ROD's Top 20 Black SGL Films;Also: RAG TAG (2006)A Black British Same Gender Loving FilmNow Available On U.S.'s Amazon.com

Hey FAM,

Just got word from a friend that the British Black same gender loving (SGL) film Rag Tag is now available stateside on Amazon.com (HERE). Amazon sometimes fluctuates its prices on various items; you can get the film for like $23 bucks or so. I purchased my copy not too long ago from Rag Tag director Adaora Nwandu from her company Muka Films Limited and had it shipped from England. Rag Tag is one of my favorite Black SGL films of all time (in fact, it's in the top three!) an it's highly recommended if my word means anything to ya. LOL!

I also decided to compile of list of my top 20

The criteria for my top 20 Black same gender loving films is based upon:
(1) The majority of the characters (fiction) and/or real persons (documentaries) are of African descent and same gender loving.

(2) The stories are the primary focus of the African same gender loving (homosexual, bisexual, transgendered) experience (a slice of life)

(3) Black films that I (ROD) have SEEN (NOT word of mouth)

(4) American and foreign (import) films

(5) The films were exhibitioned in movie theaters or via tv/cable viewing

(6) The Black films depict people of African descent in a affirming, cultural, uplifting and respectable way.

ROD's Top 20
Black Same Gender Loving Films

The list below is arranged in alphabetical order
and DOES NOT signify a particular order
of importance or ranking!!

1- Batty Man (2006)~

2- Billy Turner’s Secret (1990) [From The Short Film Anthology Boys' Shorts] [available on DVD]

3- Blind Faith (1998)

4- Blueprint (2007) [available on DVD February 2010]

5- Brother To Brother (2004) [available on DVD]

6- Dakan (1997)~ [available on DVD]

7- DL Chronicles, The (2005) [available on DVD]

8- Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project (2008)

9- Four Rent Boys And A Sangoma (2004)~

10- Kevin's Room (2001)

11- Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999)

12- Looking For Langston (1988)+ [available on DVD]

13- Make A Move (2006)

14- Mississippi Damned (2009)

15- Paris Is Burning (1990) [available on DVD]

16- Rag Tag (2006)~ [available on DVD]

17- Reception, The (2005) [available on DVD]

18- Rude (1995) [available on DVD]

19- Ski Trip, The (2004) [available on DVD]

20- Surrender (2000)~


SYMBOL LEGEND:
FILMS HI-LITED IN YELLOW DENOTE MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE BLACK SGL FILMS

~FOREIGN FILM [PRODUCED & MADE OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES] (4)

+INCREDIBLE CINEMATOGRAPHY