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• Screaming Queens

  The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

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  Documentary of the Pre-Stonewall riot at Compton's Cafeteria that occurred in 1966 in San Francisco's Tenderloin, when transgender women fought back against police.

• Beautiful Thing

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  "Tells the story of two teenage boys, neighbors in a London high-rise housing project, who gradually become aware that they are homosexual." - Roger Ebert

• American Experience

  Stonewall Uprising

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  Documentary about the Stonewall Riots in New York City in 1969, when transgender women Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, as well as other members of the LGBT community, fought back against a police raid on the Stonewall Inn.

• The Cockettes

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  In 1969, the Cockettes started bringing their colorful, outrageous and psychedelic gender party to the stage. They continue to be an influential and beloved part of San Francisco's drag history.

• The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye

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  Acclaimed local filmmaker Cheryl Dunye was most well known for her genre-bending 1996 film The Watermelon Woman, a hybrid of documentary and fiction that explored themes of Black lesbian identity.

• We Were Here

  the AIDS Years in San Francisco

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  Emmy-award-nominated documentary about the AIDS crisis in 1980s-1990s San Francisco, by local filmmaker David Weismann.

• Word Is Out

  Stories of Some of Our Lives

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  Interviews with 26 lesbians and gay men who speak out about their experiences. Film-maker Peter Adair's papers are also in the James C. Hormel Center archives and open to the public.

• Brother Outsider

  the Life of Bayard Rustin

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  Documentary of Bayard Rustin, gay African-American civil rights leader. Includes rare archival footage.

• Before Stonewall

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  Social history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s to 1969.

• United in Anger

  a History of ACT UP

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  A history of ACT UP.

• I Am the Queen

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  Vida/Sida Cacica Pageant in Chicago brings together members of the Puerto Rican community to celebrate its transgender participants.