All guides: LGBTIQA+ Resources: Films and Podcasts

Popular Films Recommended by Staff and Students

RMIT University library staff have put together a list of recommended films for RMIT Pride Week 2022.

Pride Week Film events

The first 2 films below are also included in the 2022 Pride Week events. Links to purchase free tickets to the Pride Short Film festival events (Tuesday 23rd August at 5pm and Wednesday 24th at 2pm) can be found on the RMIT Pride week page.

The best men
Moments before his best friend's wedding, Peter gets one last chance to rekindle mutual feelings long suppressed, but not abandoned. Sometimes the perfect reminder of first love's passion is but a simple kiss from the best man.
Congo cabaret
Congo Cabaret is an adaptation of an episode from gay writer Claude McKay’s then-bestselling novel, Home to Harlem.
Portrait of a lady on fire
One of the best reviewed films of the year and winner of the coveted Best Screenplay and Queer Palm awards at the Cannes Film Festival, This film is an intimate and deeply affecting period drama about freedom, love and desire.
Happy together
Two lovers (Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung) in a Cannes prize winning film about love, the impossibility of love, being alone and being exiled in an alien country.
Southern comfort
Against the backdrop of rural Georgia, this documentary is a portrait of Robert Eads, a trans-gender female-to-male, dealing with ovarian cancer. In the final year of his life, Ead's dream is to make it to the Southern Comfort Conference in Atlanta, the nation's preeminent transgender gathering.
Moonlight
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
Tangerine
Shot on an iPhone, this film follows a working girl's search for the man who broke her heart, with a mostly amateur cast playing characters closely modelled on themselves, this film pops like its namesakes colour.
Rocketman
Musical story about Elton John's breakthrough years.
Black Divaz
Documentary on the first, first nation drag pageant held in Darwin in 2017.
Ideal home
Paul and celebrity chef Erasmus live an extravagant, self-indulgent lifestyle. Their lives are soon turned upside down when the grandson they never knew existed crashes their fancy dinner party.
The lavender scare
With the United States gripped in the panic of the 1950s Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower deems homosexuals to be “security risks” and vows to rid the federal government of all employees discovered to be gay or lesbian.

Streaming Videos

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Podcasts

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Library subject guides

LGBTIQA+ Resources

Popular Films Recommended by Staff and Students

Pride Week Film events

Streaming Videos

Free Online Newspapers and Magazines

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