THE REEL BLACK SAME GENDER LOVING FILMOGRAPHY RESOURCE Part III of III: REEL Asian, Indian and Latino Diasporic SGL Films (33)

ROD PATRICK RISBROOK
PresentsTHE REEL BLACK SAME GENDER LOVING
FILMOGRAPHY RESOURCE
(version 8.0)

No copyright infringement of the words and pictures used in this compilation of work are intended. It is the sole purpose of the author of this reference and resource compilation to enlighten, educate and make exciting FUN for the public the body of film and television work out there depicting the lives of Same Gender Loving (SGL) people of African descent. SGL is a culturally affirming and coined term that emerged in the early 1990s to offer Black women who love women and Black men who love men (and other people of color) a way of identifying that resonated with the uniqueness of Black life and culture. SGL was created to affirm, embrace, reference and lovingly umbrella homosexual, bisexual and transgender people of African descent.Please reference and take note of this electronic blog edition if you wish, and go happy DVD (and maybe Blu-ray disc) shopping. A few reputable e-commerce web links have been provided below for your shopping convenience!

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all same gender loving people of the African Diaspora!
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WHO BECAME THE SPARK, THE LIGHT
AND THE INSPIRATION FOR ME TO BEGIN THIS PROJECT



A FEW LINKS FOR PURCHASING
SOME OF THESE MOVIE TITLES ON DVD

Amazon.com: www.amazon.com

CD Universe: www.cduniverse.com

Deep Discount: www.deepdiscount.com

DVD Empire: www.dvdempire.com

DVD Planet: www.dvdplanet.com

Netflix.com: www.netflix.com (Rental Only)

TLA Video: www.tlavideo.com

Wolfe Video: www.wolfevideo.com

Rare Black Video and DVD Fair (Harlem, New York City):
www.moaac.org
Ph: 212-749-5298 (Call For More Information)

Sisters in Cinema:
African American SGL Women Produced Film, Video, and Multimedia www.sistersincinema.com/forum/lesbianfilms.html

PART III of III:
REEL Asian, Indian and Latino
Same Gender Loving Films

PART III looks at film and television productions where the stories' main focus centers on the same gender love experiences of real life persons or characters from the Asian, Indian (Middle East) and Latino Diasporas.

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REEL Productions Featuring Black & Latino SGL Persons or Characters

Throughout this REEL Black Same Gender Loving Filmography Resource, there is a DVD logo next to certain movie titles which means those titles are available for rental/sale on the DVD format. I provide a bunch of links (above) to reputable Internet/on-line resources.


Bangkok Love Story (2007)

Running Time: 90 minutes
Genre: Action/Drama/Romance
Language: Spoken in Thai (w/English subtitles)
Written and directed by Poj Arnon

Steamy Thai nights provide the backdrop for unbridled romance, crime and action as two men unexpectedly brave forbidden love. Maek, a cold assassin-for-hire, is sent to knock off Iht, a police informant, when in a twist of fate the killer is shot for refusing to pull the trigger. After making their escape, an indelible bond is forged when the vulnerable assassin is nursed back to health by handsome, married Iht. But as taboo feelings of desire swell between the swarthy new lovers, their relationship is discovered. Now there s no turning back as enemies, friends and lovers are pitted against each other.
http://www.bangkoklovestorymovie.com


Beautiful Boxer (2003)
Running Time: 118 minutes
Genre: Action/Drama

This acclaimed debut of Thai director Ekachair Uekrongtham brilliantly captures the intensity of an underdog sports saga and weaves it with the poignant, impassioned drama of finding one's identity in the telling true-life story of Parinya Charoenphol, a transgendered kick boxer whose winnings from fighting in the ring funded his sex-change operation. The film tracks Charoenphol, affectionately known as Nong Toom, from his childhood, where he first discovered his feminine side, to his youth in a monastery to an arduous training program and eventually his championship bouts, where he would don makeup and drag. Spectacularly choreographed kickboxing scenes are interspersed with the sometimes funny and always touching story of Toom in his quest to realize his dream of sexual reassignment.











