Jeff’s affection but the situation becomes even more complicated when Linda advises Jeff she prefers Eve. Now determined to “save” Eve, the narcissistically injured Jeff elicits Chuck’s aid but Chuck, thinking it’s part of the game, refuses to believe him. Ultimately, Jeff and Linda square off over Eve’s future. Determined to anchor his position, Jeff “marks his territory” but shrewd Linda counteracts with a tempting offer. The town becomes ignited by a passion unlike it’s ever seen before and doors to closed hearts everywhere fling open in the most surprising ways!

 

Two Girls and a Baby

Two Girls and a Baby   Catherine and Liz want to have a baby – well, Catherine does anyway. Doesn’t she realize this will change everything? Probably not. Spending hours on the phone with the sperm bank doesn’t leave a lot of time to think about family matters. A humorous drama dealing with the current debate on the very real issue of gay and lesbian couples starting families, IVF programs and the evolving community attitudes towards these changes. A buoyant and entertaining journey through dial-up sperm banks, relationships and baby clothes.

 

All the Rage

All the Rage   All the Rage takes a satirical and poignant look at one gay man’s obsessive pursuit of physical, sexual, and romantic perfection. Christopher Bedford is everyone’s fantasy. He’s gorgeous, young, clever, rich, and above all, totally buffed and every boy in Boston seems to want him. At thirty-one, he’s gliding through life, celebrating himself as the 90’s gay playboy ideal, without ever realizing what a mess he’s become.

 

When the Stars Come Out

When the Stars Come Out by Rob Byrnes   Noah Abraham is back in New York tending to his ailing father while dealing with his writer’s block on a book about gay congressional staffers. What he needs is a break, and he gets it when he meets Bart Gustafson, the personal assistant to former film and television star Quinn Scott. The macho stud has been living in exile for years since running away with one of his ex-wife’s backup dancers…a male backup dancer. And just like that, Noah’s writing block is cured.

 

M or F?

M or F? by Lisa Papademetriou and Chris Tebbetts   Frannie is desperate to get the attention of her crush, Jeffrey, but too shy to make a move. Frannie’s gay best friend, Marcus, advises her to get the ball rolling by chatting with Jeffrey online, but Frannie won’t type a word. Marcus takes over at the keyboard, and soon his plan is a success! But the more he chats, the more it seems Jeffrey is falling for Marcus, not Frannie. Whose romance is this, anyway?

 

In Search of a Master

In Search of a Master by John Preston   Young, virile, and hungering for something more than a stagnant New England mill town has to offer, Timothy is at a crossroads. He can work in the local lumberyard, hisnightlife limited to fleeting, clandestine encounters with strangers. Or he can earn more money than he ever dreamed possible. The price: the next three years of his life. Three years during which he will belong, body and soul, to the highest bidder.

 

Totally Joe

Totally Joe by James Howe   Meet Joe Bunch. Lovable misfit and celebrity wannabe from Paintbrush Falls, New York. Like his longtime best friends Addie, Skeezie, and Bobby, Joe’s been called names all his life. So when he’s given the assignment to write his alphabiography — the story of his life from A to Z — Joe has his doubts. This whole thing could be serious ammunition for bullying if it falls into the wrong hands. But Joe discovers there’s more to the assignment — and his life — than meets the eye. Especially when he gets to the letter C, which stands for Colin Briggs, the coolest guy in the seventh grade (seriously) — and Joe’s secret boyfrien

 

My Heartbeat

My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr   Ellen loves Link and James. Her older brother and his best friend are the only company she ever wants. She knows they fight, but she makes it a policy never to take sides. She loves her brother, the math genius and track star. And she is totally, madly in love with James, with his long eyelashes and hidden smiles. “When you grow out of it,” James teases her, “you will break my heart.” Then someone at school asks if Link and James might be in love with each other. A simple question. But the answer is far from simple, and its repercussions affect their entire lives. This extraordinary, multiple award-winning novel is funny, heartbreaking, and messy—just like its characters, just like life.

 

Wedding Banquet

The Wedding Banquet A gay Taiwanese-American man is in a happy long term relationship in Manhattan, but his parents in Taiwan are always pressuring him to marry. His tenant, a young Chinese girl needs to marry an American citizen to obtain her green card, so a deal is made. Complications arise when the joyous parents arrive for the wedding and a huge cross-cultural banquet is arranged to celebrate.

 

Twilight of the Golds

Twilight of the Golds When Suzanne Stein has a genetic analysis done on her unborn child, she discovers that although she has a healthy baby, the child will most likely be born gay, like her brother, David. She must decide whether to keep the child, or to have an abortion. Her family enters a crisis about love and acceptance as she makes this difficult choice.

 

The Sum of Us

The Sum of Us   Set in Sydney, Australia. A (heterosexual) father and his gay son are trying to find Ms/Mr Right respectively. The film shows their relationships with one another and the objects of their affection as tradgedy strikes. There is no overt ‘message’ in the film, just a very natural, entertaining story-telling.

 

Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal   The bitter, cynical and lonely Barbara Covett is a tough and conservative teacher near to retirement that is loathed by her colleagues and students. In the loneliness of her apartment, she spends her spare time writing her journal, taking care of her old cat Portia and missing her special friend Jennifer Dodd. When Sheba Hart joins the high-school as the new art teacher, Barbara dedicates her attention to the newcomer, writing sharp and unpleasant comments about her behavior and clothes. When Barbara helps Sheba in a difficult situation with two students, the grateful Sheba invites her to have lunch with her family. Sheba introduces her husband and former professor Richard Hart, who is about twenty years older than she; her rebellious teenager daughter Polly; and her son Ben that has Dawn Syndrome. Barbara becomes close to Sheba, but when she accidentally discovers that Sheba is having an affair with the fifteen year-old student Steven Connolly, Barbara sees the chance to manipulate and get closer to Sheba, hiding the secret from the school headmaster. When Portia dies and Sheba does not stay with Barbara in the veterinary office to see Ben in a theater play, Barbara plots a Machiavellian revenge against Sheba, creating a scandal and consequent turmoil in their lives.

 

No Regret

No Regret   Sumin is an orphan trying to balance work in a factory with study at art college and an evening job. One night a rich young businessman tries to proposition him during one of his driving jobs. They meet again the next day: it is during a round of redundancy cuts at the factory where Sumin refuses an attempt by a man (who is in fact the boss’ son Jaemin) to save his job. Eventually Sumin is seduced into working as a male prostitute in an upmarket boy-brothel as Jaemin’s obsession with him grows, leaving Jaemin helpless in the face of his overwhelming desire. This is a film of bold sexuality, where unexpected passion, desire and misunderstandings wreak havoc of an operatic intensity.

 

The Matthew Shepard Story

The Matthew Shepard Story   In 1998, a young gay man by the name of Matthew Shepard was robbed, viciously beaten and left tied to a fence to die. Although he was soon found by the police and hospitalized, he soon expired. This film recounts the events after the conviction of the two men responsible for this hate motivated murder. Matthew’s parents, though satisfied by the conviction, are finding the sentencing phase of the trial more difficult. The parents initially want to request the death penalty for their son’s murderers, but the mother, Judy, starts to reconsider. As they struggle with their decision, they decide to reexamine the life of their son and rediscover his personality, his struggle to accept his homosexual sexual orientation as a natural part of his being and above all, his generous humanity to others. All of this leads the parents to appeal to the court the way their son would have wanted, not out of vengeance but to represent best of what their son was and the tragedy of his loss.

 

Harry and Max

Harry and Max   Harry is a 23-year-old former boy band idol who is watching his younger brother Max, 16, follow in his footsteps. Harry has detoured on his way to a Japanese concert tour to escort Max on a long-promised camping adventure. Their trip begins on a note of camaraderie but quickly turns serious as old wounds resurface, forcing them to come to terms with their dysfunctional past–Harry’s drinking problems, his disconnection from the family, and, most of all, his relationship with Max and the emotional dependency that keeps them from moving into adulthood.

