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- 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.
- A review of Great Britain's Sexual Offenses Act of 1967 on the 30th anniversary of its passage. The Act decriminalized sexual behavior between consenting adult males over 21 and was preceded by a fierce political battle in Parliament, in the press, and among the people.
- Karl-Heinz and David live together in Karl-Heinz' with Karl-Heinz doing all the cooking and cleaning and apparently providing all the income. When David fails yet again to keep his promise of fidelity, Karl-Heinz plots a farewll dinner worthy of Titus Andronicus.
- Roberto separates from his wife and needs a place to stay. When he moves in with gay Marcelo, he is clueless about Marcello's sexuality and the two become close friends. One night after many drinks Roberto has sex with Marcelo and must confront his feelings and the potential ridicule of his family.
- Two boys Michael and Joe become friends when Joe arrives at St. George's school in England as a refugee student. Both are Jewish but one has grown up in a middle class English home, while the other has grown up under the spectre of the growing Nazi movemement. Their friendship lasts beyond school when both find careers in film. When they both fall for the same girl they must decide if she is worth destroying their friendship over.
- Gene Mikulenka is a cowboy who helps run the Texas and New Mexico Rodeo circuits in which he competes. He's also gay. This film explores his personality and motivations as well as how he manages in this ultra macho world while planning his proposal to his long term partner.
- René and his lover Patric live in an old ballroom on the coast in Northern France. When Patric goes away for work, René begins to obsess on a picture of two brothers in dresses that hangs on the wall of the ballroom. He then begins hearing things and seeing things in the old space and begins to question his sanity.
- Bjørn-Erik was a 19 year old devoted Christian. When he determined that he was gay who decided to kill himself rather than living a "dirty and sinful" life. Through excerpts from his diary we learn that he didn't seek any guidance and he got none. His friends and family are interviewed as well as a gay Lutheran couple and some Christian fundamentalists.
- Simon Harvey was a gay man unable to reconcile his gay feelings with his strict christian upbringing. At the age of 26 he killed himself. Simon's father said "To discover my son was gay was as bad as losing him." This film depicts the last six months of his life and examines how religious belief can be used to justify social prejudice.
- For over 100 years Oxford and Cambridge have squared off once a year in a boxing match. This is the story of the 2005 Oxford Blues team.
- Two skateboarders search for the perfect swimming pool to skate, but $40,000 and a sex change later, they find true love instead. Henry and Fakie live a joyous simple life combing the city for a Blue Haven pool to skate. If only Fakie could find the forty grand he needs to bankroll his sex change. Luckily Fate intrudes to lend a helping hand but neither Henry nor Fakie anticipate that every weird accident is usually followed up by increasingly weird accidents.
- Tom of Finland's drawings have become icons in the gay community for their hyper-sexuality and exageration of all traits masculine. In this short documentary Tom himself (in voice over) describes his life and how he came to develop his own style of drawing. Included are many many samples of his work.
- Compilation of 5 short gay films previously seen at Gay Film Festivals around the world and 1 bonus clip. 1)Tom Clay Jesus shows a one night stand between Tom and Clay which goes nowhere until Jesus enters the picture... 2)Boychick tells what happens when the jewish gay boy in high school channels his "inner Brittany" to attract the cute debate club boy. 3)Audit shows what happens to a Hollywood actor/actress couple when the IRS auditor turns out to be an ex-boyfriend of the actor. 4)The Prom Queen tells of a high school darg queen attending the local prom with his athelete date. 5)Caught tells the story of a photographer who falls for a pre-med student who already has a boyfriend. 6)Rainbow Avenger tells of an overweight gay man who becomes a super hero.
- Outspokenly critical writing teacher allows his criticism to extend to his everyday life and soon learns why that is not a good idea. While the titular "Bullet in the Brain" does its work, we learn by example a bit about the art of writing.
- A spoiled L.A. teenager learns important life lessons when he is sent to visit his cowboy grandfather in Colorado during the summer.
- 10 campers attend the first summer camp for gay Christian youth. These Midwestern teenagers enjoy a week in an accepting environment where they can begin to reconcile their sexuality with their faith among supportive councilors and others facing the same issues.
- The London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard opened in 1974 and 30 years later the switchboard remains one of the most active resources of this type anywhere in the world. In this short Switchboard Volunteers recount tales from their calls that paint an interesting picture of the London Gay Scene during this period.
