A look at three defining chapters in the life of Chiron, a young black man growing up in Miami. His epic journey to manhood is guided by the kindness, support and love of the community that helps raise him.

A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.

For Pride Month, Funeral Parade Queer Film Society is proud to present The Times of Harvey Milk, Rob Epstein’s powerful portrait of a pioneering gay politician and a tireless advocate for LGBTQ rights. 

Released six years after Harvey Milk’s assassination, this documentary charts Milk’s path from the honorary “mayor” of San Francisco’s predominantly gay Castro District to his historic election as a city supervisor in 1977. During his eleven months in office, Milk successfully lobbied for bans on discrimination in housing and employment, making him an icon of the gay rights movement. The film also documents Milk’s untimely death, the aftermath of his murder, and the miscarriage of justice that was the trial of Dan White, Milk’s killer. The Times of Harvey Milk is sensitive, celebratory, and righteously angry – an all too relevant call to organise, build solidarity, and stand tall in the face of bigotry and oppression.

A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity, in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casting himself against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only Fassbinder could create. Fox and His Friends is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany.

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen's view of reality begins to crack.

This performance will feature an introduction by Jaye Hudson of TGirlsonFilm.

A trans woman in trouble.

Castration Movie is a labyrinthine post-modern epic about gender. The first part of this two part film includes Chapter i. Incel Superman and Chapter ii. Traps Swan Princess

Incel Superman follows Turner Stewart, a production assistant who sees his world spiral out of control as he uncompromisingly attempts to shape his life into the one he feels he deserves.

Traps Swan Princess follows a trans woman named Michaela "Traps" Sinclair, a sex worker in Vancouver who splits her time between seeing clients and hanging out with her group of trans friends, who finds her relationships strained when she decides to pursue motherhood.

Written and Directed by Louise Weard, the film's cast includes Vera Drew (The People's Joker), Ada Rook (Black Dresses), Alice Maio Mackay (T Blockers), Avalon Fast (Honeycomb), John Paizs (Crime Wave), and Lea Rose Sebastianis and Nate Wilson (The All Golden) amongst a mix of other emerging talent and weird and wonderful cameos. The original score was composed by Aoife Josie Clements/Ravine Angel, with additional music by Magda Baker, Alex Walton, and E_DEATH.

Part i. had its World Premiere in the United Kingdom in October 2024 at Glasgow’s Weird Weekend Film Festival.

BLEAK WEEK : CINEMA OF DESPAIR is co-presented by the American Cinematheque.

Megan (Natasha Lyonne) considers herself a typical American girl. She excels in school and cheerleading, and she has a handsome football-playing boyfriend, even though she isn't that crazy about him. So she's stunned when her parents decide she's gay and send her to True Directions, a boot camp meant to alter her sexual orientation. While there, Megan meets a rebellious and unashamed teen lesbian, Graham (Clea DuVall). Though Megan still feels confused, she starts to have feelings for Graham.

The story takes place over the course of about 12 hours, following the lives of two transgender prostitutes on Christmas Eve. Sin-dee has just been released from jail, and her best friend Alexandra lets slip that her boyfriend/pimp was unfaithful while she was away. This leads the two to get to the bottom of it through the subcultures of Los Angeles.