Garden of Stars

Hard Rain

NYC Drag Queen Blackie O opens up about his own mental health and the wider drag community's.

The Life and Death of Lily Savage

2024 · ★ 7

Intimate documentary exploring how Paul O'Grady's creation, Lily Savage, took mainstream TV by storm. Unravel the real story of Lily with insights from Paul's daughter and famous pals.

Thinking Positive

1993 · ★ 10

Another sensitive, thoughtful, and elegantly crafted film from home-grown McGee that speaks calmly to us of an alarming truth. Even in outports and relatively small Newfoundland communities, young people are vulnerable to becoming infected with HIV. The story centres on Trudy Parsons who was 20 when she contracted the virus, a young woman with the determination to show others that people like us do get it. The direct and candid way in which trudy and her friends discuss current social and personal views of sexuality makes for another stirring experience that inspires as much as it moves.

30 Years from Here

2011 · ★ 1

The Emmy Award-nominated 30 Years from Here examines the AIDS pandemic over the past 30 years. Activists and medical experts that share stories include Terrence McNally, Larry Kramer, Marjorie Hill, Frank Spinelli, Jerry Mitchell, and Larry Flick.

ALHIVE

2024

One morning, Leonardo Galicia wakes up with a dull pain and an intense fever. After a pandemic experience that made him aware of his mortality, the last thing Leonardo expected was an HIV-reactive result.
 The illness caused by the virus takes hold of Leonardo's body and forces him to take an indefinite break while recovering in a hospital. There, he meets a mysterious young man, Augusto. By sharing common thoughts, hopes, and dreams, the two will find refuge in each other's arms.

What's a Girl Like You?

1969 · ★ 3

A visit to the Vauxhall Tavern in London to see the drag acts.

High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell

1995 · ★ 6.7

Documents 18 months in the lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Sensaciones - La historia del Sida en la Argentina

2007

Fictionalized documentary about the history of HIV/AIDS in Argentina from its inception up until 2006.

Becoming Ruby

2025

Follow Ruby Chopstix, Canada’s first drag artist-in-residence, as they navigate the complexity of being an underrepresented drag performer while creating a special showcase to create space for other queer BIPOC performers.

Steelers: The World's First Gay Rugby Club

2020 · ★ 5

Told through the eyes of an Australian news reporter, Eammon Ashton-Atkinson, who moved to the UK to escape depression, the documentary, follows 3 characters on their journey to overcome their struggles as the club competes against 60 other gay clubs in the Bingham Cup in Amsterdam – the World Cup of gay rugby.

Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence

1994

"Out in Silence" is one of a few films dealing with the HIV and Aids epidemic in the early 90's among the Asian American community. Filmed in New York, Guam and Hawaii, portrait of two people and how they are dealing with issues of homophobia the lack of support from the communities and family.

Mr. Fox

2018 · ★ 3.9

Sr. Raposo is a staged documentary about the daily life of Acácio, who found out he was HIV+ in 1995.