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No Skin Off My Ass

Thu, Jun 27 @ 8:00 pm
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Bruce LaBruce
Join Dirty Looks and the original Queer film enfant terrible Bruce LaBruce for a two-night celebration of the restoration of LaBruce's first two transgressive super 8 movies.
Join Dirty Looks and the original Queer film enfant terrible Bruce LaBruce for a two-night celebration of the restoration of LaBruce's first two transgressive super 8 movies.
A lonely hairdresser watches the title sequence of “That Cold Day in the Park” then visits a local park to invite a down-and-out skinhead to his apartment. He draws the silent man a bath and talks to him as he soaks. He locks his guest in a bedroom. Next day, the skinhead leaves through the window and visits his sister, who’s making a film called “Sisters of the SLA.” He helps with a screen-test. The hairdresser has dreams and fantasies involving the skinhead, the skinhead returns to visit him, and then the filmmaker pays a call on the two men, exposing her brother as faking his silence and pretending a lack of sexual interest. Fantasies can come true.
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Outstanding

A Comedy Revolution

Thu, Jun 27 @ 7:30 pm
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Egyptian Theatre
This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the powerful cultural influence it has had on social change in America. The film combines rare archival materials, stand-up performances, and interviews with a show-stopping lineup to present a definitive history of queer comedy.
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The Living End

Thu, Jun 27 @ 7:30 pm
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Academy Museum
Gregg Araki
An iconic New Queer Cinema milestone and a angry punk statement from the heart of the AIDS crisis, The Living End should need no introduction. Special screening with writer/director Gregg Araki, moderated by Alonso Duralde.
An iconic New Queer Cinema milestone and a angry punk statement from the heart of the AIDS crisis, The Living End should need no introduction. Special screening with writer/director Gregg Araki, moderated by Alonso Duralde.
Two HIV-positive young men—a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler—tear off on a cross-country crime spree.
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Regarding Us

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Thu, Jun 27 @ 7:00 pm
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TCL Chinese Theaters
Cast and Crew in attendance
After losing her teaching career in the Catholic school system, a transgender woman has a profound impact on the lives of two children–one with two fathers in marital strife, and the other a recent transplant from a conservative household. When the children form a unique bond, new questions and old prejudices erupt.
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Outfest Shorts

Thu, Jun 27 @ 4:45 pm
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TCL Chinese Theaters
A program of five Queer short films screens at Dances With Films, in partnership with Outfest.
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Pillow Talk

Thu, Jun 27 @ 4:00 pm
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Egyptian Theatre
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen’s succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
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Outfest Doc Shorts

Thu, Jun 27 @ 2:45 pm
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TCL Chinese Theaters
Co-presented by Outfest, this program of two Queer documentary shorts screens as part of Dances With Films.
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The Old Dark House

Wed, Jun 26 @ 9:45 pm
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Egyptian Theatre
Bryan Fuller
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.
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Bound

Wed, Jun 26 @ 7:00 pm
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Egyptian Theatre
Trish Bendix
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
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Spa Night

Wed, Jun 26 @ 4:00 pm
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Egyptian Theatre
A young Korean-American man works to reconcile his obligations to his struggling immigrant family with his burgeoning sexual desires in the underground world of gay hookups at Korean spas in Los Angeles.
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Little Joe

A Book About Queers and Cinema Mostly

Tue, Jun 25 @ 7:30 pm
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Little Joe was an underground Queer film zine that ran from 2010 to 2021, with a focus on indie, retro, and underground movies. Free reading from this book collecting the best of the magazine's eleven year run.
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All About Eve

Tue, Jun 25 @ 7:30 pm
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Egyptian Theatre
Alonso Duralde
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo’s Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo’s director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
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Suddenly, Last Summer

Tue, Jun 25 @ 4:30 pm
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Egyptian Theatre
Despite being made under the Hays Code, this movie is uncharacteristically clear about its gay themes. Based on the Tennessee Williams play and adapted to the screen by Gore Vidal, Elizabeth Taylor plays a young woman who is institutionalized in order to keep the (gay) secrets of her recently-deceased cousin.
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
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Swoon

Mon, Jun 24 @ 7:30 pm
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Academy Museum
Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.
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Chestnut

Sun, Jun 23 @ 7:20 pm
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Laemmle NoHo 7
Director Jac Cron
A recent graduate becomes entangled in a relationship with a man and a woman during the summer after college.
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D.E.B.S.

