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Paris is Burning

Wed, Jul 30 @ 7:00 pm
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Los Feliz 3
Program begins with a live recording of the Greg Proops Film Club podcast. Feature starts at 7:30 pm
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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Madame Wang's

Tue, Jul 29 @ 8:00 pm
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MutMuz Gallery
A KGB agent comes to California to meet Jane Fonda and prepare for a Russian takeover of the US. After losing his papers, he connects with a band of homeless, overweight, and over-the-hill transvestites and becomes a punker in a Chinese restaurant owned by an elderly transexual, Madame Wang.
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Bel Ami

Mon, Jul 28 @ 7:30 pm
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Lumiere Music Hall
Director Geng Jun
Unlikely to be shown in its home country, this absurd comedy from Sundance alum Jun Geng follows a motley cast of Queer men and women living in a frozen city in the north of China.
In a frozen town unwilling to stagnate, a middle-aged man meets true love and decides to come out of the closet. A lesbian couple decides to look for a gay man to marry and have a child. Behind their fiery love stories is an absurd drama of identity politics. The ghost of communism often wanders around the lonely souls.
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He Never Dies: The Films of Kalil Haddad

Sun, Jul 27 @ 7:30 pm
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2220 Arts + Archives
Filmmaker Kalil Haddad
Queer Palestinian-Canadian filmmaker Kalil Hadid presents the LA Premiere of his short film series "He Never Dies," seven short films that blend archival, experimental, and erotic film.
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Bel Ami

Sun, Jul 27 @ 7:00 pm
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Culver Theater
Director Geng Jun
Unlikely to be shown in its home country, this absurd comedy from Sundance alum Jun Geng follows a motley cast of Queer men and women living in a frozen city in the north of China.
In a frozen town unwilling to stagnate, a middle-aged man meets true love and decides to come out of the closet. A lesbian couple decides to look for a gay man to marry and have a child. Behind their fiery love stories is an absurd drama of identity politics. The ghost of communism often wanders around the lonely souls.
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The Watermelon Woman

Sun, Jul 27 @ 6:30 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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Tongues Untied

Sun, Jul 27 @ 4:00 pm
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Getty Museum
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs telling the story of his growing up, scenes of men in social intercourse and dance, and various comic riffs, including a visit to the “Institute of Snap!thology,” where men take lessons in how to snap their fingers: the sling snap, the point snap, the diva snap.
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Vegas in Space

Fri, Jul 25 @ 10:00 pm
Sat, Jul 26 @ 10:15 pm
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Vidiots Eagle Theater
This camp classic, distributed by Troma films, is a wacky sci-fi drag story about three soldiers who must take a sex change pill to infiltrate a pleasure planet and fight a galactic villain. Starring drag icons Doris Fish, Miss X, Tippi and more!
Three male soldiers have a sex change so they can go on an undercover mission to an all-woman planet, where they must uncover and foil a plot to disrupt the most important pleasure planet in the universe.
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Shortbus

Fri, Jul 25 @ 10:00 pm
Sun, Jul 27 @ 3:00 pm
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Eastwood Performing Arts Center
Hedwig creator John Cameron Mitchell wrote and directed this sexually explicit ensemble comedy about the intersecting (sex) lives of couples gay straight and in-between, leading up to a gathering at the weekly Shortbus art/sex salon and orgy.
In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus, an underground Brooklyn salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.
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The Wedding Banquet

Fri, Jul 25 @ 8:00 pm
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Brain Dead Studios
Director Andrew Ahn
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.
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The Little Mermaid

Thu, Jul 24 @ 7:30 pm
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Egyptian Theatre
Director Ron Clements and John Musker
This Disney classic, about a mermaid who dreams of being human, was co-written by out lyricist Howard Ashman. Ashman was openly gay during his career in the Disney Renaissance, and died of complications of AIDS while Beauty and the Beast was still in production.
This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the villainous sea witch Ursula.
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Tangerine

Thu, Jul 24 @ 7:00 pm
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Laemmle NoHo 7
A new queer Christmas classic, Tangerine follows trans workers Sin-Dee and Alexandra on a holiday odyssey across Los Angeles. Shot on a micro budget on three iPhones, Tangerine is a triumph of scrappy indie can-do--that led to Gotham and Spirit awards for co-star Mya Taylor.
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.
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Tomboy

Thu, Jul 24 @ 7:00 pm
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Laemmle Glendale
The winner of the Teddy Award at the 2011 Berlinale, this French coming-of-age film from Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) follows a 10 year-old who leads a new life as a boy after moving to a new neighborhood.
A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
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Hellraiser

Wed, Jul 23 @ 7:30 pm
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Culver Theater
The first film in gay writer/director Clive Barker's pain-and-pleasure demon horror franchise, which only got queerer in the 2022 reboot.
Hedonist Frank Cotton finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, who open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
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But I'm a Cheerleader

Summer of Camp

Mon, Jul 21 @ 7:30 pm
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Academy Museum
For anyone who has ever worried that all lesbian films are too serious, Jamie Babbit single-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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The Celluloid Closet

