CMST 3320: Sexualities and Organizational Communication

Available at Circulation Desk: DVD5826. This documentary examines the political life of the self-proclaimed "Mayor Of Castro Street," N.Y. stockbroker turned San Francisco activist Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician elected to public office in California.

Biopic starring Sean Penn about murdered politician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man in America to be elected to major public office when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.

1984 American documentary film about the LGBT community prior to the 1969 Stonewall riots.

Available at Circulation Desk- DVD7522. Tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States - a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn.

Every year in June, the Gay Pride parade is a wild party. It hasn’t always been like this.

The life and times of Teena Marie Brandon provides the basis for this biographical drama featuring Hillary Swank as a 21-year-old Nebraskan who passed herself off as a boy before aquaintances turned on her in a violent attack.

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.

Matthew Modine stars in HBO Pictures' AND THE BAND PLAYED ON, the dramatization of Randy Shilts' best seller chronicling the early years of the AIDS epidemic.

Available at Circulation Desk-DVD6233. David Weissman's We were here revisits the San Francisco of the 80s and 90s, using the city's experience with AIDS to open up a conversation about both the history of the epidemic and the lessons to be learned from it.