- Four young men with a flair for drag leave their village to attend a catholic school in Bangkok. When the boys want to join the cheerleaders rather than any of the competitive teams they are rebuffed and end up joining the rugby team. Will they find acceptance on the team or will they find a way to achieve their real goal?
- Londoner Clancy Self has everything, a successful TV cooking show, good looks, fame, and a beautiful girlfriend. Clancy also has Jamie a live in lover. When a dead body is found in Clancy's kitchen, Clancy also has one more thing... A BIG problem.
- A young man receives a letter informing him that one of his ex-lovers has tested HIV positive. In a panic, he takes the HIV test and, as he awaits the results, he tries to figure out who of the many lovers that he's had, male and female, might have been infected.
- When 21-year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+ family bonds are tested. The family decides that 11-year-old Marcel, the youngest, is too young to understand, and the family agrees to keep the unsettling news from him. Marcel overhears enough to understand that something amiss with Leo and when the two travel to Paris together, Marcel confronts Leo with what he suspects.
- Spiro is working in a garage in New York City until his career in the arts can get started. Tim is a young teen from Long Island who runs away from his abusive father and into the city. In the city Spiro and Tim's paths collide. Will their futures?
- Stevie is apprehended in a gay-bashing and sentenced to serve community time in an AIDS hospice. At first, Stevie is intent of doing as little as possible but he is soon confronted with the reality of AIDS. Gradually, he befriends Will, a patient who becomes a mentor to him.
- A gay man returns home to mourn the death of his lover but he's never come out to his family and they are unable to help as they are unaware of his recent loss. Meanwhile he's drawn to a flirtation with an anonymous stranger by a message left in a men's room.
- Kyle Dean was a misfit in her North Carolina school. She was called "Creature" because she was a boy who knew she was a girl in part of the country where such things were not understood or tolerated. As soon as she could she left North Carolina for Hollywood where she felt that she'd stand more of a chance of becoming who she wanted to be. Now as Stacey she's going back to visit with with Mom and Pop.
- In 1948, a secret club was established in Norway when homosexuality was a criminal offence. Although curtains were always drawn and new members were put through a screening process, this rare sanctuary provided a safe space for meeting and dancing at a time when being outed meant social ruin. With humour and a touch of sadness, some of the survivors of those days share their joyous stories of love, lust and politics.
- A somewhat unhappy man and wife are touring New York's Prospect Park, when they encounter a pair of sailors on shore leave. The wife and one sailor give in to their desire and tarry a bit. Later, after they all get back together, the wife realizes she is not the only one with unsatisfied desires.
- The painfully brutal tale of the sexual awakening of a young Palestinian man as influenced by the his libido and the violence around him. His encounter with an elderly Jewish man in Tel Aviv stirs memories and bring these feelings to a head.
- Amory Peart conducts a tour through London's sexual netherworld. Included on the tour are a factory that manufactures sex dolls to custom specifications, a demonstration of a vac-bed that seals the user inside, a water sports club, and meet the people on the other end of those phone sex lines. We also see Alexis Arquette demonstrate (with the aid of two assistants) the pleasure and possibilities of auto fellatio.
- The earth spins at 1000 miles per hour on a journey around the sun every 365 days, it's only natural that we feel dizzy from time to time. On a trip halfway round the world the Michigan born narrator recalls episodes from his past including his childhood car trips in Canada and his one-time boyfriend in Berlin.
- Two young men, sleeping in the same bed, (College roommates? high school buddies?) talk of movies, discuss religion, and work on a comic book, between bicycle rides over several days and share some secret dreams. They may be drawing a comic book but one of them is NOT interested in Drawing Girls.
- Bruce leaves his girlfriend behind in Paris for an arts fellowship that will allow him to live and work in Rome. Staying at a villa that once belonged to the Medici and being allowed to write full time seems like a dream until he meets Matteo, a native of Rome who works at the villa. Daily exposure to renaissance art and ancient Roman statuary and the looks of desire that he thinks he recognizes in Matteo's eyes leads Bruce to question his own sexual orientation. Why does Matteo seem to enjoy falling asleep in Bruce's bed so often? And why is Matteo so attentive one minute and so distant the next? If Matteo is interested, why does he also seem so interested in Irene, the American girl? And if Bruce is straight why does he care so much?
- Sex and politics collide in this tale of forbidden love, blackmail and murder. Set up by the secret police to compromise a prominent politician, a teenage hustler discovers himself passionately in love with the man he must betray.
