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A time of AIDS : the zero factor   1993


All about my mother   2000
A young mother adopts an unorthodox family in Barcelona after the death of her son in a car accident.

An ideal husband   1999
A highly respected politician discovers an old acquaintance threatens to reveal secrets he wants to remain hidden.

Andy Warhol presents Flesh   1988


Andy Warhol presents Trash   1988
The story of two denizens of New York's Lower East Side, one of them an addict and the other his lover-protector.

Auntie Mame   2002
Patrick Dennis, an orphan, comes to live with his madcap aunt.

Baby doll   1985
Cotton mill owner Archie Lee Meigham's is hours away from the end of the one-year agreement of no sexual relations with his child bride, Baby Doll. But the opportunistic Syndicate Cotton Gin owner, Silva Vacarro, strives to deprive Archie of both his mill and his wife. 5218 Rated R.

Basic instinct   1992
A detective gets involved with a novelist whose boyfriend has been brutally murdered. Did she do the deed?

Beautiful boxer   2004
Based on the true story of a transvestite Thai kickboxer.

Being gay today : candlelight march to remember victims of antigay violence   2000
Demonstration against Proposition 22; various speakers at Lambda Center, Sacramento.

Being Gay Today on Sacramento's town hall meeting, March 1998   1998
A town hall meeting discussing the fate of Sacramento's Lambda Community Center.

Bitter sugar : Azucar amarga   2001
An ardent young communist falls in love with a disaffected young woman amid the ruins of the Cuban Revolution.

Boogie nights   1998
Set in California in 1977, explores the then-burgeoning pornography industry.

Bound   1997
A mobster, his mistress and a tough female are caught in a dangerous plot with over

Boys don't cry   1999
A young transsexual is murdered in the Midwest.

Boys don't cry   2002
A young transsexual is murdered in the Midwest.

Common threads : stories from the Quilt   1989
Tells the story of five people who shared a common fate--they had AIDS and are now commemorated on the Quilt.

Common threads : stories from the Quilt   2004


Crash   1997


Dead to the world   1998
Clips from the Antichrist Superstar tour as well as some scenes of the controversy engendered by the tour.

Diana, queen of hearts   1998
A biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, narrated by Lord Richard Attenborough.

Didn't do it for love   1997
Recounts the life of Eva Norbert, a dominatrix who was born in Norway and has lived in Mexico and the U.S.

Different for girls   1998
Former high school classmates reunite, but one of the boys has undergone transsexual surgery.

Does anyone die of AIDS anymore?   2002
Concentrates on PEP/LA (Peer Education Program/Los Angeles), a group designed to enable and facilitate teens talking to other teens about AIDS. Also interviews gay men engaged in barebacking, AIDS officials at the federal level and men dying of AIDS in hospice programs.

Ed Wood   1994
Based on the life of Ed Wood, director of some of the worst films ever made, who was also a cross-dresser.

Ed Wood Jr.'s Plan 9 from outer space   1994
Aliens concoct a plan to take over Earth by raising the dead as vampires.

Female trouble   1987
A 325-pound transvestite becomes a mugger, prostitute and unwed mother before turning to murder.

Flawless   2000
A drag queen and a medically-retired straight policeman become unlikely friends.

Flawless   2000
A drag queen and a medically-retired straight policeman become unlikely friends.

Freedom Fair 1997   1997
Sacramento's annual LGBT pride celebration.

Freedom Fair 1998   1998
Sacramento's annual LGBT pride celebration, sponsored by the Lambda Community Center

Frida   2003
Dramatized biography of Frida Kahlo, bisexual wife of Diego Rivera.

G.I. Jane   2002
A spoiled American princess joins the army.

Gay youth   1992
Interviews with gay and lesbian high school students.

Girls town   1996
Four inner-city young women struggle with maturity, loyalty and being female.

Glen or Glenda   1995
A documentary-fantasy about transvestism and sex-change operations.

Good nutrition for people with HIV/AIDS   1995


Gymnastikos : power & grace   1993
For centuries, millions of people around the world have watched in awe as gymnasts prform their athletic feats with amazing strength and elegrance. Now you can experience these remarkable performances first hand, presented as an artful study of male motion and fluidity--Container.

Hedwig and the angry inch   2001
A young German would-be transgender M-to-F gets his sex change operation botched and comes to America seeking his other half.

Hell house   2003
Portrays a fundamentalist Christian takeoff of a haunted mansion.

Henry & June   1990
Explores the erotic lives of Anais Nin, Henry Miller and his wife, June.

