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Links to films recently added to the SFCC Library collection
Videos in the SFCC Library
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Chris & Don a Love Story (2009) (DVD) CHRIS
Coming Out Under Fire (1995) 940.5409 COMING
Desire—dir. Stuart Marshall, 1989 (1992) 940.5308 DESIRE
Get Real [A] (2000) DVD GET REA
Gia (2000) DVD GIA
Gods and Monsters (1999) DVD GODS AN
Growing Up Gay (1993) 306.766 GROWING
Hairspray 1988 Hairspray 2007 DVD HAIRSPRAY
Hedwig and the angry Inch (2001) DVD HEDWIG
The Hunger (1997) DVD /VHS HUNGER
The incredibly true adventure of 2 girls in love (2004) DVD INCRED
It’s Elementary: Talking about Gay Issues in School (1997) MV 12949-TRAINING
It’s in the Water (1996) DVD IT’S IN
It’s My Party (2003) DVD ITS MY
Kate Clinton: The Queen of Comedy (1996) 792.7 CLUB
Laramie project (2002) DVD LARAMIE
Lea Delaria: The Queen of Comedy (1997) 792.7 GIRL
Longtime Companion (2001) DVD LONGTIME
Love! Valour! Compassion! (2004) DVD LOVE
Malcolm. Albee, Edward (1987) VHS MALCOLM
Mambo Italiano (2004) DVD MAMBO
Maurice (2004) DVD MAURICE
My Beautiful Laundrette (2003) DVD BEAUTIFUL (Kureishi)
Opposite of Sex (1998) DVD OPPOSITE
Orlando (1992) dir. Sally Potter VHS/ DVD ORLANDO
Out of the Past: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Rights in America VHS (1995) 305.9066
Out There (1996) 792.7 OUT TH Out There 2 (1996) 792.7 OUT TH TWO
Paragraph 175 (2002)DVD 306.766 PARAGRA
Saving Face (2004) DVD SAVING
Show Me Love (2000) DVD SHOW ME
A Single Man (2009) DVD SINGLE
Soldier’s Girl (2003) DVD SOLDIERS
Sordid Lives (2003) DVD SORDID
Stonewall (1999) VHS STONEWA
Sum of Us (2003) DVD SUM
Suzanne Westenhoefer: HBO Comedy Special (1994) 792.7 HBO
Tales of the City DVD TALES
Three of Hearts DVD THREE
Tipping the Velvet (2004) DVD TIPPING
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie (2002) DVD TO WONG
Trick (2000) DVD TRICK
Trip (2002 Swain) (2003) DVD TRIP
Victor/Victoria (2002) DVD VICTOR
Wedding Banquet DVD WEDDING B
Wigstock: The Movie DVD WIGSTOCK
Wilde (2002) DVD WILDE
XXY (2008) DVD XXY
Recent Film Purchases
Brokeback Mountain (DVD)Call Number: Circulating DVD : BROKEBAIt's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through their proximity, loneliness and through a shared lack of tenderness and emotion in their lives and are emotionally, physically and psychically bonded to each other almost from the start.
Business of fancydancing (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating DVD : BUSINESSISBN: B0000950WIFormer Spokane Reservation best friends, Seymour and Aristotle have taken different paths when they are brought together for the funeral of an old friend. Both went off to college; one is now a successful poet, the other returned home embittered. Tensions and resentments flare as they meet again.
Chris & Don: a love storyCall Number: Circulating DVD: CHRISISBN: B001KZOUXWDocumentary “The three-and-a-half-decade relationship of the British writer Christopher Isherwood and the American portrait artist Don Bachardy is one of the ultimate true stories of a proto-gay-marriage succeeding in a forbidding climate.
Defying social conventions of the 1950s and ’60s, these two men navigated Hollywood society as an openly gay couple….” New York Times Stephen Holden
Contracorriente / Undertow (Spanish with English subtitles) (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating DVD : UNDERTOWISBN: B004KA1DGGMiguel, a respected Peruvian fisherman, is expecting his first child with his beautiful wife, Mariela. However, their peaceful existence is threatened by Miguel's love for Santiago, a visiting artist whose presence is viewed as a threat by the villagers. When a fatal accident befalls the community, Miguel is faced with hiding his true feelings or coming to terms with who he is and risk losing everything, including those he loves.
Desert HeartsCall Number: Circulating DVD: DESERTPublication Date: 2001Vivian is a repressed English professor who goes to Reno for a quickie divorce in 1959. She spends the weeks waiting for final divorce papers at a dumpy dude ranch. There she mets Cay, a beautiful young casino worker. The two develop a friendship that stirs desires in Vivian she cannot deny. Slowly their attraction deepens into bold sensuality as they develop a bond that renews their hearts--and breaks all the rules.
How to survive a plagueCall Number: SFCC Documentary DVD : 362.1969 HOW TO 2013ISBN: B00A92MGLAThe story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in record time.
Kids are all right , TheCall Number: SFCC Circulating DVD: KIDS AREISBN: B003L20ICENic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. They have two teen-aged children, Joni, who is Nic's biological child, and Laser, who is Jules' biological child. A big-hearted, sexy and uproariously funny movie that combines comedic surprise with poignant emotional truth.
