What should you and your girlfriend watch for movie night?
You could catch another trashy flick or binge something on Netflix. But why not spend your night learning more about the LGBT community? These eye-opening documentaries will you have you so far on the edge of your seat that you may fall off.
Tickled (2016)
Tickling is just for heterosexual people. That’s what bisexual reporter David Farrier is told when he investigates “competitive endurance tickling,” and receives immediate backlash from the tickling community, who complain that his non-heterosexuality is not allowed.
Farrier also uncovers a secret tickling ring of the 1990s, in which non-heterosexual participants were often blackmailed and manipulated into being filmed – if the participants spoke out against the competitive endurance tickling movement, the leader would expose the participants’ “sexual deviance” to family, friends and employers.
This documentary is bizarre yet gripping. Learn more at the official website.
God Loves Uganda (2014)
When Westerners want to “do good,” they often jetset to Africa in order to build schools, to dig wells and to re-colonize the continent with strict fundamentalist Christian ideals and backward views of homosexuality. And to take pictures with black babies.
God Loves Uganda shows how evangelical American missionaries are harming Uganda’s LGBT community, specifically by promoting a bill that made homosexuality punishable by death. This documentary explores the “faith and greed, ecstasy and egotism among Ugandan ministers, American evangelical leaders and the foot soldiers of a theology that sees Uganda as ground zero in a battle for billions of souls.”
Learn more at the official website.
Tig (2015)
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Hello. I have cancer. How are you?”
Comedian Tig Notaro made history when she began a 2012 comedy set by saying, “Hello. I have cancer. How are you?” The audience appreciated her candor. In addition to being diagnosed with cancer that year, Tig almost died from an intestinal infection, lost her mother to an illness and was dumped by her longtime girlfriend.
A documentary about cancer, infection, death and heartache would be depressing if it were about anyone else, but Tig’s trademark wit makes this film a surprisingly hilarious ride.
Watch it on Netflix.