Sun, Jul 20 @ 4:00 pm
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Vidiots Eagle Theater
Starting in 1972, Vito Russo put together a traveling clip show of LGBT representation in film, marking one of the first efforts to chronicle Queer cinema history. It was turned into a book in 1981 then a movie in 1995, making it a landmark of Queer images in classical Hollywood.
This documentary highlights the historical contexts that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals have occupied in cinema history, and shows the evolution of the entertainment industry’s role in shaping perceptions of LGBT figures. The issues addressed include secrecy – which initially defined homosexuality – as well as the demonization of the homosexual community with the advent of AIDS, and finally the shift toward acceptance and positivity in the modern era.
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Moonlight

Fri, Jul 18 @ 7:30 pm
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Hammer Museum
Double Feature with "Razing Liberty Square," a documentary about the displacement of residents in the historically Black neighborhood where "Moonlight" is set.
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
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Before We Forget

Fri, Jul 18 @ 7:20 pm
Sat, Jul 19 @ 7:20 pm
Sun, Jul 20 @ 4:30 pm
Sun, Jul 20 @ 7:20 pm
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Laemmle NoHo 7
Filmmaker and Actor Juan Pablo Di Pace
A coming-of-age story that follows Matias, an Argentine filmmaker in his forties, struggling with an unfinished movie inspired by his elusive first love to Alexander, a Swedish friend he met at an international school in the 90’s. Tenderness and fascination define their strong friendship, which is short-lived when Alexander is suddenly expelled back to his country, leaving young Matias with an unresolved story of undeclared emotions. 25 years later, and Matias decides to reopen Pandora’s box as he embarks on a journey to find the ending to his story by coming face-to-face with Alexander, discovering life imitating art.
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Pink Flamingos

Thu, Jul 17 @ 8:45 pm
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Art Theater Long Beach
Join John Waters for a special screening of his trash masterpiece Pink Flamingos on the big beautiful screen in the David Geffen Theater. Make a day of it and check out the Academy Museum's John Waters Pope of Trash exhibit beforehand to see Waters' whole career in retrospective.
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as “The Filthiest Person Alive”.
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The True Story of Tamara De Lempicka & The Art of Survival

Thu, Jul 17 @ 7:30 pm
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Laemmle Royal
Filmmaker Julie Rubio and co-producer Blake Wellen
With her distinctive high-gloss sensual nudes and cooly elegant portraits of high society during the Jazz Age, Polish-Jewish artist Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980) helped define the Art Deco style and the glamour and transgressive vitality of post-WWI Paris. Feminist, style icon, and bisexual libertine, Lempicka combined cubism, classicism, and surrealism to reinvent the female figure, not as an object but as the protagonist.
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Kind of a Drag

Experimental Films, Documentaries, and Scratch Animation by Heather McAdams, 1980-1995

Thu, Jul 17 @ 7:30 pm
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Academy Museum
Filmmaker Heather Adams and subject Bradley Picklesimer
Cartoonist and DIY filmmaker Heather McAdams presents new restorations of her films, including iconic Queer short film "Meet . . . Bradley Harrison Picklesimer (1988)," a 32 min portrait of the legendary Kentucky drag queen.
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Nasty Baby

Wed, Jul 16 @ 7:00 pm
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Los Feliz 3
Filmmaker Sebastián Silva
A gay couple enlists the help of their friend Polly to create a baby. Meanwhile, they must also contend with their homophobic neighbour who becomes a big nuisance.
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LA QueenCiañera

Wed, Jul 16 @ 6:00 pm
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Barnsdall Gallery Theater
Film subject and TransLatin@ Coalition founder Bamby Salcedo
Bamby Salcedo, anundocumented transgender Latina human rights activist, organizes her 50th birthday celebration attended by people significant to her life and survival. As she prepares for the event, Bamby travels through LA county and watches her life go by; from the streets where she smoked crack and the Men’s County Jail to journalists and academics she has enlisted for her causes, plush homes of supporters, and communities and organizations she has gathered together to change the lives of transgender people in the United States.
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Tue, Jul 15 @ 8:00 pm
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Whammy Analog Media
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an ‘internationally ignored’ but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a ‘beautiful gender of one’.
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Tinsman Road

Black Cat Cinema Series

Tue, Jul 15 @ 7:30 pm
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LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Filmmaker Robbie Banfitch
In the backwoods of New Jersey a young man navigates the serpentine mystery surrounding his long-missing sister and their family home.
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Strangers on a Train

Tue, Jul 15 @ 1:00 pm
Tue, Jul 15 @ 7:00 pm
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Egyptian Theatre
Based on the novel by lesbian Patricia Highsmith, starring bi actor Farley Granger (who came out in his 2007 memoir), this Hitchcock thriller is hardly subtle--with its queer-coded villain serving as a doppleganger for everything our meek protagonist wishes he could be.
Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur tennis player — a theory he plans to test out.
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Ponyboi

Sun, Jul 13 @ 10:00 pm
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Los Feliz 3
Unfolding over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey, a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past.
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The Children's Hour

Sun, Jul 13 @ 1:00 pm
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Los Feliz 3
An unruly student at a private all-girls boarding school scandalously accuses the two women who run it of having a romantic relationship.
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Vegas in Space

Summer of Camp

Fri, Jul 11 @ 7:30 pm
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Academy Museum
Filmmaker Phillip R. Ford
This camp classic, distributed by Troma films, is a wacky sci-fi drag story about three soldiers who must take a sex change pill to infiltrate a pleasure planet and fight a galactic villain. Starring drag icons Doris Fish, Miss X, Tippi and more!
Three male soldiers have a sex change so they can go on an undercover mission to an all-woman planet, where they must uncover and foil a plot to disrupt the most important pleasure planet in the universe.
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My Own Private Idaho

Fri, Jul 11 @ 7:15 pm
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Brain Dead Studios
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike’s estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.
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Saved!