Before Night Falls (2000)
Running Time: 118 minutes
Genre: Action/DramaCuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas's life (1943-1990) is narrated by him, in an inextricable mix of his memories, dreams, nightmares and pure fiction. He grew up as poor, naked illegitimate child, joined Castro's Cuban revolution and became an intellectual, employed in the public library. After discovering his gay sexuality, he soon shares in the regime's inconsistent persecution. His work and life become dominated by the mix of temptation, fear, betrayal and man-hunting in both senses. Finally he makes it to Manhattan, only to get caught in another trap for which there is only one tragic escape in the end.
















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Broken Sky (2006)
Running Time: 140 minutes
Genre: Drama/Art HouseDirected by Julián Hernández

Two university students, Gerardo and Jonás, meet on campus and fall passionately in love. They enjoy a blissful romance until Jonás becomes obsessed with another boy and drives Gerardo into the arms of Sérgio. The young men become entangled in a hypnotic dance of love, longing, rejection, validation, and sexual expression. Spoken in Spanish with English subtitles. Drama


















Burnt Money [aka Plata quemada] (2000)
Running Time: 125 minutes
Genre: Drama
Language: Spoken in Spanish (w/English Subtitles)Nene & Angel and their accomplice Cuervo participate in a botched bank robbery in 1965 Buenos Aires, then hide out from the police in Uruguay while the gang breaks down.







De Colores (2001)
Running Time: 28 minutes
Genre: Documentary

A bilingual documentary about how Latino families are replacing the deep roots of homophobia with the even deeper roots of love and tolerance. Through moving personal stories we learn about how families are breaking cultural barriers and how love always prevails.

View The Complete Film Online Here:
http://www.womanvision.org/de-colores.html

De Colores is part of the Unlearning Homophobia series which is available on DVD:
http://www.womanvision.org/purchase.html










Dos Patrias Cuba y La Noche (2007)
Running Time: 84 minutes
Genre: DocumentaryWritten and directed by Christian Liffers

The director travels with his team to Cuba to search for evidence. Part of his luggage are poems and prose texts of the Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas. Texts, which describe the desire for love, sexual freedom and the proud and unbending attitude in the fight against discrimination. Are these desires and attitudes still to be found in Cuba? And which desires, clichés, and projections of Cuba attract the producer and many more people? Poems and prose texts are the reference points for the protagonists and their personal stories of present-day Cuba, which are always the center of attention. Six men with different backgrounds and of different ages describe their life, afflictions, desires, longings and joys in Cuba. They have some things in common: homosexuality (with the exception of Isabel, the transsexual) and the daily social exclusion on the part of the Cuban "Machismo-society" and the Cuban government. However they differ heavily concerning their social status and their opinions of the topic.





East Palace, West Palace (1996)
Running Time: 94 minutes Genre: Drama
Directed by Yuan Zhang.
Language: Spoken in Mandarin with English subtitles

East Palace, West Palace is Chinese slang for the bathrooms located on the edge of Tiannamen Square, favorite spots of Beijing homosexuals. A young homosexual writer, A-Lan, drifts in and out of China's hidden homosexual haunts, where he is beaten, humiliated and harassed along with other homosexuals. When a handsome policeman busts him for "cruising" the grounds of the Forbidden Palace, A-lan starts to see his behavior as a dangerous obsession. When he is caught by the officer a second time, A-lan undergoes a loaded overnight interrogation laced with barely sublimated erotic tension in which he talks about his life as a homosexual to the enraptured officer. As A-lan describes the sometimes tortuous conditions of being a homosexual in China, which he proudly proclaims "make life worth living," the master and servant relationship slowly evolves into one of curious attraction and fear. Zhang slyly uses the chamber drama taking place between A-lan and the officer to create a stunning metaphor for the sado-masochistic relation that Chinese people have with their own authority figures. As the drama is played out, Alan's dreamlike, tragedy-laced past mingles with symbolic images from Chinese opera. Each of A-lan's stories deftly seduces the officer and further illuminates A-lan's complex hidden courage.









