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Gay Culture in Canada (Ages 15-17)

12 films
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This film selection that takes us from 1960s Saskatchewan to present-day Syria in order to explore powerful stories about the LGBTQ experience here in Canada and abroad. Films in This Playlist Include Love, Scott I Like Girls First Stories: Two Spirited Deep Inside Clint Star Cure for Love Last Chance A Short Film About Tegan and Sara Someone Like Me Unarchived Michel Marc Bouchard: Speaking Out Woman Dress

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Gay Culture in Canada (Ages 15-17)

This film selection that takes us from 1960s Saskatchewan to present-day Syria in order to explore powerful stories about the LGBTQ experience here in Canada and abroad.

Films in This Playlist Include
Love, Scott
I Like Girls
First Stories: Two Spirited
Deep Inside Clint Star
Cure for Love
Last Chance
A Short Film About Tegan and Sara
Someone Like Me
Unarchived
Michel Marc Bouchard: Speaking Out
Woman Dress

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  • Someone Like Me
    Someone Like Me
    Sean Horlor  &  Steve J. Adams 2021 1 h 19 min
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  • Unarchived
    Unarchived
    Hayley Gray  &  Elad Tzadok 2022 1 h 24 min
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  • Woman Dress
    Woman Dress
    Theo Jean Cuthand 2019 6 min
    Avant la colonisation européenne, une personne bispirituelle qu’on appelait Woman Dress sillonnait les Prairies, recueillant et racontant des récits. Le film s’appuie sur des images d’archives et sur des reconstitutions historiques pour nous transmettre cette histoire issue de la tradition orale de la famille Cuthand. Il rend hommage à Woman Dress et respecte son identité de genre en évitant d’imposer la binarité coloniale.
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  • Michel Marc Bouchard: Speaking Out
    Michel Marc Bouchard: Speaking Out
    Martin Talbot 2023 5 min
    A window onto the world of a theatre giant, and an opportunity to discover the man behind the words. Michel Marc Bouchard discusses his youth and talks candidly about what has motivated him over the years to speak out and share his concerns, which resonate here at home and across the globe.
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  • Love, Scott
    Love, Scott
    Laura Marie Wayne 2018 1 h 16 min
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  • I Like Girls
    I Like Girls
    Diane Obomsawin 2016 8 min
    In this animated short from Diane Obomsawin, four women reveal the nitty-gritty about their first loves, sharing funny and intimate tales of one-sided infatuation, mutual attraction, erotic moments, and fumbling attempts at sexual expression. For them, discovering that they're attracted to other women comes hand-in-hand with a deeper understanding of their personal identity and a joyful new self-awareness.
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  • First Stories - Two Spirited
    First Stories - Two Spirited
    Sharon A. Desjarlais 2007 6 min
    This short documentary presents the empowering story of Rodney "Geeyo" Poucette's struggle against prejudice in the Indigenous community as a two-spirited person (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender). First Stories is an emerging filmmaker program for Indigenous youth which produced 3 separate collections of short films from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Produced in association with CBC, APTN, SCN, SaskFilm and MANITOBA FILM & SOUND.
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  • Deep Inside Clint Star
    Deep Inside Clint Star
    Clint Alberta 1998 1 h 28 min
    Take a hilarious and bittersweet journey into the hearts and minds of some very ordinary, extraordinary young Canadians with this feature-length documentary. The filmmaker, assuming the role of Clint Star, seeks out his far-flung buddies, young Indigenous people like himself. They talk about sex and life, love and abuse, and 500 years of oppression—all with humour, grace and courage.
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  • Cure for Love
    Cure for Love
    Francine Pelletier  &  Christina Willings 2008 59 min
    Cure for Love is a full-length documentary about a controversial evangelical movement that purports to convert gay people into heterosexuals. The film brings us inside this unusual Christian subculture and follows the lives of several young people whose homosexuality is at odds with their religious beliefs.
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  • Last Chance
    Last Chance
    Paul Émile d'Entremont 2012 1 h 24 min
    This feature documentary tells the stories of 5 asylum seekers who flee their native countries to escape homophobic violence. They face hurdles integrating into Canada, fear deportation and anxiously await a decision that will change their lives forever.
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  • Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
    Aerlyn Weissman  &  Lynne Fernie 1992 1 h 24 min
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  • A Short Film About Tegan & Sara
    A Short Film About Tegan & Sara
    Ann Marie Fleming 2018 4 min
    In this joyful portrait, filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming animates the formative days and musical career of Calgary-born identical twins Tegan and Sara Quin. Their remarkable journey over the past 20 years has often intersected with notions of identity—as artists, as individuals, as sisters, as queer women, and as leading activists in the LGBTQ community. Their musical progression parallels and amplifies their commitment to bringing the marginal to the mainstream.
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