Directed by Cheryl Dunye • 1990 • United States
Starring Cheryl Dunye

Cheryl Dunye recounts the story of a black lesbian’s relationship with a white, upper-middle-class high school girl.

Directed by Cheryl Dunye • 1991 • United States
Starring Zoie Strauss, Cheryl Dunye, Paula Cronan

A smart, hilarious, and self-reflexive look at the sexuality of a young black lesbian.

Directed by Cheryl Dunye • 1992 • United States
Starring Cheryl Dunye

The filmmaker muses on the slang term of the title: is it who you do, or what you do?

Directed by Cheryl Dunye • 1993 • United States
Starring Jen Benoit, Shelita Birchett, Pat Branch

Sparks fly as racial, sexual, and social politics intermingle at a lesbian potluck.

Directed by Cheryl Dunye • 1996 • United States
Starring Nora Breen, Cheryl Dunye, Jocelyn Taylor

Playing herself, Cheryl Dunye humorously experiences the mysteries of lesbian dating in the 1990s.

Directed by Matt Wolf • 2021 • United States

As the AIDS epidemic took hold in the early 1980s, self-help guru Louise Hay created a space for healing called the Hayride. Drawing hundreds of gay men confronting a deadly and stigmatized disease, Louise promised that they could overcome AIDS throug...

Directed by Matt Wolf • 2017 • United States

Bayard Rustin was the organizer of the March on Washington and one of the leaders of the civil rights movement. In the 1980s, Bayard adopted his younger boyfriend, Walter Naegle, to obtain the legal protections of marriage. In this intimate love story...

Directed by Matt Wolf • 2012 • United States

Modesty, whimsy, and clarity of design grace the work of Joe Brainard, an artist and writer whose evocations of memory and desire perhaps found their greatest expression in his memoir-poem “I Remember.” Here, filmmaker Matt Wolf returns to this classi...