Fire (1996)
Running Time: 108 minutes
Genre : Drama
Written and directed by Deepa Mehta
Language: Spoken in Hindi (w/English Subtitles)

In New Delhi Sita, a beautiful and intelligent young woman embarks on an arranged, loveless marriage to a Faithless husband, Jatin. However, Jita and Radha (the two women) develop a physical relationship which is far more emotionally sustaining than they have found with their husbands. India.







Fleeing By Night (2000)
Running Time: 119 minutes
Genre: Romance
Language: Spoken in Mandarin (w/English Subtitles)

Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters. Ing'er, the daughter of a theatre-owner, welcomes the return of Shao-dung, her fiancee and a fine cellist from America. Shao-dung soon finds himself captivated by the opera "Fleeing By Night" and its celebrated actor, Lin Chung, whose voice seems to articulate something within himself. While Shao-dung attempts to blend eastern and western music, Ing'er becomes torn between her affection for both men, and an awareness of the growing intimacy between them.







Happy Hookers (2006)
Running Time: 54 minutes
Genre: DocumentaryLanguage: Spoken in Hindi (w/English subtitles)
Directed by Ashish Sawhny

Happy Hookers follows three male sex workers in India as they negotiate their public and private lives. Though homosexual behavior is still illegal, these three men defy antiquated laws and social customs to express their sexualities or to simply make a living. Produced in India.
Amazon.com Key Search Words: “HAPPY HOOKERS”
















Happy Together (1997)
Running Time: 96 minutes
Genre: DramaProduced, written and directed by Wong Kar-Wai

Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing's life shatters continually in contrast.

Harsh Beauty (2006)
Running Time: 53 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Language: Spoken in Hindi & Tamil (w/English Subtitles)Directed by Alessandra Zeka Produced in IndiaExplore the secretive world of India’s hijras, eunuchs who are considered to be a third gender, neither male nor female - many willingly choosing castration. The three subjects, followed for three years, support themselves by performing religious rituals, dispensing blessings to the superstitious, and engaging in prostitution. In a changing society, the hijras challenge Western perceptions of gender identity.



Jihad For Love, A (2007)
Running Time: 81 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Written and directed by Parvez Sharma

In a time when Islam is under tremendous attack-from within and without “A Jihad For Love”' is a daring documentary filmed in twelve countries and nine languages. Muslim homosexual filmmaker Parvez Sharma has gone where the silence is strongest, filming with great risk in nations where government permission to make this film was not an option. This film explores the complex global intersections of Islam and homosexuality. With unprecedented access and depth, Sharma brings to light the hidden lives of same gender loving Muslims from countries like Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey, France, India, and South Africa. The majority of gay and lesbian Muslims must travel a lonely and often dangerous road. In many nations with a Muslim majority, laws based on Quranic interpretations are enforced by authorities to monitor, entrap, imprison, torture and even execute homosexuals. Even for those who migrate to Europe or North America and adopt a Western personae of homosexuality, the relative freedoms of new homelands are mitigated by persistent racial profiling and intensified state surveillance after the terrorist attacks in New York, London and Madrid. As a result, many homosexual Muslims end up renouncing their religion. But the real-life characters of A Jihad for Love aren't willing to abandon a faith they cherish despite its flaws. Instead, they struggle to reconcile their ardent belief with the innate reality of their being. The international chorus of homosexual Muslims brought together by A Jihad for Love doesn't seek to vilify or reject Islam, but rather negotiate a new relationship to it. In doing so, the film's extraordinary characters point the way for all Muslims to move beyond the hostile, war-torn present, toward a more hopeful future. As one can imagine, it was a difficult decision for the subjects to participate in the film due to the violence they could face. However, those who have come forward to tell their stories feel this film is too important for 1.4 billion Muslims and non-Muslims around the world for them to say no. They are willing to take the risk in their quest to lay equal claim to their profoundly held faith.
