Thu, Jul 10 @ 7:30 pm
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Academy Museum
Director Brian Dannelly
Mary is a good Christian girl who goes to a good Christian high school where she has good Christian friends and a perfect Christian boyfriend. Her life seems perfect, until the day that she finds out that her boyfriend may be gay — and that she’s pregnant.
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The Cakemaker

Black Cat Cinema Series

Wed, Jul 09 @ 7:15 pm
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LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Director Ofir Raul Grazier
Thomas, a young German baker, is having an affair with Oren, an Israeli married man who has frequent business visits in Berlin. When Oren dies in a car crash in Israel, Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking for answers regarding his death. Under a fabricated identity, Thomas infiltrates the life of Anat, his lover’s newly widowed wife, who owns a small Café in downtown Jerusalem. Thomas starts to work for her, creating German cakes and cookies that bring her Café to life. Thomas finds himself involved in Anat’s life in a way far beyond his anticipation. To protect the truth he will stretch his lie to a point of no return.
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Jeannette

Wed, Jul 09 @ 7:00 pm
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Philosophical Research Society
In the wake of Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub shooting, competitive bodybuilder and queer single mother Jeannette continues to coach other survivors at the gym while raising her son. Life seems calm again, until Hurricane Maria hits Puerto Rico and Jeannette is thrown back into crisis mode.
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Jean Cocteau Birthday Celebration Fundraiser!

ft. Testament of Orpheus

Sat, Jul 05 @ 6:00 pm
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Philosophical Research Society
Celebrate the birthday of biisexual writer/filmmaker/surrealist and movie special effects pioneer Jean Cocteau, who frequently casts his lover, French screen superstar Jean Marais, in his magical films.
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Rebels of the Neon God

Thu, Jul 03 @ 7:00 pm
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Los Feliz 3
This breakout film from out Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang follows three disaffected teenagers, one of whom is heavily implied to be queer.
In Taipei, revenge and love twist the paths of wayward youths.
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Dog Day Afternoon

Wed, Jul 02 @ 8:00 pm
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Brain Dead Studios
A true Story! Young Al Pacino plays John Wojtowicz, who tries to rob a bank in order to pay for his lover's sex-change operation. The real Wojtowicz was an active gay liberationist, and tells his own story in the 2013 documentary "The Dog."
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny’s motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.
Theatrical runs

PREVIOUSLY In Theaters

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

The Queen of My Dreams
Opened Jun 20, 2025
Opens Jun 20, 2025

Pakistani Muslim Mariam and her Canadian-born daughter Azra come of age in two different eras against the backdrop of a shared obsession with Bollywood fantasy.

Brokeback Mountain: 20th Anniversary
Opened Jun 20, 2025
Opens Jun 20, 2025

Rodeo cowboy Jack and ranch hand Ennis are hired as sheepherders in 1963 Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, they spark a physical relationship. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider, they keep up their tortured, sporadic love affair for 20 years.

Block Pass
Opened Jun 11, 2025
Opens Jun 11, 2025

Willy spends his time with Jojo, his best friend, at La Pampa, the motocross course where Jojo trains for the French championship. One evening, Willy discovers Jojo’s secret. It’s time to leave childhood behind.

Perfect Endings
Opened Jun 04, 2025
Opens Jun 04, 2025

Like the perfect ending of a great film - that is the way filmmaker João describes the end of his 10-year relationship with Hugo. Despite breaking up, they remained best friends. However, reentering the dating scene brought a whirlwind of emotions, revealing that reality can’t be controlled like a movie script.

Escape to Life
Opened Apr 26, 2025
Opens Apr 26, 2025

This documentary contains dramatized episodes about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, the brilliant children of German writer Thomas Mann.

On Swift Horses
Opened Apr 25, 2025
Opens Apr 25, 2025

In the 1950s, a seemingly sensible newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law undertake parallel journeys of risk, romance, and self-discovery.

The Wedding Banquet
Opened Apr 18, 2025
Opens Apr 18, 2025

Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.

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.

A Nice Indian Boy
Opened Apr 04, 2025
Opens Apr 04, 2025

When Naveen brings his fiancé Jay home to meet his traditional Indian family, they must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them plan the Indian wedding of their dreams.

Misericordia
Opened Mar 21, 2025
Opens Mar 21, 2025

Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man’s widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie’s short stay in the village take an unexpected turn.

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.