Laramie project , TheCall Number: Circulating DVD: LARAMIEIn October 1998, 21 year-old Matthew Shepard was found savagely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming. This film is a dramatization of a town forced to confront itself in the reflective glare of the national spotlight, responding with love, anger, sympathy, support, and defiance.
Living EndCall Number: SFCC Circulating DVD: LIVINGISBN: B00134SU2CPublication Date: 2008Focuses on the relationship between a pair of young, HIV-positive outcasts.
Love to hideCall Number: Circulating DVD: LOVE TOA stirring drama that takes place in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1942. A gay male couple must keep their love a secret for fear of persecution. Their lives are further complicated by a young Jewish woman seeking refuge.
My brother the devilCall Number: SFCC Circulating DVD: MY BROTHER 2013ISBN: B00DUGPD76Rashid is a young man from a traditional Arab family who runs with a gang that rules the streets of Hackney. Rashid's younger brother, Mo, idolizes his handsome, charismatic older brother and dreams of following in his footsteps. However, Rashid envisions a different life for Mo and insists that he stay away from gang life and stick to his studies. Headed on a collision course of conflicting desires, each young man is forced to face himself and confront the brother he thought he knew.
Saving faceCall Number: SFCC Circulating DVD SAVINGISBN: B000AQOHN0Publication Date: 2004Wilhelmina is a Chinese-American lesbian and a young surgeon who has kept her sexual orientation secret from her conservative Chinese community in New York. But when her widowed mother becomes pregnant and is kicked out by her own parents, Wil suddenly has to juggle her mother's secrets with her own.
Single manCall Number: Circulating DVD : SINGLEISBN: B002VECLVOAfter the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor in Los Angeles struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.
Tying the knotCall Number: SFCC Non-Fiction : 306.848 TYING 2005ISBN: B0007WFUROAn exploration of the political battle in the U.S. over gay marriage. Attempts to define the meaning of marriage, focusing on rights, privilege, and love.Way He Looks, The
Call Number: Circulating DVD WAY HEPublication Date: 2014Leonardo is a blind teenager searching for independence. His everyday life, the relationship with his best friend, Giovana, and the way he sees the world change completely with the arrival of Gabriel.
Wedding Banquet , TheCall Number: Circulating DVD: WEDDING BANQUETPublication Date: 2004Comedy about the age-old conflict between parents and their children. In New York, the Taiwanese half of a gay couple hopes to end his parents' matchmaking by announcing that he's engaged. What he doesn't count on is that they'll fly in to meet the bride and plan the nuptials!
XXY (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating DVD : XXYISBN: B001BMN35KThe dramatic story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite, born with what the doctors call 'ambiguous genitalia,' whose parents moved from Buenos Aires to an isolated cabin outside of Piriápolis, Uruguay, to protect their child from prejudice.
Yossi & Jagger / Yosi vẹ-G'agerCall Number: Temporarily shelved in SFCC Technical Services : YOSSIISBN: B0001KNHAO"Based on a true story, Yossi & Jagger portrays the love affair of two Israeli officers in a remote army base on the Israeli-Lebanese border. They are commanders, they are in love, and they try to find a place of their own in an oppressing and rigid system, which sends them to defend a cause they do not necessarily believe in"
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Videos
After Stonewall (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Non Fiction 305.9066 AFTER
Beautiful Thing (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating DVD BEAUTIFUL THINGPublication Date: 1996"Set in London's lower class suburbs, this is the story of a teenager who has discovered that he's gay and his love for another teenager who lives next door."
Before Stonewall (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Non-Fiction 305.9066 BEFOREA social, political and cultural history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s 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.
Bent (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating DVD BENTPublication Date: 2003Pursued and captured by the Nazis because he is gay, Max is placed in a concentration camp where he meets another gay prisoner and learns a life-altering lesson about human love.
Better Than Chocolate (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating DVD BETTER THANPublication Date: 1999Maggie (Karyn Dwyer) meets the woman of her dreams, Kim (Christina Cox), just hours before her mother, Lila (Wendy Crewson), and brother, Paul, move in with her.
The Birdcage (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating DVD BIRDCAGThe story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (DVD)Call Number: 2005For precocious gay 12-year-old Maximo, daily life on the slum streets of Manila is filled with girly clothes, beauty pageants and taking care of his father and brothers. Domestic bliss is soon interrupted when a hunky new cop arrives in town.
Broadway Damage (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating DVD BROADWAY DAMAGEPublication Date: 1998New York City is the perfect backdrop for three determined friends attempting to take the town by storm. Marc dreams of that big Broadway break, songwriter Robert dreams of Marc, and 'shopaholic' Cynthia dreams of landing her fantasy job-- at the top
But I'm a cheerleader (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating DVD BUT I'MPublication Date: 2003Megan's super normal suburban existence is filled with friends, pom-poms and rah-rah enthusiasm until her parents suspect that she may be showing deviant tendencies.
Butch Camp (DVD)Call Number: SFCC Circulating Videos BUTCHPublication Date: 1999An aging sex goddess turned neo-fascist commandant who kicks butt at Butch Camp, a hysterical pseudo S&M style boot camp training center for gay men to learn macho survival tactics.