Journey, The [Sancharram] (2004)
Running Time: 107 minutes
Genre: Drama
Language: Spoken in Malayalam (w/English Subtitles)
Written and directed by Ligy J. Pullappally

Kiran, a reserved intellectual child, moves from Delhi with her parents to the big ancestral house. She becomes fast friends with the playful, mischievous Delilah and Rajan, a neighborhood boy. As their friendship grows into adulthood, Kiran comes to terms with her changing feelings for Delilah. Uncomfortable with her physical desires, she agrees to help Rajan woo Delilah by sending passionate letters. Delilah, unconvinced by Rajan's efforts, discovers Kiran's true feelings for her and what follows is a romance that liberates both woman. When the relationship is uncovered, it sends Delilah's family into panic mode, as they quickly plan for an arranged marriage.

Just (2007)
Running Time: 12 minutes
Genre: Drama/Romance
Starring Keo Woolford, Edward Gunawan and Jeffrey Walker (deleted scenes)
screenplay by Edward Gunawan
Directed by David Maurice Gil

The short film begins as the two strangers who met online engage in a slow and awkward dance of getting to know each other after a passionate hook-up. Clyde, the older of the two and the owner of the house, attempts to make Wayne comfortable. Out of politeness, Wayne obliges him in small talks before picking up his clothes and leaving. Upon discovering commonalities between the two, their attraction in each other grows. They flirt and share laughs, and they gradually let their guard down. The turning point of their relationship happens when Wayne finds a photograph of Clyde and his boyfriend. Shocked and incensed, he relentlessly interrogates Clyde, and their exchange deteriorates into a heated and explosive debate as the two men stake out their positions on love, trust and monogamy. As Wayne puts on his final piece of clothing, covering himself up completely, he finally reveals his recent past that explains his impassioned disdain for infidelity...
Official Website: http://www.adelantetv.com/just/









Lan Yu (2001)
Running Time: 86 minutes
Genre: Drama/Romance
Language: Spoken in Mandarin (w/English Subtitles)Directed by Stanley Kwan

Beijing, 1988. On the cusp of middle-age, Chen Handong has known little but success all his life. The eldest son of a senior government bureaucrat, he heads a fast-growing trading company and plays as hard as he works. Few know that Handong's tastes run more to boys than girls. Lan Yu is a country boy, newly arrived in Beijing to study architecture. More than most students, he is short of money and willing to try anything to earn some. He has run into Liu Zheng, who pragmatically suggests that he could prostitute himself for one night to a homosexual pool-hall and bar owner. But Handong happens to be in the pool hall that evening, and he nixes the deal. He takes Lan Yu home himself and gives the young man what turns out to be a life-changing sexual initiation. Handong and Lan Yu meet often, and the boy is soon very secure in his love for the man. But Handong insists that he wants a play-mate, not a lifelong companion, and warns Lan Yu that they will eventually break up.







Markova [Comfort Gay] (2001)
Running Time: 97 minutes
Genre: Drama
language: Spoken in Tagalog (w/English Subtitles)
Directed by Gil PortesProduced in the PhilippinesA drama based on true events of a Phillipino homosexual man imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II and forced to be a sex slave.





Masseur, The [Masahista] (2005)
Running Time: 80 minutes
Genre: Drama
Language: Spoken in Tagalog and Pampango (w/English Subtitles)
Directed by Brillante Mendoza

Iliac spends his days pleasing men at a Manila homosexual massage parlor. Like most of his co-workers, he hails from the Filipino countryside. After finishing one particular night shift, Iliac ventures back to his family’s home for a somber occasion: his father’s funeral. But there are complex, unhappy emotions at work here between Iliac and his family -- emotions he must confront. Produced in the Philippines.














My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Running Time: 97 minutes
Genre: DramaA exploration of marginalized cultures in Thatcher-era London. Set in the Pakistani community of South London in the 1980s, the film focuses on two youths, friends from schooldays. Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a working-class white whose friends belong to the National Front, a fascist group whose members extol "white power" and bash immigrants. Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a homosexual Pakistani, lives with his leftist father who spends most of his time in bed drinking. Omar's wealthy uncle, Nasser (Saeed Jaffrey), is determined to give one of the family a (small) step up, and at first gives him a lowly garage job, and then hands Omar a rundown launderette (laundry mat). Omar and Johnny become lovers and decide to convert the laundrette into "a Ritz among laundrettes," a gaudy, neon-lit storefront called "Powders" complete with aquarium, video games, potted plants and piped classical muzak. Johnny looks upon the laundrette as a lifeline on which to salvage his self-respect, while Omar sees it as just the beginning step on the long road toriches. A thoughtful and innovative portrait of modern contrasts in class, race, and sex, this film defined a generation of Londoners.






