Susan Stryker

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What even is a TERF?
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What even is a TERF?

Nov 01, 2022
An animated history of the term "Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists". Taking cues from the origins of radical feminism in the 1960's and utilizing visual metaphor throughout, this film aims to educate a broad audience to the nature and danger of the TERF ideology.
Animation
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
4.2
The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco three years earlier. Those who stood up were trans women and gay men. Now, nearly 40 years on, Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman tell the story of this oft-overlooked event in the history of American civil rights.
Documentary
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
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Ce documentaire passionnant pénètre dans le monde du stand-up queer et examine la puissante influence culturelle qu'il a exercée sur le changement social en Amérique. Le film combine des documents d'archives rares, des spectacles de stand-up et des interviews avec une équipe de choc pour présenter une histoire complète de la comédie queer.
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Reel in the Closet
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Reel in the Closet

Jun 21, 2015
Never before seen home movies made by queer people dating back to the 1930s and the struggle to save them before they are lost forever.
Documentary
Masculinity/Femininity
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Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super 8, the project merges academic and creative critique -- a document of gender de-construction rather than a documentary about gender construction.
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Maggots and Men
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Maggots and Men

Jun 21, 2009
A utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of over 100 transgender actors, paints a portrait of formerly pro-Soviet sailors at the Kronstadt naval garrison who rebelled against the perceived failures of the new Bolshevik state.
Comedy
Genderation
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Genderation

Oct 21, 2021
20 years after Gendernauts, Monika Treut seeks out the pioneers of the transgender movement back then to find out how their lives and their activism have evolved, how they have grown into their identities and how their energy continues to have an impact today.
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Gendernauts - Eine Reise durch die Geschlechter
6.8
Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco culture. The characters in this film have a lot to complain about, and they do. They are people whose physical appearance (female) does not match their inner sexual identity (male). The subject is pinpointed in the film independant of sexual orientation. Leave your conservative hats at the door, this is going to need your special attention.
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No Ordinary Man
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No Ordinary Man

Apr 02, 2021
The legacy of Billy Tipton, a 20th-century American jazz musician and trans icon, is brought to life by a diverse group of contemporary trans artists.
Documentary
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
4.2
The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco three years earlier. Those who stood up were trans women and gay men. Now, nearly 40 years on, Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman tell the story of this oft-overlooked event in the history of American civil rights.
Documentary
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
4.2
The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco three years earlier. Those who stood up were trans women and gay men. Now, nearly 40 years on, Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman tell the story of this oft-overlooked event in the history of American civil rights.
Documentary
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
4.2
The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco three years earlier. Those who stood up were trans women and gay men. Now, nearly 40 years on, Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman tell the story of this oft-overlooked event in the history of American civil rights.
Documentary
Compton's '22
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Compton's '22

Oct 31, 2022
On an unknown date in August 1966, trans women in San Francisco's Tenderloin district rioted against police violence at Gene Compton's Cafeteria. There was no news coverage, and the arrest records no longer exist. Decades later, historians Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman unearthed the history of the riot and interviewed the surviving “Compton’s queens.”
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Forever's Gonna Start Tonight
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The film tells the astounding life story of San Francisco living legend Vicki Marlane, America's oldest professional transgender drag entertainer. It explores the theme that creative expression is a transformative experience that allows one to overcome virtually insurmountable obstacles -- social, biological, economic and personal.
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The Lady and the Dale
6.7

The Lady and the Dale

Feb 14, 2021
Très bien notée, The Lady and the Dale est une mini-série documentaire américaine de 4 épisodes tournant autour d'Elizabeth Carmichael, qui a lancé Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation et créé une voiture appelée "The Dale". Elle regroupe beaucoup d'histoires - sur la fraude, la fuite, les chasses à l'homme du FBI, la politique des transgenres, les poursuites sélectives, les préjugés dans les médias, la corruption dans les tribunaux, etc...
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Pride
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Pride

May 21, 2021
PRIDE est une série documentaire en six parties relatant la lutte pour les droits civils des LGBTQ aux États-Unis des années 1950 à aujourd'hui.
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Sex: The Revolution
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Sex: The Revolution

May 26, 2008
Sex: The Revolution was a four-part 2008 American documentary miniseries that aired on VH1 and The Sundance Channel. It chronicled the rise of American interest in sexuality from the 1950s through the 1990s. The version shown on VH1 was pixelated to censor nudity including in discussions of censorship of nudity. VH1 Latin America aired the uncensored version.
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