Sat, Jun 22 @ 9:00 pm
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Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Angela Robinson, Meegan Good, and Sara Foster
Angela Robinson's Queer parody of Charlie's Angles (and other teen girl crimefighter shows) only gets better with time. Don't miss this special co-presentation with LA Pride.
Angela Robinson's Queer parody of Charlie's Angles (and other teen girl crimefighter shows) only gets better with time. Don't miss this special co-presentation with LA Pride.
The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.
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Chestnut

Sat, Jun 22 @ 7:00 pm
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Landmark Westwood
Director Jac Cron
A recent graduate becomes entangled in a relationship with a man and a woman during the summer after college.
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Bringing Up Baby

Sat, Jun 22 @ 4:00 pm
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Vidiots Eagle Theater
Likely bisexual Cary Grant and sapphic icon Katharine Hepburn star in this perfect screwball comedy that still feels fresh today--and is a footnote in many queer film histories as the first Hollywood film to use the word "gay" to mean homosexual.
Likely bisexual Cary Grant and sapphic icon Katharine Hepburn star in this perfect screwball comedy that still feels fresh today--and is a footnote in many queer film histories as the first Hollywood film to use the word "gay" to mean homosexual.
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
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Cabaret

Fri, Jun 21 @ 10:00 pm
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Egyptian Theatre
Bob Fosse's film adaptation of the Broadway show, which won 8 Academy Awards, comes to American Cinematheque's "It's Showtime" movie musical fest. Showtunes, Liza Minelli, the rise of the Nazis, and forward (for 70's Hollywood) depiction of bisexuality make Cabaret a classic.
Bob Fosse's film adaptation of the Broadway show went on to win 8 Academy Awards. Showtunes, Liza Minelli, the rise of the Nazis, and forward (for 70's Hollywood) depiction of bisexuality make Cabaret a classic.
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
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Quinceañera

Fri, Jun 21 @ 7:30 pm
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Academy Museum
Actors Emily Rios and Jesse Garcia
This Echo Park-set family drama made by gay couple writer/directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice) won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance in 2006.
This Echo Park-set family drama made by gay couple writer/directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice) won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance in 2006.
As Magdalena’s 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she’s pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
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Lights, Camera, Pride with Pickle and Friends

Fri, Jun 21 @ 12:00 pm
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Academy Museum
Join the Academy Museum in a conversation with Pickle, West Hollywood’s Drag Laureate, and Stephanie Samera, Manager, In-Gallery Programs, as they celebrate and discuss gallery influences and film inspirations connected to drag artistry and drag education.
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The Watermelon Woman

Thu, Jun 20 @ 7:30 pm
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Academy Museum
Cheryl, a young black lesbian, works a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical “mammy” roles relegated to black actresses during that period. This was the first feature film directed by an “out” black lesbian.
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Cora Bora

Tue, Jun 18 @ 7:15 pm
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Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
Actor Meg Stalter
Cora senses her open relationship is on the rocks. When the struggling musician and messy millennial goes home to Portland to win her girlfriend back, she realizes it’s much more than her love life that needs salvaging.
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In Their Room

The Pixelated Diaries of Sadie Benning

Mon, Jun 17 @ 7:30 pm
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Academy Museum
Seven shorts from nonbinary artist and musician Sadie Benning, whose intimate and energetic teenage video diaries, shot on a cheap digital camera, screened in musuems a generation (or two) before YouTube would make vlogging a pastime for thousands of queer teens.
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Queendom

