Check out these related films available in the Reed film and video library!

• Dream Girls, 50 min, 1993
  A documentary film illustrating the ways that the all-female Takarazuka Music School and its annual musical revue reflect Japanese puritanism and sexual politics. Great companion to Robertson's ethnography on the Revue.
  
  
• Shinjuku Boys, 53 min, 1995
  Documentary looking at life among trans youth in an urban Japanese bar. Great companion to Robertson's ethnography.
  
  
• Urban Tribe, 54. min, 1997
  This keenly observed documentary profiles an African-American natural hair salon in Chicago. Biko, the articulate and energetic proprietor, is a former social worker who left his job because he was asked to wear a suit to the office instead of the traditional African attire he prefers. In his salon, Urban Tribe, there are no hair-straightening services. He specializes in natural-hair styling of "locs" (otherwise known as dreadlocks) and braids, sculpting complex and magnificent arrangements of hair that can be interpreted as political and cultural statements.
  
  
• Paris is Burning, 76 min., 1992.
  Award-winning documentary. Story of the young men of Harlem who originated "voguing" and turned these stylized dance competitions into glittering expressions of fierce personal pride. A story of street-wise urban survival, gay self-affirmation, and the pursuit of a desperate dream. Madonna made a mint appropriating their dance style.
  
  
• Truth or Dare, 118 min, 1991
  Madonna famously appropriated Harlem gay men's voguing style. This is a record of Madonna's "Blond Ambition" tour. Reveals as much about her experiences, performances and life as she wishes you to know. Good companion to Bordo's article "Material Girl".
  
  
• Trappings of transhood : a documentary about gender identity, 27 min, 1997.
  The world and concerns of transsexuals -- their lives; relations between transgendered persons and homosexuals; issues of cultural, ethnic, erotic, and gender identification; transitioning with and without hormones and surgery -- are communicated through interviews, video collage, and music
  
  
• A Boy Named Sue, 57 min, 2000
  Documents the transformation of a female-to-male transexual over the course of six years, highlighting changes in his relationships with his female partner and close friends.