A group of friends play with knives and reminisce about robbing evil johns whilst supernatural lovers, Mariah Carey sing-a-longs, noise music, and erotic holes in the wall tie together queer punks at a house party in Oakland.

Chi Chi’s House Party

In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware of another kind of history between them. 

Film in Japanese. English subtitles availble.

Funeral Parade of Roses

Directed by two-time Grammy nominee D. Smith, 

 takes up a seemingly simple mantle — to present the stories of four Black transgender sex workers in New York and Georgia. Shot in striking black and white, the boldness of the facts of these women's lives and the earthquaking frankness they share complicate this enterprise, colliding the everyday with cutting social commentary and the excavation of long-dormant truths. Accessible for any audience, unfiltered, unabashed, and unapologetic, Smith and her subjects smash the trendy standard for authenticity, offering a refreshing rawness and vulnerability unconcerned with purity and politeness.

Kokomo City

In May 2005, over 200 sex workers and activists from around the world gathered in Montréal to celebrate the global sex workers' rights movement and the 10th anniversary of Stella.

Entitled Forum XXX, the 4 day event delivered on its promise for an exhilarating and politically inspiring extravaganza. The Forum provided sex workers with an opportunity to get together and raise the power that's needed to fight for sex workers' rights and the decriminalization of prostitution on a global scale.

 is a 15 minute film that reflects on the sex workers rights movement. It provides a glimpse into the Forum XXX, where sex workers' discussions, demands, and struggles for human rights took centre stage.

Live eXXXpressions: Sex Workers Stand Up

 traverses topics of financial autonomy, Black Womanhood, desirability hierarchies, and artistic legacy as related to sex work. Chichi Castillo and May May Peltier's black-and-white experimental documentary utilizes split-screen intimate vignettes and fragmented interview voice-overs to demonstrate how erotic labor informs understandings of individual and community sovereignty. - Kim Ye and Elizabeth Dayton; The Whore Gaze: Understandings of Care, Labor, and Sovereignty

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