Director: Tom Murray.

After finding a most unusual web site that was seeking funds to help reverse a sex change, filmmaker Tom Murray set out on a fascinating cross country journey to explore just a small part of the vastly diverse transgender community.

Director: Guadalupe San Miguel.

And the March Continues combines documentary and narrative forms to present a history of the lesbian movement in Mexico from its origins to the present. Testimonies from Mexican lesbians and movement leaders give impressions of daily life in their country.

Director: Campbell X. B.D.

Women is a wonderful celebration of the history and culture of Black lesbians. Lively interviews feature Black women talking candidly about their sexual and racial identities. These contemporary views are cleverly interwoven with a dramatized love story, set in the 1920s, in which a sultry romance develops between a gorgeous jazz singer and her stylish butch lover.

Director: Tanaz Eshaghian.

Attracted to members of the same sex, yet forced to live in the shadows for fear of retribution, some young Iranian men and women are taking the only course legally open to them. Desiring what one man calls “a decent life,” they pursue the drastic measure of having gender reassignment surgery, obtaining the psychiatric note of permission a doctor needs to proceed.

Director: Marlon Riggs.

The film traverses the country interviewing African Americans young and old, rich and poor, Northern and Southern, rural and urban, gay and straight, as they discuss the numerous, often contested definitions of Blackness.

Director: Toina M.

Black./womyn.:conversations… features interviews with close to 50 out, Black lesbians including Poet/Author Cheryl Clarke, Filmmaker/Activist Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Poet/Author Staceyann Chin, Filmmaker Michelle Parkerson, Artist Hanifah Walidah, Hip-Hop Duo KIN, and Author Fiona Zedde.

Director: John Paul Davidson.

The film follows a group of Brazilian prostitutes over two years as they work not only the streets of Rio, but those of Paris, Rome and Milan.” The twist is that these prostitutes are gay, transsexual and transvestite [sic].

Director: Frances Negron-Muntaner.

In a wonderful mix of fiction, archival footage, processed interviews and soap opera drama, “Brincando el Charco” tells the story of Claudia Marin, a middle-class, light-skinned Puerto Rican photographer/videographer who is attempting to construct a sense of community in the US.

Directors: Nancy D. Kates and Bennett Singer.

This feature-length portrait unfolds both chronologically and thematically, using interviews and traditional documentary techniques, as well as experimental approaches.

Director: Rodney Evans.

Brother to Brother is the story of Perry a young black artist kicked out of his family home for being gay. Trapped between the worlds of the black community and the gay community, Perry searches for a connection in the real world.

Asian & Pacific Islander Family Stories, a 44-minute color video (DVD) featuring interviews of one Filipino and three Chinese families and a dialogue among parents of these gay children. Speaking in English, the families talk about shame, grief, love, growth, the importance of family and how they handled their conflicts around homosexuality.

Director: Dan Hunt.

This documentary focuses on five trans women, three incarcerated and two recently released from prison. According to the film, transgender people are more likely than average to be imprisoned, and when in prison often face sexual violence from other prisoners.

Director: Deepa Mehta.

With both husbands ignoring their spouses’ emotional and sexual needs (albeit with reasons that are totally opposite from each other), it is only a matter of time before Radha and Sita look to one another for comfort and to satisfy their own passions.

Director: Vismita Gupta-Smith.

When her brother comes out to her as a homosexual, the filmmaker is motivated to survey the conditions and attitudes encountered by gays and lesbians in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the rest of Southern Asia.

Director: Sridhar Rangayan.

Said to be the first Indian film to focus on Indian transsexuals, the story revolves around two transsexuals and a gay teenager’s attempts to seduce a man. The film explores the taboo subject of transsexuals in India.

Director: Mona Smith.

In this upbeat and empowering videotape, Native American lesbians and gay men speak of their unique historical and spiritual role. Within the Native American community, homosexuality was traditionally associated with the power to bridge worlds. Interviews with leading activists and personal testimony attest to the positive and painful experiences of being Native and gay.

Directors: Peter Barbosa and Garrett Lenoir.

Gay and Lesbian Middle Easterners who live in the United States must frequently combat the negative stereotypes revolving around both their sexuality and their race. This award-winning film features interviews with a variety of young men, women and their family members who share with viewers some of the experiences, joys and sorrows of this diverse community.

Director: Karen Thorsen.

The life, works and beliefs of the late writer and civil rights activist are recounted: what it is to be born black, impoverished, gifted, and gay in a world that has yet to understand that “all men are brothers.” James Baldwin tells his own story in this emotional portrait. Using rarely-seen archival footage from nine different countries.

Director: Parvez Sharma.

Parvez Sharma’s A Jihad for Love marks one of the very first documentaries to examine the occasional overlaps between Islam and homosexuality. Evincing great sensitivity to both the subject matter and the interviewees, Sharma hones in on a transcontinental group of homosexual individuals who attempt to reconcile their faith in the Koran with their non-heterosexual identities.

Director: Patricio Enriquez.

The extraordinary real-life story of Juchitan, a town in southern Mexico where homosexuality is completely accepted as a third gender. Though located in the land of machismo, the town of Juchitan in southern Mexico is a haven for gay men and transsexuals. The film profiles three very different gay men.

Director: Pratibha Paramar.

Khush, taken from the Urdu meaning “ecstatic pleasure,” deals with the lives of South Asian lesbians and gay men as they negotiate their existences in Britain, North America, and India. In their interviews, men and women explore what it means to be queer and of color in their particular locale. What emerges from the interviews is a sense of a commonly held identity, across geographical boundaries, based in their collective experiences of isolation and difference.