Sun, Jun 16 @ 7:10 pm
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Laemmle Glendale
Director Agniia Galdanova & producer Igor Myakotin
An awe-inspiring portrait of queer performance artist Gena Marvin, a Russian fashion student whose otherworldy gender-defying costumes take up public space in acts of shockingly brave protest in contemporary Russia. Q&As to follow the 4:10 and 7:10 screenings.
An awe-inspiring portrait of queer performance artist Gena Marvin, a Russian fashion student whose otherworldy gender-defying costumes take up public space in acts of shockingly brave protest in contemporary Russia. Q&As to follow the 4:10 and 7:10 screenings.
A queer Russian performance artist utilises social media, their identity and a series of remarkable costumes in quiet defiance of prejudice, war and police brutality.
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The Hours and Times

Sun, Jun 16 @ 3:00 pm
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Academy Museum
A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963.
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Go Fish

Sat, Jun 15 @ 7:30 pm
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Academy Museum
Writer/Director Rose Troche
This fresh new restoration of 1994 lesbian classic Go Fish was a collaboration between the Academy, Sundance, Frameline, MGM, and UCLA. It screened at Sundance this year, right where the film premiered 30 years ago.
This fresh new restoration of 1994 lesbian classic Go Fish was a collaboration between the Academy, Sundance, Frameline, MGM, and UCLA. It screened at Sundance this year, right where the film premiered 30 years ago.
Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely, whom Max likes, but Ely is frumpy, homely, and older. Nor do they have much in common. Can Max learn to look past the packaging?
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Paris is Burning

Sat, Jun 15 @ 2:00 pm
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Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural
Bamby Salcedo
Join a special Pride celebration from Cinema Conciencia and Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore. Resources and vendors, followed by a conversation with Bamby Salcedo, president and CEO of TransLatin@ coalition before a screening of Paris is Burning.
This iconic documentary, filmed over seven years at the beginning of the AIDS crisis in New York City's ballroom scene, captures the end of a "Golden Age" drag scene--and introduced a whole lot of Queer vocabulary to mainstream audiences.
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza — PARIS IS BURNING brings it, celebrating the joy of movement, the force of eloquence, and the draw of community.
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The Birdcage

Sat, Jun 15 @ 11:50 am
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Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé’s conservative moralistic parents.
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Cora Bora

Fri, Jun 14 @ 7:30 pm
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Landmark Nuart
Actor Meg Stalter & director Hannah Pearl Utt
Cora senses her open relationship is on the rocks. When the struggling musician and messy millennial goes home to Portland to win her girlfriend back, she realizes it’s much more than her love life that needs salvaging.
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All About Alice

Thu, Jun 13 @ 7:00 pm
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Philosophical Research Society
This feature length drag parody of All About Eve is a production of the Gay Girls Riding Club, a group of queer underground California filmmakers in the 1960s and 70s whose homemade drag films are a rare glimpse into drag culture in a formative era.
This feature length drag parody of All About Eve is a production of the Gay Girls Riding Club, a group of queer underground California filmmakers in the 1960s and 70s whose homemade drag films are a rare glimpse into drag culture in a formative era.
An early drag parody of the classic film All About Eve (1950).
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The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant

Wed, Jun 12 @ 7:30 pm
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New Beverly Cinema
Two films from New German Cinema's enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who directed 40 feature films before his death at 37, these two heart-rending romantic dramas showcase Fassbinder's use of Hollywood's melodramatic style to dive deep into social taboos.
New German Cinema's enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who directed 40 feature films before his death at 37, this heart-rending romantic drama showcases Fassbinder's use of Hollywood's melodramatic style to dive deep into social taboos.
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.
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Imagine Me & You

with Saving Face

Mon, Jun 10 @ 7:30 pm
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New Beverly Cinema
What an amazing double feature of mid-2000s lesbian romantic comedies. There will be plenty of heartaches and tears with these two films, but when else can you watch TWO funny lesbian movies with great performances, big laughs, big feelings, and happy endings??
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.
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But I'm a Cheerleader

