VVC Queer Vidshow: call for suggestions!

[such_heights]

So, the VVC organisers have had a moment of madness and given me a vidshow to run. I am going to need your help!

The vidshow is We're Here, We're Queer, and it's pretty much what it says on the tin: vids that are focused on canonically LGBT/queer/trans* characters. Opened up to gen, het, slash, poly, angst, drama, comedy, in fandoms big and small, hopefully there will be a bit of everything!

Friends, lend me your recs in any and all fandoms - Saving Face, Transamerica, Skins, Queer as Folk, Torchwood, The L Word, Grey's Anatomy, Buffy, Ugly Betty, RPF fandoms, anywhere there are queer people! Extra bonus points for people who can point me towards vids focused on queer non-white characters and on genderqueer/trans* characters.

Please feel encouraged to nominate your own vids, and also, should you happen to feel inspired by the theme and think you could make a vid by June 1st, having a premiere or two would be pretty awesome. Official-ish forms will be up on the VVC website shortly, but in the meantime, rec me things! :D

Also, I would seriously love to hear any and all advice on VJing and vidshows at cons from both VJers and audiences, given that I have never attended one much less organised one before!

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[xtricks]

I have no idea about vid for these two fandoms but:

Stargate: Universe - Camille Wray is played by Ming-Na and her character is canonically lesbian. They had at least one episode that focused on her relationship with her partner (and it was a positive one).

[such_heights]

Ooh, SGU, that's a point, I will investigate! Were you going to suggest a second fandom, or is that a typo?

[xtricks]

Oops, sorry, yes.

Wilby Wonderful. Again, I don't know if there are any vids (I'll ask around the due South community 'cause they overlap) but it's a sweet, gentle very well done Canadian movie where driving plotline is about a gay man who's trying to kill himself -- with a happy ending! Has a young Ellen Page and Sandra Oh in it.

[sansets]

Delurking to say that there are at least three Wilby vids that I know of that are about Duck and Dan - 100,000 Fireflies, Air and I Would Walk (500 Miles).

Also! I'll Follow You Tonight is an EXCELLENT vid about the canonical couple from the movie Shelter.

[xtricks]

oh, excellent! Thanks.

[sansets]

You're welcome! Wilby is one of my favorite movies of all time, so I tend to be a little compulsive when collecting vids from it. *g*

[xtricks]

It's one of the few moives I was willing to buy. I thought it was lovely -- the only downside being that it was such a well done, polished movie it's hard to write fanfic for!

[such_heights]

Oh brilliant, thank you! I will check them all out.

[such_heights]

Sadly, the first two vids are currently offline - I don't suppose you have copies saved, do you? I'd love to be able to have a look before I go harangue the vidders themselves.

[sansets]

Oh sure thing!

Air - http://www.sendspace.com/file/32d9to

100,00 Fireflies - http://www.sendspace.com/file/q6zns5

And after poking through my saved vid files, Southside and This Kiss would also be interesting ones to check out. This Kiss is more montagy than anything else, but it still makes me feel pretty warm and fuzzy on the inside. :-D

[such_heights]

Oh brilliant, thank you so much for all the great links! (Although omg, how will I ever choose?!)