In The Family - In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Parents
About the title: In the US alone, there are millions of people with one or more LGBT parents. While research shows that having LGBT parents does not lead to significant developmental differences, youth commonly experience intolerance in schools, and...
In The Family - Out In The Heartland
About the title: During the last ten years, LGBT people in Kentucky have lived with increasing openness in their neighborhoods, churches, schools, and workplaces. But in 2004, 75% of the state's voters passed a constitutional amendment defining marr...
Global Currents: Broadcasting Change in Latin America - Novela, Novela
The main characters of Sexto Sentido ("Sixth Sense"), Nicaragua's only homegrown telenovela (soap opera), aren't rich kids, jocks, or beauty queens — they're working-class teenagers who help each other deal with tough issues like homophobia, racis...
Telling Our Stories - Don’t Erase My History
About this title: In Don’t Erase My History, a group of Bay Area youth takes us on a quest for the very history that has “no name” in their schools. Together they open archival closets and talk with LGBTQ artists, activists, and pioneers. In a...
Telling Our Stories - CHANGE
About this title: In CHANGE, Jamie is an African-American teenager grappling with his sexual identity on the night Barack Obama is elected president and Proposition 8 – the voter initiative to eliminate same-sex marriage – is passed. When one o...
Gender Matters: Expression and Identities Beyond the Binary - Eddie
About this title: A narrative short, Eddie tells the story of a young Latina who's just one of the boys and a VIP in the neighborhood kickball game. But on this particular afternoon, Eddie confronts her sexual and gender identities when an embarrass...
Gender Matters: Expression and Identities Beyond the Binary - Tomboy
About this title: From climbing trees to shooting hoops, Donna Carter's childhood and adolescence was all about smashing stereotypes and glass ceilings.In this experimental short, she explores how following her own dreams and instincts allowed her t...
Gender Matters: Expression and Identities Beyond the Binary - Just Call Me Kade
About this title: Kade is a sixteen year old FTM (female-to-male) transgender youth residing in Tucson, Arizona. Though Kade's parents are supportive and nurturing, it hasn't always been easy. As Kade entered puberty, he became depressed and frustra...
Gender Matters: Expression and Identities Beyond the Binary - Bikini
About this title: An animated musical, Bikini stars a young boy, dolled up in his mother's yellow swimsuit, who is afraid to come out of the locker room. With the encouragement of a pair of happy twins he emerges, but their lady friend would rather ...
Gender Matters: Expression and Identities Beyond the Binary - Two-Spirit People
About this title: Two-Spirit People explores the berdache or "two-spirit" tradition in many Native American cultures, in which individuals who embody feminine and masculine qualities are understood as a third gender, beyond man and woman. In many co...