 

Group Therapy

Group Therapy   After a string of anonymous sexual encounters, Aaron decides to get help. In Group Therapy, he meets other guys with similar sexual dysfunctions: exhibitionist, confused, solo sex, ashamed, and thrill seeker. This support group is different from others because of its “hands on” approach to therapy. Group leader, Tom, encourages the guys to share stories and experiences while challenging them to face their fears head on. Enjoy steamy alley encounters, intimate one-on-one sessions, and voyeuristic figure studies.

 

The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terrors

The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terrors   On the eve of a monster circuit party, five wary couples arrive at this dusty and rundown bed & breakfast that has hopefully seen better days. Besides the muffins, our guests are greeted by the hostesses Helen and her most peculiar daughter Luella. The first guests to arrive are dragstress Alex and his lover “Mr. Leather” Dom who always travels with his wandering eyes. For now, they’re focused on one half of the preppy couple Alex and Mike, who always travel with their trusty fag hag Lizete. Rodney has brought his “trainer” Todd for what he hopes will be a hot weekend spent largely in bed – it’s most assuredly not to be! Also in the guest register are Deborah and Gabby, a pair of power dykes who manufacture “adult goodies” and Brenda with her wholesome folk singing lover Starr. These girls are ready for a weekend of wife-swapping, but we’re afraid our hostesses have other plans. Helen has a particular hatred for homos; she enjoys killing queers for sport. Her daughter has lesbian tendencies and when they surface the guests better hide the cutlery. Her son is some kind of wild monster who simply likes to eat people – straight or gay – it’s not important! You may never stay in a gay B&B again.

 

Fremragende Timer

Fremragende Timer   True story of a 30 something man arrested for having sex with a young man under the age of consent (14?). The younger man (resident of a group home) made the initial contact and claimed to be old enough to consent.

 

First Out

First Out   This annual collection of short films is intended to showcase works from filmmakers in the gay community as well as other filmmakers whose work reflects the lives of those in the gay community. First OUT is an annual DVD project that promotes up coming gay and lesbian artists and other talented artists. Enjoy five short films — two comedies, a drama, a documentary and a comic horror film.

 

Cafe com Leite

Cafe com Leite   When the plans for the future change, new bonds are created between Danilo, Lucas and Marcos. in between video-games and milk cups, pain and disappointment, they need to learn how to live together.

 

Arizona Sky

Arizona Sky   Jake and Kyle are two boys who grew up together in rural Arizona. They are best friends, and they begin to take their relationship to the next level when Jake’s father moves him and his family away to California. Jake and Kyle can never forget their strong emotional bond, and Jake, overworked and unattached, goes back to his hometown for the first time in 15 years to see Kyle and renew their special friendship.

 

A Home at the End of the World

A Home at the End of the World   Two childhood friends face their past relationships, including their own, alongside a new friend in the 1980’s in New York City. Their friendship becomes a love triangle as they struggle with a father’s death and an unexpected pregnancy. Together, the shall face each other as they realize that everything they have may not be what they expected.

 

3 Day Weekend

3 Day Weekend   Each year, committed couple Simon and Jason spend a weekend relaxing with their friend, Cooper, and the guy he’s dating at the time, but their decision to invite single friends along this year leads to major relationship shakeups. The newcomers joining the getaway include a frisky college pal, a yoga teacher who enjoys being naked and a temperamental co-worker

 

24 Nights

24 Nights   When Jonathan Parker was 4 years old, his mother’s words and a chance encounter with a Salvation Army Kris Kringle instilled in him a lifelong belief in the legend of Santa Claus. Now 24 and his parents long passed away, Jonathan is a spacey, pot-smoking college drop-out and multi loser in romance who has one shot left to find his true love; he writes a letter to Santa Claus. After meeting Toby, a new co-worker just moved to the city, Jonathan is convinced this is the one who was sent for him, even after he meets Toby’s long time boyfriend Keith. This doesn’t deter Jonathan, who proceeds to wreck everyone’s lives in pursuit of his dream man. Fighting snags, traps and pitfalls to Christmas Day, will Jonathan land his Christmas wish?

 

200 American

200 American   Conrad is a gay man living in NYC. He’s also CEO of an ad agency and by nature a control freak. Although Conrad is still in love with Martin (his ex), he hires a young Aussie hustler named Tyler, first for a night and then to work for his company. Things get increasingly complicated as Conrad tries to rekindle things with Martin. Meanwhile Tyler (who’s daytime name is Ian) falls for Michael his new supervisor.

 

Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx   Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award. It also won an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx’s haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love affair between a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy. Also included is the celebrated screenplay for the major motion picture “Brokeback Mountain,” written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. All three writers have contributed essays on the process of adapting this critically acclaimed story for film.

 

Uncle Max

Uncle Max by Chris Kenry A wacky, long-lost relative instructs a nerdy Denver teenager on gay life, love, rock-climbing and larceny in Kenry’s zippy second addition (after Can’t Buy Me Love) to gay fiction’s fluff shelf. Clarinet-playing Dillon, “an awkward, ugly, all-too-ordinary suburban adolescent,” has his hands full fending off the school bully and dealing with Lana, his boozy, floozy mother.

 

The Trouble Boy

The Trouble Boy by Tom Dolby   At twenty-two, Toby Griffin wants it all-fame, fortune, an Oscar-winning screenplay and a good-looking boyfriend by his side. For now, what he’s got is a freelance writing job at a tanking online magazine, a walk-up sublet in the East Village and “the boys,” a young posse of preppy Upper East Siders with a taste for high fashion, top-shelf liquor and other men. But with Toby’s name suddenly becoming Page Six material, his life is coming unglued. And as his professional contacts betray him and his friends reveal troubling secrets, his choices become that much harder-and that much more important. Now, in his first year on his own, Toby Griffin is about to learn the price of getting everything he ever wanted…

 

Milk

Milk   After moving to San Francisco, the middle-aged New Yorker, Harvey Milk, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA. The following year, both he and the city’s mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his former colleagues for denying White’s attempt to rescind his resignation from the board.

 

Another Gay Sequel

Another Gay Sequel   Another Gay Sequel finds our heroes Andy, Nico, Jarod and Griff reuniting at a gay resort in sunny Fort Lauderdale for Spring Break. They participate in a contest called ‘Gays Gone Wild!’ to determine who can attain the most “buttlove” over the course of the vacation. Between Wet Package contests, Evil Gay Fratboys, and genital crabs the size of kittens, it’s a bumpy road to booty victory. But this time around, love proves to be the biggest conflict of all as the boys struggle to rectify just how casual sex fits into their lives.

 

Wolves of Kromer

Wolves of Kromer   Once upon a time in the village of Kromer lived an isolated tribe of beautiful young men known as “wolves.” Cocksure Gabriel takes newcomer Seth under his paw and helps reconcile him to the vilification associated with being a “wolf.” They fall head-over-heels in puppy love, playing together around picturesque waterfalls, secluded woodlands, and moonlit lakes — until one day when a wicked old crone and her goofy sidekick kill their mistress, frame the “wolves,” and incite a torch-bearing mob of religious zealots to seek vengeance on the hapless pair.

 

Common Ground

Common Ground   Common Ground uses three related stories to explore attitudes toward homosexuality in the fictional small town of Homer, Connecticut, over a period of almost half a century. In “A Friend of Dorothy”, a woman joins the Navy in 1954 and discovers lesbianism. When she returns to Homer after leaving the Navy, it is discovered that she was discharged after being arrested in a gay bar, and she is ostracized by almost everyone. In “M. Roberts”, Steven Weber is a teacher in a 1974 classroom struggling with his closeted gay status who has to decide whether to jeopardize his career in order to help a troubled pupil who has been targeted by homophobic bullies. Finally, in present-day Homer, “Andy & Amos” follows the preparations for a gay wedding. While protesters gather on the town commons, Amos’s father as to choose between long-held prejudices and his love for his son.

 

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros   Maxi is a 12-year-old effeminate gay boy who lives in the slums with his father and brothers who are petty thieves. The story primarily revolves around the conflict between his love for handsome young police officer Victor, and his family’s illegal livelihood. Neorealist in orientation, the film is a tale of lost innocence and redemption amidst the crushing poverty of Manila’s slums.

