L G B T Q + PRIDE MONTH PROGRAM GUIDE 2021 1 WETA presents special programming for LGBTQ+ Pride Month on WETA PBS, WETA World, and WETA Metro channels. Many of the programs can be streamed online on the free PBS Video App. Visit weta.org/pridemonth for additional airdates and information.

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1 Friday – June 4 Friday – June 4 Tuesday – June 8 9 PM 10 PM 8 PM WETA PBS and WETA Metro WETA PBS and WETA Metro WETA Metro BALLERINA BOYS: HOLLY NEAR: SINGING FOR OUR TERRENCE MCNALLY: LIVES: AMERICAN MASTERS EVERY ACT OF LIFE: Holly Near’s music and her life story Learn about Les Ballets Trockadero de AMERICAN MASTERS show how music can influence social Monte Carlo, an all-male company This documentary traces the life of that mixes ballet with comedy. justice — from the lesbian and women’s playwright, librettist, screenwriter, Repeats Sat 6/5, 8 p.m. WETA World movements to anti-war efforts to South and outspoken LGBTQ activist American women’s empowerment. Terrence McNally. Repeats Sat 6/5, 7 p.m. WETA World; Repeats Fri 6/18, 8:30 p.m. WETA Weds 6/9, 11 a.m. WETA World World; Sat 6/19, 3:30 p.m. WETA World

Tuesday – June 8 Tuesday – June 8 Saturday – June 12 9:30 PM 10 PM 9 PM WETA Metro WETA Metro WETA Metro REEL SOUTH: OUTSPOKEN WE’LL MEET AGAIN: PRIDELAND Follow a group of LGBTQ West COMING OUT Actor Dyllón Burnside journeys across Virginians as they fight to live free Before the 1970s, coming out meant the American South, meeting diverse from discrimination, calling us to risking everything. In this episode, host members of the LGBTQ+ community reimagine the power and longevity of Joan Curry tells the story of two young — from a lesbian rodeo champ in Texas a small-town queer community. New England men as they reconnect to an African American mayor ally in Repeats Tues 6/15, 9:30 p.m. WETA with those who helped them discover Alabama. Through his trip, Burnside World; Sat 6/19, 11:30 p.m. WETA World and accept their sexuality. discovers how LGBTQ+ Americans live Repeats Weds 6/23, 3 p.m. WETA authentically in the modern South. PBS; Sat 6/26, 7 p.m. WETA World Repeats Sat 6/26, 9 p.m. WETA World

Saturday – June 12 Monday – June 14 Tuesday – June 15 10 PM 9 PM 7 PM WETA Metro WETA World WETA World POV: THE GOSPEL OF EUREKA BECOMING JOHANNA COMING OUT: This episode spotlights drag shows Explore the struggles that transgender A 50 YEAR HISTORY and a passion play in a small Arkansas teens face every day through the story Transgender teen Jazz Jennings town, investigating how differences of Johanna, whose own mother rejects narrates as young people interview a in religion and belief are negotiated her transformation. host of LGBTQ elders who came out in through performance, political action, different historical eras. In the process, and partnership. the interviewers learn that every generation of activists stands on the shoulders of those who came before. Repeats Thurs 6/17, 10:30 p.m. WETA Metro

2 Tuesday – June 15 Friday – June 18 Monday – June 21 8 PM 7 PM 7 PM WETA World WETA World WETA World AMERICA REFRAMED: : CONSIDERING LITTLE MISS WESTIE STONEWALL UPRISING MATTHEW SHEPARD This episode looks into the life of two On June 28, 1969, police raided the In 1998, University of Wyoming teenager transgender siblings and their parents Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York Matthew Shepard was beaten and left following the 2016 presidential election, City. In response, the streets erupted for dead for being gay. His story inspired taking audiences behind the scenes into violent protests that lasted for six an oratorio, which has been adapted as the family navigates puberty, days, marking a major turning point in into this unique 60-minute theatrical school, dating, and more. the modern gay civil rights movement. experience for television. Repeats Sat 6/19, 10 p.m. WETA Repeats Sat 6/19, 2 p.m. WETA World World; Sun 6/20, 5 p.m. WETA World