My Brother...Nikhil (2005)
Running Time: 118 minutes
Genre: Drama
Language: Spoken in HindiWritten and Directed by Onir

This film is set in Goa, a small costal state in India between 1989 and 1994. Nikhil Kapoor is the state all round Swimming champion. His father Navin Kapoor has raised his son to be a sports man... a dream that he never achieved for himself. His elder sister Anamika teaches in a primary school and loves him dearly. His mother Anita Rosario Kapoor adores him and from her he inherited his artistic side to his personality. One fine day he is arrested. The reason being…that he is HIV positive. He is kept in forced isolation by law. The Goa public health act allowed the government to isolate HIV positive people. His parents desert him and his friends move away. The only two people who stand by him are his sister Anamika and boyfriend Nigel. This film would probably be the first main stream Indian film where the main protagonist is homosexual. This film deals with the trauma of this man and his fight for dignity; a film about how a closely knit family falls apart when faced with a crisis; about a sisters unconditional love for her brother; about a love that withstood social disapproval; a film about a man's desire to achieve something in life and finally it’s a film about acceptance.


















No Regrets (2006)
Running Time: 114 minutes
Genre: Drama
Language: Spoken in Korean (w/English Subtitles)
Directed by Leesong Hee-il

When Su-min, an orphan from the country, comes to Seoul to further his studies, he has no idea that he will have to work as a prostitute in a homosexual bar to support himself. When he attracts the attention of an upper-class man, Jae-min, initial resistance gives way to genuine feelings. Can these two men, from vastly different socio-economic backgrounds, find love together? When familial obligations rear their ugly head, is tragedy and heartache far behind? No Regret is a sensitively handled story of unexpected love that crosses social class and gender. Produced in South Korea.














On The Downlow (2004)
Running Time: 90 minutes
Genre: DramaWritten by Roger B. Domian and Tadeo Garcia; directed by Tadeo Garcia

Set along Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, On The Downlow is the explosive story of the relationship between Isaac (Tony Sancho) and Angel (Michael Cortez), two young Latinos involved in a Southside Chicago gang. The decisions these men make and the paths they each take create a trap for them in a community where rules can't be broken and secrets are forbidden and won't be tolerated.






Our Lady Of The Assassins (2001)
Running Time: 98 minutes
Genre: Drama/Romance
Language: Spoken in Spanish (w/English Subtitles)
Written by Fernando Vallejo (novel and screenplay); directed by Barbet Schroeder

The tempestuous love story between Fernando, an older man who has recently returned to his crime-ridden drug capitol hometown of Medellin, Colombia and the gun-happy16 year old assassin Alexis, who murders all too easily. When Alexis himself is fatally gunned down, grief-stricken Fernando hunts for his young lover's killer in the Medellin slums, but instead encounters Wilmar, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Alexis.






Princesa (2001)
Running Time: 94 minutes
Genre: Drama
Language: Spoken in Italian (w/English Subtitles)

Fernando/Fernanda, a 19-year-old Brazilian transvestite, travels to Milan and becomes a prostitute to finance a sex-change operation. Fernanda dreams of becoming a "real" woman but in Milan is transformed instead into Princesa, a mysterious figure of allure. She then meets Gianni, a straight-laced, married businessman who falls in love with her. It all seems to good to be true.

















Right By Me (2005)
Running Time: 100 minutes
Genre: Drama
Directed by Thanyatorn Siwanukrow

Three college students in Thailand navigate coming out and first love. Handsome, bookish Tat attends coming out support meetings with his out and proud friend Nat. The two boys are surprised when Tat’s crush, the hunky athlete Ek, shows up to a meeting. Questioning his sexuality, Ek turns to Tat for advice, and a sweet romance gradually develops, creating an awkward situation between Tat and Nat. In contrast to typical stereotypical depictions of gays in Thai films as clownish, Right By Me features well-rounded, realistic portrayals of young gay Thai men. (Sadly, because of this positive representation, local censors banned the film for being “against Thai cultural values.”)