 

P-Town Summer

P-Town Summer by Lisa Stocker In this novel, Lisa Stocker follows the adventures of two lesbian couples who escape to the fun and sun of Provincetown, only to find that a week among the beautiful and the butch, the needy and the needling, brings more drama and trauma than they bargained for.

 

An Angel Named Billy

An Angel Named Billy   Loving father Mark has recently suffered a stroke, yet even in his frail state he recognizes that his gay son James is in desperate need of a companion. When Mark and his best friend Thomas launch a search to find James a suitable mate, they soon make the acquaintance of troubled teen Billy. Having been recently kicked out of his home for kissing another man, Billy responds to a help wanted ad posted in a gay neighborhood café. It was Mark who placed that ad, and soon after meeting Mark introduces Billy to his lonely son James. While it remains to be seen whether Billy and James’ relationship will blossom unto true love, the companionship that they provide for one another will help both to come to terms with their true sexuality and finally understand what it means to meet someone who is truly accepting.

 

The Dying Gaul

The Dying Gaul   A powerful and seductive Hollywood mogul convinces an impoverished West Hollywood writer, whose lover has recently died of AIDS, to sell his autobiographical screenplay for big bucks. The writer, Robert, knows he’ll have to make major changes in the script. During the rewrite, the producer, Jeffrey, takes Robert under his wing, introducing him to his wife Elaine, herself a closet screenwriter. Jeffrey approaches Robert for sex and Elaine approaches Robert out of curiosity about his sex life in grief. The entangled triangle of relationships threatens more than the completion of a film script.

 

FAQs

FAQs   India, a name he’s given himself because it sounds cool, finds himself surviving the rough streets of Los Angeles. Tossed out by straights, beaten, exploited by pornographers, and starved, he soon crosses paths with Destiny, a gun-toting vigilante who saves him from a couple of bashers. Proud and sexy, Destiny teaches India to be the same.

 

Martin

Martin   In Madrid, Martín has been living the life of a recluse whose only contacts are his squeeze Alicia, who escapes her life by an addiction to coke but loves Martín, and his best friend the bisexual actor Dante who is an Epicurean living all aspects of life for the pleasures he finds. Once Hache has moved in with his distant, cold, sullen father he falls under the influence of Alicia and Dante who adore him and attempt to show him a life of sunshine in Madrid while Martín sequesters himself in his writing. How this unlikely quartet interacts, bouncing the Apollonian against the Dionysian poles of living forms the basis for the story. Hache grows to understand the spectrum of worldviews, a tragedy occurs, and the ongoing silent duel between the father and the son comes to a touching resolution.

 

Boys Life 1

Boys Life 1   Three separate 30-minute stories expose the difficulty of being gay for three young men in the already awkward period of adolescence. A high school student in “Pool Days” finds excitement in his health club job. In “A Friend of Dorothy,” a college freshman hopes his handsome roommate is also gay. And in “The Disco Years,” Tom is crushed when the tennis player with whom he had a fling leaves him for a girl and joins an openly homophobic crowd.

 

Boys Life 2

Boys Life 2   In the wake of its successful predecessor, this quartet of films continues the topic of life as a gay male in America. “Must Be the Music” offers a frank depiction of urban gay youth; “Nunzio’s Second Cousin” finds a gay cop getting even with some homophobes; “Alkali, Iowa” chronicles a homosexual, Midwestern teen who unearths his dead father’s secret; and “The DadShuttle” centers on the communication breakdown between a father and his gay son.

 

Boys Life 3

Boys Life 3   “Majorettes in Space” -French film that juxtaposes gays, straights and the Pope in a very interesting way. “hiTCH” -a story about a young gay man and straight man on a road trip. “Inside Out” -It’s about a young man dealing with being a celebrity’s son and gay. Well-done with a few good lines and a nice cameo by Christina Crawford. “Just One Time” -is basically a promo for the feature film of the same name. “$30″ -an excellent short about a prostitute and a closeted young man trying to lose his virginity.

 

Boys Life 4

Boys Life 4   “L.T.R.”- chronicles the relationship of two young twenty something boys. This one is by far and away the funniest segment. “This Car Up”- which is told quite imaginably (you have to see it for yourself), about two men who seem diametrically opposed to one another in every possible way. “O Beautiful”- tells the story of a young gay man who is attacked and sexually molested by a group of homophobic men in a New Jersey cornfield, and is then rescued by one of his attackers. “Bumping Heads”- tells the story of a 35 year old man, Craig, and his twenty something companion, Gary, who are in the emergency room of a hospital as a result of a fight Craig was involved in in a local gay bar.

 

Boys Life 5

Boys Life 5   The Boys Life series continues with a further four short gay-themed films. “Fishbelly White” follows a young man as he explores his homosexual tendencies for the first time. “Time Off” is an award-winning examination of sexuality in the Israeli army. “Dare” sees a highly unlikely relationship develop between two very different high school boys. “Late Summer” is about a photographer recalling his sexual awakening at the hands of his older cousin.

 

Flirt

Flirt   The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Japan). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a “permanent” relationship, what do they choose to do?

 

Totally Fucked Up

Totally Fucked Up   Totally Fucked Up chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six gay adolescents who have formed a family unit and struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of various major obstacles.

 

Douches Froides

Douches Froides (Cold Showers)   The film tells the story of three teenagers, a girl, Vanessa, and two boys, Mickael and Clement, who face changes and problems in the period of three months as they enter adulthood. Mickael is a Judo fighter with dreams of making it big to escape his dreary surroundings and troubled parents. He meets and falls for Vanessa and their relationship expands to include Mickael’s wealthy sparring partner Clement,

 

East Side Story

East Side Story   In East Los Angeles, handsome young Diego works at his family’s restaurant while secretly having an affair with a hunky but super-closeted real estate agent, Pedro. For the largely Latino neighborhood, the landscape is literally changing as white folks move in, including gay couple Wesley and Jonathan. Diego, increasingly frustrated with his hush-hush situation with Pedro (who, making matters worse, romantically pursues a female relative of Diego’s!), falls for Wesley. But racist and homophobic friends, relatives and, in Wesley’s case, a pissy ex-boyfriend guarantee this affair will be no picnic. Almost a companion piece to Quinceañera, director Carlos Portugal’s East Side Story employs a perfect blend of humor, drama and soap opera-worthy plot twists in telling this very timely tale of a neighborhood — and some of its residents’ lives — in flux.

 

Madagascar Skin

Madagascar Skin   This is the story of Harry and Flint, an unlikely couple. Harry is a shy young gay man who can’t seem to fit into his local bar scene. Flint is a crusty, older, and seemingly straight man with a questionable background. They meet on a gorgeous coastline, and evolve from distrust to deep love.

 

Starcrossed

Starcrossed   Darren and Connor are two star-crossed lovers bound together by blood. Set in a suburban neighborhood, Star-crossed is an atmospheric story of two brothers who’s relationship develops into something more than society could ever handle. Unable to deny their feelings for each other the two brothers try to hide their relationship from an unkind world but fail. The boys decide that a world that can’t understand them is a world thats not for them.

 

De-Lovely

De-Lovely   The marriage of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda, told loosely as a three-act review with Porter watching. In act one, Porter and Linda meet in Paris, fall in love and marry with her knowledge of his being gay; on to Venice and New York, where parties, music, and their love lead him to decide to compose professionally. Act two is New York and Hollywood, where success awaits, as do an increasing number of young men who take Porter’s attention from Linda and leave her lonely and apart. Act three begins with a crippling accident that brings Linda back to Porter’s side, their attentiveness to each other renewed in his pain and her illness.

 

Prom Queen

Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story   Set in the fictional working-class town of Inniston, Prom Queen introduces viewers to Marc Hall, a popular student who manages to avoid the typical harassment a gay kid in a small town would expect to face. But when Marc decides to take his boyfriend to the prom, he finds he has stepped over the line, straight into the fight of his young life. Suddenly, with the spotlight of the nation’s media cast squarely on his struggle, he discovers he is battling not just for his right to date, but for the rights of gay people everywhere

 

Savage Grace

Savage Grace   The true story of the beautiful and charismatic Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Their only child is a failure in his father’s eyes, and as he matures and becomes increasingly close to his lonely mother, the seeds for tragedy are sown.

