Since 1977, the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival has been at the forefront of lesbian and gay film culture. THE ULTIMATE GUIDE draws on the expertise and resources of this festival?the largest lesbian and gay media arts event in the world. With more than 2000 catalog entries, complemented with extensive film stills, short essays and reflections on the most important gay and lesbian films ever made, a distributor and subject index, a chapter on how to organize your own film/video festival, a directory of international gay & lesbian film festivals, a bibliography, and a filmmaker?s Top Ten Survey (did you know that John Water?s favorite film is The Wizard of Oz?), THE ULTIMATE GUIDE is ensured placement as the authoritative text on international lesbian and gay cinema.

The definitive international guide to gay, lesbian and queer film and video.

Filmography of American & foreign motion pictures that feature gay themes and/or characters

A call to action for anyone interested in supporting gay rights in America presents essays on how to make activism a part of everyday life, fighting discrimination in families, communities, and the workplace.

Queer Looks is a collection of writing by video artists, filmmakers, and critics which explores the recent explosion of lesbian and gay independent media culture. A compelling compilation of artists' statements and critical theory, producer interviews and image-text works, this anthology demonstrates the vitality of queer artists under attack and fighting back. Each maker and writer deploys a surprising array of techniques and tactics, negotiating the difficult terrain between street pragmatism and theoretical inquiry, finding voices rich in chutzpah and subtlety. From guerilla Super-8 in Manila to AIDS video activism in New York, Queer Looks zooms in on this very queer place in media culture, revealing a wealth of strategies, a plurality of aesthetics, and an artillary of resistances.

Revised for this second edition, Now You See It, Richard Dyer’s groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, now includes an outline of developments in queer cinema since 1990. Placing the book within lesbian and gay film history, Dyer examines familiar titles such as Girls in Uniform, Un Chant D’Amour and Word is Out in their lesbian/gay context, as well as bringing to light many other forgotten, but remarkable films. Each film is examined in detail in relation to both film type and tradition, and the sexual subculture in which it was made. Now featuring a brand new introduction by Juliane Pidduck, this will be an excellent aid to cinema and film studies courses.