All I've seen of Avery Willard's Ava-Graph films were the short clips included in the documentary In Search of Avery Willard (2012). Except for "Salome", none of the films in this list were included in that doc.

Listed here are the earlier Ava-Graph films, from 1958 to 1969, which feature female impersonators. Many of these films were co-directed by Minette, a legendary female impersonator and chanteuse and the author of "Recollections of a Part-Time Lady".

As Minette tells it, "after a while, Avery started filming the leather boys, so he could no longer get me to work for him."

In his book Female Impersonators (1971), Avery Willard pinpoints this shift in Ava-Graph's focus: "It is interesting to note that, in 1966, the Ava-Graph work went from femininity to virility. This was a result of a group decision to do so, and to use impersonators as vamps where needed."

The gay male poses captured in these "virile" Ava-Graph films recall the photographs that Willard produced for his male physique magazines under the name Bruce King, as well as the work of Willard's gay male peers in New York's underground film scene- Jack Smith, Charles Ludlum, Andy Warhol, Bill Vehr, and Kenneth Anger.

In comparison, the "feminine" Ava-Graph films reflect the sensibilities of the female impersonators that helped make them. They tend to involve a bigger cast of characters and feature campy costumes, some kind of a plot, a pianola score, and plenty of nods to the nightclub scene. The films were shot, for the most part, at friends' houses. For The Last of the Worthingtons, one scene was shot outdoors in Chappaqua, on a friend's estate. Fashions of the Twenties was shot on the set of a friend's off-broadway production- "The Boyfirend". When Ava-Graph went to shoot a scene for Mad Twenties on a public beach in Staten Island, the threat of violence from police and other homophobes loomed over the production.

The closest comparison to these films are the films of the Gay Girls Riding Club from L.A. from the same time period. The films from the Jack Van Alstyne Collection (held at the Wilcox Archive) have a lot in common with these films as well. The setting of all these films- on reused stage sets, in dive bars and nightclubs, in friends' houses, and in remote woodlands and beaches- maps the territory of urban life for visibly gay people in the 1960s.

Minette says that Willard often premiered these films at his home. "He could have maybe about 35 people for a screening. He showed them in bars, too. With only 8mm he couldn’t show them in a regular theater. The projector wouldn’t go that far and there was worry about getting raided." The threat of police violence forced these screenings underground: "One showing at the Ava-graph Studio, a little studio on 12th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues (109 East 12th Street) did get raided in 1958. I was in jail for two days. I was there in drag selling the tickets, but the thing was finally thrown out of court. At that time being in drag was illegal in New York."

It's possible that some of these films survive in the Avery Willard collection in the New York Public Library. So far I haven't been able to see any of them, so all I have to work with are the sources listed below. I used these sources to add these films to The Movie Database (TMDB) so that they would appear on Letterboxd. If the info hasn't been updated on letterboxd yet, you can find it here: www.themoviedb.org/company/204409/movie
The entries for each film should include a cast list, release date, etc.

Minette, "I, Minette", in Female Mimics, Vol. 1 No. 4., (1964).
Minette, "Recollections of a Part-Time Lady", (1979).
(https://archive.org/details/Minette)

Avery Willard, "Female Impersonation", (1971).
Includes a complete list of Ava-Graph films, as well as articles by Minette and D.D. Griffo about their work with Ava-Graph, and some short pieces by WIllard about some other Ava-Graph girls: Adrian, Angie Saxon, and Mario Montez.
(https://queermusicheritage.com/fem-willard1.html)

Avery Willard, "The Story of Ava-Graph", in Female Mimics Vol. 1. No. 5. (1965)
(https://archive.org/details/femalemimics15unse)

At the time, Female Mimics was edited by a female impersonator named Pudgy Roberts. Pudgy's nightclub act is recorded in a six-minute Ava-Graph film titled Camp Burlesque (1969).

D.D. Griffo, "Hollywood in Drag", in Drag Vol 5. No 20. (1975).
archive.org/details/drag520unse/mode/2up