Susan Stryker Movies

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people...

This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the powerful cultural influence it has had on social change in...

Never before seen home movies made by queer people dating back to the 1930s and the struggle to save them before they are lost forever.

On an unknown date in August 1966, trans women in San Francisco's Tenderloin district rioted against police violence at Gene Compton's Cafeteria....

Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine,...

The legacy of Billy Tipton, a 20th-century American jazz musician and trans icon, is brought to life by a diverse group of contemporary trans artists.

The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in...

An animated history of the term "Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists". Taking cues from the origins of radical feminism in the 1960's and utilizing...

A utopian re-visioning of the Kronstadt Uprising of 1921, featuring film history's first cast of over 100 transgender actors, paints a portrait of...

Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super...

Susan Stryker uses the career of 1950s transsexual icon Christine Jorgensen to explore identity, embodiment, technology and representation.

20 years after Gendernauts, Monika Treut seeks out the pioneers of the transgender movement back then to find out how their lives and their activism...

The film tells the astounding life story of San Francisco living legend Vicki Marlane, America's oldest professional transgender drag entertainer. It...