Saving Face (2004)
Running Time: 96 minutes
Genre: Comedy/Drama/Romance
Language: English, Mandarin and Shanghainese (w/English Subtitles)Co-produced by Will SmithWritten and directed by Alice Wu

A Chinese-American surgeon, living in Manhattan, is shocked when her single mother shows up on her doorstep pregnant. To help her mom save face and avoid the taboo in the Chinese community of an unmarried woman pregnant, the doctor helps her mom find Mr. Right. Cultures clash in this film that explores culture shock.














Summer Heat (2006)
Running Time: 96 minutes
Genre: DramaLanguage: Spoken in Tagalog (w/English Subtitles)
Directed by Brillante Mendoza.Produced in the Philippines
In this sensitively directed family drama, three sisters care for their widowed father in a small Filipino town while dealing with their own personal issues. The youngest, Grace, is a newlywed, but already disenchanted with the realities of married life. Middle child Lourdes is cheating on her husband. And then there’s Jess, the oldest, a quiet but powerful butch SGL women who wears male clothes to religious ceremonies and moves her girlfriend into the family home. The heart of the story, Jess shepherds the family through the trials and tribulations of one long summer.




Taboo (1999)
Running Time: 100 minutes
Genre: DramaLanguage: Spoken in Japanese (w/English Subtitles)

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a Samurai compound where young warriors are trained in sword fighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.





Thousand Clouds of Peace, A (2003)
Running Time: 80 minutes
Genre: Drama
Directed by Julián Hernández
Language: Spoken in Spanish (w/English Subtitles)

Gerardo, a homosexual teenager, roams the streets of Mexico City in search of someone able to reveal the secret hidden between the lines of a goodbye letter from his ex-lover. In his journey through barren alleys and roadways, he is haunted by images: each masculine body he sees reminds him of his lover.





To Be Happy In Chile (2006)
Running Time: 49 minutes
Genre: Drama
Language: Spoken in Spanish (w/English Subtitles)
Directed by Heidi Lloyd
Produced in Chile

Though she loves her homeland, Veronica leaves Chile's repression to explore her sexuality in the US. She returns with a girlfriend who finds it hard to fit in even as Veronica sees new possibilities of living a full and happy life - witnessing the gradual opening up of public acceptance of homosexuality.



Two Faces of Janus, The (2008)
Running Time: 90 minutes
Genre: Drama/Mystery
Screenplay by Gilberto A. Rodriguez. Directed by Edmundo Rodriguez

It’s December, but the citizens of San Juan are not full of Christmas cheer. A serial killer known as “The Angel of Bachelors” has ended the lives of some of the most notable bachelors in town, picking up closeted homosexual men and stabbing them to death after a sexual encounter. Private Eye Isabelo Andújar takes the case and begins to piece together parts of a
jigsaw that don’t quite paint a full picture, treading into the veiled world of love between men. A world explained to him by the two faces of the Roman God Janus; one man staring calmly ahead, while another one looks back, shunted from the sunlight. “The Two Faces of Janus” is the fourth novel in the Isabelo Andujar, Private Eye series written by Wilfredo Mattos Cintrón.



Way We Write, The (2006)
Running Time: 79 minutes
Genre: Drama
Language: Spoken in Taiwanese (w/English Subtitles)
Directed by Amy S Y Wen

Retired newspaper editor and part-time calligraphy instructor Liu invites his young student Zhen-Zhen and her mother to become his tenants. He doesn’t suspect the little girl will be the catalyst to reunite him with his estranged homosexual son, Zhi-Zhi, who left Taiwan for China after Liu rejected him. The Way We Write is a touching film about family relationships that was sponsored and broadcast on Taiwanese public television. Produced in Taiwan.

Please be advised that any title on the market may have a tendency to become DISCONTINUED by the home video publisher at any time. Since the SGL (Same Gender Loving) Africentric experience is unique and a sub-genre/sub-culture within the larger African Diaspora, and not always fiscally supported by the larger movie viewing population due to lack of interest, demand or marginalization, I suggest that you buy an SGL title that you come across and want as soon as possible to insure you have it in your collection.