 

50 Ways of Saying Fabulous

50 Ways of Saying Fabulous   50 Ways of Saying Fabulous is the story of 12 year-old Billy, who is about to discover that growing up is a lot more confusing than he could have ever imagined. He is a farmer’s only son who is out of step with the other boys at his school. He feels they only want to fight and play rugby and while he tries to be the same, he feels he was never cut out to be a farmer or a rugby player. Instead, he prefers to dream about an imaginary life in outer space. In this world, a turnip paddock becomes a lunar landscape and a cow’s tail a head of beautiful blonde hair which transforms him into “Lana” the heroine of his favorite TV show. With the arrival of Roy, the class freak, and Jamie the sexy young farm laborer Billy’s world is changed forever. As he learns about his sexuality, everything he knows is called into question, including his lifelong loyalty to his best friend, tomboy Louise, whose world is changing alongside his.

 

Dog Tags

Dog Tags   Dog Tags explores the cost of self-discovery as two unlikely souls connect. Abandoned by his father and raised by his single mother, handsome and sexually confused Nate obligatorily joins the Marines to support his fiancée. On leave, the detached Marine meets Andy, a magnetic and seemingly free-spirited young man with big dreams of Hollywood. Initially their bond is purely platonic, but the smoldering chemistry they share is undeniable as it sizzles into something sensual and intimate. Together they plunge headfirst into waters of vulnerability and desire, while the identity of Nate’s father finally rises to the surface.

 

The Actor’s Guide to Adultery

The Actor’s Guide to Adultery by Rick Copp   Former child star Jarrod Jarvis is back for his second outing in this wickedly funny novel from the author of “The Actor’s Guide to Murder”. This time, Jarrod is up to his eyeballs in murder, adultery, phony celebrity marriages, and Wendell Butterworth, his former stalker who claims he’s no longer a threat. But when Wendell shows up in South Beach and a mysterious murder is committed, Jarrod and his partner Charlie must find the culprit before it’s too late.

 

Andrew and Joey

Andrew and Joey by Jamie James   Hot-blooded Cajun choreographer Joey and perpetually unemployed, upper crust, All-American Asian Andrew have shared 14 tranquil years of gay marriage in an antique-filled Greenwich Village apartment. But that’s about to come to an end now that Joey has landed a grant to fund a year of study and dance in Bali–with his reluctant lover in tow.

 

Boy Meets Boy

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan   When Paul meets Noah, he thinks he’s found the one his heart is made for. Until he blows it. The school bookie says the odds are 12-to-1 against him getting Noah back, but Paul’s not giving up without playing his love really loud. His best friend Joni might be drifting away, his other best friend Tony might be dealing with ultra-religious parents, and his ex-boyfriend Kyle might not be going away anytime soon, but sometimes everything needs to fall apart before it can really fit together right.

 

Getting It

Getting It by Alex Sanchez   He clicked on Queer Eye, a show where five gay dudes gave some grungy straight guy a makeover — plucking his nose hairs, redecorating his apartment, and teaching him to bake a quiche — so he could confidently propose marriage to his girlfriend and she’d tell him “yes.” Which, of course, she did. On TV the guy always gets the girl. As Carlos watched, he recalled Sal, the supposedly gay guy at school. It was then that the idea first popped into his brain: If Sal truly were queer…could he possibly help Carlos?…Nor to propose to Roxy, of course — at least not yet — but to get her to maybe like him?

 

How They Met And Other Stories

How They Met And Other Stories by David Levithan   Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to appeal to fans of Boy Meets Boy. Here are 18 stories, all about love, and about all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.

 

How’s Your Romance

How’s Your Romance by Ethan Mordden   For a generation, Ethan Mordden’s tales about a tightly knit circle of friends who live within the shifting confines of gay Manhattan have entertained tens of thousands of readers and devoted fans. Now Mordden returns to his best-loved characters – the ultimate hunk Carlo; the best friend Dennis Savage; J. (who was once Little Kiwi); Cosgrove the maturing elf-child; and narrator and ultimate observer Bud – in this eagerly awaited new volume in the cycle.How’s Your Romance? brings the series and the characters full circle – from the early days just post-Stonewall to the vicissitudes, delights, and challenges of the early twenty-first century. Blending the comic, the sexy, the tragic, and the at once realistic and idealistic, these stories are Mordden at his very best.

 

Keeping You A Secret

Keeping You A Secret by Julie Ann Peters   Holland Jaeger is the “It” girl everyone envies–she has great friends, she’s President of the Student Body, she’s the girlfriend of Seth, she’s the popular girl who can be counted on to always get along with everyone. That is, until Cece Goddard transfers in, and Holland’s once-perfect life no longer seems so great.

 

Luna

Luna by Julie Ann Peters   Regan’s brother Liam can’t stand the person he is during the day. Like the moon from whom Liam has chosen his female namesake, his true self, Luna, only reveals herself at night-in the secrecy of his basement bedroom Liam transforms himself into the beautiful girl he longs to be, with help from his sister’s clothes and makeup. Now, everything is about to change-Luna is preparing to emerge from her cocoon. But are Liam’s family and friends ready to welcome Luna into their lives? Compelling and provocative, this is an unforgettable novel about a transgender teen’s struggle for self-identity and acceptance.

 

Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List

Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn   Naomi and Ely are best friends. Naomi loves and is in love with Ely, and Ely loves Naomi, but prefers to be in love with boys. So they create their “No Kiss List” of people neither of them is allowed to kiss. And this works fine – until Bruce. Bruce is Naomi’s boyfriend, so there’s no reason to put him on the List. But Ely kissed Bruce even though he is boring. The result: a rift of universal proportions and the potential end of “Naomi and Ely: the institution.” Can these best friends come back together again?

 

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn   It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who’s just walked in to his band’s show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York City—and smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a first date.

 

Parrotfish

Parrotfish by Elen Wittlinger   Angela Katz-McNair has never felt quite right as a girl. Her whole life is leading up to the day she decides to become Grady, a guy. While coming out as transgendered feels right to Grady, he isn’t prepared for the reaction he gets from everyone else. His mother is upset, his younger sister is mortified, and his best friend, Eve, won’t acknowledge him in public. Why can’t people just let Grady be himself?

 

Rainbow High

Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez   Jason Carrillo, the best-looking athlete in school, has had his eyes on the prize from day one: a scholarship for college.But then his eyes turn to love — and Kyle. Kyle Meeks, swim team star and all-around good guy, is finally in the relationship he wanted. Being in love feels so good, in fact, that he can’t imagine giving it up to go to Princeton. Something he’s worked for his entire life. Nelson Glassman, outgoing and defiant, might be HIV positive. Jeremy, the boy he loves, is HIV positive. Although Nelson fears testing positive, if he is infected Jeremy might stop protecting him and pushing him away. They can be together. High shool’s almost over. Graduation is ahead. Life’s a bowl of cherries, right? Right…

 

Rainbow Road

Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez   Jason Carrillo came out to his basketball team senior year and lost his university scholarship. Now, with graduation behind him and summer ending, he’s asked to speak at the opening of a gay and lesbian high school across the country. But after spending years in the closet and losing his scholarship dream, what message can he offer? Kyle Meeks is getting ready to go to Princeton in the fall and trying to see as much as possible of his boyfriend Jason before they have to separate. When Jason tells him about his speaking invitation, Kyle jumps at the chance to drive across country with him. Yet he can’t help worrying: Will their romance survive two weeks crammed together in a car?Nelson Glassman is happy his best friend Kyle has found love with Jason. Now he’s looking for his own true love — and hopes he might find his soul mate during the road trip. But will being the “third wheel” in a trio ruin his friendships with Kyle and Jason? During an eye-opening postgraduation summer road trip, each of the three very different boys also embarks on a personal journey across a landscape of love, sexuality, homophobia, and above all, friendship.