Monday – June 21 Tuesday – June 22 Tuesday – June 22 9 PM 7 PM 8 PM WETA World WETA World WETA World THE COMMITTEE REEL SOUTH: AMERICA REFRAMED: This documentary focuses on the ALABAMA BOUND JACK AND YAYA little-known Florida Legislative In the months leading up to the Jack and Yaya are childhood friends Investigative Committee and how it Supreme Court decision on marriage who supported each other when rooted out communist and homosexual equality, many families in Alabama were they came out as transgender. teachers and students from state busy fighting discriminatory state laws. Years , the two reconnect. universities. From 1956 to 1965, the This episode chronicles the roller- Repeats Sat 6/26, 10 p.m. WETA group was successful in either firing coaster ride for gay rights in the South, World; Sun 6/27, 5 p.m. WETA World or expelling more than 200 while introducing a resilient community suspected gay and lesbian citizens. living in a place where the line between Repeats Sun 6/27, church and state is often blurred. 11:30 p.m. WETA World

Tuesday – June 22 Wednesday – June 23 Sunday – June 27 9 PM 7 PM 11 PM WETA World WETA World WETA World OUT IN RURAL AMERICA POETRY IN AMERICA: THIS IS P.O.V: CALL HER GANDA The film follows five stories from the YOUR HOME NOW: MARK DOTY When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans LGBTQ+ community over six years, Series creator Elisa New talks with woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. digging into issues of self-doubt, poet Mark Doty and others about Marine, three women stage a political discrimination, acceptance, and Doty’s work. Doty’s poem “This Is Your uprising, pursuing justice and taking on small-town and Midwestern LGBTQ+ Home Now” explores barber visits, hardened histories of U.S. imperialism. life from a cultural, social, familiar, the AIDS crisis, masculinity, and the and religious perspective. satisfactions of getting older. Repeats Sat 6/26, 11 p.m. WETA World Repeats Sat 6/26, 1 p.m. WETA World

3 3 Monday – June 28 Monday – June 28 Monday – June 28 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM WETA World WETA World WETA PBS PACIFIC HEARTBEAT: PACIFIC HEARTBEAT: THE LAVENDER SCARE LEITIS IN WAITING BORN THIS WAY: In the 1950s, tens of thousands of Learn about the most prominent leiti AWA’S STORY/THE ROGERS homosexual federal workers were (transgender) people in the Tonga Born This Way: Awa’s Story chronicles either fired or denied employment Kingdom. an openly transgender teen as she because of their sexual orientation. attends her final year at college in The actions of the government had an Wellington, New Zealand. In The Rogers, unintended effect, stirring outrage in the the first visible group of transgender community and helping to ignite the gay men in the Pacific Islands is formed. rights movement.

Tuesday – June 29 Wednesday – June 30 8 PM 7 PM WETA World WETA World AMERICA REFRAMED: TWO-SPIRIT POWWOW VISION PORTRAITS In ancient Navajo culture, being a Though filmmaker Rodney Evans has nádleehi — a male-bodied person with lost his vision, he is still making movies. a feminine — is considered a This episode tells the story of Evans special gift. Two Spirits tells of the life and other visually impaired artists and brutal murder of a young nádleehi and how they continue their work and explores the essentially spiritual despite their vision losses. nature of gender.

PHOTO CREDITS Page 1: BALLERINA BOYS: AMERICAN MASTERS, Courtesy Merrywidow Films LLC, Photograper Laura Nespola. Page 2: PACIFIC HEARTBEAT: BORN THIS WAY: AWA’S STORY/THE ROGERS, Courtesy American Public Television; POV: THE GOSPEL OF EUREKA, Courtesy Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher; TERRENCE MCNALLY: EVERY ACT OF LIFE: AMERICAN MASTERS, Courtesy Terrence McNally; BALLERINA BOYS: AMERICAN MASTERS, Courtesy Merrywidow Films LLC, Photograper Laura Nespola. Page 3: AMERICA REFRAMED: LITTLE MISS WESTIE, Courtesy ; CONSIDERING MATTHEW SHEPARD, Courtesy Austin PBS, Sam Butler; PRIDELAND, Courtesy Taylor Miller/Buzzfeed News; PACIFIC HEARTBEAT: LEITIS IN WAITING, Courtesy American Public Television. Page 4: THE LAVENDER SCARE, Courtesy The New York Public Library; AMERICA REFRAMED: LITTLE MISS WESTIE, Courtesy WORLD Channel; CONSIDERING MATTHEW SHEPARD, Courtesy Matthew Shepard Foundation; POV: THE GOSPEL OF EUREKA, Courtesy Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher.

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