Learn
Movies, Documentaries, and TV Shows
- Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community (1984) – available on iTunes
- Boys Don't Cry (1999) – available on Amazon Prime
- Brokeback Mountain (2005) – available on Amazon Prime
- Gay Chorus Deep South (2019) – available at screenings nationwide
- Dallas Buyer's Club (2013) – available on Netflix
- Disclosure (2020) – available on Netflix
- How to Survive a Plague (2012) – available on Amazon Prime
- L Word Mississippi: Hate the Sin (2014) – available on ShowTime
- Milk (2008) – available on Amazon Prime
- Orange Is the New Black – available on Netflix
- Oscar Wilde (1960) – available on Amazon Prime
- Paris Is Burning (1990) – available on Netflix
- Philadelphia (1993) – available on Netflix
- Schitt's Creek – available on Netflix
- Sense8 – available on Netflix
- State of Pride (2019) – available on YouTube
- The Death & Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017) – available on Netflix
- The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) – available on YouTube
- Trevor (short film) – available on YouTube
- Victim (1961) – available on Amazon Prime
- Visible: Out on Television – available on Apple TV+
Books
- Forcing the Spring by Jo Becker
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- Speak Now by Kenji Yoshino
- Stonewall by Martin Duberman
- The Stonewall Reader edited by the New York Public Library
- We Are Everywhere by Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown
Podcasts
- Always Here – Monthly podcast aiming to educate listeners on LGBT history.
- History Is Gay – Features two (self-proclaimed) queer nerds who share their love for the past, hijinks, and all things gay, sharing stories of those of us in the unexplored corners of history who have always been there.
- LGBTQ&A – An LGBTQ+ interview podcast produced by Jeffrey Masters and The Advocate magazine.
- Making Gay History – Brings LGBTQ history to life through the voices of the people who lived it.
- One from the Vaults – Trans history podcast by Morgan M. Page.
- Oxford LGBT History Month Lectures
- Queer America Podcast – Takes listeners on a journey that spans from Harlem to the Frontier West, revealing stories of LGBTQ life we should have learned in school.
- Queer as Fact – Queer history covering content from around the world and throughout time.
Donate
- GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD): Through strategic litigation, public policy advocacy, and education, GLAD works to create a just society free of discrimination based on gender identity and expression, HIV status, and sexual orientation.
- GLSEN (formerly the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network): GLSEN is a national education organization working to ensure that K-12 schools are safe environments for LGBTQ students. GLSEN provides resources to schools and educators to combat the bullying and harassment that LGBTQ students often face.
- Human Rights Campaign Foundation: Through research, educational efforts and outreach, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation encourages gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans to live their lives openly and seeks to change the hearts and minds of Americans to the side of equality.
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center: Established in 1983, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center has grown to become the largest LGBT multi-service organization on the East Coast and second largest LGBT community center in the world. It cares for individuals and groups in need and educates the public while empowering individuals and groups to achieve their fullest potential.
- National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR): NCLR is the first national LGBTQ legal organization founded by women and operates as a non-profit, public interest law firm litigating precedent-setting cases at the trial and appellate court levels, advocating for equitable public policies affecting the LGBTQ community, providing free legal assistance to LGBTQ people and their legal advocates, and conducting community education on LGBTQ issues.
- National Center for Transgender Equality: The National Center for Transgender Equality works at a state, local, and federal level to advance transgender equality.
- The Trevor Project: The Trevor Project was founded in 1998 to provide crisis intervention and life-saving resources to LGBTQ youth. It was founded by the directors of the short film Trevor.
- Transgender Law Center: The Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization that advocates for the rights of transgender people through advocacy, litigation, and activism.
- Whitman-Walker Health: Whitman-Walker Health is committed to providing quality, culturally sensitive healthcare to Washington DC’s diverse urban community including the LGBT community and those living with HIV/AIDS.
