The LGBT National Help Center is excited to announce the 1st annual LGBT Online Coming Out Film Festival (ComingOutFilmFest.org), premiering online October 11, 2024, National Coming Out Day.We are the very first queer film festival to focus exclusively on the coming out experience. The LGBT National Help Center has been supporting the LGBTQ+ community for […]
Small Beauty is a 2016 novel written by transgender writer Jia Qing Wilson-Yang. The story won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction in 2017. Small Beauty is recommended for late teen readers and adults due to its use of transphobic language, homophobia, deadnaming, racism, depiction of physical violence, along with drug and alcohol use. […]
Passing” is a 2015 Canadian documentary directed by J. Mitchel Reed & Lucah Rosenberg Lee. It follows three black trans men and how their transitions affect how they navigate through the world. The full documentary can be found at: https://vimeo.com/119696471 You get to ask questions of yourself, and you get to discover who you are. […]
Fellow Travelers is a 2023 historical romance series that is based on the 2008 book by Thomas Mallon of the same name. Fellow Travelers is available with a subscription to Paramount+ that specifically includes Showtime access. As this series includes profanity, sexual content, homophobic language, moments of suicidal ideation, and depictions of smoking, drug and […]
Short content warning for language and some sexual scenes. “Bro’s Before” is an American rom-com short film directed by Henry Hanson that was released in 2022. Best friends Elijah and Billy are watching a show together until it eventually leads to them hooking up. They have a good time and you would think it would […]
“The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo” is an American comedy web series created by Brian Jordan Alvarez in 2016. The series follows Caleb Gallo, a twenty-something year old gay man figuring out his love life alongside his friend group of queer actors in Los Angeles. Queerness can be messy, and that’s ok. If […]
Wildhood is a Canadian coming-of-age drama film directed, written, and produced by Bretten Hannam in 2021. Trigger warning for domestic violence. Lincoln, also known as Link, is a hot headed but kind hearted young adult who lives with his abusive white father, Arvin, and his half-brother, Travis. Link’s mother, Sarah, is Mi’kmaq (one of the […]
“Kapaemahu” is a 2020 animated short film directed and produced by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson. The film explores the legends surrounding four mysterious stones on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii, which are believed to have the healing powers from four healers from ancient times. The healers embodied both masculine and feminine energies and […]