Sun, Jun 09 @ 12:10 pm
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Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
For anyone who has ever worried that all lesbian films are too serious, Jamie Babbit signle-handedly proves that queer women can be funny as hell in this now-classic queer comedy.
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn’t like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she’s pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to “sexual redirection” school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
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Happy Together

Thu, Jun 06 @ 10:30 pm
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Los Feliz 3
It's not a feel good film--which is why it's part of American Cinematheque's 3rd annual "Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair"--but the brokenhearted romance of this groundbreaking film, about a gay couple from Hong Kong trying to start over in Argentina, is an absolute masterpiece.
Beautifully shot and wonderfully acted, the brokenhearted romance at the center of this groundbreaking film, about a gay couple from Hong Kong trying to start over in Argentina, will leave you in tears over and over again.
A couple take a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning, but instead find themselves drifting ever further apart.
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Carol

Wed, Jun 05 @ 7:30 pm
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Academy Museum
Christmas in June! Todd Haynes' aching lesbian period drama Carol follows Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in the repressed world of 1950s high society New York City. Don't miss this chance to catch a 35mm screening of the top film on the BFI "Best Queer Films" poll.
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Theatrical runs

PREVIOUSLY In Theaters

They're gone from theaters but you can probably find them streaming.

Viet and Nam
Opened Apr 04, 2025
Opens Apr 04, 2025

In the depths of the underground coal mines, where danger awaits and darkness prevails, Nam and Viêt, both young miners, cherish fleeting moments, knowing that one of them will soon leave for a new life across the sea.

Layla
Opened Mar 21, 2025
Opens Mar 21, 2025

When Layla, a struggling Arab drag queen, falls in love for the first time, they lose and find themself in a transformative relationship that tests who they really are.

Young Hearts
Opened Mar 14, 2025
Opens Mar 14, 2025

Fourteen-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets his new neighbour of the same age, Alexander, Elias is confronted with his burgeoning sexuality.

Born for You
Opened Mar 12, 2025
Opens Mar 12, 2025

Alba has Down’s Syndrome and was left in the hospital when she was born. Thirty families rejected her before the court decided to entrust her to Luca: a Catholic — and gay — single man.

Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
Opened Jan 31, 2025
Opens Jan 31, 2025

Rich with archival gems and Liza Minnelli’s own point of view, Bruce David Klein’s luminous documentary celebrates a young entertainer full of boundless raw talent and the deep, creative relationships with her mentors and influences.

Eat the Night
Opened Jan 22, 2025
Opens Jan 22, 2025

Young drug dealer Pablo and his sister Appoline bond over an online game called Darknoon. Pablo falls for Night, neglecting his sister. While Appoline finishes the game, Pablo and Night become embroiled in a dangerous gang conflict.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Opened Dec 13, 2024
Opens Dec 13, 2024

NEW RESTORATION! Though married to Agnes Varda for most of this life, French New Wave icon Jacques Demy was bisexual and died of AIDS-related complications in 1990. He is best known for his sunny musicals of the 1960s, where his voice shines through with romantic optimism.

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother’s chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy’s return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

Sabbath Queen
Opened Dec 05, 2024
Opens Dec 05, 2024

Sabbath Queen is a remarkable 20 year journey in the life of Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, a 39th generation Orthodox rabbi — and drag queen.

Playland
Opened Dec 02, 2024
Opens Dec 02, 2024

The Playland Café, Boston’s oldest gay bar, was established in 1937 and was a vital queer hub in the city until 1998, when rampant ‘urban renewal’ projects led to its closure. Demolished but never forgotten, it acted as a meeting ground for an exceptionally diverse crowd — throughout its lifespan, it featured acts from drag performances to DJ sets and was connected to Pride rallies and underground gay newspapers. As a gathering place for outsiders, it was also a target for police raids and zoning. Artist-filmmaker Georden West’s debut feature is an expressionist and very queer bricolage, focusing on an atemporal night in the renowned Playland Café. Following its employees and others who have haunted the space, weaving together a tapestry of personal and community anecdotes across the bar’s existence.