 

Trust Fund Boys

Trust Fund Boys by Rob Byrnes   First he invented his name. Now he’s reinventing himself. A failed actor and recently fired temp. he’s created a life centered on survival and hopefulness. But plucky doesn’t pay the rent. Rent money pays the rent. The kind of green that you can get if you use your charm and goods looks to convince other people that you’re already wealthy… He appears to be the sort of person Brett’s pretending to be: a confident trust fund baby who has it all. But the only confidence Jamie really has is of the “confidence game” variety. When Jamie and Brett meet by chance one night at the Penthouse, a watering hole for rich, older gay men and the younger men who love their wallets, sparks fly…and they continue to fly even after they discover they’re both playing the same game. …Brett and Jamie’s cynical plan to integrate themselves into New York’s wealthy gay social circuit where the Sugar Daddies are plentiful and the living is easy. Before you can say. “How to Marry a Millionaire,” the two men are mixing it up with a “Velvet Mefia” of gay power-brokers, suspicious socialites, and social climbers, while runing away from compromising Internet photos, creepy roommates, the constant threat of exposure, their own nagging consciences, and Astoria. They’ve got their work cut out for them, but can true love prevail when both partners are basing their lives on deceit?

 

Vampire Transgression

Vampire Transgression by Michael Schiefelbein   Victor Decimus is a two thousand year old vampire, having last seen the sun when he was a Roman soldier posted to Nazareth at the time of Christ. There are few rules that govern a vampire’s existence but those rules are absolute: 1) Vampires are not allowed to associate with other vampires and 2) Once a vampire convinces a human to take his place as a vampire, he must leave the earthly realm for the Dark Kingdom. Now Victor has broken both rules — he’s sired his human lover Paul as a vampire and stayed behind with him on earth as his lover. The two enjoy an intense life as vampire lovers, living in Georgetown and mingling at their private nightclub where little is forbidden. But their transgression is not taken lightly and agents for the Dark Realm are now on the prowl, looking to enforce the rules and, if necessary, punish Paul and Victor by threatening all that remains precious to them.

 

Wide Awake

Wide Awake by David Levithan   In the not-too-impossible-to-imagine future, a gay Jewish man has been elected president of the United States. Until the governor of one state decides that some election results in his state are invalid, awarding crucial votes to the other candidate, and his fellow party member. Thus is the inspiration for couple Jimmy and Duncan to lend their support to their candidate by deciding to take part in the rallies and protests. Along the way comes an exploration of their relationship, their politics, and their country, and sometimes, as they learn, it’s more about the journey than it is about reaching the destination.

 

XXY

XXY   This is the dramatic story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite. She lives with her parents, who have to cope with the challenges of her medical condition.

 

The Woodsman

The Woodsman   A pedophile returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.

 

Wang-ui Namja (The King and the Clown)

Wang-ui Namja (The King and the Clown)   Two clowns living in the Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution, but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh

 

Whole New Thing

Whole New Thing   After years of being home schooled by hippie parents, Emerson is enrolled at his local high school. The intelligent and androgynous youth confounds his classmates and captures the attention of his English teacher. The teacher-student relationship leads to problems for everyone involved.

 

When Night Is Falling

When Night Is Falling   An uptight and conservative woman, working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman who works at a local carnival which comes to town.

 

When I’m 64

When I’m 64   One-off drama about the friendship that grows between two men from very different backgrounds, whose paths cross for the first time as they approach retirement age.

 

True Love

True Love Seven short stories about growing up gay in America and searching for true love.

 

The Trip

The Trip   When 19-year-old gay-rights activist Tommy and 24-year-old Alan first meet in 1973, they find themselves on the opposite sides of the political coin.

 

Trick

Trick   The misadventures of two young gay men, trying to find a place to be alone, one night in Manhattan.

 

Tipping The Velvet

Tipping The Velvet   This tells the story of Nancy Astley , a young girl who works as cook and waitress in her Father’s seaside restaurant – that is until she witnesses the extraordinary performance of a new-to-town male impersonator – Kitty Butler – and begins to undergo a complete life transformation.

 

This Boy’s Life

This Boy’s Life   In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic, but they soon find out that he’s an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic, and they struggle to maintain hope in an impossible situation as the boy grows up with plans to escape the small town by any means possible.

 

Third Man Out

Third Man Out   A gay detective is hired to find who has been been threatening a notorious member of the gay community noted for outing people.

 

Tan Lines

Tan Lines   From the sun-drenched beaches of Australia comes this sexy coming-of-age romance. Cute teen Midget Hollow wanders through life riding big waves and partying with surfer boys. When Midget’s best friend’s gay brother Cass arrives on the scene, the two quickly dive head first into a clandestine sea of sexual awakening.

 

Suffering Man’s Charity

Suffering Man’s Charity   Jonathan Vandermark is a music teacher with a weakness for young men with great aspirations and without a pot to piss in. When Sebastian enters his life and takes advantage of John’s charity, his life and afterlife will be changed forever.

 

Spin the Bottle

Spin the Bottle   When five childhood friends reunite for a weekend in the country, old jealousies resurface, sexual debauchery ensues, and it quickly becomes clear that time may not heal all wounds…

 

Shock to the System

Shock to the System   When private eye Donald Strachey finds his latest client dead, he decides to take matters into his own hands. Strachey’s investigation leads him on a dark and dangerous trail into the world of “gay conversion therapy” – a twisted mix of psychology and religion designed by a doctor to turn homosexuals “straight.” Based on the best-selling series of novels by Richard Stevenson

 

Shelter

Shelter   When his college dreams are sidelined by family obligations, a young man finds comfort in surfing with his best friend’s brother.

 

Running With Scissors

Running With Scissors   Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he’s handed off to his mother’s therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch’s bizarre extended family.

 

Pourquoi Pas Moi

Pourquoi Pas Moi   Four gay French expatriots share a business in Barcelona. When they and their parents are thrown together for a “coming out” party, another French Farce ensues.

 

Poster Boy

Poster Boy   With the help of a hot, slightly older new acquaintence, the closeted son of a conservative U.S. Senator puts a shocking spin on his dad’s re-election campaign.

 

Phoenix

Phoenix   Phoenix is infused with symbolism and a sexy spark. Dylan Wells has a good job, a great apartment and an exciting relationship with Ken Sparks, his sexy well traveled boyfriend who just might be the one. A great life, or so he believes, until Kens visit for Dylans 23rd birthday party is unexpectedly cut short when Ken is suddenly called away to tend to a failing real estate deal, and then disappears.

 

Philadelphia

Philadelphia   When a man with AIDS is fired by a conservative law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

 

Out Of Hand

Out Of Hand   n the story, Sebastian and Paul are two teenaged troublemakers who spend their time drinking, stealing and beating people up. It’s the thrill, the sense of testing their limits… and the wolf-like nature deep inside that attracts them to each other. From the outset, Sebastian emerges as the dominant figure in the pair, because he always wants to go one step further than Paul. One day they abduct 30-year-old convenience-store clerk Sonja and drag her back to their hangout in an abandoned factory. But now, what should they do with her? Paul becomes more distant with Sebastian as he starts to feel attracted to Sonja, trying to help her as much as possible. While Sebastian, not admitting even to himself that he has fallen in love with Paul, feels hurt and jealous… and becomes capable of anything.

 

Oh Happy Day

Oh Happy Day   Two guys battle through the consequences of having had a one-night stand just before they started working together, and learn that to make a relationship work, you have to reveal everything: even if it means getting naked in front of 100 people and a gospel choir singing ‘Oh Happy Day’.

 

On the Other Hand, Death

On the Other Hand, Death   When the residents of a neighborhood are offered huge sums of money to sell their homes to a developer, the only ones to refuse are an elderly lesbian couple. Soon after, the couple’s home is besieged by anti-gay vandalism, but Don suspects that the attack is motivated by big-business rather than homophobia. Filled with twists and turns that only Strachey can navigate, this thriller promises to satisfy even the most ardent detective-story fans.

