| Title |
Call Number |
Summary |
Before Stonewall: the
Making
of a Gay and Lesbian Community - Robert Rosenberg, John
Scagliotti, Greta Schiller.
The Cinema Guild, 1994. |
HQ76.8.U5 B44 1994
|
A social, political and cultural
history of homosexuality in America from the 1920's to 1969. Traces the
beginning of the Gay Liberation
Movement after a police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York
City, and the three-day riot that followed. |
|
The
Celluloid Closet / Sony
Pictures Classics ; Home Box Office presents in association with Channel
4, ZDF/Arte, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment ; in association with Hugh M.
Hefner, James C. Hormel, Steve Tisch ; a Telling Pictures production ; a
Rob Epstein-Jeffrey Friedman film. |
PN1995.9.H55
C45 2001 |
Assembles
footage from over 120 films showing the changing face of cinema
homosexuality from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist
cinema of the 1990s. Many actors, writers and commentators provide
anecdotes regarding the history of the role of gay men and lesbians on
the silver screen. |
|
Choosing
children / Women's Educational
Media, Inc. ; producer, Margaret Lazarus ; directors, Debra Chasnoff,
Kim Klausner.
Cambridge Documentary Films, 1985. |
HQ75.53 .C47
1985 |
Provides an
intimate look at the issues faced by women who become parents after
coming out as lesbians. Six families share experiences with donor
insemination, nonbiological motherhood, adoption, and other issues. |
|
Coconut/Cane & Cutlass /
Third Eye Productions; producer/director, Michelle Mohabeer.
New York : Distributed by Women Make Movies, c1994. |
F2191.E27 C66 1994 |
A poetic
rumination on exile, displacement and national identity from the
perspective of an Indo-Caribbean lesbian who migrated to Canada twenty
years ago. Her autobiographical journey and the history of indentureship
and oppression of Indian people in the Caribbean are illuminated through
beautifully layered imagery--location footage from Guyana, stylized
dramatic sequences, personal narration, poetry and dance. |
|
Creating schools that are
safe for all of our students/ Kevin Jennings ; Institute for
Development of Educational Activities, Inc..:Dayton, OH : IDEA,
c1998. |
LC192.6 .C74 1998 |
Kevin Jennings addresses homophobia and gay
and lesbian issues in schools. |
|
Forbidden love : the Unashamed
Stories of Lesbian Lives -New York, NY : Women Make Movies Home
Video, 1994. |
HQ75.6.C2 F67 1994 |
Recounts the experiences of Canadian lesbian
women in the 1950's and 1960's who sought romance in gay beer parlours
and bars. Their stories are interwoven with a fictional love story and
set against the tabloids and pulp novels of the time and illustrate the
stereotypes and intolerance they faced. |
|
From a
secret place : America's Families Cope with the Coming Out Process
of Gay and Lesbian Youth /
produced & directed by Karin Heller & Bill Domonkos. |
HQ76.25
.F76 1993
(with guide) |
Young lesbians,
gays, and their families describe their own "coming out" experiences
clearly and poignantly. |
|
A Litany
for Survival : the life and work of Audre Lorde
/ a film by Ada Gay Griffin & Michelle Parkerson. New York, NY
: Third World Newsreel, c1996. |
PS3562.O75 Z655 1996 |
Audre Lorde,
poet and lesbian-feminist, talks about being lesbian and black in New
York in the 1950s. Includes conversations and readings by Lorde and
comments by other writers. |
|
Me and My Rubyfruit Program-New York,
N.Y. : Women Make Movies, [1992]. |
PN1995.9.L48 B45 1992 |
Features the space of Sadie's bedroom,
scrawled notes and defiant expressions which mark her confessional
in-your-face style. Sadie Benning recorded these thoughts and images of
her nascent lesbianism with the help of a Fisher Price Pixelvision
camera. |
|
Off the
Straight & Narrow : Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals & Television.
Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, 1998. |
PN1992.8.H64 O33 1998 |
Off the Straight
& Narrow casts a critical eye over the growth of gay images on TV.
Leading media scholars provide the historical and cultural context for
exploring the social implications of these new representations. Off the
Straight & Narrow challenges viewers to consider the value and limits of
available gay images: who is represented, what they get to say, and how
people respond to them. |
|
Out of
the Past / a Unapix
Films and Zeitgeist release ; Inverted Pictures presents a Jeff Dupre
film ; executive producer, Andrew Tobias ; directed and produced by Jeff
Dupre ; written by Michelle Ferrari. New York, N.Y. : A-Pix
Entertainment, Inc. 1998. |
CHIL 306.76 O94 1998
video + guide |
Told through the
eyes of 17-year-old Kelli Peterson, this film features her
history-making experience of forming the Gay Straight Alliance at her
Salt Lake City, Utah high school and reviews the struggle for gay and
lesbian rights in the United States that continues today. |
|
Pink Triangles : a
Study of Prejudice Against Lesbians and Gay Men
/ Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc. [Cambridge, MA] : Cambridge
Documentary Films, 1982. |
HQ75.15 .P56 1982 |
A documentary
designed to explore prejudice against lesbians and gay men. Provides a
historical perspective for this prejudice and offers a discussion of why
this prejudice is so strong. |
|
Thank God I'm a Lesbian
/ directors, Laurie Colbert and Dominique Cardona ; producer, Laurie
Colbert. New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, 1992. |
HQ75.5 .T485 1992 |
Lesbians of
various backgrounds are asked to express their feelings and thoughts on
being a lesbian, coming out, relationships, feminism, outing famous
people, s&m, bisexuality, and history of the gay movement. |
|
Two Spirit People : the
Berdache Tradition in Native American Culture
/ Gender on a Stick Productions ;
produced, directed and edited by Michel Beauchemin, Lori Levy, Gretchen
Vogel. |
E98.S48 T856 1991 |
Gays and lesbians
describe their own stories; what Americans call gayness not only has
distinct cultural characteristics, its participants have long held
positions of social power in history and ritual among people all over
the world. |