Queer
Opened Nov 27, 2024
Opens Nov 27, 2024

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American expat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.

Chasing Chasing Amy
Opened Nov 20, 2024
Opens Nov 20, 2024

CHASING CHASING AMY explores the transformational impact of a ‘90s rom-com on a 12 year old kid from Kansas, coming of age and contending with queer identity. For young Sav Rodgers, the Kevin Smith cult classic, CHASING AMY, became a life raft. As Rodgers examines the film and its making as a cornerstone of LGBTQ+ cinema, he finds himself at a complicated crossroads.

Elton John: Never Too Late
Opened Nov 15, 2024
Opens Nov 15, 2024

Sir Elton John looks back on his life and the astonishing early days of his 50-year career in this emotionally charged, full-circle journey. As he prepares for his final concert in North America at Dodger Stadium, Elton takes us back in time and recounts his struggles with adversity, abuse, and addiction, and how he overcame them to become the icon he is today.

The World According to Allee Willis
Opened Nov 15, 2024
Opens Nov 15, 2024

Fresh from the audience award at Frameline, this documentary follows the career of queer songwriter Allee Willis, who isn't a household name but wrote September, Boogie Wonderland, and the Friends theme song---and threw some of the best parties of the 1980s.

Take one look at award-winning songwriter / artist Allee Willis and you see someone unafraid to be themselves. Dressed in a cacophony of prints and colors, her signature asymmetrical haircut and famed parties at her real-life Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Allee didn’t waste any opportunity to tell you what she was about. But privately, Allee struggled with not fitting established gender and sexual norms. She buried herself in her work, until true love manifested her ultimate masterpiece - self-acceptance.

Emilia Pérez
Opened Nov 01, 2024
Opens Nov 01, 2024

Karla Sofía Gascón became the first Trans actor to win a major prize at Cannes, thanks to this extravagant musical about a Mexican drug lord who hires a lawyer to help stage her death and flee the country, in order to transition and live her true life abroad.

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.

Luther: Never Too Much
Opened Oct 30, 2024
Opens Oct 30, 2024

This documentary about R&B talent Luther Vandross, which premiered at Sundance this year, explores Vandross' triumphs and struggles, and the media's fascination, with his weight and sexuality.

Luther Vandross started his career supporting David Bowie, Roberta Flack, Bette Midler, and more. His undeniable talent earned platinum records and accolades, but he struggled to break out beyond the R&B charts. Intensely driven, he overcame personal and professional challenges to secure his place amongst the greatest vocalists in history.

High Tide
Opened Oct 25, 2024
Opens Oct 25, 2024

Lourenço decides to leave his homophobic family and country behind to get lost in the queer mecca of Provincetown, until the intense and unexpected romance with Maurice, who also feels lost in today’s America, changes his life forever.

All Shall Be Well
Opened Sep 27, 2024
Opens Sep 27, 2024

When her partner Pat unexpectedly dies, Angie is left to worry about the flat in which the couple lived together for over 30 years. Supported by her chosen family, Angie begins a later-life journey into emancipation.

Unfightable
Opened Sep 20, 2024
Opens Sep 20, 2024

Alana McLaughlin is a transgender woman beginning her career in the mixed martial arts. She’ll have to contend with athletes who refuse to fight her, find a gym willing to train her, and win a battle against her own personal demons.

Alana McLaughlin is a transgender woman beginning her career in the mixed martial arts. She’ll have to contend with athletes who refuse to fight her, find a gym willing to train her, and win a battle against her own personal demons.

Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
Opened Sep 20, 2024
Opens Sep 20, 2024

Enter the colorful world of Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated Patricia Field, the costume designer behind Sex and the City, Emily in Paris, Ugly Betty, and The Devil Wears Prada. A queer, first-generation Greek-American, this fiery redhead defied the odds to become a fashion icon. Features interviews with Kim Cattrall, Lily Collins, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael Urie, and more.