Distributor: Logo TV.

Find out what it’s like to be a minority within a minority. This documentary takes an indepth look into the lives of gay Hispanics, a culture ingrained in religion and machismo.

Director: Isaac Julien.

In this lyrical and poetic consideration of the life of revered Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, award-winning British filmmaker Isaac Julien invokes Hughes as a black gay cultural icon, against an impressionistic, atmospheric setting that parallels a Harlem speakeasy of the 1920s with an 80s London nightclub

Director: Karim Ainouz.

Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.

Director: Aurora Guerrero.

Mosquita y Mari is a coming of age story that focuses on a tender friendship between two young Chicanas. Lost in their private world of unspoken affection, lingering gazes, and heart-felt confessions of uncertain futures, Yolanda’s grades begin to slip while Mari’s focus drifts away from her duties at a new job.

Director: Patrik-Ian Polk.

As Noah and Wade prepare to marry in Martha’s Vineyard, the personal problems of their friends - and the unexpected arrival of rapper Baby Gat - threatens to permanently end their relationship.

Director: Heather Croall.

This is one of the first explorations of the Samoan fa’afafines, boys who are raised as girls, fulfilling a traditional role in Samoan culture. The film shows how in the large Samoan family there may be one or two fa’afafines who are not only accepted, but appreciated.

Director: Dee Rees.

Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the sometimes boisterous support of her best friend, out lesbian Laura, Alike is especially eager to find a girlfriend. At home, her parents’ marriage is strained and there is further tension in the household whenever Alike’s development becomes a topic of discussion.

Director: Jennie Livingston.

Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it. Many members of the ball culture community consider “Paris Is Burning” to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the “Golden Age” of New York City drag balls.

Director: Poh Si Teng.

Pecah Lobang explores what it’s like to be a Muslim transsexual sex worker in Malaysia. The documentary revolves around Natasha, a Muslim Mak Nyah, who refuses to live life as a man. Unable to secure employment because of discrimination, Natasha turns to sex work and lives in constant fear of the police and religious authorities.

Director: Alex Hinton.

A Queer Hip-Hop fast-paced documentary on the world of queer rappers. Featuring searing public performances and raw, revealing interviews, the film captures an unapologetic underground music movement just as it explodes into the mainstream - defying the music industry’s homophobia in the process.

Director: Jeff Roy.

Filmed in Bangkok, Rites of Passage (Part 1) documents the story of Maya (Mohammad) Jafer, a 42-year old Indo-Muslim transsexual female, who underwent gender reassignment surgery in early 2011. This film follows her through the moments leading towards and during her surgery, capturing her in times of utmost vulnerability and ecstasy.

Director: Kim Longinotto.

Shinjuku Boys introduces three onnabes who work as hosts at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo. Onnabes are women who live as men and have girlfriends, although they don’t usually identify as lesbians. As the film follows them at home and on the job, all three talk frankly to the camera about their gender-bending lives, revealing their views about women, sex, transvestitism and lesbianism.

Director: Dr. Kortney Ryan Zeigler.

“STILL BLACK: A Portrait of Black Transmen is brought to life by the stories of six thoughtful, eloquent and diverse transmen. Preachers, teachers, students and activists educate us simply by making their presence known. Each man brings a colorful and complex richness as he describes his relationship to himself, as well as others in his life.

Director: Geoffrey Blair Hajim.

At the end of the 26th century, the price of a ticket off a decimated poisoned Earth was a debt that was supposed to last for a couple of generations. Broken promises and predatory lenders turned that price into perpetual debt slavery. Spin forward two hundred years to the beginning of the 29th century.

Director: Campbell X.

Stud Life takes the viewer into a slice of life of an urban gay scene where casual sex, and drug taking is not treated as deviant behaviour. Where gender is up for grabs but desire follows very strict rules. JJ and Seb inhabit a world where white queers are familiar with Black street culture and reject the mainstream “G.A.Y” world. This is Stud Life.

Director: Daniel Peddle.

Logo explores the lives of six New York City women who assume the category of “aggressive” through masculine roles, behavior, and dress. Each woman defines their gender roles in unique and profound ways through footage that includes intimate interviews and clips from talk shows and drag balls.

Director: Sonali Fernando.

An imaginary biopic, The Body of a Poet centers on the efforts of a group of young lesbians of color to devise a fitting tribute to one of this century’s great visionaries. Its genre-bending celebration of the life and work of Audre Lorde, black lesbian poet and political activist, daringly meshes diverse media conventions and techniques as it explores Lorde’s trajectory from birth to death.

Director: Susana Akin.

The Salt Mines explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transwomen who for years have lived on the streets of Manhattan supporting their drug addictions through prostitution. They made their temporary home inside broken garbage trucks that the Sanitation Department keeps next to the salt deposits used in the winter to melt the snow. The three friends share the place known as “The Salt Mines” with a varied community of homeless people.

Director: Marlon T. Riggs.

Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied rises above the ‘deeply personal’ — far above it — in exploring what it means to be black and gay. Angry, funny, erotic and poetic by turns ( and sometimes all at once), it jumps from interview to confession, music video to documentary to poem.

Director: Hanifah Walidah.

What do you get when over the course of 2 days in an unassuming brownstone in Brooklyn with 30 women across sexualities and transfolk of color? History.