Ang Lee's Film 'The Wedding Banquet' Is Latest LGBTQ+ Film Added to National Registry
Ang Lee's film is one of 25 added this year, joining many other LGBTQ+ movies from previous years.
December 15, 2023
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32 LGBTQ+ Documentaries to Watch for LGBTQ+ History Month
We've assembled 32 films to recommend, from 1977's Word Is Out to 2021's Pieces of Us.
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Savaging Kentucky Clerk's Double Standards
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September 2, 2015
Confession of an Evangelical Mom
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Elton John Sticks It to Russia's Antigay Law in Front of Thousands
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November 13, 2014
NFL Commissioner: Openly Gay Players Would Be Accepted
Roger Goodell has encouraging words for any player who might come out. Also, Jets linebacker DeMario Davis says he'd accept a gay teammate, even though he thinks homosexuality is a sin.
May 10, 2013
L is for Leisha
As The L Word's only out lesbian cast member, Leisha Hailey is surrounded by hot women (and men) in the sexiest new show since Queer As Folk. Welcome to Showtime's steamy new hit.
February 3, 2004
Laramie: 10 Years Later
In 1998 in rural Wyoming, Matthew Shepard was tied to a fence by two local men, brutally beaten, and left to die. Ten years after Shepard's murder, the company behind The Laramie Project returned to Laramie to find out, in the words of creator Moises Kaufman, "what had or had not changed" about the town since the hate crime. The result is Laramie: 10 Years Later.
December 5, 2008
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The iconic lesbian comic ran for 25 years.
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