Documentaries

Here are five films that’ll open your eyes (and hearts) to intersex people’s experiences — pass the popcorn and the Kleenex, please.

“Mayor Pete” was created from filmmakers that followed Pete & Chasten from early on in the campaign through the Iowa caucuses.

The film is a veritable who’s who of anti-LGBTQ pastors, politicians and pundits. Here’s a rundown of each one’s anti-LGBTQ histories.

Locals knew Leslie by his eye-catching thongs and high heels … but those were only a small part of his inspiring life story.

They say they don’t want to give trans women an unfair advantage, but their reasoning sounds like bull.

Eddie Rosenstein’s documentary follows some of the key players of the marriage equality movement.

Celebrate, remember, and cheer one of our most vilified heroes of the last century — the women’s movement.

A new film catches a cadre of priests using gay webcam sites to flirt with men online.

A new documentary reveals how hospitals are still using discredited electro-shock treatment to “cure” gay people.

Khader Abu Seif’s struggles as a gay Arab Israeli citizen are the subject of his documentary “Oriented,” touted as the first to focus on gay Palestinian citizens.

WASHINGTON — The educational arm of the nation’s largest LGBT rights group is seeking to advance LGBT inclusion on the campuses of historically black colleges and universities. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has teamed up with Promised Land Film to award $4,000 grants to four schools to allow them to use the documentary…

“Clipped Wings,” a short documentary about the discriminatory policies of the Boy Scouts of America, tells the story of Liam Easton-Calabria, a candidate for the rank of Eagle who came out before the Boy Scouts allowed openly gay scouts. The film also follows the story of Geoff McGrath, a Washington state scoutmaster who was ejected from scouting …

The film, “Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank,” premieres on April 27 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

A diverse cross-section of Americans share personal and professional stories, both heart-wrenching and triumphant, of the LGBTQ experience in the upcoming HBO documentary, “The Out List.”

NEW YORK — Grammy award winning artist Janet Jackson has signed on to be executive producer of a documentary covering the lives and struggles of transgender people around the world.

“Out in America,” a one-hour documentary showcasing LGBT Americans in their everyday lives, premieres nationally on PBS tonight.