BFI Releases List Of The Top 30 LGBT Films Of All Time

From: NewNowNext

5. 

Paris Is Burning 

Jennie Livingston

USA 

1990

Paris Is Burning is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it. Some critics consider the film to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the "Golden Age" of New York City drag balls, and a thoughtful exploration of race, class, gender, and sexuality in America.