I have a SGL title such as Blind Faith on VHS Tape that is DISCONTINUED and no longer available and is still not published on DVD (yet!). Hopefully they will! You will have to do further research to see if a title is available on the new high definition Blu-ray Disc format.

As you navigate the Internet and do your own detective work regarding SGL DVD titles, some DVD titles are available (from) outside or imported into the United States but may have been encoded with a different REGION CODE and may NOT be playable on your DVD player or DVD-ROM/RW computer player.

Each DVD-Video disc contains one or more region codes, denoting the area(s) of the world in which distribution and playback are intended (see below). The commercial DVD player specification dictates that a player must only play discs that contain its region code. In theory, this allows the motion picture studios to control the various aspects of a release (including content, date and price) region-by-region. In practice, many DVD players allow playback of any disc, or can be modified to do so. Entirely independent of encryption, region coding pertains to regional lockout, which originated in the video game industry.

Check and verify the DVD REGION CODE before you buy from non-familiar independent merchant sources!

Region 0: Informal term meaning "playable in all regions" - aka "region free"

Region 1: Bermuda, Canada, the Cayman Islands, United States and U.S. territories

Region 2: The UK, Middle East, Iceland, Western Europe, Central Europe, Egypt, French overseas territories, Greenland, Japan, Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland

Region 3: Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea, and Taiwan

Region 4: Australia, New Zealand, Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Oceania, and South America (except French Guyana)

Region 5: The rest of Africa, Former Soviet Union, the Indian subcontinent, Mongolia, and North Korea

Region 6: Mainland China

Region 7: Reserved for future use (found in use on protected screener copies of MPAA-related DVDs, and "media-copies" of pre-releases in Asia)

Region 8: International venues such as aircraft, cruise ships, etc.

ROD’s All-Time Favorite SGL Films
1) Rag Tag (2006)
2) Brother To Brother (2004)
3) Blueprint (2007)
4) The DL Chronicles (2005-2007, 2012, 2014)
5) Dakan (1997)
6) Four Rent Boys And A Sangoma (2004)
7) Surrender (2000)
8) The Reception (2005)
9) Rude (1995)
10) Billy Turner’s Secret (1990)
11) Blind Faith (1998)
12) Looking For Langston (1988)
13) Before Night Falls (2000)
14) Our Lady of the Assassins (2001)
15) Batty Man (2006)
16) Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999)
17) Happy Hookers (2006)
18) Moonlight (2016)


 
A COMPLETE FILM INDEX LISTING (PARTS I, II & III) - 166 Films

Affirmations (1990)

After Nine (2007)

Alma's Rainbow (1993)

All God's Children (1996)

Anthem (1991)

B.D. Women (1994)

Badass Supermama (1996)

Bangkok Love Story (2007)

Batty Man (2006)

Beautiful Boxer (2003)

Before Night Falls (2000)

Being Proud Black & LGBT in America (2007)

Beneath The Surface (2004?)

Billy Turner’s Secret (1990)

Black Aura On An Angel (2004)

Black Beulahs (2006)

Black Men and Me (2006)

Black Nations/Queer Nations? (1995)

Black./Womyn.:Conversations with Lesbians of African Descent (2008)

Blind Faith (1998)

Blood (2005)

Blueprint (2007)

BMX-NY: What is Our Relationship To “Black Pride” in the New Millennium? (2006)

Broken Sky (2006)

Brooklyn’s Bridge To Jordan (2005)

Brother Outsider: The Life Of Bayard Rustin (2003)

Brother To Brother (2004)

Burnt Money (2000)

Butch Mystique (2003)

Car Wash (1976)

Chocolate Babies (1997)

Christopher Street TV (2007)

Closet, The (2004)

Color Purple, The (1985)

Cover (2007)

Dakan {Destiny} (1997)

Dani & Alice (2005)

Darker Side of Black, The (1993)

De Colores (2001)

Desperate For Love (2005)

Did I Just Look At Her (2004)

