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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
A nine-year-old boy's preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale. Junior is a beautiful boy, with big brown eyes, a delicate frame, and a head of luxurious dark curls. But Junior aches to straighten those curls, to acquire a whole new look befitting his emerging fantasy image of himself as a long-haired singer. As the opportunity...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"On October 7, 1988, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in a shocking act of hate ... In the aftermath, Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie and conducted more than 200 interviews with its people. From the transcripts, the playwrights constructed an extraordinary chronicle of life there after the murder ... Now, in this expanded edition, The...
5) Fireworks
Publisher
Cinephobia Releasing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Italiano
Description
1982, in the heat of a Sicilian summer, two teenage boys, Gianni and Nino, meet and fall in love. The relationship soon becomes a topic of gossip in the small town and despite their families' objections the two dream of living together, something the community is determined to stop.
6) Retablo
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Quechua
Description
In the remote mountains of Peru, Segundo is being groomed to follow his father's footsteps in the traditional folk art of crafting intricate, artisan story-boxes. Segundo reveres his father, but realizes that the weight of carrying the family legacy will keep him on the mountain forever. When he stumbles across a secret his father is harboring, Segundo will come to face the reality of his religious and conservative landscape.
Publisher
HBO Films
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In 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 the portrait of a town forced to confront itself in the reflective glare of the national spotlight, responding with love, anger, sympathy, support and defiance.
10) Elijah's ashes
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to honor their father's dying wish, two brothers, who are at odds with each other over the one's homosexuality and the other's homophobia, take a road trip.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Romanian
Description
Planning to spend a romantic weekend with his long-distance boyfriend, Christi's tender reunion is cut short when he is called in to handle a crisis at work. Christi is a member of the Bucharest police force, and his unit is sent to quell a protest at a local movie theater, where a far-right group has interrupted the screening of a queer film. As tensions between the homophobic protesters and the audience mount, Christi, closeted to his fellow officers,...
12) A little lust
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Italiano
Description
Sixteen year old Rocco's two aims in life are to get laid and to see his favorite pop star in concert with his two best friends. When a bullying incident at school forces Rocco to come out to his divorced middle-class parents their liberal leanings are severely tested. Luckily his two friends stand by him and join him in running away from home (in his parents stolen car) to see their favorite singer in concert, followed hot on their heels by his neurotic...
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