LGBTQ Perspectives
Market This!: Queer Radicals Respond to Gay Assimilation
While global capitalism is a defining feature of our times, many engage in an anti-capitalist resistance. MARKET THIS! is a timely documentary that explores the desire for radical politics and culture in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Two-Spirited and Transgender community. The documentary began in 1999 after the Queeruption gathering in New York City. More info...
2003 TRT: 28 minutes #310
Biorhythms
Biorhythms weaves direct address testimonial with the rhymes and rhythms of the street to create a unique form of self-expression. Larry Goodwin, a client of Street Works, a drop-in center for homeless youth in Nashville, Tennessee, relates how coming to terms with his identity has both severed some relations in his life and has yielded a more self-determined voice. Youth-produced. More info...
2002 TRT: 9 minutes #307
Keep On Livin'
Le Tigre (Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and J.D. Samson) is a feminist electronic-punk band that has staged multi-media performance art within our live show. In collaboration with Le Tigre, Paper Tiger Television organized a group of G/B/L/TS/T/Q youth in New York to produce a three minute video for the song "Keep On Livin'" that will be projected during the live performances of the song. This visual layer will foreground conceptual and theoretical ideas that might otherwise be lost in the rock club settings where the band often perform. More info...
2002 TRT: 3 minutes #308
Fenced Out
Fenced Out documents the fight for the Christopher St. pier, a long-established hangout and safe haven for New York City’s youth of color and lower-income, homeless, lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender, questioning and two-spirited youth. In the summer of 2000, development for a state park began “fencing out” the kids, with support from residents of nearby waterfront properties. “You are lowering the property value,” notes one police officer bluntly. More info...
2001 TRT: 28 minutes #304
Homecoming Queens
For the first time, a group of residents at Green Chimney's Gramercy Residence document their lives inside the foster care system. Green Chimney's Gramercy Residence is a group home for adolescents 15-21 years of age who identify as gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning their sexual identity. In this video the youth present a first hand account of life within one of only two programs in the United States that provide residential services for GLBTQ youth. More info...
1999 TRT: 28 minutes #286
The Power and The Pride
Members of “Lesbian Avengers” and “Stonewall Now” discuss counter activities to the mainstream 25th anniversary celebration of Stonewall—a consumer-oriented, transphobic and apolitical commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Riots. As the 1st live Paper Tiger Television interview production, this show features Melanie Fallon and Lysander Puccio, members of Lesbian Avengers, a direct action group founded in 1992 to support lesbian visibility and survival and to confront the continual hate-crimes committed against homosexuals in the United States. More info...
1994 TRT: 28 minutes #249
Wired for Action: Women's Organizations Jammin' (Up) the Media
How do you make certain that the mass media gets your message correctly? This question was posed to Bay Area's women's organizations that are working in the area of social equality for women. Includes interviews with women from the Emerald of Women's Economic Agenda Project, Transgender Nation, the Sex Workers Action Coalition, Women Against Imperialism, and the WAC media committee. More info...
1993 TRT: 28 minutes #242
Simon Watney Says No to Section 28
Simon Watney takes on the Iron Lady and The UK Press on homophobia and the AIDS pandemic. More info...
1988 TRT: 28 minutes #153
Transformer AIDS
At the end of his second term, Ronald Reagan finally addressed the issue of AIDS. Or did he? Certainly not without the homophobia, insensitivity and blatant lack of knowledge which plagues the whole of government around such issues. "Transformer AIDS" looks at the governmental response to AIDS at this crucial point in history, when activism forced the issue onto the public agenda. A sarcastically funny, yet poignant critique engineered spearheaded by critic Bob Kinney. More info...
1988 TRT: 28 minutes #156