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- Our Stories, Our Power: A Pride Month 2021 WatchlistRecommended streaming film recommendations from the UCLA Library for Pride Month!
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Selected Images and Stills
Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)
Image from UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Saving Face (Alice Wu, 2004)
Changes (Gerard Damiano, 1970)
Image from UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Behind Every Good Man (Nikolai Ursin, c. 1967)
Image from UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch, 1985)
Image from UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Different From the Others / Anders als die Andern (Richard Oswald, 1919)
Image from UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Lily Tomlin in episode of In the Life
Image from UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Tongues Untied (Marlon T. Riggs, 1989)
Image from UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Queens at Heart (c. 1967)
Image from UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Pat Rocco
Image from UCLA Film & Television Archive.
The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996)
Image from UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Coming Out Under Fire (Arthur Dong, 1994)
Image from UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Getting Started: General Reference Overviews
- The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film
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"[E]xplores works from the past fifty years in order to not only discuss how LGBTQIA+ characters are portrayed in American film, but also how these portrayals affect viewers." - Film, by Lucy Miller
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Essay and bibliography from The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies. - Film, by Noah Tsika
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Essay and bibliography from The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies. - Film and Video, by Ron Gregg
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Short overview and bibliography from Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America. - Film and Video Festivals, by Patricia White
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Short overview and bibliography from Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America. - Film and Video Studies, by Danielle Bouchard and Jigna Desai
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Short overview and bibliography from Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America. - Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Cinema, by Barry Keith Grant
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Essay and bibliography in Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film. - The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema
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Edited by Ronald Gregg and Amy Villarejo - Queer or LGBTQ+, by Amy Borden
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Chapter in The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender. - Queer Television, by Hollis Griffin
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Annotated bibliography from Oxford Bibliographies Online. - Queer Theory, by Barry Keith Grant
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Essay and bibliography in Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film. - Queer Theory, by Maria Pramaggiore
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Annotated bibliography from Oxford Bibliographies Online. - Queer Theory/Queer Cinema, by Edward Branigan and Warren Buckland
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Reference overview essay from The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory. - Routledge Companion to Media, Sex, and Sexuality
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Includes numerous survey articles, including Asexualities and Media, Representing Trans Sexualities, Representing Lesbians in Film and Television, and Representing Queer Sexualities. - Towards Trans Cinema, by Eliza Steinbock
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Chapter in The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender.
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