Koskettava rakkaustarina joka pohjautuu Lili Elben ja Gerda Wegenerin elämäntarinaan. Vuoden 1926 Kööpenhaminassa elävä taiteilija Einar Wegener, joka on naimisissa Gerda Wegenerin kanssa, tunnetaan maisemamaalauksistaan. Myös Gerda on taiteilija, vähemmän tunnettu, mutta työllistyy merkkihenkilöiden muotokuvamaalarina. Heidän avioliittonsa on vahva ja täynnä rakkautta.
Kaikki muuttuu, kun Gerda pyytää miestään asettumaan malliksi ja pukeutumaan naisen asuun viimeistelläkseen maalauksensa. Kokemus mullistaa pariskunnan koko elämän. Einar huomaa, että ollessaan Lili hän kykenee toteuttamaan itseään aidoimmillaan ja ryhtyy elämään naisena. Gerda taas löytää Lilistä uuden muusan ja kypsyy taiteilijana uuteen kukoistukseen. Pariskunta joutuu kohtaamaan myös ympäröivän yhteiskunnan ennakkoluulot. He lähtevät kotimaastaan avomielisempään Pariisiin. Yhä uudelleen Gerda osoittaa tukensa Lilille, joka tekee hänestä yhden maailman ensimmäisistä sukupuolenkorjauksen pioneereista.
Ingemar asuu veljensä ja sairaan äitinsä kanssa. Hänellä on vaikeaa, mutta ei niin vaikeaa kuin Laika-koiralla avaruudessa. Ingemar lähetetään kesäksi maalle isoäitinsä luokse. Siellä hän tapaa ihmisiä, jotta muuttavat hänen elämäänsä. .
A wife escapes her pressure-filled marriage only to have her husband haunt her literally and figuratively.
Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, whilst widening comfort zones and finding new horizons.
Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.
Paul reunites with his schoolmate Kim, and finds out she's actually a woman who has transitioned since they last met. She has no desire to stir up the past and they start to fall in love, but Paul's immaturity gets them in trouble.
Soon after newlyweds Olga and Michel set foot on the grounds of a notorious women's prison, they're arrested by topless guards and ushered behind bars where the warden quickly dismisses Michel but demands that Olga do a little time.
A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.
Lukas, 20, is a prisoner in his own body. As a pre-op transgendered person, he is constantly finding himself trapped in uncomfortable, compromising positions. His best friend, Ine introduces him to the gay scene in Cologne where he meets the confident and gorgeous, Fabio. The two develop a romantic relationship that tests the boundaries of love. ROMEOS forgoes stereotypes and conventions to offer an honest and humorous examination of the most basic of human conditions: friendship, sex, and love.
Sympathetic look at the tragic life of cabaret singer Lorna, who was born a man but really just wants to be a woman. She meets a man who loves her but she can't tell him the truth and decides instead to get an operation so she'll be all woman.
In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance.
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
Borghettin perhe on muuttanut yhteen kaupungin monista vastarakennetuista kerrostaloista. Huolimatta siitä, kuinka kaunis asunto ja upeat näkymät heidän ylimmän kerroksen huoneistostaan on, perheen asiat eivät ole niin kuin ennen. Clara ja Felice ovat menettäneet rakkautensa, mutta he eivät pysty eroamaan. Clara pakenee yksinäisyyttään ja turvautuu lähinnä kolmeen lapseensa, joka vie hänet vielä pidemmälle miehestään. Kun perheen poika ystävystyy tuntemattoman alempaan yhteiskuntaluokkaan kuuluvan tytön kanssa ja kokee ensisuudelmansa, ristiriidat repivät perhettä erilleen kohti murtumispistettä.
This sensitive and sensual film draws together several narratives spanning several decades, all of them transpiring in the same room of the same Singaporean hotel — and all of them involving sex.
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.
Frank Bartlett has been tortured, embarrassed, and humiliated by his brother Bruce — usually on film — his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not.
A grieving husband struggles to come to terms with his wife's passing. Following a night-time visit to her grave, he picks up a transgender sex worker.
The story deals with the right to happiness and to be part of the community, for those who have chosen a different form of morally accepted by society, and allows us to review the issue of discrimination, intolerance, marginalization and social exclusion but also that of the infinite capacity to love that human beings have.
Bambi was born Jean-Pierre Pruvot in a tiny Algerian village in 1935. Even as a child, she refused to meet the expectations of her extended family, choosing instead to find a way to become the woman she always knew herself to be. A Cabaret Carrousel de Paris performance in Algiers in the 1950s proved to be all the encouragement she needed to emigrate to the French capital, assume the stage name of ‘Bambi’ and lead the life she longed for on the music-hall stages.