This much-needed history lesson gives an eye-opening look at a little-known period of discrimination.

Among the entries are films focusing on the nation’s LGBTQ community; in particular, the recent attacks on their rights. How they choose to respond is the point of one especially compelling documentary.

A story of forbidden teenage lesbian love across class lines in Kenya, it has drawn attention for an attempted ban by the Kenyan government.

A top-rate introduction into what transgenderism actually is, made by two cisgender parents as they learn how to raise their transgender child.

On the surface, this is a love story, but director/writer Christophe Honoré has also made a requiem to a time in gay culture that has passed.

A number of recent documentaries have centered on individuals who either transitioned or are transitioning, but the fascinating Markie in Milwaukee stands out from the rest.

A Finnish family falls apart after the parents’ divorce and the son comes out as gay in Finnish director Mikko Makela’s debut.

Not your average rent boy outfit, the Raconteurs elevate the sex worker experience by offering their upper-class clientele pre- and postcoital intellectual conversation.

Using professional soccer as its setting, this German film asks the timely question of whether homosexuality can ever be accepted in professional sports.