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Anticipating the present-day practice of up-to-the-minute political satire as seen on SNL, The Daily Show, and Last Week Tonight, the world-famous Cockettes — including disco superstar Sylvester — orchestrated a decidedly queer, hysterically funny send-up of the televised wedding of First Daughter Tricia Nixon on June 11, 1971. Come revel in psychedelic debauchery as you've never seen it before with a new pristine 4K remaster of Tricia’s Wedding. Restoration commissioned by Frameline and the OutFest UCLA Legacy Project and facilitated by the UCLA Film & Television Archive for the 50th anniversary of this queer cinema landmark.

Exploding out of San Francisco’s vibrant late-60s counter-culture, Luminous Procuress is a psychedelic odyssey of unabashed hedonism. The only feature film by artist, mystic and polymath Steven Arnold, the film celebrates gender-fluidity and pan-sexuality in a voyeuristic phantasmagorical journey towards spiritual ecstasy. Often compared to the works of Fellini, Jack Smith and Kenneth Anger, and featuring the outrageous talents of the avant garde drag troupe The Cockettes, as well as artist ruth weiss, Luminous Procuress was an underground sensation upon release but disappeared from circulation for many years. Now fully restored in all its sensuous glory, Luminous Procuress’ subversive delights are ready to be discovered anew.

A fun, unique, informative "docu-porn drama" about a woman who became a man, and is now actually a surgically-made hermaphrodite. it includes an intimate view of the night he and Annie Sprinkle tried out his new, surgically constructed penis for the first time. Revealing interviews and explicit medical photographs have to be seen to be believed.

The wry, incisive debut feature by Cheryl Dunye gave cinema something bracingly new and groundbreaking: a vibrant representation of Black lesbian identity by a Black lesbian filmmaker. Dunye stars as Cheryl, a video-store clerk and aspiring director whose interest in forgotten Black actresses leads her to investigate an obscure 1930s performer known as the Watermelon Woman, whose story proves to have surprising resonances with Cheryl’s own life as she navigates a new relationship.

Beautifully composed landscape shots of San Francisco juxtaposed with voiceover detailing the emotional intricacies of the love affairs of a butch lesbian and the history of Golden Gate Bridge as the world's prime suicide location.

A young trans man notices himself, becomes transfixed with his image and starts flirting leading up to a tentative, yet hot kiss. Here we see this young man rediscovering himself in his new identity. Self-reflection becomes self-acceptance.