Different Image, A (1982)

Different Kind of Black Man, A (2001)

Dirty Laundry (2007)

DL Chronicles, The (2005)

Dos Patrias Cuba y La Noche (2007)

Dream Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project (2008)

Dreams of Passion (1989)

East Palace, West Palace (1996)

Epidemic Chronicles, The (2010)

Everything Must Come To Light (2002)

Finding Me (2008)

Finding Me: Truth (2010)

Fire (1996)

Fleeing By Night (2000)

Fluidity (2006)

Four Rent Boys and a Sangoma (2004)

Get On The Bus (1996)

Happy Hookers (2006)

Happy Together (1997)

Harsh Beauty (2006)

Holiday Heart (2000)

Homoteens (1993)

How Do I Look (2005)

If I Wuz Yo Gyrl ( 2001)

Immaculate (2004?)

It’s Me, It’s Me (2005)

James Baldwin: The Price Of The Ticket (1990)

Jihad For Love, A (2007)

Journey, The {Sancharram} (2004)

Jumpin’ The Broom: The New Convenant (2006)

Just (2007)

Just Between Us (2006?)

Karmen Gei (2001)

Kevin’s Room (2001)

Kevin’s Room II: Trust (2004)L.A. Complex, The (2012) 

La Mission (2009)

Lan Yu (2001)

Leave It On The Floor (2011)

Legacy (2006)

Life on Christopher Street (2002)

Litany For Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde, A (1995)

Living With Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 (1999)

Looking For Langston (1988)

Luv Tale, A (1999) 

M & M Smith: For Posterity's Sake (1997) 

Madame Satã (2002)

Maestro (2004)

Make A Move (2006)

Markova (2001)

Masseur, The {Masahista} (2005)

Mississippi Damned (2009)

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

My Brother… Nikhil (2005)

Naked-Boy Business, Part I, The (2006)

NIA Project, The: Image of African American Lesbians (1993)

Night (2005)

Noah’s Arc (tv series) (2005—2006)

Noah’s Arc: Jumping The Broom (2008)

No Regret (Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien) (1992)

No Regret (2006)

Normal Daughter: The Life and Times of Kewpie of District 6, A (1998)

Norman… Is That You? (1976)

Odds and Ends: A New-Age Amazon Fable (1993) 

Of Men and Gods [Des Hommes et Dieux] (2002) 

On The Downlow (2004)

On The Downlow (2007)

On The Low (2005)

One On One (2010)

Our Lady Of The Assassins (2001)

Out. The Glenn Burke Story (2011) 

Pariah (2011)Paris Is Burning (1990)

The Polymath, or The Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman (2007)

Portrait of Jason (1967)

Princesa (2001)

Punks (2000)

Rag Tag (2006)

Reception, The (2005)

Rent (2005)

Right By Me (2005)

Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (2005)

Ritual (2000)

Rivers Wash Over Me (2009)

Rude (1995)

Sarang Song (2006)

Saving Face (2004)

Shades of Love: Black Homosexuality Volume 1 (2007)
Shades of Love: Black Homosexuality Volume 2 (2007)
Shades of Love: Black Homosexuality Volume 3 (2007)

She Hate Me (2004)

She Wasn't Last Night (2009)

Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

Ski Trip, The (2004)Slow (2011)

Songs of Freedom (2002)

Star Maps (1997)

Storme: The Lady of the Jewel Box (1987)

Strange Fruit (2004)

Stranger Inside (2001)

Summer Heat (2006)

Sunshine Boutique (2006)

Surrender (2000) Taboo (1999)

Testify (2006)

Thousand Clouds of Peace, A (2003)

To Be Happy In Chile (2006)

Tongues Untied (1990)

Trois (2000)

TWO (2008)

Two Faces of Janus, The (2008)

U People (2007)

Underneath (2007)

Via New York (1995)

Vintage: Families of Value (1995)

Way We Write, The (2006)

White Shadows (2006)

Wire, The (2002 — 2007 cable tv series)

Women of Brewster Place, The (1989)

Woubi Cheri (1998)

Young and Evil, The (2008) 

Young Soul Rebels (1991)

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