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All over me   1997
Two 15 year old New York girls, one sensitive and vulnerable and the other beautiful and quick-witted, cross the line between sexuality and friendship to discover what coming-of-age is really about. 5218 Rated R.

Beautiful thing   1997
Two young men fall in love amid the poverty of an English public housing project.

Better than chocolate   1999
A lesbian closeted to her family tries to conceal her new romance from her mother and brother, who have just moved in with her.

Better than chocolate   1999
A lesbian closeted to her family tries to conceal her new romance from her mother and brother, who have just moved in with her.

Boys life   1995
Three tales of young men coming out.

Boys life   2004
Three tales of young men coming out.

Burlesk king   2001
The son of an abusive American father and a Filipina mother escapes to Manila to plot revenge. After finding work as a macho dancer in the city's gay clubs, Harry creates a nurturing circle of friends and finds the strength to confront the family he left.

Clara's summer   2005
A young woman falls in love with another woman and has her first lesbian experience while at camp.

Come undone   2001
Two French boys embark on a hot and heavy affair and learn something about gay first loves.

Cool!   2005
Five friends participate in a major bank heist. When they are arrested, the judge sentences them to a year and a half in an experimental reform school.

Death in Venice   1984
A man vacationing in Venice becomes enchanted by a boy of fifteen.

Denied   2004
A small-town gay high school student falls in love with another man, but their furtive liaison is one-sided.

Eban and Charley   2004
A 17-year-old falls in love with a 29-year-old with painful results.

Edge of seventeen   2000
A young man throws himself into a heterosexual affair to conceal his passion for a gay co-worker.

For a lost soldier   1994
A Dutch teenager has his first sexual experience with a liberating Canadian soldier.

For a lost soldier   2002
A Dutch teenager has his first sexual experience with a liberating Canadian soldier.

Friends forever   1992
A young boy rejects a friend who comes out to him but later regrets it and reestablishes the friendship.

Fun down there   1991
A young man from upstate New York comes out in New York after moving there.

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

Get real   1999
A teenage boy deals with the travails of being openly gay in high school.

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

GLSEN/Judy Shepard PSA   2003


Gossenkind = Street kid   1992
The story of an adolescent hustler in Dusseldorf.

Heavenly creatures   1994
Two students in a private girls' school develop an obsessional relationship with one another. Their parents try to separate them with murderous results. Based on a true murder case in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1952.

In & out   1997
A high school English teacher in small-town Indiana is outed by a former student.

Judy Shepard PSA : network version   2003


L.I.E.   2002
Sex, robbery and concealment on Long Island between teenage burglars and an older qgay man.

L.I.E.   2002
Sex, robbery and concealment on Long Island between teenage burglars and an older gay man.

Lilies   1997
A bishop arrives at a Quebecois prison to hear the confession of an elderly convict. Other prisoners lock the two of them in the prison chapel and reinact scenes from the prisoner's and the bishop's earlier lives, which includes the convict's love for a boy who died forty years earlier.

Los placeres ocultos   1985
A wealthy gay executive uses his power to persecute a young man whom he fancies.

Mambo italiano   2004
A young Italian-Canadian upsets family tradition by coming out to his family, but the results are amusing.

My so-called life   2002
A multitextured and mature depiction of the trials of an adolescent girl.

Nico and Dani   2001
Two young Spaniards spend a summer idyll near Barcelona. One of them is gay and has a growing attraction to his friend, but their fun ends abruptly when the straight member of the friendship discovers the attraction.

Nighthawks   1998
A closeted London geography teacher is eventually confronted by his students, wanting to know if he is gay.

Not angels but angels   1994
A documentary of teenage male prostitutes of Prague, Czech Republic.

Our Lady of the Assassins : Virgen de los Sicarios   2001
An older Colombia returns to Columbia for his sunset years and befriends a street kid.

Out in the cold   2001
Tells the story of abandoned gay and lesbian youth on America's streets.

Outcasts   1992
A Taiwanese photographer decides to help gay teenage boys who have been abandoned by their families. He and the boys open Taiwan's first gay nightclub, the Blue Angel.

Prelude to Victory : the 1993 March on washington video   1993
Prelude to victory also broadcast on PBS under the title Lives in the Balance: the gay and lesbian movement in the 1990s. It presents information in topical/subject oriented segments with comments from attendees and excerpts from the speakers. Includes information on activites around the weekend of the March. Videotapes sponsored by Out magazine.

Pretty boy : Smukke dreng   2005
A gay runaway takes up with an older, closeted man. He hits the streets after the older man's girlfriend discovers he has acquired a young gay lover. The youth pairs with an adolescent woman in the street gang, but then his former lover decides he wants him back.

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.

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.

The journey of Jared Price   2000
A young man leaves Georgia for Southern California, where he awakens to his gay nature.

The lost language of cranes   1993
Details the story of a gay father and son; the father decides to come out to his wife and gay son after his son comes out.

The truth about Jane   2001
Tensions between a mother and her lesbian daughter intensify over the daughter's infatuation with another high school student.

Therese and Isabelle   1995
A Frenchwoman returns on a visit to the Catholic girls' school of her youth and engages in a revery recalling her first lesbian love affair.

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.

Twist   2004
Violence and tragedy among young hustlers and drug users in Toronto.

Violet's visit   2004
A girl visits her estranged father, who is in an 8-year gay relationship. Everyone learns a lot about the meaning of love and family.

Wild reeds : Roseaux sauvages   1994
A young Frenchman comes to a sexual awakening during the French-Algerian War.

You are not alone   1992
Two boys in a Danish boarding school become lovers amid mounting tension over the expulsion of a troubled student.

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