 

No Night Is Too Long

No Night Is Too Long   Young Tim Cornish’s life has begun with great promise. Blessed with extraordinary good looks, Tim enjoyed much attention and cared little of broken hearts. At University he was a favored student in a prestigious creative writing course, but a chance meeting, a stolen kiss and a sudden flare of passion sets Tim on a journey of betrayal, heartbreak and murder. In a flashback, he tells his story of cruelty, love and a soul-destroying guilt that offers little chance for redemption.

 

The Night Listener

The Night Listener   Gabriel Noone is a late night radio-host in a big city, specializing in spooky tales culled from his active imagination. When Gabriel’s lover decides he needs some “space” and moves out, Gabriel descends into a funk until a publisher friend brings him a manuscript written by 14 year-old Pete Logand, a troubled young fan. Pete’s story touches the vulnerable Gabriel deeply. Pete was severely abused by his parents and is now under the care of his former social worker, Donna Logand, who has adopted him. Pete is very ill and he and Donna are keeping a low profile in a small town in Wisconsin to avoid discovery by Pete’s mother. Gabriel develops an unsettling long-distance telephone relationship with the boy and his guardian. Nothing is as it seems and the skepticism of friends causes Gabriel to become suspicious of Donna and her motives, so he tries to resolve the loose ends by traveling to Wisconsin to confront Donna and Pete. But this effort is largely unsuccessful and we are left wondering if Pete is real, if Donna is really blind or if Gabriel is the deranged soul of the story.

 

Mysterious Skin

Mysterious Skin   A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

 

My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend

My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend   Cliff is America’s #1 soap opera hearthrob…but he’s secretly gay. In order to strengthen his masculine image, Cliff intends to marry sweet naïve Cory, much to the chagrin of his long time lover, Wes. Adding to the chaos, maid of honor Liberty shows up with boyfriend Jake, who falls for a dishy tabloid photographer and feigns gayness to break up with Liberty. With the ceremony approaching, and Wes acting as reluctant best man, the wedding is sure to go off without a hitch. Can Cliff tie-the-knot without his skeletons “coming out of the closet?” Will Wes speak now or forever hold his peace? Will anyone ever figure out what the heck is going on? In this side-splitting comedy, you’re invited to the wedding event of the season…or something close to it.

 

Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler

Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler   A Banker, Husband, and Father, Mr. Smith must leave it behind him. He’s made a mistake and he’s trying to pay for it but he doesn’t know if there is enough money in the world. Or so he tells Bobby the eighteen year old male hustler Smith employs for company. Bobby quickly learns however, that Smith is no regular John, and their meeting has unintended consequences that neither of them is prepared to afford.

 

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green   Ethan Green has no problem finding guys who want to sleep with him or even date him, but finding someone to settle down with is a different story.

 

Maurice

Maurice   Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. Written from personal pain, it’s E.M. Forster’s story of coming to terms with sexuality in the Edwardian age.

 

Mango Kiss

Mango Kiss   “Mango Kiss” is a story about Lou whose world turns upside-down when she falls in love with her best friend Sassafras. They journey to San Francisco and stumble into the wild world of role-playing and non-monogamous S/M dykes. Comedy ensues as these wholesome girls get in over their heads.

 

Man of the Year

Man of the Year   Mockumentary look at Playgirl Magazine centerfold and 1992 Man of the Year, Dirk Shafer, who kept it a secret from the magazine that he is gay. Most of the film is a fictionalized retelling of Dirk’s decision to send a photograph to Playgirl, his selection as a centerfold and then Man of the Year, his many TV interviews, his friend Vivian Paxton posing as his beard, and the pressures from his live-in lover to come out of the closet. Interspersed with this chronological narrative are a black and white look at an evening Dirk spends with Angela Lucassey, a woman from Reno who wins Playgirl’s national contest to have a date with Dirk, and an interview with a stripper who tracks Dirk down.

 

The Man Without A Face

The Man Without A Face   The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Chuck wants to leave home but can’t make the grade for boarding school. Then he finds out the disfigured recluse living nearby is an ex-teacher.

 

Luster

Luster   Luster is a refreshingly funny and sexy look at unrequited love. Jackson, a cute, lanky, blue-haired poet who works in a record store, is at the center of Everett Lewis’ twisted black LA comedy. He’s got a crush on the sexy young blonde, Billy, who he met at an orgy the other night. But Billy’s not into him, he’s in love with Sonny, a musician into SM. And although Billy doesn’t want Jackson, two other guys do: Derek, a clean-cut record store customer, and Sam, the straight record store owner. Into this mix is thrown Jed, Jackson’s hunky cousin, which leads Jackson to seriously contemplate the technicalities of incest. Before he can do anything about it, though, Jed is seduced by Jackson’s lesbian artist friend. What’s a boy to do?

 

Loving Annabelle

Loving Annabelle   Annabelle is a 17 year old Catholic schoolgirl who falls in love with her teacher Simone Bradley. The pushy teenager pursues her until the 30-something year old falls equally in love with Annabelle. Not long after they give in to their lusts their relationship is discovered and Simone is arrested.

 

Longtime Companion

Longtime Companion   Perhaps the first film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic, Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981.

 

Long Island Expressway

Long Island Expressway   A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.

 

Long Term Relationship

Long Term Relationship   Glenn gets tired of one night stands, and answers an ad placed by Adam, who is looking for an LTR. Glenn & Adam are perfect for each other, except for one, or two, or many things.

 

Leather Jacket Love Story

Leather Jacket Love Story   An aspiring young poet relocates from the Valley to LA’s Silver Lake district where he’s distracted by drag queens, sex clubs, gay bashers and a hunky older stud with whom he falls in love.

 

Latter Days

Latter Days   A promiscuous gay party animal falls for a young Mormon missionary, leading to crisis, cliché, and catastrophe.

 

Kiss The Bride

Kiss The Bride   In high school, Matt and Ryan were best friends. More than friends, actually. But in the ensuing ten years, they’ve lost contact. So when Matt receives an invitation to Ryan’s wedding he’s surprised – especially that Ryan is marrying a woman! Matt interrupts his ideal alternative lifestyle to return to his hometown. He plans to rescue his former love from whatever “she-devil” has trapped him into this huge mistake. On the other hand, Ryan’s perky fiancé Alex takes quite the liking to Matt. Is she very cunning, disarmingly ditsy, completely adorable – or all three? As Matt tries to rekindle the old flame, Ryan is intent on putting out any sparks. Ryan dismisses their old romance as just a high school thing, but Matt realizes Ryan may still be the love of his life. All the while, Matt must deal with “his new best friend” Alex, the two families, and a hometown he thought he’d left entirely in the past. As the wedding day fast approaches (like a meteor hurtling toward ground zero), old feelings resurface and secrets are revealed. Each of them must balance the past with the present, and make a choice that will determine the rest of their lives: the boundaries of love, sexuality and identity are never constant.

 

Just A Question of Love

Just a Question of Love   Just a Question of Love follows the whirlwind romance of two young men in different stages of coming out. The film paints a heartbreaking portrait of the difficulties that befall a relationship when one man lives proudly out of the closet, while the other has created a double life to please his parents.

 

Jack

Jack   Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents’ divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living with a man. He slowly comes to terms with his own feelings when the girl he has a crush on turn out to have a gay dad as well and his best friend’s parents end up not having the perfect marriage Jack thought they had.

 

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls In Love

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls In Love   The story of two girls, Randy and Evie. Randy is a low economic class lesbian living with other lesbians including her aunt. Evie is a wealthy, popular girl with a boyfriend. When Evie befriends Randy, she begins to feel a passion for her she’s never felt before. What follows is a sweet, tender romance between the two while Evie is cast away by her friends and Randy is chided by her family. The two don’t care, though, because they are in love.

 

Ice Blues

Ice Blues   A case of murder keeps Strachey and his lover, Timmy Callahan, at home in Albany during a fierce winter because the victim was planted in the detective’s car. The dead man, Jack Lenihan, had left a letter in which he asked Strachey to deliver 2.5 million in laundered money to the city’s reform political party. But the money has vanished, sending Strachey on a dangerous errand to recover it from merciless killers. Suspecting that Lenihan had stolen the fortune from the drug dealers who were his former associates, Strachey flies to Los Angeles to question Lenihan’s mother and friends, a mission with stunning results. Back in Albany, the detective hijacks the millions but the thieves kidnap and hold Timmy for ransom, a situation Strachey resolves in an act daring to the point of foolhardiness. This scene, as well as the disposition of Lenihan’s legacy, form the climax of an entirely unpredictable, witty and raunchy adventure.

