Queer, Broke & Amazing! is an inspiring exploration of the struggles and triumphs of low-income LGBTQ+ people and their communities in the queer coastal meccas of the U.S. and points in-between—from the Deep South, Midwest, Navajo Nation, and Southwest to the Borderlands. Distilled from interviews with over 200 queer people and their fierce allies, the documentary refreshingly challenges the myth of gay affluence to reveal an extraordinary world of resilient LGBTQ+ people trying to survive, thrive, and get everyone free amidst plenty, and in an era of unprecedented hatred and legislative attacks against them.

Queer, Broke & Amazing! features LGBTQ community leaders and queer icons, including Angela Y. Davis, Barbara Smith, Arthur Avilés, Clair Farley, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Kenyon Farrow, Mary Hooks and Anandrea Molina. It also features many more whose names you may not know, but whose lives and stories about poverty, exclusion, violence, and their fierce resistance breathe life into democratic and liberatory visions that just might lead all of us in the direction of freedom.

**Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Studio Program Residency Award (https://wexarts.org/film-video-studio-residencies). Post-Production 2019 in person, 2020-2024 virtual.

**The film's fine cut won the Bayard Rustin Best LGBTQ Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS, March 2023).