Our GLBT Documentary Videos/DVDs section includes all available GLBT community documentaries from the USA and the UK. There's a great range of documentaries on various events and issues concerning the community, such as; gays in the military (and throughout history), AIDs, homosexuality and homophobia in America, documentaries on specific GLBT community members or projects, drag queens and other gay subcultures, interracial gay relationships and a lot more.
We've chosen to only include movies with significant gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender characters or content on RainbowSauce, if you'd like to search for general release videos by genre: click here. These documentaries are all available to buy - choose your seller!
It's outrageous. It's funny. It's deadly serious. It's GAY BINGO, the monthly bingo game that has become the premiere AIDS fundraising event in the Philadelphia region. Once a month, this sell-out event fuses politics and human drama with sequins and rollerblades. This one-hour documentary captures the spirit of the diverse group of people that turn out each month to find fun, friendship and fulfillment. Meet the players, "Bingo Verifying Divas" (BVDs), sponsors, mothers, fathers, AIDS activists and people coming into contact with the gay community for the first time.
Produced as an educational video and designed for viewing by high school students (the tape includes a study guide when purchased), this stirring documentary addresses the need for tolerance and understanding for young gays and lesbians and calls for an end to homophobia, especially among teenagers. The story follows two widely divergent gays: a troubled gay male youth who committed suicide and a 17-year-old lesbian who has accepted her lesbianism.
It's target audience is straight people, probably family and friends of gay people, who have a need to understand homosexuality better. If you are gay, you don't need to watch this video per se because you know it all--but if you are coming out or are having a hard time conveying to important people in your life what growing up gay was like, this is a great place to start, perhaps by watching it together, etc.
It's the story of Stephen Matthews, a gay Michigan man who was falsely accused, along with his father, of molesting his 5-year-old son. Despite a lack of physical evidence and the fact that the boy's lurid testimony was coerced, Matthews and his father went to prison. They were later released and then retried. Their struggle lasted 10 years, but its legacy remains.
Women directors don't have it easy and lesbian directors in particular face serious problems producing their work. The documentary Lavender Limelight focuses on seven prominent lesbian filmmakers and examines both the frustration's and the ecstasies inherent in their art. Interviews with directors such as Jennie Livingston (Paris Is Burning) and Monika Treut (Virgin Machine) illuminate the process of filmmaking with insightful answers to penetrating questions, often exposing the tenacious sense of humour required to succeed in the business.
Unlike the many "you are there" documentaries that were made on the April 1993 Lesbian and Gay March on Washington, this "personal video" focuses on a group of gay men who convene on the weekend of the march in a D.C. home for a friendship reunion. Super low-budget and mildly interesting, the video chronicles the host's frantic preparations as well as his relationships with his lover and visitors. Their discussions on such issues as coming out, gays in the military and gay/lesbian rights are marred by a simplistic, "Can't we all just get along?" mentality.
In this highly praised two-part presentation, Brian McNaught explains the unique aspects of growing up gay and makes real the experience through his richly-detailed and thought-provoking guided imagery. He also tells his own riveting story of coming out to his Irish Catholic, Midwestern family, and then addresses often-cited but erroneously interpreted biblical quotes. Recently updated, this video can easily be used in segments. Since first released, it has been a popular educational tool.