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All the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer [LGBTQ] Documentaries, Ranked

A comprehensive compilation of LGBTQ+ feature and short subject documentaries — dealing with issues, history, art, significant personalities, and queer influence — and ranking all that I've seen so far, in celebration of Pride Month. [The unranked, unseen ones are listed in alphabetical order immediately following, as of this update starting at #635.]

NOTE: Not all listed documentaries here are pro-LGBTQ.

  • Paris Is Burning

    1

  • The Celluloid Closet

    2

  • Come See Me in the Good Light

    3

  • Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music

    4

  • Visible: Out on Television

    5

  • Flee

    6

  • Larry Kramer In Love & Anger

    7

  • Vito

    8

  • James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

    9

  • Streetwise

    10

  • Human

    11

  • Love, Cecil

    12

  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    13

  • Signed: Lino Brocka

    14

  • Grey Gardens

    15

  • The Beales of Grey Gardens

    16

  • Moonage Daydream

    17

  • Ryan

    18

  • The Story of Film: A New Generation

    19

  • The Kiss

    20

  • Thank You and Good Night

    21

  • Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

    22

  • Black Is… Black Ain’t

    23

  • Hannah Gadsby: Nanette

    24

  • Model

    25

  • Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

    26

  • Dressed in Blue

    27

  • Disco's Revenge

    28

  • 5B

    29

  • Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives

    30

  • Word Is Out: Then and Now, Thirty Years Later

    31

  • Bayard & Me

    32

  • We Were Here

    33

  • Rock Hudson's Home Movies

    34

  • Lily Tomlin

    35

  • Becoming Madonna

    36

  • Art of Style: Jean Cocteau

    37

  • Conversion

    38

  • Private Screenings

    39

  • Silverlake Life: The View from Here

    40

  • What Can I Do with a Male Nude?

    41

  • Madonna: Truth or Dare

    42

  • Blank City

    43

  • Gay USA

    44

  • The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

    45

  • Our Stars

    46

  • My Name Is Barbra

    47

  • The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk

    48

  • American Cinema

    49

  • Judy Garland: By Myself

    50

  • Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker

    51

  • Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

    52

  • You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men

    53

  • Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End

    54

  • Strip Jack Naked

    55

  • Queendom

    56

  • Gaga Chromatica Ball

    57

  • Fanny: The Right to Rock

    58

  • Last Spring

    59

  • Straight from the Heart

    60

  • London: The Modern Babylon

    61

  • Sergei/Sir Gay

    62

  • Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: A Schitt's Creek Farewell

    63

  • Before Stonewall

    64

  • After Stonewall

    65

  • Faces Places

    66

  • The Times of Harvey Milk

    67

  • Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate

    68

  • Public Speaking

    69

  • Original Cast Album: Company

    70

  • Unzipped

    71

  • The Queen

    72

  • Will & Harper

    73

  • Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

    74

  • Janis Ian: Breaking Silence

    75

  • A Place of Rage

    76

  • Dear Abbot

    77

  • Dr. Paglia

    78

  • My Aunties

    79

  • Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech

    80

  • Cashing Out

    81

  • Pee-wee as Himself

    82

  • Tim Miller: My Queer Body

    83

  • Ailey

    84

  • This Filthy World

    85

  • Licensed to Kill

    86

  • 1970 Gay Pride March

    87

  • Wigstock: The Movie

    88

  • Silence = Death

    89

  • Pretend It's a City

    90

  • Parade

    91

  • Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

    92

  • LA Plays Itself

    93

  • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

    94

  • Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery

    95

  • The Geography of the Body

    96

  • Were You Gay in High School?

    97

  • No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics

    98

  • Welcome to Chechnya

    99

  • Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed

    100