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The following are documentary films that BlackPast.org recommends because of their presentation of African American LGBTQ History. Most of these documentaries are available through Amazon.com.

Abod, Jennifer The Edge Of Each Others Battles: The Vision Of Audre Lorde 2000

Craigwell, Antoine You Are Not Alone 2012

Dall, Christine Wild Women Dont Have the Blues 1989

Dixon, Amir Friends of Essex 2013

Evans, Rodney Brother to Brother 2005 Yes

Everett, Karen I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs 1996

Fernando, Sonali The Body of a Poet: A Tribute to Audre Lorde 1995

Frilot, Shari Black Nations/ Queer Nations 1995

Garofalo, Jose H. That’s Livin: The Zora Neale Hurston Story 2008

Goodman, Karen Sloe If She Grows Up Gay 1983

Griffin, Ada Gay et al. A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde 1995

Grimm, Thomas A Tribute to Alvin Ailey 1990 Yes

Heller, Caleb Y-Love 2012

Hercules, Bob and Quinn, Gordon A Good Man 2011 Yes

Jenz, Tom The Ladies Sing the Blues 1989 Yes

Jordan, June The Politics of Childhood 1990

Joseph, Jamal Hughes Dream Harlem 2002

Julien, Isaac Looking for Langston 1989 Yes

Kates, Nancy D. and Singer, Bennett Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin 2003 Yes

Keber, Lily Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker 2013

Klein, William The Little Richard Story 1980

Levi, Robert Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life 2007

Livingston, Jennie Paris Is Burning 1990 Yes

Maddux, Stu GEN Silent 2011

Miles, William James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket 1989

Moore, Richard O. Take This Hammer 1963

Mosbacher, Dee et al. All Gods Children 1996

New York Center for Visual History Voices & Visions: Langston Hughes 1988

Oremland, Paul Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon 1993

Parmar, Pratibha A Place of Rage