Past Events
Fall 2007:
Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind (Documentary about the prominent queer theorist)
Brother to Brother (Feature Film loosely based on life of Harlem Renaissance poet, Bruce Nugent)
FtF: Female to Femme (Doc. about lesbian femme identity)
Paper Dolls (Doc. about Filipino immigrants to Tel Aviv who are caregivers by day and drag performers by night) …with…
Guest lecture: Dr. Dana Collins, “When Sex Work Isn’t Work: Hospitality, Gay Life and the Production of Desiring Labor”
Fall 2006:
Transamerica (FF about a transwoman who takes a road trip, finding herself and her family)
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (Doc. about recent representations of LGBT persons on film)
Unveiled (Fremde Haut) (FF about a lesbian who illegally self-exiles from Iran to Germany, passing as male)
Brokeback Mountain (FF about love between two cowboys)
Fall 2005:
Loggerheads (FF romantic drama set locally, by North Carolina filmmaker)
Brother/Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (Doc. about the famous civil rights leader)
Kinsey (FF based on the life and work of the famous sexologist)
Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House (Doc. about two Jewish lesbians who won a NYC case for domestic partnership benefits)
Fall 2004:
The Business of Fancydancing (FF based on Sherman Alexie’s book about a gay Native American poet)
Tipping the Velvet (FF based on Sarah Water’s lesbian novel set in late-Victorian England)
One Nation, Under God (Doc expose about ex-gay programs) …with …
Guest performer: Peterson Toscano, “Doin’ Time at the Homo No Mo Halfway House”
F**k the Disabled (Keepin’ it Real) (Documentary and stand up comedy from a disabled gay man)
Iron Ladies (Doc about a Thai volleyball team of transwomen won a national championship)
Fall 2003:
The Times of Harvey Milk (Doc about the famous San Francisco mayor and the gay rights movement)
Paragraph 175 (Doc about LGBT persons in Nazi Germany)
You Don’t Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men (Doc about FtMs)
The Trip (FF epic gay romance spanning the civil rights movement of the 70s to the club scene in the 80s)
Venus Boyz (Doc about drag kings, from various countries)
Fall 2002:
Kissing Jessica Stein (FF romantic comedy about a woman who explores her sexuality)
Marisposas en al Andamio (Butterflies on the Scaffold) (Doc about drag performers in Latin America)
The Laramie Project (FF version of the play about Matthew Shephard)
Hermaphrodites Speak! (Doc about intersexed individuals)
Love is the Devil (FF Biopic about the gay artist, Francis Bacon)
Fall 2001:
The Celluloid Closet (Doc about representations of LGBT persons on film, since cinema’s beginnings)
Ma Vie En Rose (FF comedy-drama about a Belgian girl born into a boy’s body)
Union in Wait (Doc about two women who marry in a chapel on the Wake Forest campus)
Chutney Popcorn (FF An East Indian lesbian photographer and her Caucasian girlfriend contemplate surrogate motherhood for the photographer’s infertile sister)
Tongues Untied (Semi-Doc about black gay male experience, by poet, dancer, filmmaker and AIDS-activist, Marlon Riggs.
Fall 2000:
Go Fish (FF drama about a group of lesbian friends)
Dear Jesse (Doc in the form of a letter from a young gay man to Senator Jesse Helms)
Watermelon Woman (FF. A young black woman in an interracial relationship find a lesbian foremother while doing research on an obscure black actress)
Licensed to Kill (Doc about homophobia and violence in America)