Tag: lgbt teen

  • A Story of No Importance

    A coming of age story about two great friends during the school years whose friendship is truly tested when one of the boys start to develop different feelings for the other. At first, it seems Philippe and Claude are just experimenting new sensations, everything is pure curiosity to them. But total reciprocity isn’t the name of the game and Philippe is clearly infatuated with his friend.

  • The Disco Years

    Tom Peters looks back to 1978, the year in high school that he came out of the closet. Tom’s mom is both sweet and intrusive, urging him to take out girls. She also drags him to her disco-dancing lessons. His friendship with Matt becomes his first love, and then Matt turns on Tom with homophobic venom. Later, Matt and Matt’s new girlfriend trash the classroom of an effeminate teacher with more vicious homophobia. At first, Tom joins in heaping scorn on the teacher, then he has to decide if it isn’t time to open the closet door. A crisis of sorts ensues with his mom, and disco proves to be a balm.

  • Beautiful Thing

    Set during a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, where three teenagers edge towards adulthood.

  • But I’m a Cheerleader

    Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn’t like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she’s pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to “sexual redirection” school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.

  • The Delta

    In Memphis, a middle-class white teenager and a black Vietnamese immigrant meet in a gay cruising spot and discover what they don’t have in common.

  • Sitcom

    The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother’s discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister’s suicide attempt and sadomasochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband. And it all started with the arrival in the family of an innocent looking rat.

  • Show Me Love

    Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

  • Edge of Seventeen

    1984, Sandusky, Ohio. A naive 17-year-old navigates heartbreak and self-expression as he explores his sexuality.

  • Gay Mean Girls: Reloaded

    When student journalist Savannah Lin becomes embroiled in the complicated dynamics of a social justice “safe space,” she must choose between protecting her community or the integrity of her voice in the wake of a betrayal.

  • The Mudge Boy

    Chronicling the troubled existence of Duncan Mudge, a 14-year-old misfit who—while vying for the attention of his vacant father—struggles to fill the void brought on by his mother’s sudden death.