Queer Lives,
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The owner of a lesbian bar trades the rainbow lights for small-town politics, moving back home to run against her ex-husband for mayor.

Out of money and out of work, a professor and the woman she has been with for years move in with the professor’s mother.

A carefree woman learns that her closeted friend is gay, and the two become inseparable, finding comfort in each other’s company.

A trip to Seoul, to see the mother who gave birth to her, brings long-held regrets to the surface for a queer Korean adoptee.

An aspiring actor and a painter fall passionately in love and set themselves against family and society to stay together, while middle-class realities press in on two struggling artists.

A shy straight-A student is hired by a sweet but inarticulate jock to help him win over the most popular girl in school, a girl she turns out to have feelings for herself.

A pregnant writer returns to her broken family with her French husband and finds herself caught between a mother drawn into a cult and a father who has kept his homosexuality hidden.

Caring for a Russian-Jewish grandmother in New York, an undocumented Filipina immigrant lives in fear of deportation while quietly paying a man for a green card marriage.

A teenage rock star transfers to a school in the province and meets a model student, and the two of them fall in love for the first time.

When her ex-husband dies, a woman discovers he rewrote his insurance policy, cutting out their son in favour of a stranger named Jay.

Neglected by her mother, a little girl moves in with her uncle and his girlfriend, a transgender woman, and the two of them make her a home.

Out to almost everyone in Manila except the one person who matters, a 23-year-old has been quietly in love with her best friend since they were children.

A road trip with her young daughter and her closest friend shifts something between the two women. Years later, in the days before that friend’s wedding, she tries to reach her again.

Across the family table, a mother who wants to break free from her family must face her daughter.

Leaving sex work in Manila for a fresh start in her small hometown, a transgender woman reconnects with the child who knows her as his aunt, and is drawn into a local election.

A new roommate arrives, tomboyish and nothing like her, and the discomfort a traditional young woman feels slowly turns into something else.

A web-cam girl walks into a tattoo studio and leaves entranced by both the spider lily design and the woman who draws it.

A young Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are each holding on to a love that clashes with what is expected of them, and neither will go first.

Divorce, bad relationships, and a coming out: a circle of affluent friends find that none of their lives are as easy as they look.

A woman juggles an ex-girlfriend who keeps turning up and a divorced mother determined to introduce her to men.

A man in his seventies moves into an apartment building where seven elderly women live and sets about courting each of them, while the film stays with the women and their own desires.

When her married sister learns she is infertile, a young Indian American lesbian in New York offers to carry the baby herself.