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風たちの午後 | AFTERNOON BREEZES (1980) dir. Hitoshi Yazaki Two young girls, Mitsu and Natsuko, share the same apartment. Natsuko is Lesbian and secretly in love with Mitsu. But Mitsu has a boyfriend. In the hope of destroying the relation between Mitsu and her boyfriend, Natsuko seduces the boyfriend and also tries to influence him in other ways. Mitsu finds out and throws Natsuko out of the apartment. But Natsuko’s love and possession remains. Secretly and never detected she follows and watches Mitsu, in particularly when she has fun with her boyfriend. She even finds Mitsu’s garbage bag and eats the other part of a half-eaten apple to obtain some connection with her beloved. She is through and through permeated by a feeling of completely empty despair. (link in title)

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Colt Men Magazine #3 1977 - Mike Davis

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Christopher Makos (1994)

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ALUCARDA, LA HIJA DE LAS TINIEBLAS (1977) dir. Juan López Moctezuma Young Justine’s arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows, and the convent is turned upside-down, affecting the lives of Alucarda, Justine, the nuns, Father Lázaro, and the skeptic Dr. Oszek. A loose adaptation of the gothic novela Carmilla from 1872. (link in title)

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PROTEUS (2003) dir. John Greyson Set in 18th-century South Africa, the film dramatizes the true story of two prisoners on Robben Island: Claas Blank, a black Khoi, and Rijkhaart Jacobsz, a white Dutchman. Herder Claas Blank was serving 10 years for “insulting a Dutch citizen” and Rijkhaart was a Dutch sailor convicted of committing “unnatural acts” with another man. The two men, initially hostile to each other, form a secret relationship, using trips to a private water tank to bond. (link in title)

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FLICKA OCH HYACINTER (1950) dir. Hasse Ekman Dagmar Brink, a young female pianist, dies by suicide in her Stockholm apartment. She leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbors, an author and his wife. Perplexed and curious, they investigate the girl’s reasons for taking her life. As they visit Dagmar’s friends, acquaintances and former boyfriends, her story unfolds. She stands out as loner, a woman no one could really grasp, always in want of something that nobody she met could make out. (link in title)

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Frede's Women's Nightclub in Montmartre, Paris (December 1950) from Pix magazine

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DRUNKTOWN’S FINEST (2014) dir. Sydney Freeland Three young Navajo - an adopted girl, a young father-to-be, and a trans woman who dreams of being a model - strive to escape the hardships of life on a Reservation. Nizhoni seeks out her past after being adopted by a white Christian family, Sickboy is headed to basic training so he can take care of his soon-to-be-born child, and Felixia pursues a spot in the “women of the tribe” calendar. (link in title)

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आग | FIRE (1996) dir. Deepa Mehta In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha’s life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage. (link in title)

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ΣΤΡΈΛΛΑ | STRELLA (2009) dir. Panos H. Koutras Yorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed. He meets Strella, a young trans sex worker. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love. But the past is catching up with Yorgos. (link in title)

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Daniel on Pier 48 (1978) photographed by Leonard Fink Leonard Fink (1930-1992) was an American photographer who documented his own LGBT culture in New York City from 1967 to 1992.He photographed the annual Pride Marches beginning with the first in 1970; the West Village's gay bar culture; and in particular the abandoned West Side piers where men cruised and had sexual encounters.

He neither published nor exhibited his work in his lifetime, but posthumously exhibitions have been held in the Schwules Museum in Berlin and at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York City. A book, Leonard Fink: Coming Out, was published on the occasion of the latter exhibition. His work is held in the archive of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City. (Source: Wikipedia)

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LA Cares AIDS campaign (c.1984) starring Zelda Rubinstein Zelda Rubinstein was a little person (the term she preferred) who began acting in her 40's. Her big break came in 1982 with her role as Tangina Barrons in the film Poltergeist.

In 1984, she was the the central figure in a series of advertisements, directed towards gay men specifically, promoting safer sex and AIDS awareness. Rubinstein did so at risk to her own career, especially so shortly after her rise to fame, and admitted later that she did "pay a price, career-wise." "I lost a friend to AIDS, one of the first public figures that died of AIDS," the actress said in an interview with The Advocate. "I knew it was not the kind of disease that would stay in anybody's backyard. It would climb the fences, get over the fences into all of our homes. It was not limited to one group of people." She attended the first AIDS Project Los Angeles AIDS Walk. (Source:Wikipedia)

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