 

The Houseboy

Houseboy   The Houseboy is fearlessly raw yet surprisingly tender. Aimless and barely in his twenties, disarmingly cute Ricky is content to play boy toy to a pair of hot thirty-something lovers. That is until he overhears them whisper about a new toy for Christmas. Crushed and totally alone while his couple vacations, Ricky binges on internet hookups, random tricks, and hardcore drugs. Unable to kill the pain, Ricky contemplates the end. But a chance meeting with Blake, a sweetheart college kid with a thousand watt smile, makes Ricky wonder if there is something to live for after all.

 

Heavenly Creatures

Heavenly Creatures   Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme met in school during the 1950s. Instant best friends, they proceeded to spend every minute possible together, often writing about a fantasy land of their own invention. More and more estranged from their respective families, the two girls realise that they are extremely different from most other people, and agree to take any steps necessary to ensure that they are not seperated. The two families are increasingly concerned about the girls’ friendship in a strictly moralistic era.

 

Hanging Garden

Hanging Garden   William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family’s home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) haunted with his past.

 

Gods Of Olympia

Gods of Olympia   Stephan Lacoste and Matthew Michael Dunn star in this erotic drama about the denizens of the little town of Olympia. Far from cookie-cutter, Olympia flings its arms wide open to residents of all sexual stripes, and Proffitt’s Café is the meeting place of choice for young gay men and a few not-so-closeted men who are well-known in the community. There, they swap gossip, advice, support and, of course, phone numbers.

 

Girls In Prison

Girls in Prison   Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O’Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by other “lifer” inmates who help her out when Aggie finds herself marked for murder by an unknown source who thinks she knows more about the murder than she does.

 

Get Real

Get Real   This tenderly romantic film tells the story of Steve, a young man in a British prep school, as he struggles with coming out and falling in love with the class jock, John… who, amazingly, falls in love with him as well.

 

The Fruit Machine

Fruit Machine   The 16 years old gay Eddie runs away from home, where he’s constantly harassed by his father. With his friend Michael he witnesses at the gay disco “Fruit Machine” how it’s owner is slayed by killer Echo. They run away, but now the killer’s after them – however after Eddie visits a dolphin show, he’s more concerned about their life than his.

 

For A Lost Solider

For A Lost Soldier   Set in the Netherlands near the end of WWII, the film is a flashback recalling an adolescent relationship between Jeroen and a Canadian soldier.

 

Food Of Love

Food Of Love   Paul, a handsome and talented music student is employed as the page-turner at one of the world famous pianist Kennington’s concerts in San Francisco.

 

Fairies

Fairies   Timothy is bullied by homophobic classmates at his all boys high school. While studying A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he imagines a world where he isn’t so different. With the help of Midsummer, his quirky teacher, a spectacular musical dream and tons of glitter- he creates a way to fit in.

 

Edge of Seventeen

Edge of Seventeen   A teenager copes with his sexuality on the last day of school in 1984. It shows him coping with being gay and being with friends.

 

Eating Out 2

Eating Out 2   How far would you go to get the person of your dreams? In Eating Out, Kyle convinced his straight roommate to pretend to be gay to get the girl. Now, with the help of Gwen and Tiffani, Kyle pretends to be heterosexual to land Troy, the new guy — and nude model — in town, only to find himself joining the campus ex-gay support group and nabbing a girlfriend! Kyle’s ex boyfriend, Marc, is horrified at the plan and decides to pursue the confused Troy with his own tactic — being his out gay self. Who will win him first?

 

Dante’s Cove

Dante’s Cove   In 1840 Dante’s Cove, an island resort in the Caribbean, Grace is a powerful witch who catches her fiancée Ambrosius Vallin cheating on her with a man in which she imprisons him in the basement of their house, cursing him to spend eternity in evil. Present Day. College dropout Keven Archer follows his lover, Toby, to the island paradise of Dante’s Cove to get away from living with his abusive and homophobic mother and stepfather. Kevin wants to start a new life at Hotel Dante, a local hotel for the gay/lesbian community and the current site of the Vallin household which is now reputed to be haunted. While deciding what to do with his life, Kevin becomes acquainted with the residents of the hotel. But Kevin and Toby’s newfound romance takes a turn when Kevin finds a trap door in the cellar and inadvertently releases Ambrosius’s evil spirit who, with a kiss from Kevin, becomes corporeal again as an evil vampire, and all hell is about to break lose in Dante’s Cove…

 

Crutch

Crutch   An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, Crutch is a coming-of-age tale about a young man’s struggle with family problems and substance abuse. Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, David’s home life is falling apart. As he tries to cope with the impossible situation, the troubled and impressionable teenager falls under the spell of Kenny, a georgous, thirty-something, has-been actor turned theatre coach. When Kenny’s “support” escalates into seduction, David slowly decends into an abyss of drinking and drug addition from which he must escape if he is to survive. Crutch is a dramatic tale of the confusion of youth and the difficulties in finding oneself.

 

Clapham Junction

Clapham Junction   36 hours in the lives of a number of gay men in Clapham, South London. From a civil partnership ceremony to a heated dinner party, five stories are woven into London from school and work, to bars and clubs, during one hot summer’s night.

 

Caught Looking

Caught Looking   A man sits at his computer and logs onto the interactive game “Caught Looking.” He watches as he guides his virtual self through passages, in black and white. He considers but passes on opportunities with rough trade, a teen boy, a threesome, sex in a public toilet, and the kitsch of retro 50’s muscle mystic in the Grotto of Tiberius. He sends his virtual self back to a pair of sailors, whom he films in 8mm. Then he meets a young man, a Tunisian named Karim. The man at the computer screen is interested. His ironic and self-mocking commentary ends; his tone changes. What will happen with Karim? Has our virtual voyeur been caught looking?

 

Cachorro (Bear Cub)

Cachorro (Bear Cub)   Pedro, a gay man with an active social life and big circle of friends, takes in his nephew Bernardo for a couple weeks. When it appears as though it might become a permanent arrangement, however, Pedro turns to his friends for guidance as he and 9-year-old Bernardo begin to forge a household together.

 

Butterfly Kiss

Butterfly Kiss   Eunice is walking along the highways of northern England from one filling station to another. She is searching for Judith, the woman, she says to be in love with. It’s bad luck for the women at the cash desk not to be Judith, because Eunice is eccentric, angry and extreme dangerous. One day she meets Miriam, hard of hearing and a little ingenuous, who feels sympathy for Eunice and takes her home. Miriam is very impressed by Eunice’s fierceness and willfulness and follows her on the search for Judith. Shocked by Eunice’s cruelty she tries to make her a better person, but she looses ground herself.

 

Back Soon

Back Soon   Back Soon is a tender, sexy drama that explores the depths of love, loss, identity and hope. Still grieving his wife’s death, aspiring actor Logan is inexplicably drawn to reformed drug dealer Guillermo. While neither are gay, the pair are baffled when their friendship blossoms into more. But as their relationship deepens Guillermo’s mysterious past erupts and a startling revelation about the true nature of their connection threatens to destroy it and change their lives forever.

 

Another Country

Another Country   Based on the award winning play by Julian Mitchell, the film explores the effect of Public School life in the 1930’s on Guy Bennett as his homosexuality and unwillingness to “play the game” turns him eastwards towards communist Russia.

 

All Over The Guy

All Over The Guy   “All Over The Guy” is a contemporary romantic comedy about the quest to find the “one” when “the one” doesn’t know he’s the “one.” It explores the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance. They do everything they can to NOT fall in love, but finally they overcome the dysfunction of their parents and surrender to their hearts.