In the life : American as apple pie episode : episode 604   1997


In the life 1997 year-in-review : episode 702   1997


In the life 5 year anniversary special : collector's edition   1997


In the life celebrates five years! : history and highlights : episode 606   1997


In the life goes global : #704   1998


In the life--Image, identity, diversity, crossing borders : episode 703   1998


In the life's 1998 gay pride episode : episode 705   1998


Interview with Dana Rivers   1999
Interview with Dana Rivers, a transgender teacher who was fired from her public school job when she informed school officials she intended to change her gender.

It's elementary! : talking about gay issues in school   1997


Kinsey   2001
Details the life of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.

Land of dreams : race & diversity in the Sacramento Region   2000


Last exit to Brooklyn   1989
[C]hronicles the lives of a colorful group of small-time hoods and hustlers in postwar Brooklyn--Container.

Latter days   2003
Two gay men, one a Mormon missionary and the other a West Hollywood party boy, fall in love.

Lavender Alliance for Civic Action meeting following town hall meeting, March 28, 1998   1998
A meeting discussing the fate of Sacramento's Lambda Community Center.

Ma vie en rose = My life in pink   1999
A six-year-old boy believes he was meant to be a girl; his family strongly disagrees.

Maurice   1987
Set in pre-World War I England, this film concerns the coming of age of two young men who meet at Cambridge and fall in love. Maurice and Clive strugggle with the desires of their hearts and the rigid constraints of society.

Mob queen   1998
A smalltime mafioso in 1957 Brooklyn gets a new girlfriend who turns out to be transgender.

Mrs. Doubtfire   1994
A suburban husband cross-dresses to apply for a job as a nanny to spend more time with his children.

Night falls on Manhattan   1997
Sean Casey ... is just another idealistic assistant D.A.--until his prosecution of a cop-killing drug lord catapults him into the center of New York's tempestuous political arena--Container.

No on Knight Prop. 22 : house party video   1999
Describes the Religious Right forces behind the antigay initiative Proposition 22.

No one sleeps   2000
A young man whose father told him before his death that the AIDS virus had been deliberatedly introduced into the population goes to San Francisco to prove his father's thesis, with perilous results.

Normal   2003
A seemingly normal heterosexual marriage is disrupted when, after the couple's 25th wedding anniversary, the husband decides he is a female trapped in a male body and wants a sex change.

Not all parents are straight : profiles of families in which children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents   1987
Examines the dynamics of the parent-child relationship within several different households where children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents.

One Institute & Archives   2002


Orlando   1994


Pandemic--facing AIDS   2002


Paul Monette--the brink of summer's end   1997
Chronicles the last three and a half years of the life of gay writer Paul Monette until his death from AIDS in 1995. Narrator Linda Hunt reads from some of Monette's works.

Recognizing CMV retinitis : [early screening and warning signs]   1995
Information for health professionals about cytomegalovirus retinitis, an eye complication of one of AID's opportunistic infectious agents.

Red hot + blue : a tribute to Cole Porter to benefit AIDS research and relief   1990
Various performers perform songs composed by Cole Porter in an AIDS benefit video.

Remembering the cosmos flower   2000
A teenage girl returns to Japan after 7 years in South America; she has contracted the AIDS virus and is confronted with a battery of smalltown prejudice until a friend causes a reconciliation.

Sacramento International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2000   2000
Public service announcement dated September 4, 2000.

Sadie McKee   1934
[Joan Crawford is] at her Depression-era peak as Sadie, a maid who sacrifices all for love, suffers like crazy, but somehow winds up happy at the end--Container.

Schindler's list   1994
The true story of Nazi industrialist Oscar Schindler, who saved the lives of more than 1100 Jews during the Holocaust.

Sex: unknown   2001
Explores the psychological and social ramifications of sexual reassignment surgery.

Sheryl Crow rockin' the Globe live   1999


Silverlake life : the view from here   1993
Chronicles the life with AIDS of partners Tom Joslin and Mark Massi

Silverlake life : the view from here   2003
Chronicles the life with AIDS of partners Tom Joslin and Mark Massi.

Soldier's girl   2003
Based on a true story. A young soldier falls in love with a transgendered nighclub performer with violent results.

Some like it hot   2001
Two Chicago musicians accidentally witness a gangland murder and go incognito to Florida dressed as women in an all-girl jazz band. The singer in the band falls in love with one of them.

Straight from the heart   1990
Stories of parents' journeys to a new understanding of their lesbian and gay children--Container.

Strictly ballroom   1990
A young immigrant woman falls in love with an attractive Australian ballroom dancer.