In The Summers
Opened Sep 20, 2024
Opens Sep 20, 2024

On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Will and Harper
Opened Sep 13, 2024
Opens Sep 13, 2024

When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America.

When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America.

Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln
Opened Sep 06, 2024
Opens Sep 06, 2024

Lover Of Men examines the intimate life of America’s most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never before seen photographs and letters, the film details Lincoln’s romantic relationships with men.

Close to You
Opened Aug 16, 2024
Opens Aug 16, 2024

Academy Award Nominee Elliot Page (Juno, The Umbrella Academy, Inception) stars as a trans man who returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, he confronts his relationship with his family, reunites with a first love, and discovers a newfound confidence in himself. A Toronto International Film Festival premiere.

Sebastian
Opened Aug 09, 2024
Opens Aug 09, 2024

Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.

Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.

Cukoo
Opened Aug 09, 2024
Opens Aug 09, 2024

This horror film stars trans actress and Euphoria star Hunter Schafer as a teen girl who moves with her family to German, only to find that their town hides sinister secrets.

After reluctantly moving to the German Alps with her father and his new family, Gretchen discovers that their new town hides sinister secrets, as she’s plagued by strange noises and frightening visions of a woman pursuing her.

National Anthem
Opened Jul 19, 2024
Opens Jul 19, 2024

Dylan, a 21-year old construction worker in rural New Mexico, joins a community of queer ranchers and rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream.

Dylan, a 21-year old construction worker in rural New Mexico, joins a community of queer ranchers and rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream.

Sisi & I
Opened Jul 19, 2024
Opens Jul 19, 2024

After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer residence on Corfu. As the two women become closer there, this soon leads to tensions back in Vienna.

After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer residence on Corfu. As the two women become closer there, this soon leads to tensions back in Vienna.

Crossing
Opened Jul 19, 2024
Opens Jul 19, 2024

Lia, a retired school teacher living in Georgia, hears from a young neighbour Achi that her long lost niece Tekla, a transgender woman, has crossed the border into Turkey.

Lia, a retired school teacher living in Georgia, hears from a young neighbour Achi that her long lost niece Tekla, a transgender woman, has crossed the border into Turkey. Hoping to bring Tekla home after a period of estrangement, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi to find her. Exploring the hidden depths of the city, they cross paths with a transgender lawyer called Evrim, who helps them in their search.

Chestnut
Opened Jun 21, 2024
Opens Jun 21, 2024

A recent graduate becomes entangled in a relationship with a man and a woman during the summer after college.

A recent graduate becomes entangled in a relationship with a man and a woman during the summer after college.

Queendom
Opened Jun 14, 2024
Opens Jun 14, 2024

An awe-inspiring portrait of queer performance artist Gena Marvin, a Russian fashion student whose otherworldy gender-defying costumes take up public space in acts of shockingly brave protest in contemporary Russia.

A queer Russian performance artist utilises social media, their identity and a series of remarkable costumes in quiet defiance of prejudice, war and police brutality.

Solo
Opened May 31, 2024
Opens May 31, 2024

This romantic drama, a celebration of Montreal's lively drag scene, won best Canadian Feature Film at TIFF last year, and now comes to LA for a theatrical run.

Emerging Montreal drag queen Simon must deal with two impossible loves: a passionate, yet destructive affair with Oliver and a cold relationship with his mother, who’s just returned after fifteen years.

Summer Qamp
Opened May 10, 2024
Opens May 10, 2024

At Camp fYrefly in rural Alberta, queer, non-binary, and trans teens get to just be kids in a supportive space, surrounded by counselors who can relate to their experience ― and help them toast the perfect marshmallow.

At Camp fYrefly in rural Alberta, queer, non-binary, and trans teens get to just be kids in a supportive space, surrounded by counsellors who can relate to their experience ― and help them toast the perfect marshmallow.

