Biographical Gay Films - Gay Films Matter

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Journey

2017 Documentary

An autobiographical video about identity and an investigation into issues of desire, lust, longing, and love.

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A Tale with Christ and Jesus

2014 Drama, Romance

Christ and Jesus navigate tumultuous relationships with their mothers, each haunted by past trauma and societal pressures.

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Peacock

2015 Comedy, Drama, Romance

A tabooed 19th-century Bohemian romance unveils the birth of a nation's influential writer, blending suspense, humor, violence, and hope amidst societal taboos and personal revelations.

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When I Come Out… Be There

2016 Comedy

Features interviews with 10 LGBT individuals sharing their emotional journeys of fear, anticipation, rejection, and acceptance during their coming out experiences.

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Bailão

2009 Documentary

A generation reminisces about its own memory — what was it like to be a queer man in decades past? With São Paulo in the background, they reflect about the urgency of a life that was kept hidden for so long. And it is at Bailão that these various stories converge.

Sex and the Silver Gays

2016 Documentary

A group of older gay men get together every month and have intimate parties.

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Farewell to Xulhaz

2019 Drama

Based on a true story, this short film follows Xulhaz Mannan, founder of Bangladesh’s first gay magazine, who is murdered alongside fellow activist Mahbub Tonoy by extremists in 2016.

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Real Man

2023 Comedy, Drama

A boy dreams of being a man like the ones he desires. Does the man he becomes live as he imagined?

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Tasty

2017 Comedy, Drama, Romance

A queer teenager discovers pride in his newly embraced identity amid the pulsating energy of a Melbourne gay nightclub in 1994, inspired by a true story.

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Let Me Go

2015 Drama, Romance

Amid the early 1980s AIDS epidemic, Christian faces terminal illness while urging his boyfriend Philip to face life without him, testing their love and resolve.

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Gopi

2019 Documentary

Gopi was the youngest and first intersexual to run in the Legislative Assembly elections in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. Everyday, Gopi fights for the rights of the intersex people and the LGBTQIA community.

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I’m Christian Okoli

2014 Drama

Explores the emotional weight of confronting difficult truths, revealing how vulnerability can be both painful and profoundly liberating.

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Tigger!

2016 Documentary

Celebrated as one of the leading figures in contemporary boylesque, Tigger! is a New York–based performance artist whose bold, theatrical style has helped redefine modern burlesque entertainment.