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Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man. Transformed by this love, he is no longer afraid to face up to who he is.

Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't come out yet and he doesn't want to alienate his mainly female fan-base. The article is a great success and leads to a huge amount of reactions, mainly from other gay men who are leading a double life. He decides to meet a number of these letter writers and eventually is forced to come out.

Reiko, engaged to her boyfriend, Aki, meets a lesbian girl on a train who opens her up to the lesbian world. Reiko finds herself attracted to the girl, and is forced to make a difficult decision about her fiance. The film touches upon the delicate question of social acceptance of alternative lifestyles in the closed Japanese society of today. And it also has some steamy girl-on-girl erotica scenes!

Similar to his 1977 feature documentary, Gay USA, this debut short from Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. features interviews with participants in San Francisco's 1972 Gay Freedom Day celebration - the first organized gay pride parade in the city.

Andreas Hübner is an unfriendly official who interviews immigrants wishing to stay in Germany. One morning an Adolf Hitler moustache appears on his face. All efforts to remove the fascist identifier fail and Andreas ends up alone in a field asking God for help. The answer arrives in the shape of a yoghurt carton with a 1945 sell-by-date.

A young woman asks her brother to videotape her confession. The brother thinks this is all a joke and unnecessarily ridiculous. The woman nevertheless insists on proceeding on telling on tape what she's been hiding to her family including her brother all along. She is coming out.

125 employees of the Catholic Church come out as queer! In the exclusive ARD documentary, believers in the service of the Catholic Church in Germany dare to go public together. People who identify as non-heterosexual talk about fighting for their church - sometimes at the risk of losing their jobs as a result. There are priests, religious brothers, parish assistants, diocese employees, religion teachers, kindergarten teachers, social workers and many more who report intimidation, denunciations, deep injuries, decades of hide and seek and double lives. The Catholics report a system in which pressure, fear and arbitrariness leave employees uncertain as to what exactly happens when they stand by their sexual orientation or identity. The investigative documentary listens to those who live their faith every day and are nevertheless degraded by the church as an institution.

'When did you come out?' Whether I'm doing a media interview, at a dinner party, or scrolling through social media comments, this question is almost always present. My forever answer, 'I'm always coming out.", is continuously met with the same confused look. In this LGBTQ+ short I spoof the many times I've come out in my life, from checking in to a hotel to find that they have "upgraded" my girlfriend and I to separate rooms to the 80 year old man at my office who always said "quit texting your boyfriend!" when I looked at my phone. I examine how the assumption of heterosexuality in our society requires LGBTQ+ folks to come out, daily, presented in a comedic and satirical light. There is power in laughter

Yo is a gay college student who doesn't have the courage to come out to his friends and family.

Max has a date with a woman, and is invited to her appartment. However, he has a secret to tell her...

This is the story of present-day Hungary's most famous gay celebrity who openly admits his homosexuality and fights for gay rights in a society where so many alternative values are denied. But then something happens and he is shocked to discover his growing interest in the female of the species.

Joel has finally made up his mind, or so he thinks. Tonight he's going to tell his parents, but is this the right moment? How should he do it, and what should he say?

A suspicious man named Yoshioka, who claims to be a friend of Takashi's late father, offers a car as payment for two university students acting in a private adult video. The two friends Takashi and Shogo desperately want a car to make their campus life more meaningful, so they reluctantly agree to appear in a gay adult video together. They somehow manage to get through the humiliating filming and get the promised car. Takashi thinks he'll never do it again, but at that moment something he doesn't realize is beginning to sprout inside him. The next day, Takashi is called by Yoshioka to visit his office. Yoshioka's sponsor, a man who calls himself Hayami, appears before Takashi. Hayami asks Takashi to appear in another gay adult video, and if he refuses, he will copy Yoshioka's tape and distribute it everywhere. Takashi succumbs to the blackmail threats, but during the filming of the video, Shogo looks for him.

John just has a simple crush on his best friend, which adds on to his mommy issues, but they’re tested when something happens to her, causing him to stay with his best friend. With his now close to perfect life, he tries his best to get his crush to fall in love with him.

Rare look into the lives of gays and lesbians in contemporary Poland. It explores the issue of gay and lesbian rights in a conservative society, which is undergoing a very dynamic transformation, allowing for successful liberal changes.

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The Coming Out club is in the middle of preparing for the Pride parade that, as always, will finish up in the same street as the club Lisa founded twenty years ago and has been managing ever since. But today is different: for the first time Gaia, her partner from when they were teenagers, and the mother of her son, won’t be there. The two women have recently separated and the dynamics of their new life as a family are still unclear…

A story of pride and acceptance told through the characters of Godzilla and Little Godzilla.

Coming Out reveals that the debutante tradition is alive and well.

Charlie and Mitch arrive at Charlie’s mother’s home to come out of the closet as stoners. But Charlie's fear of being exiled drags out the process—until somebody is caught with their pants down.

14-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.

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

An old widower, Jasper, routinely makes coffee in two mugs and picks up trash around his community. Some of his more interesting finds speckle his home. His neighbors mostly disregard him. On one of his regular hunts, he chances upon an envelope. To his surprise, he finds old wedding photos and presumes the addressee, Angie, to be the bride. Determined to complete the delivery, Jasper follows a map to the address. When he finally arrives, his excitement is upended when Angie, now divorced, rebuffs him and the photos. He leaves her with an open invitation to his home, should she change her mind. The next morning, Jasper starts his routine-only to find Angie at his door. After a heart-to-heart on loss and new life, Jasper invites Angie to pick up trash with him. Together, they go.

A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when the husband confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.

A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.

A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.

Guillermo seems like your average high school student, but in fact he's a suave expert at cruising his local shopping malls for gay sex. From a random trick, to his English tutor, to the hottest guy he's ever seen, Guillermo is completely honest and reveals everything.

Firefighters Chuck Ford and Larry Valentine are guy's guys, loyal to the core—which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his lover so that he can get domestic partner benefits for his kids, his buddy agrees. However, things get dicey when a bureaucrat comes calling, and the boys are forced to present a picture of domestic bliss.

A new student, Manuela, enters a strict girls' boarding school after her mother’s death, where she finds comfort in a kind teacher, stirring complex emotions within her.

Merab, a devoted dancer, has been training for years with his partner Mary for a spot in the National Georgian Ensemble. The arrival of another male dancer, Irakli, sparks both an intense rivalry and romantic desire that may cause Merab to risk his future in dance as well as his relationships.

Nick and Charlie are inseparable, but with Nick preparing to leave for university and Charlie finding new independence at school, the reality of a long-distance relationship begins to weigh on them. Doubts take hold, and their relationship faces its biggest challenge yet. Meanwhile, their friends are also navigating the ups and downs of love and friendship, confronting the bittersweet challenges of growing up and moving on.

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.

A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.

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.

Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.

After the funeral of a parent, Surya, a gay Muslim man, has to choose between coming out and staying in the closet when his mother wants to fix their broken relationship.

Sixteen year old Rocco's two aims in life are to get laid and to see his favorite pop star in concert with his two best friends. When a bullying incident at school forces Rocco to come out to his divorced middle-class parents their liberal leanings are severely tested. Luckily his two friends stand by him and join him in running away from home (in his parents stolen car) to see their favorite singer in concert, followed hot on their heels by his neurotic mother and eccentric gran.

It's been one year since Xander was dealt a sudden and tragic loss - the loss of his friend Tobin. Now, he must confront the people from his life he has since pushed away.

An intimate exploration of the circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of murder in 1977, with commentary from those involved, including Peltier himself.