Video: Landline
Landline is a short documentary about the only helpline in the UK for gay farmers.
Video: The Act of Coming Out
In a documentary by Alexandra Stergiou, an audition reveals the range of emotions that accompany the acceptance of one’s sexuality.
Video: For Nonna Anna
As a young trans woman cares for her Italian grandmother, she discovers a tender bond in their shared vulnerability.
Video: Outdooring
A young man attends his nephew’s Ghanaian baptism with a plan: steal the donated money and keep a deep secret hidden from his family.
Robin Carver: Being a trans person in America was already scary. Now it’s terrifying.
A new federal order wouldn’t just deny civil rights protections to trans people. It would deny we exist altogether. I’m a trans woman, and I’m terrified. Already, on any given … Continue reading →
Philip F. Clark: Learning
Be a man, he said.
And so I’ve tried.
Fight like a man, he said
I’ve loved men like a man,
instead.
Irvin Cemil Schick: What Ottoman erotica teaches us about sexual pluralism
History might be the best antidote to the unthinking, and pernicious, naturalisation of cisgender identity and heterosexuality. When confronted with the fact that, for most of history, people simply did … Continue reading →
Video: First Night Out
In this award-winning film directed by Will Mayo, a transgender woman goes out in public for the first time. Email subscribers may click on the title of this post to … Continue reading →