Movies: Robert Philipson

Harlem, 1926. A “sweetman” Zeddy, living off a woman, brings a country girl he’s trying to impress to a gay-owned cabaret. There he meets a friend, Jake, whose girlfriend, Congo Rose, is the singer there. Drama swirls around the characters as Zeddy c...

Adam, a white man in his late 30s, is visiting his Black ex-lover, Peter, who is dying of AIDS in a DC hospital. The year is 1993. Also in attendance is Cherie, a Black lesbian naval officer who is Peter’s best friend. The two listen sympathetically ...

The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues divas such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter created and ...

Meet LaMott Atkins: closeted football star, closeted disco singer, closeted model, actor, son and lover. And he’s African-American… and now lives as a yogi and single parent in the world’s gayest neighborhood....

Contemporary cover of a 1928 blues song written and performed by Ma Rainey with explicitly lesbian lyrics....

Rockland Palace hosted the largest of the drag balls in not only Harlem but New York City during the Roaring Twenties. This stylized reimagining of the ball contextualizes snippets of conversation actually heard at the drag and published in the scand...

A documentary about the jazz standard and it's roots in Jewish and African-American culture/...