I Saw the TV Glow
Opened May 03, 2024
Opens May 03, 2024

Fresh from Sundance, this new queer horror film is opening night for the brand-new LA Festival of Movies. Set in the 90s, two queer teens share an obsession with a supernatural TV show (*cough* Buffy *cough*), living their hardcore queer fandom in the show's fictional universe.

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

Egoist
Opened Apr 26, 2024
Opens Apr 26, 2024

This sad and steamy Japanese gay romance, based on author Makoto Takayama's autobigraphical novel, finally makes its arrival in theaters after a successful festival run.

After losing his mother at the age of 14, Kōsuke spent his depressed adolescence hiding his gay identity in a rural town. Now working as a fashion magazine editor, he spends his free time with his close friends. One day, he meets Ryūta, a personal trainer who works in part to support his aging mother.

Mysterious Ways
Opened Apr 17, 2024
Opens Apr 17, 2024

A new film from New Zealand, follows the scandal in a small community when the local priest marries a man.

Choosing between the love of a good man and the love of God is a tough call especially for vicar Peter Simmons. His tranquil life is rudely interrupted when he rashly proposes marriage to Jason his Samoan boyfriend, in church. As the news breaks globally of their forbidden sexual relationship, Peter’s place in the church is threatened and his belief in God is challenged to breaking point. The only thing that can save Peter is a miracle.

The People's Joker
Opened Apr 12, 2024
Opens Apr 12, 2024

This parody of a certain caped crusader through the lens of trans creator Vera Drew was quick to disappear after its premiere at TIFF, due to rights issues from an unnamed giant media company. Why so serious?

A law-breaking comedian who is grappling with her gender identity forms a new anti-comedy troupe with a friend and finds herself battling a fascistic caped crusader.

Housekeeping for Beginners
Opened Apr 05, 2024
Opens Apr 05, 2024

Director Goran Stolevski is on a hot streak. "Of An Age" was warmly received in theaters in 2022. Then he went on to win the Queer Lion at Venice in 2023 with this new heartwarming comedy about a blended queer family, set in his homeland of North Macedonia.

Dita never wanted to be a mother, but circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters, tiny troublemaker Mia and rebellious teen Vanesa. A battle of wills ensues as the three continue to butt heads and become an unlikely family that must fight to stay together.

Femme
Opened Mar 28, 2024
Opens Mar 28, 2024

This erotic revenge thriller from the 2023 Berlinale is not for the sensitive--as it follows a drag artist who is victim of a homophobic attack, and then sets out to seduce his closeted attacker after spotting him at a gay sauna.

Jules is a drag artist in London who withdraws into himself and loses his career after a horrific attack. Months later, he recognizes one of his assailants in a gay sauna and quickly realizes he has the perfect opportunity to get revenge.

Luca (re-release)
Opened Mar 22, 2024
Opens Mar 22, 2024

Pixar's sea monster story blew up the Internet when it came out, with a debate over whether the movie is Disney's first gay film. While the plot never veers from the platonic, hopeful queers (and outraged conservatives) saw something deeper in the film's "be yourself" message.

Luca and his best friend Alberto experience an unforgettable summer on the Italian Riviera. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.

Glitter and Doom
Opened Mar 08, 2024
Opens Mar 08, 2024

It's a boy-meets-boy musical extravaganza, and all the songs are by lesbian folk icons The Indigo Girls. It's a bold pairing, if not an obvious one. Does it work? Buy a ticket and judge for yourself!

https://letterboxd.com/film/glitter-doom/

Love Lies Bleeding
Opened Mar 08, 2024
Opens Mar 08, 2024

Fresh from its premiere at Sundance, this bloody lesbian bodybuilding revenge thriller romance (say that three times fast) stars Kristin Stewart as Lou, a lonely gym manager. Her attraction to bodybuilder Jackie pulls her into her family's criminal schemes with violent results.

Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.

