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40 Essential LGBTQ+ Documentaries 

(Photo by ©Off White Productions/ Courtesy: Everett Collection.)

Queer cinema hinges on stories about the one and the many. LGBTQ+ documentary films, though, can only ever extend both: portraits of individuals necessarily speak more broadly about the community they come to represent, while chronicles of a collective (or a family, or a segment of the population) can only ever do so through individual testimonials and the unique vision of the filmmaker at hand. Films enjoy Portrait of Jason and Tongues Untied,for instance, say contemporary viewers as much about the individual stories about gay Black men presented on screen as about the communities (real and imagined) that their respective filmmakers brought to bear on their finished films. The following list of LGBTQ+ documentaries proposals us windows into the past, allowing us glimpses into moments made worthy by their mere documentation.

Yet to say nonfiction filmmaking has merely documented the LGBTQ+ community is to sell short the work that some of the seminal documentaries listed below include accomplished. Projects like ’s Word is Out, which compiled testimonials from men and wom

All the Lesbian, Gay, Multi-attracted , Trans, and Queer [LGBTQ] Documentaries, Ranked

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A comprehensive compilation of Queer feature and short subject documentaries — dealing with issues, history, art, significant personalities, and queer modify — and ranking all that I've seen so far, in celebration of Pride Month. [The unranked, unseen ones are listed in alphabetical order immediately following, as of this update starting at #]

NOTE: Not all listed documentaries here are pro-LGBTQ.

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    • 10 documentaries to perceive the LGBTQ+ rights movement

    This International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) we reflect on the historical and continued criminalisation of and discrimination against LGBTQ+ people around the world.

    Despite hard-won successes, there still remains an overwhelming need to amplify awareness and galvanise deed amidst rising hate crimes, and a concerted and global legislative pushback against LGBTQ+ rights. Here are just some documentaries that illuminate the varied struggles, experiences, and perseverance of LGBTQ+ people across the globe, past and present.

    1. Welcome to Chechnya ()

    This heartbreaking and vital glance into the spiralling wave of homophobic violence and anti-gay purges spreading through Chechnya as of the late s. It follows LGBTQ+ Chechen refugees - mostly anonymised for their own safety - using hidden cameras as they fled out of Russia through a network of safehouses aided by activists and good samaritans.

    2. Portrait of Jason ()

    In this candid and spirited documentary interview -  incendiary even by today's standards - aspiring cabaret performer and self proclaimed 'hustler' J

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    • Before Stonewall: The Making of A Homosexual and Lesbian Community

      Traces the social, political and cultural history of homosexuality in America from the s to ; the beginning of the Gay Liberation Movement after a police raid on Stonewall Inn, a queer bar in New York City; and the three-day riot that followed.
      Rating: UR (Unrated)

    • Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

      A documentary examining the life of Bayard Rustin who, although one of the first "freedom riders," an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and A. Philip Randolph, and an organizer of the Parade on Washington, was forced to play a background role in landmark civil rights events because of his sexuality.
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    • Coby

      A small town smack bang in the American Midwest. Suzanna, aged 23, transitions into a man: Coby. His transformation deeply disrup

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