gay rights movies

Milk (2008)
7.25 / 10

History, Drama

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an...

Circus of Books (2019)
7 / 10

Documentary, History

For decades, a nice Jewish couple ran Circus of Books, a porn shop and epicenter for gay LA. Their director daughter documents their life and times.

Wedding Wars (2006)
5.5 / 10

Drama, Comedy, Romance

In the midst of organizing his brother Ben's wedding, Shel, a gay party planner, decides to go on strike for equal rights when he learns that Ben is...

Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
7 / 10

Documentary

This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the...

Hating Peter Tatchell (2021)
4.8 / 10

Documentary

The powerful and inspiring true story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil diso bedience rocked the British...

Lone Star Bull (1969)
0 / 10

Drama, Action

Bull Jackson is a bouncer in a gay bar where Jordan performs as a drag queen by night and is a medical student by day. When Coco, their mentor and...

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution (2017)
6.8 / 10

Documentary, Music

A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and was distinguished by its discontent with society's...

The Third Solar Term (2021)
8 / 10

Drama, Family, Romance

Shortly after The Third Solar Term of the Chinese Calendar (the Awakening of Insects), Qizhe returns home to spend his spring break with his mother....

The Advocate for Fagdom (2011)
5.3 / 10

Documentary

The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts...

Cured (2020)
4.2 / 10

Documentary

Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe gay women and men in the 1950s,...

Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride (2010)
4.4 / 10

Documentary, History

Over the course of a year, film follows Vancouver Pride Society president Ken Coolen to various international Pride events, including Poland,...

Queerama (2017)
4.8 / 10

Music, Documentary

Created from a treasure trove of archive, Queerama traverses a century of gay experiences, encompassing persecution and prosecution, injustice, love...

Women on Watch (2021)
0 / 10

Documentary

A mini documentary about the untold contributions lesbians made during the A.I.D.S epidemic.

Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End (1997)
1 / 10

Documentary

Narrated by Linda Hunt, this documentary examines the life of the late author and gay rights activist Paul Monette. Born in 1945 to a well-off...

That Night of November (2017)
6.6 / 10

Drama

Roberto and Miguel have been dating for ten years. A decade of that common life will return to their memories during four days of November. A...

Gay and Proud (1970)
8 / 10

Documentary

1970 short documentary covering the first New York gay pride parade celebrating one year after Stonewall.

The Beauty President (2021)
6 / 10

Documentary

In 1992, at the height of the AIDS pandemic, activist Terence Alan Smith made a historic bid for president of the United States as his drag queen...

Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (2005)
4.25 / 10

Documentary

The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in...

Like a Prayer (1990)
0 / 10

Documentary

Produced by the activist video collective ACT UP/NY called DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Activist Television), this tape analyzes the collaborative...

LGBT United (2015)
0 / 10

A documentary on the challenges encountered by LGBT individuals in their childhood, at school, when coming out, and in many social settings. The...