Before I Change My Mind
Opened Mar 01, 2024
Opens Mar 01, 2024

This 80s-set Canadian coming of age story about a non-binary tween won hearts at Locarno and the Iris Prize.

1987: While the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a complicated bond with the school bully, making increasingly dangerous choices to fit in.

Problemista
Opened Feb 29, 2024
Opens Feb 29, 2024

Queer comedian Julio Torres directs and stars with Tilda Swinton in this wild science fiction romp through New York City and the US Immigration system in this latest release from A24.

An aspiring toy designer’s work visa runs out, and a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.

Skin Deep
Opened Feb 09, 2024
Opens Feb 09, 2024

Winner of the 2022 Queer Lion at Venice, this twisted German gender-bending body-swapping horror finally gets a US release. One week only at Laemmale NoHo!

At first glance, Leyla and Tristan are a happy couple. When they travel to a mysterious island, a game of identities begins that changes everything – their perception, their sexuality, their entire selves. But not only their relationship threatens to break up. They may even never be who they used to be again …

You Can't Stay Here
Opened Feb 08, 2024
Opens Feb 08, 2024

A very special one-weekend engagement at the Laemmle for this early 1990's serial killer thriller. Guillermo Diaz (Scandal, Weeds) stars as a photographer who comes across a murder in Central Park, kicking off a game of cat and mouse with the killer.

Rick, a photographer, witnesses the brutal murder of a gay man in Central Park. With the cops taking little interest in the crime, a dangerous and sexy game of cat and mouse ensues between Rick and the killer, Adam.

She is Conann
Opened Feb 02, 2024
Opens Feb 02, 2024

Fresh from the Director's fortnight at Cannes, She is Conann is an epic queer feminist re-telling of the story of Conan the Barbarian. Across multiple lives and traveling across time, this dreamy lesbian barbarian queen hacks her way into her own version of the legend.

Traveling through the abyss, underworld dog Rainer recounts the six lives of Conann, perpetually put to death by her own future, across eras, myths and ages. From her childhood, a slave of Sanja and her barbarian horde, to her accession to the summits of cruelty at the doors of our world.

Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live
Opened Jan 31, 2024
Opens Jan 31, 2024

Did you love the soundtrack from "All of Us Strangers?" Are you sad there's not a queer 80s British synth-pop counterpart to the Eras Tour movie to go see? Check out this concert film from queer icons The Pet Shop Boys as they play some of their greatest hits from their career.

Formed in London in 1981 and consisting of primary vocalist Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe, English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 50 million records worldwide, and have been cited as one of the most successful duos in UK music history. Captured live at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena, the exhilarating performance features a lavish stage show, full back-up band and mesmerizing visual backdrops, in front of an exuberant, sold-out audience. This brand-new concert film includes all of PSB's greatest hits including 'West End Girls', 'Suburbia', 'Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)', 'Always on My Mind', 'What Have I Done to Deserve This?' and 'It’s a Sin'.

All of Us Strangers
Opened Dec 22, 2023
Opens Dec 22, 2023

Andrew Haigh, the writer/director behind Weekend and HBO's Looking, makes another aching gay romance. Out actor Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag) stars as Adam, a writer who visits the ghosts of his parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy) while romancing his neighbor (Paul Mescal).

One night, screenwriter Adam, in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry that punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers that his long-dead parents are both living and look the same age as the day they died over 30 years ago.

1946: The Mistranslation that Shifted Culture
Opened Dec 01, 2023
Opens Dec 01, 2023

Seeking to uncover the origins of the rabid homophobia of the conservative church, a gay seminary scholar and a straight activist make a shocking discovery: In 1946 an erroneous translation of the term homosexual in the Bible that has been weaponized against the LGBTQIA+ community ever since.

Monster
Opened Dec 01, 2023
Opens Dec 01, 2023

When you know that this film won the Queer Palm at Cannes 2023, it's a small spoiler--and finding it on a queer film site does the same, sorry! Even knowing something queer is coming, this tense social drama from Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda is among his best.

When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what's going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges.