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Tristan Hamilton
  Daddy's Boy
[Short] (Australia, 2006, 9 min)

A coming out film… with a twist.  More»
Barbara Hammer
  Lover Other
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 55 min)

In Lover Other, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer re-introduces the world to the largely forgotten lesbian Surrealist writer, photographer, and World War II resistance fighter, Claude Cahun, and her partner, lover, and half-sister, Mar  More»
Mialyn Hanna
  White Shadows
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 82 min)

An inspirational story of survival and transformation, White Shadows profiles Dalee Henderson, a famed celebrity hairstylist who is diagnosed with AIDS and must reconcile himself to the changes the disease affects upon his body and mind. A gay,  More»
Zhang Hanzi
  Tang Tang
[Feature] (China, 2004, 90 min)

Framed as a personal documentary, Tang Tang is an intriguing experimental blend of fact and fiction presenting a portrait of Beijing-based “gender role reversal” artist, Tang. Performing songs and dances in traditional female attire in  More»
Matti Harju
  Man Seeking Man
[Short] (Finland, 2004, 12 min)

Seppo, a 50 year-old man, decides to place a personal ad for the first time.  More»
Julian Hernandez
  Broken Sky
[Feature] (Mexico, 2004, 140 min)

Gerardo and Jonas share a deep love and an intensely sexual relationship, but one night at a club, when Gerardo steps away for a moment, Bruno appears and seduces Jonas. Vanishing as quickly as he arrived, Bruno nevertheless has a lasting effect on the c  More»
Tomer Heymann
  Paper Dolls
[Feature] (Israel, 2005, 80 min)

In this crowd-pleasing documentary, director Tomer Heymann befriends a group of transgendered Filipinos who work by day as caregivers to elderly Orthodox Jewish men and who appear on stage one night a week, performing as The Paper Dolls. When Israel clos  More»
Jochen Hick
  Rainbow's End
[Feature] (Germany, 2006, 75 min)

As LGBT people in the US struggle to attain equal marriage and adoption rights, we often look to Europe as a haven for inclusion and acceptance. Rainbow’s End acknowledges the great victories that have been won in Europe but casts a spotlig  More»
Mike Hiem
  Idol
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 80 min)

Espionage, the first action show to feature a lead gay character, is hotter than ever as it enters its fifth season – but tragedy strikes: Lance Hardcastle, the popular star, meets an untimely death! Faced with finding a replacement, the ne  More»
Craig B Highberger
  Jack Mitchell: My Life is Black & White
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 75 min)

Director Craig Highberger follows his acclaimed documentary Superstar in a Housedress with this exceptional portrait of Jack Mitchell, a pivotal photographer of the arts for more than four decades. Through hundreds of his beautiful images, recol  More»
Gretchen Hildebran
  Out in the Heartland
[Short] (USA, 2005, 18 min)

Kentucky's ban on gay marriage and how it affects three families.  More»
Brian Hill
  Songbirds
[Feature] (UK, 2005, 62 min)

Outrageous, entertaining and brashly innovative, Songbirds is a documentary that’s also a musical. Whether fierce, meek, or frightful, the hard-luck sirens of Britain’s Downview Prison - some of the most dangerous and notorious female  More»
Alex Hinton
  Pick Up the Mic
[Feature] (USA, 2005, 95 min)

Queer rappers performing queer hip-hop: welcome to the evolution of homohop, a living, breathing contradiction through which beats a thriving, passionate underground. Director Alex Hinton embarks on a three-year odyssey into queer hip-hop culture to unco  More»
Julian P Hobbs
  Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 80 min)

Jefferson Mays, Tony Award winner for Best Actor for his work in I Am My Own Wife, makes an explosive feature film debut in this captivating late 19th Century-set drama based on a true story. Mays portrays Daniel Paul Schreber, a distinguished German jud  More»
Christoph Hochhäusler
  Low Profile
[Feature] (Germany, 2005, 94 min)

Eighteen-year-old Armin has recently finished high school but has no idea what to do next. Still living at home, he agrees to submit one job application a day to appease his parents, but his suburban middle-class existence threatens to suffocate him. As  More»
Julie Hollar
  Boy I Am
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 80 min)

It is only in recent years that transgendered people and their issues have gained significant visibility within the larger lesbian and gay community. But visibility has not translated into instant acceptance or understanding from everyone. For some withi  More»
Silas Howard
  what i love about dying
[Short] (USA, 2006, 11 min)

A documentary celebrating the life and death of a beloved activist and author.  More»
Todd Hughes
  Hot Chicks
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 100 min)

Hot Chicks is a unique omnibus collaboration that adapts several of the widely-read palm-sized religious comicbook tracts that have been published by Jack T Chick since 1958. Over 400 million copies of Chick’s easy-to-read work have been di  More»
Dan Hunt
  Cruel & Unusual
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 67 min)

Acceptance of changing conceptions of gender and sexuality occurs at a glacial pace within bureaucratic institutions of power. Such is the case with prisons, which routinely turn a blind eye to inmate rape and violence against LGBT people. This illuminat  More»
Ahmed Imamovic
  Go West
[Feature] (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, 2005, 97 min)

Go West is a provocative first feature, addressing subjects still very much considered taboo in Eastern Europe. Against the backdrop of the brutal inter-ethnic wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early 1990s, two gay men fight to stay alive an  More»
Bryce Ingman
  Hot Chicks
[Feature] (USA, 2006, 100 min)

Hot Chicks is a unique omnibus collaboration that adapts several of the widely-read palm-sized religious comicbook tracts that have been published by Jack T Chick since 1958. Over 400 million copies of Chick’s easy-to-read work have been di  More»
Malcolm Ingram
  small town gay bar
[Feature] (USA, 2005, 81 min)

We have it good in the city. Sure, we can complain about the cost of living, but we don’t generally worry about the American Family Association taking down our license plate numbers as we enter the parking lots of our neighborhood gay bars. That is  More»
Bryan Jackson
  My Last White Boy Crush
[Short] (USA, 2005, 5 min)

Heartbreak never tasted so sweet as in this playful voyeuristic meditation.  More»
Sion Fullana Jaume
  Bitter Shot
[Short] (Cuba, 2004, 11 min)

A shy dreamer follows a stranger throughout the city, believing he has found true love.  More»
T Jayashree
  many people, many desires
[Mid-Length] (India, 2004, 45 min)

Through personal narratives cutting across gender, language, and caste, this documentary tells the story of the struggle to unite diverse communities in an effort to end legalized discrimination against India’s LGBT population.  More»
Christian Jentzsch
  Rainbow's End
[Feature] (Germany, 2006, 75 min)

As LGBT people in the US struggle to attain equal marriage and adoption rights, we often look to Europe as a haven for inclusion and acceptance. Rainbow’s End acknowledges the great victories that have been won in Europe but casts a spotlig  More»
Ariel Orr Jordan
  Beautiful Daughters
[Mid-Length] (USA, 2006, 61 min)

This inspirational documentary focuses on a wonderfully diverse group of MTF transgendered women who gather together to perform Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues.” United by Calpernia Addams (whose relationship with Army private Barry Wi  More»
Tom Kalin
  Every Wandering Cloud
[Short] (USA, 2005, 7 min)

Inspired by Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol.  More»
Etienne Kallos
  Jane's Birthday Trip
[Short] (USA, 2006, 16 min)

An out and proud dyke is confronted with her own internalized homophobia.  More»
Etienne Kallos
  Purge
[Short] (USA, 2006, 14 min)

A gay man must find a way to come to terms with his HIV status.  More»
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