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Orange County Vietnamese LGBTs Fight For Identity

By Louise Adams | Wednesday Mar 20, 2013
As their numbers continue to grow, LGBT Vietnamese in areas around California work to find a space where they are accepted. But with their prohibition from participating in the Tết Parade, they are seeking other methods of inclusion.

Janet Jackson to Produce Transgender Documentary

Tuesday Jun 5, 2012
Janet Jackson has signed on as an executive producer of a documentary on the lives of transgender people living around the world.

Real Estate Bust Examined in Sundance Doc ’Versailles’

By DAVID GERMAIN | Tuesday Jan 31, 2012
Lauren Greenfield’s Sundance Film Festival entry "The Queen of Versailles" tells the story of every American in danger of losing a home. The difference is that the home in question was a 90,000-square-foot mansion inspired by Versailles.

Stonewall Uprising

By Kyle Thomas Smith | Friday May 6, 2011
"Stonewall Uprising" succeeds in impressing upon us just how far we’ve come, thanks to the rumbles of a ragtag rabble, despite how much farther the struggle for gay rights still has to go.

Stonewall Uprising :: Filmmakers make ’gay history American history’

By M. M. Adjarian | Thursday Apr 21, 2011
The Stonewall Riots are ’the Rosa Parks moment’ for gay rights. Stonewall Uprising, a recent doc film (to be aired on PBS & released on DVD) about the event, re-examines the event. EDGE spoke to directors Kate Davis & David Heilbroner about their film.

New Documentary Explores Making ’The Boys in the Band’ & Its Outsized Influence

By Steve Weinstein | Thursday Mar 3, 2011
Crayton Robey’s sensational new documentary Making the Boys explores how the seminal gay dramady The Boys in the Band came to be as an off-Broadway sensation & film, & the continuing profound influence of the first-ever honest portrayal of urban gay men.

The Thorn In the Heart

By Kilian Melloy | Wednesday Sep 1, 2010
Director Michel Gondry turns his lens onto his own family: specifically, his aunt Suzette, a former schoolteacher whose most challenging pupil remains her own son.

Trinidad

By Kilian Melloy | Thursday Apr 22, 2010
Filmmakers Jay Hodges and PJ Raval heard about a small Colorado town where transgendered people go to get bodies that match their inner selves. Naturally, they decided to make a film about it.

Outspoken Anti-Gay Utah Lawmaker Retiring?

By Kilian Melloy | Thursday Feb 18, 2010
The anti-gay Utah state senator who claimed that gays are "the biggest threat going down" to America has refused to say whether he plans to run for re-election in 2012, sparking retirement rumors.

Film documents Mormon role in gay marriage debate

By Jennifer Dobner | Monday Nov 16, 2009
Reed Cowan’s reasons for making a film about the Mormon church’s activism against gay marriage in California are personal.