Tribeca's gay harvest: the New York City film festival, April 25-May 7, covers the queer waterfront from sexy boys to drag divas to 9/11.

Actor-playwright Charles Busch (Die, Mommie, Die!) sure knows how to wear a wig. So he decided to try out a new hat--that of a feature film director--with his latest project, A Very Serious Person. Making its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, the coming-of-age dramedy revolves around a 13-year-old emerging gay boy who finds a close friend in Jan (played by Busch), a much older male nurse. But while Busch donned the director's hat off-camera, he stuck to wigs--toupees, actually--when appearing onscreen. "Playing this male character, I just didn't think he should look like me," Busch says. "And I'm so used to wigs that it was helpful not going completely cold turkey."

Those jonesing for a fix of cute gay boys will certainly find them on Tribeca's screens. Q. Allan Brocka's Boy Culture involves a sexy young hustler who begins to comprehend love thanks to an elderly client. Todd Stephens's Another Gay Movie (pictured) gays up the American Pie-style raunchy teen sex comedy with a cast that includes Scott Thompson and Graham Norton. And Ash Christian's Fat Girls follows the antics of a teenage homo and his zaftig gal pal.

Katherine Linton's Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig profiles LGBT students at New York City's Harvey Milk School and the making of an all-star Hedwig and the Angry Inch tribute-benefit album. But the most locally relevant and poignant work debuting at Tribeca this year is surely Saint of 9/11, director Glenn Holsten's documentary about openly gay New York City Fire Department chaplain Mychal Judge, who perished during the 9/11 tragedy.