 

Ai No Kotodama

Ai No Kotodama   Ootani and Tachibana have been inseparable since high school. Now that they’re in college, they live together, they’re happy and everything seems prefect. But their little world is disrupted when they meet an old high school friend, Yuki, who seems to have a crush on Tachibana, making Ootani feel jealous and insecure. Will Tachibana really choose him over a pretty girl?

 

9 Dead Gay Guys

9 Dead Gay Guys   The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of ‘gainful employment’. This being the offering of sexual favors to older gay men in order to subsidize their respective giros. However, when one of the lads accidentally shags a punter to death, they are forced to look for ‘work’ elsewhere. It is then that they discover the myth of ‘The Bread in the Bed’ – a huge bed full of money. ‘Nine Dead Gay Guys’ is the result of the ensuing caper as the lads begin the search for the elusive bed.

 

10 Attitudes

10 Attitudes   Story of a jewish man who discovers that his boyfriend of 10 years is cheating on him.

 

Rick and Steve

Rick and Steve   The show follows the lives of three gay couples—the titular Rick and Steve, Chuck and Evan, and Dana and Kirsten—as they live in the fictional “gay ghetto” of West Lahunga Beach. The title is a bit of a misnomer, as all three of the main couples have typical “couple issues;” including Steve actively seeking a three-way with Rick and another man, Kirsten and Dana deciding to have a baby (with Rick’s sperm), and Chuck and Evan simply trying to be together with a 31 year age difference between them.

 

Shortbus

Shortbus   A group of New Yorkers get caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.

 

Naked Boys Singing

Naked Boys Singing   This whimsical Off-Broadway hit musical is aptly reworked and transferred to the screen. The self-descriptively titled Naked Boys Singing is a musical revue of songs that poke fun at gay life, body image, love, loss and yearning.

 

Eban and Charley

Eban And Charley   They have things in common: both sign (Charley’s mother was deaf), both play the guitar, both are gay. As their relationship deepens during walks on the beach, singing, and talk of poetry, Charley’s loneliness gives way to happiness when he’s with Eban. But what of this grown man?

 

Eating Out

Eating Out   After getting dumped by his slutty girlfriend, Caleb falls in love with Gwen. However, thanks to Caleb’s roommate, Gwen thinks he’s gay and sets him up with her roommate, Marc.

 

Daphne

Daphne   Set during the years between the “Rebecca” trial and the writing of Du Maurier’s short story “The Birds”, including her relationship with her husband Frederick ‘Boy’ Browning, and her largely unrequited infatuations with American publishing tycoon’s wife Ellen Doubleday and the actress Gertrude Lawrence.

 

The Curiosity of Chance

The Curiosity of Chance   Set “somewhere in the ’80s”, flamboyant and gay 16 year old, Chance Marquis shows up at an international high school in a top hat and tails, immediately attracting the attention of the ‘queer-hating’ resident bully, among others. Through his involvement in the school newspaper, he meets an introverted photographer with a mysterious briefcase, and while practicing tennis, he befriends a catty fashionista, both of whom act as his wingmen in his new high school. He also meets the jock-next-door, with whom he forms a tentative friendship, despite the jock’s cacophonous group of friends. The film follows Chance through a year of high school, with its attendant drama, successes and hijinks, including sneaking into a drag bar, where Chance begins to explore his true self.

 

Coffee Date

Coffee Date   The film portrays Todd who arrives at a cafe for a blind date with Kelly, whom he expects to be a girl. When Kelly turns out to be a gay man, Todd discovers that he has been the victim of a prank by his brother Barry. Todd and Kelly decide to get revenge on Barry by pretending they are indeed now a couple. However, the joke soon goes further than they expected when Todd’s family and friends all soon believe him to be gay. Despite his repeated attempts to prove otherwise, Todd soon finds himself doubting his own sexuality, and feelings toward Kelly.

 

The Broken Hearts Club

The Broken Hearts Club   In the palm-shaded oasis of West Hollywood, we meet Dennis, a promising photographer. As he prepares to celebrate his twenty-eighth birthday, he laments, ‘ I can’t decide if my friends are the best or worst thing that ever happened to me.’ The gang includes Benji, the punkish innocent with a penchant for gym bodies; Howie, the psychology grad student who thinks too much and lives too little; Cole, the charismatic actor who accidentally keeps stealing everybody’s guy; Patrick, the cynical quipster, and Taylor, resident drama queen, who, until recently, prided himself on his long-term relationship. Providing sage advice and steady work is Jack, the beloved patriarch whose restaurant is a haven for them all. When tragedy strikes the group, the friendships are put to the test.

 

Breakfast With Scot

Breakfast With Scot   Eric and Sam have been in a committed relationship for four years. But when Sam’s adventure seeking brother Billy, takes a job in South America, his ex-girlfriend, Julie, is discovered dead from a drug overdose leaving her son Scot to Billy. But Billy is missing in action so Sam is left to pick up the pieces.

 

Boy Culture

Boy Culture   A successful male escort describes in a series of confessions his tangled romantic relationships with his two roommates and an older, enigmatic male client. The call boy who goes by the name ‘X’ throughout the film in order to maintain his anonymity and his relationships between his two roommates, one of whom he’s in love with, and an enigmatic older client who challenges him to find his heart before he will consent to sex.

 

The Birdcage

The Birdcage   Lies and deception — it’s all in the family when a man must convince his future in-laws that he’s as uptight as they are. Armand and Albert have built the perfect life for themselves tending to their gaudy Miami nightclub. But their pastel tranquility is shaken when Armand’s son announces that he’s getting married to the daughter of ultra-conservative Senator Keeley . . . and they’re all getting together for dinner! Can Armand and Albert transfer transform themselves into Mr. — and Mrs. — Family Values in time? It’ll take the performance of their lives, but they’ll do anything — and everything — to pull the chiffon over Keeley’s eyes!

 

Bound

Bound   Corky, a lesbian ex con hired to work in an apartment as a plumber, meets neighbors Caesar, who launders money for the Mafia, and his girlfriend Violet. The two women have a love affair and decide to steal $2,000,000 that Caesar has in custody before he gives them back to Mafia boss Gino Marzone. Caesar is set up by the two scheming women as a scapegoat but things start to go wrong when he reacts in an unexpected way.

 

Big Eden

Big Eden   This is the story of Henry Hart, a successful New York Artist, who returns to the town of his childhood to care for the ailing grandfather who raised him. Back in Big Eden, Henry must come to terms with his relationship to Dean Stewart, his best friend from high School, as well as the object of his unrequited love.

 

Bedrooms and Hallways

Bedrooms and Hallways   A man enters therapy after many failed relationships and is disconsolate about having any social life. In the group session, he comes clean about his feelings for another group member which leads to an affair. Then the situation is complicated by the re-union with his original high school sweetheart and the whole thing transcends into sexual ambiguity.

 

Beautiful Thing

Beautiful Thing   A tender love story set during a hot summer on a South-East London housing estate. Jamie, a relatively unpopular lad who bunks off school to avoid football, lives next door to Ste, a more popular athletic lad but who is frequently beaten up by his father and older brother. Such an episode of violence brings Jamie and Ste together: Sandra (Jamie’s mum) offers refugee to Ste, who has to ‘top-and-tail’ with Jamie. Hence, the story tells of their growing attraction for one another, from initial lingering glances to their irrefutable love, which so magnificently illustrated at the end of the film. In deals with the tribulations of coming to terms with their sexuality and of others finding out, in light of Sandra’s unwavering loyalty and defence of Jamie and the fear of repercussion should Ste’s family find out.

 

Another Gay Movie

Another Gay Movie   The film revolves around four gay teenagers: curious Andy, flamboyant Nico, jock Jarod, and geeky Griff. These four boys want to have sex, but can’t find anyone to do it with. It’s their graduation day and their lesbian friend Muffler’s having her graduation party. The next morning, the boys make the pact to have sex before the end of the summer. Andy has his eye on the math teacher Mr. Puckov, Nico searches the Internet for a man, Jarod falls for a rival baseball player, and Griff is deciding within his crush on Jarod or his exercise teacher. In the tradition of “American Pie”, “Another Gay Movie” will bring you hysterics.