- A typical couple celebrates their wedding anniversary in an atypical restaurant. After three men flirt with the husband and the wife becomes interested in a lesbian couple at another table, things happen which change the couple's relationship forever.
- After living on the tough streets of LA for a while, India hopes that every gay basher will meet his destiny. In this case Destiny is a black, 6 foot, high heel wearing, gun toting, drag queen with an attitude and a soft place in her heart for homeless gay boys.
- Two sisters arrive at their parents' home for Christmas with boyfriends in tow. When the family leaves for a last minute trip to the mall, the two boys are left to mind the turkey. What ensues will surely become a memorable holiday for all.
- A strike at a sawmill in a small Canadian town puts Steph and Piston out of work. They want to resurrect their band but Marie-Lou, Piston's ex-wife and the band's former lead singer is not enthusiastic about the idea. Meanwhile Steph is having realtionship trouble with Rose, an older woman that he's been seeing and drifts first to Marie-Lou and then to Charles, who once left town but is now back.
- Oskar is a goldfish and the unoffical lanlord of a flat in Rome. His human room mates are ever changing and they keep trying to fix Oskar up with some female companionship but Oskar kills any female fish put in his bowl. Perhaps he's as gay as his room mates?
- A doctor and his wife are very different people. He is all about his work and she is into every form of experimental art and the people who make it. When they agree to host the artists for a month at their country place, matters come to a head.
- As a common birthday approaches, five very different people are faced with very similar problems. Jim, a gay, overweight telemarketer (for a weight loss program) faces his self esteem issues. Ron, is a minister who preaches about conversion but practices watching gay porn whenever he can. Javed living in the US with a gay porn actor faces deportation as a Pakistani and condemnation from his Islamic family. Javed living in the US with a gay porn actor faces deportation as a Pakistani and damnation from his Islamic family. Kelly, a young lesbian weathers a breakup with her lover and considers an earlier unrequited love. Tracy, an asian lesbian, goes back in the closet when her mother visits.
- Jeff Danis is a successful Hollywood agent. Over 40 and with a steady lover he now feels that a child is necessary to make his life complete. Over the doubts of his lover he decides to adopt a young orphan from Viet Nam. This film documents the process and follows him and his lover on their trip to Viet Nam and the beginning of their journey as parents.
- Ale van Dyk and Oscar Janssen spent 48 years together. Now they're getting married. These two men met in 1955 and have been together ever since living openly as homosexuals. Now that the legal climate has changed they have invited friends and family to attend their wedding. In this film we learn a little bit about the workings of this kind of long term relationship and also see glimpses of a history that is (hopefully) now in the past.
- A closeted banker, middle-aged and successful, falls madly in love with a poor but handsome 18-year-old student with devastating consequences for the young man. An updating of Death in Venice.
- Three hungover Penrith boys conspire to break up a couple on high street when one of the mates is smitten by one of the pair. The best laid plans of hung-over boys meet a florist with a cricket bat in this morning after adventure resulting in an unexpected outcome for all.
- Adapted from Yoram Kaniuk's best-selling novel, this heart-rending love story unfolds during the siege of Jerusalem in 1948. A young and beautiful volunteer nurse is drawn to the enigmatic Himmo, a mortally wounded and mutilated soldier who cannot speak or move.
- In Native American culture homosexual men and women were accepted as being two-spirit people and were thought to have the power to bridge worlds between the present world and the spirit world. This documentary interviews present day lesbian and gay native Americans about their lives and the homphobia that they face.
- Documentary investigation into on-line internet cruising in the gay community. Interview subjects reveal information as to their reasons for cruising on-line. The frequency with which they meet people on-line and their attitudes toward how truthful they and others are.
- Tensions boil at an English catholic boys' school during WWII. When a German paratrooper lands on the school grounds only to be killed by a mysterious boy who has just arrived, the audience soon learns that more is going on than meets the eye.
- Gay people exist in Armenia, Syria, Iran, Egypt and Sudan too. They are Christians, Muslims and Jews, belonging to and rejected by their own cultures. In this series of interview we learn a bit about their lives and hear a few critiques of western media and its oversimplified, often negative depictions of these peoples and cultures.
- Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, is a small steel town on Lake Superior. Bob Goddere is an openly gay man who has lived there for years and hosts dances for the local Gay & Lesbian community in his basement. This is his story and the story of what gay-life in one small Canadian town is like.