Tea and sympathy   1984
A young man in a New England private school is harrassed by classmates for supposedly being gay. His relationship with the headmaster's wife grows from one of friendship to romance.

Test for life : information on HIV   1998
Definition of AIDS; identification of high-risk behavior; recognition of the symptoms; importance of being tested; rationale for early treatment.

That's a family!   2000
Designed especially for children in elementary school, That's a family! ... take[s] us on a tour through [alternative families]--Container.

The amateur videocassette   1994
An ex-nun who writes pornography encounters an amnesiac on the streets of New York. In helping him to uncover his identity, she (and he) discover they are potential murder victims.

The best defense   1995
Self-defense for gays and lesbians.

The Brandon Teena story   1998
A young woman passes as a young man in Falls City, Nebraska, until she is found out and murdered.

The color purple   1997
An abused African American woman in the rural South finds two female friends who give her back a reason to live.

The crying game   1993
A haunting, humorous and shocking romantic thriller about Irish terrorists, their hostage and the hostage's exotic girlfriend.

The cure   2004
Two boys set out on a Tom Sawyerlike quest on a raft down the Mississippi River to New Orleans to find a doctor advertised to cure AIDS. One of the boys has AIDS.

The devil is a woman   1998
A fickle woman comes between a young revolutionary and his old friend during Carnival in Seville, Spain.

The dreamers   2004
One woman and two men come together in an erotic threeway.

The eyes of Tammy Faye : a film   2000
Through interviews details the life of Tammy Faye Baker.

The grass harp   1997
A boy comes to a small Southern town to live with his domineering aunt. The aunt's elder sister, eccentric maid and the boy escape to an old treehouse in the woods.

The holy union of Jeanne Barnett and Ellie Charlton   1999
Depicts the marriage of two lesbians by a group of Methodist ministers at the Sacramento Convention Center Theater.

The incredibly true adventure of two girls in love   1995
A romance develops between working class tomboy Randy and the beautiful, affluent Evie when she brings her vehicle into the repair shop where Randy works after school.

The little minister   1987
In 1840 Scotland, the gypsy girl with whom the new pastor falls insuitably in love, is really the local earl's wayward daughter.

The queen   1993
Explores the drag subculture circa 1967.

The Rocky horror picture show   2002
Brad and Janet, the clean-cut American couple, can't get their car started. They end up at the castle of Dr. Frank N. Furter, a transvestite, bisexual alien scientist.

The Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students   1996


The velocity of Gary   1998
A fictional portrayal of the pornography industry.

The visit   2001
Maintaining his innocence, a young African American is nonetheless dying behind bars, suffering from AIDS while serving a rape sentence. His family visit him, and dramatic things result.

The war on wasting : a nutrition education program for people with AIDS   1997
Reviews the importance of sound nutrition in the treatment of AIDS.

The wild, wild world of Jayne Mansfield : and The labyrinth of sex   2003
Vignettes in the life of sex goddess Jayne Mansfield.

The women   2001
A group of upper-class women engage in highly humorous repartee, backstabbing and men-chasing.

Thieves = Les voleurs   1997
... [A] sophisticated professor ... falls in love with a young thief--and falls into a world of murder and self-destruction--Container.

To Wong Foo, thanks for everything!   1999
Three drag queens are stranded in a small Midwestern town on their way from New York City to Hollywood with comical results.

Town hall meeting, Sacramento, March 28, 1998   1998
A town hall meeting discussing the fate of Sacramento's Lambda Community Center.

TransGeneration   2005
Interviews with four transgendered college students.

Trevor   1998
Diary excerpts revealing the life of a 13-year-old gay boy, who attempts to kill himself after he is persecuted by classmates and shunned by another boy whom he has a crush on.

Tuesdays with Morrie   2000
A successful young man spends Tuesdays with his elderly college professor dying of Lou Gehrig's disease and learns about life and love.

USS Iowa--uncovered : the true stories behind A glimpse of hell   2001
Documentary about an accident on the U.S. Navy battleship Iowa that killed 47 sailors on April 19, 1984 that the Navy later blamed on the supposed homosexuality of a sailor, Clayton Hartwig.

Vegas in space   1996
A brave space crew changes sex in order to disguise as show girls from Earth so they can save the universe on the babes only world of Vegas in Space.

Velvet goldmine   1999
A rock star stages his own death and disappearance. Ten years later, an investigative reporter tracks him down.

Voodoo academy : extended director's cut   2003
Two innocent boys enroll in a bible college that provides them with considerably more than they expected.

Wigstock   1995
Gives some examples of acts featured during the annual mega-event known as Wigstock.

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